Hacker News: rusk

New comment by rusk in "Meta repeatedly snubs EU body over Facebook and Instagram user bans"

rusk — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:02:13 +0000

Another way to read this is the tech companies are stupidly bankrolling the EU by not complying with the laws of the lands (EU states voluntarily enact their own implementations of EU directions in return for a slice). That’s far too good a cash cow to pass up. Keep it coming.

New comment by rusk in "A successful Japanese trial of a ramjet engine designed for Mach‑5 aircraft"

rusk — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:07:07 +0000

Agree that this is a matter of economic viability rather than technology. Presumably somebody could just go back and resurrect the Roles Royce IP

There would be the nice side benefit of maybe having all these guys in one place, upon an experimental aviation platform.

New comment by rusk in "A successful Japanese trial of a ramjet engine designed for Mach‑5 aircraft"

rusk — Tue, 26 May 2026 05:06:03 +0000

We had Concorde - it was too expensive to operate safely.

New comment by rusk in "The Eternal Sloptember"

rusk — Mon, 25 May 2026 06:44:50 +0000

Sounds like bag pipes to me LOL

New comment by rusk in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

rusk — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:36:42 +0000

> we'll never discover the soul

What if it reveals itself to us?

New comment by rusk in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

rusk — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:35:30 +0000

> There is no way to allow each limb to do its own thing

I can pat my head and rub my belly at the same time.

New comment by rusk in "US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war"

rusk — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:24:36 +0000

As you’d expect from the staggeringly low (by international, 1st world standards) turnout

New comment by rusk in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

rusk — Mon, 11 May 2026 10:52:16 +0000

You could use PEFT? Operating on only a subset of weights is fairly standard practice nowadays …

New comment by rusk in "Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school"

rusk — Fri, 08 May 2026 07:09:55 +0000

Surprisingly hard to expel a child, particularly in the more privileged schools … far more satisfying from the perspective of an educator if they can address the issue.

New comment by rusk in "LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb"

rusk — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:32:40 +0000

Like a reverse panopticon - a truly terrifying concept if you tease it out …

New comment by rusk in "Three Inverse Laws of AI"

rusk — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:36:10 +0000

Historically we have used intelligence as a way to distinguish man from animal and human from machine. We rely upon it to determine who has our best interests at heart vs who is trying to do us in. Obviously that all changes if we invent an intelligence (conscious or not) that shares the planet with us. Through this lens the term consciousness (through a few more leaps) becomes the question of “is it capable of love and if so does it love us” and if it doesn’t, then it is a malevolent alien intelligence. If it was capable of love, why would it love us? I make a point of being polite to LLM’s where not completely absurd, overly because I don’t want my clipped imperative style to leak into day to day, but also covertly, you just never know …

New comment by rusk in "Why is IPv6 so complicated?"

rusk — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 07:43:09 +0000

I think it’s one of many that indicates the underlying issues for its adoption. It’s a 90s technology, not as much thought was given about how it would be used.

New comment by rusk in "The becquerel as an SI unit for request rate"

rusk — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 07:36:44 +0000

> 1 what

Cycles. I suppose you might say it’s a derivative.

How many times per second the measurement returns to the original value.

In engineering school we used to tie this directly to radians using the Euler notation pow(e, j * 2 * pi * f) where 2pif is your angular frequency expressed in radians per second!

New comment by rusk in "Why is IPv6 so complicated?"

rusk — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 07:48:44 +0000

Wait til you’ve got to copy & paste em, or see em comingled with hw addresses

New comment by rusk in "The AI Layoff Trap"

rusk — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:10:00 +0000

Spoken like a 2007 bond trader

New comment by rusk in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

rusk — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:33:41 +0000

Indeed, I was trying to make it easier for you.

New comment by rusk in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

rusk — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:50:14 +0000

It needs an apostrophe then it makes more sense “Windows’ Subsystem for Linux”

It is a Windows Subsystem, that caters to running Linux.

It’s a functional title not an architectural one.

New comment by rusk in "Leanstral: Open-source agent for trustworthy coding and formal proof engineering"

rusk — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:29:40 +0000

Setting aside that model means something different now … MDD never really worked because the tooling never really dealt with intent. You would get so far with your specifications (models) but the semantic rigidity of the tooling mean that at some point your solution would have to part way. LLM is the missing piece that finally makes this approach viable where the intent can be inferred dynamically and this guides the implementation specifics. Arguably the purpose of TDD/BDD was to shore up the gaps in communicating intent, and people came to understand that was its purpose, whereas the key intent in the original XP setting was to capture and preserve “known good” operation and guard against regression (in XP mindset, perhaps fatefully clear intent was assumed)

New comment by rusk in "Why more companies are recognizing the benefits of keeping older employees"

rusk — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 06:16:12 +0000

Yet another side is arrogant little babies coming on board and making a big steaming mess of things because they thought they could do things better.

Waaaaahhhhhhhh

New comment by rusk in "Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support"

rusk — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 13:04:53 +0000

I love that book but isn’t it nearly 30 years old?