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New comment by sankhao in "Is mathematics about to enter the conservatory?"

sankhao — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 02:21:58 +0000

>Mathematics, especially pure mathematics, has always been about communicating stories that help us understand reality more deeply.

I'm pretty sure pure mathematics is the part of math which is not about reality.

New comment by sankhao in "Linux 7.2"

sankhao — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 02:40:36 +0000

I've been daily driving Linux since ubuntu 12.04. Things have improved a lot. It used to be the best OS for (a certain class of) programmers. It's now the OS I installed on my 7 year old son's computer. Things like connecting Bluetooth peripherals, multiple audio devices, multiple screens (with multiple DPI) are a not just possible, but easy now, and robust.

New comment by sankhao in "Re: [PATCH] OOM_pardon, a.k.a. don't kill my xlock (2004)"

sankhao — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:52:11 +0000

I also think the analogy doesn't work. In the plane situation it seems obvious that the luggage should be ejected before passengers, which is what the guy was asking ?

New comment by sankhao in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

sankhao — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:48:23 +0000

Germany has over 83M people.

New comment by sankhao in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

sankhao — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 01:10:52 +0000

Thanks for your work. Moved my company from Slack to self-hosted Zulip after Salesforce unilaterally decided to transfer our account to Alibaba Cloud and the transition has been very smooth. We especially appreciate proper markdown support !

New comment by sankhao in "The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and the over-reliance on PowerPoint (2019)"

sankhao — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 08:59:38 +0000

The slide is so bad it might be intentional. The intent would be to be reassuring enough that no one will point at Boeing and say "Boeing technical failure strands astronauts in space", while providing just enough information that in the event (at the time of writing the slide considered very unlikely) things go bad, they can say that nothing was withheld.

New comment by sankhao in "Reflection for C++26"

sankhao — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 06:01:47 +0000

This is doable in c++20 https://github.com/stephenberry/glaze

New comment by sankhao in "The Airship to Orbit Project"

sankhao — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 01:36:30 +0000

Ion drives do not escape the rocket equation, they simply have a higher Isp.

New comment by sankhao in "An update on Twitch in Korea"

sankhao — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 02:22:04 +0000

I find it odd that twitch would rather shut down their service than simply stop offering a free tier. They already have an ad-free service called Twitch Turbo, surely enforcing usage in Korea wouldn't be prohibitively difficult. This makes me think that they are trying to spark outrage.

New comment by sankhao in "Raspberry Pi 5"

sankhao — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 07:07:07 +0000

They're not, and it's a very annoying requirement. Even 5V/3A was hard to provide reliably. On the other hand, rock pi supports 12V/2A, which modern chargers will provide without any issue.

New comment by sankhao in "The anatomy of a Godot API call"

sankhao — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 01:11:55 +0000

How long are they supposed to spend to start appreciating it enough to tolerate 20x performance penalty to core engine functions ?

New comment by sankhao in "Oscilloscope watch ships after 10 years on Kickstarter"

sankhao — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 02:24:25 +0000

Hardcore vim user with UHK here. I actually love that the caps lock key is remapped to esc in the firmware, so I always have the Esc where I expect it on any computer I plug it in (this is not unique to UHK of course). In fact on the UHK, there is no "caps lock" key, it reads "mouse".

New comment by sankhao in "Thunderbird Is Thriving: Our 2022 Financial Report"

sankhao — Wed, 10 May 2023 01:01:20 +0000

I wouldn't mind if the mail client stored local embeddings of my email contents to enable a good search function.