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New comment by shermantanktop in "Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict"

shermantanktop — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 21:03:17 +0000

A lot of them have the majority of their collections offsite in warehouses. The "museum" is a sort of front office meant for visitors, but visitors only ever see a tiny fraction of the collection.

New comment by shermantanktop in "Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict"

shermantanktop — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 02:46:04 +0000

Some professions seem especially prone to this priesthood mindset. Inward-looking, amplified self-regard, and dedicated to a mission that nobody asked them to take on, because the new mission is more gratifying and ego-boosting.

Some software engineers do this — devoted to some abstract notion of code cleanliness or architectural purity that has no obvious relationship to delivering working software that is useful to others.

New comment by shermantanktop in " prevents me from logging into Vanguard"

shermantanktop — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 23:42:45 +0000

New comment by shermantanktop in "Amazon seeks to offload $8B of Nvidia chips to investors"

shermantanktop — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:16:42 +0000

Capital-intensive business + smart lawyers and accountants = exotic financing schemes. Not a new thing, is it?

New comment by shermantanktop in "Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes"

shermantanktop — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:46:03 +0000

The puppet on the left hand isn’t to blame, it’s the puppet on the right hand! No, it’s definitely the left. Let’s ask them…wait, they each blame each other.

New comment by shermantanktop in "What a Massive New 728-Foot-Wide Crater Means for Future Moon Bases"

shermantanktop — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 03:07:30 +0000

We can always translate to baguettes, Fiat 500s, and Oktoberfest steins for our European friends.

New comment by shermantanktop in "Previously unheard recordings of John Coltrane, captured by Frank Tiberi"

shermantanktop — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 03:04:13 +0000

Agree. There’s a Berklee player stereotype and later Coltrane is like that. It’s all about his drive to do his thing, in his own special way, nothing to do with his audience, and only a little about the other players.

New comment by shermantanktop in "Guitar amp and effects pedal built on the Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-AMOLED-2.06"

shermantanktop — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 03:00:08 +0000

It’s the same with profiling generally. You get pregain, post eq and maybe some simulated stuff inside the amp. I’ve never spent time with a Kemper but my understanding is that the base tone is what it is.

Not a bad thing in my book. It’s an antidote to endless knob tweaking. But I suspect it leads to endless profile library grooming.

New comment by shermantanktop in "Fakecloud: Local AWS cloud emulator for integration tests"

shermantanktop — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:58:55 +0000

There are so many of these, but none of them simulate the surprise-billing experience.

New comment by shermantanktop in "I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband"

shermantanktop — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 17:41:54 +0000

If only we truly knew how much divisive online content was generated from geopolitical adversaries…LLM or not.

New comment by shermantanktop in "Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face"

shermantanktop — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:28:44 +0000

And if we go bust, bad things will happen when someone else uses my box-gun technology in an unsafe manner. Remember, unlike those scary other people, I'm really into safety and alignment; you can tell, because I eventually admitted that some bullets escaped.

New comment by shermantanktop in "Nobody Asked for a Crab Chair"

shermantanktop — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:53:22 +0000

Sounds like it was considered useful, but in a way that inconveniently didn’t line up with the investor pitch.

New comment by shermantanktop in "Nobody Asked for a Crab Chair"

shermantanktop — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:51:05 +0000

You can see it jerk up and down when one of the legs takes the load.

When one leg is moving the load is held on the other three, and if you define a triangle by the foot contact points, one side will bisect the center of gravity. That’s not a recipe for stability, but it probably helps with agility. What these design benefit from is lateral movement of the legs, but this one seems pretty stiff.

New comment by shermantanktop in "Enjoy Every Sandwich"

shermantanktop — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:45:30 +0000

HN has a bunch of men of a certain age, and at some point people contemplate their mortality.

New comment by shermantanktop in "The science of Monkey Island: can grog dissolve a metal mug that fast?"

shermantanktop — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:06:34 +0000

There should be a name for this phenomenon: geeking out about an overly literal interpretation of how a technical topic is presented, made by an artist/creator a long time ago who likely didn't intend to satisfy such a literal understanding.

It's like retconning... retgeeking?

New comment by shermantanktop in "Enjoy Every Sandwich"

shermantanktop — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:58:21 +0000

I remember a notable triangular sandwich packed in a cardboard box and sold on the motorway in France. I ate it while my jet lagged toddler cried and cried and we tried to get to Provence before nightfall.

There is such a thing as a bad sandwich.

New comment by shermantanktop in "We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary"

shermantanktop — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:33:39 +0000

Turns out their marketing can get to you through HN posts…

New comment by shermantanktop in "Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats"

shermantanktop — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 23:43:53 +0000

But but but....I was told it was a stochastic parrot! I liked that idea because it appealed to my vanity, and it described the gibberish produced by older models with bad prompting, and that was enough for me thank you.

New comment by shermantanktop in "I don't want the details"

shermantanktop — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:14:05 +0000

Unless the organization really truly rewards that behavior. Which is rare.

The senior-most people (VPs, founders) often say they want it. But it’s the middle managers who will stab you in the front in revenge, while staring you in the eye. And if the VP doesn’t step in, they are endorsing the outcome.

New comment by shermantanktop in "Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived"

shermantanktop — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:48:15 +0000

With a permissions system that’s meant to enforce security? I hope not.

I’m not a FoxPro user and so maybe these are single-user/single-host installs, where the user can only destroy their own data, and permissions are a pretend feature. In which case, carry on.