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New comment by sinfulprogeny in "I'm scared about biological computing"

sinfulprogeny — Wed, 06 May 2026 08:37:03 +0000

> since ChatGPT first dropped.

That'd be in November of 2022.

https://openai.com/index/chatgpt/

New comment by sinfulprogeny in "Anna's Archive Loses $322M Spotify Piracy Case Without a Fight"

sinfulprogeny — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:01:21 +0000

Where can I learn more?

New comment by sinfulprogeny in "The Ruliology of Lambdas"

sinfulprogeny — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 12:16:37 +0000

https://wolframinstitute.org/research/ruliology

New comment by sinfulprogeny in "SQL needed structure"

sinfulprogeny — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 11:25:19 +0000

Kleppman[1] calls it schema-on-read (json, xml) and schema-on-write (typed columns in an RDB). I like it over structured/unstructured, it's a bit more specific.

[1] https://martin.kleppmann.com/2017/03/27/designing-data-inten...

New comment by sinfulprogeny in "Using a graphics tablet as a programming tool (2018)"

sinfulprogeny — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 10:55:28 +0000

I have an ipad pro from 2015, an apple pencil 1, and a screen protector that gives it a bit more friction. It's pretty good for the most part, but since it's my only apple product, it doesn't integrate well with anything else I use. OneNote seems to work on multiple platforms but I never got into it. I mostly use goodnotes, and they seem to have released apps for web and non-apple stuff (finally). When I used it the most, the only export I had was as PDFs to Dropbox, which was fine enough but removed any possibility of editing outside of the ipad.

New comment by sinfulprogeny in "Cable-cutting tanker seized by Finland 'was loaded with spying equipment'"

sinfulprogeny — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 20:09:45 +0000

lol we get those pamphlets sent out every now and then. Of course it's related to the increase tension, but it's not the huge call sign you make it out to be. "be ready for war" means "be ready in case something happens", not "be ready for what's about to happen."

New comment by sinfulprogeny in "macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive"

sinfulprogeny — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 07:28:46 +0000

> I have used nothing but linux for over two decades now but it is getting harder and harder to justify using linux

At least in the context of windows vs Linux, Microsoft is making it incredibly easy. Once again pushing MS recall, integrated ads, and user hostile updates made me finally switch to Linux again. I absolutely hated having a computer that seemed to have a mind of its own. I had a dual boot setup that defaulted to Linux, and very frequently I would be doing something in Windows, leave the computer on with programs or games running, and come back to find that it had rebooted into Linux.

New comment by sinfulprogeny in "macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive"

sinfulprogeny — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 06:59:52 +0000

> GIMP (or Glimpse, if you want a more modern UI) or Krita can definitely do pretty much anything Acorn can.

I'm fairly certain that anyone who recommends GIMP hasn't really used GIMP.

New comment by sinfulprogeny in "TypedDicts are better than you think"

sinfulprogeny — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 06:35:58 +0000

> then fixing the types

man I wish my coworkers did this step

New comment by sinfulprogeny in "Show HN: Multi-monitor KVM using just a USB switch"

sinfulprogeny — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 19:17:09 +0000

Under the Extend mode, it says it requires dual-graphics card. What does that mean? Guessing it's an odd translation.

New comment by sinfulprogeny in ""King of the Cannibals": How Sam Altman Took over Silicon Valley"

sinfulprogeny — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 08:21:24 +0000

Hey girl some dude on hacker news says your trauma is fake

New comment by sinfulprogeny in "Apple's Pro Display XDR takes Thunderbolt 3 to its limit"

sinfulprogeny — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 18:20:17 +0000

> that the Mac cannot do Display Stream Compression at the Dell's native 6144 x 3456,

Can't, or won't? M1 MacBook pros for some reason can't do 4k120 over hdmi unless you buy a specific usbc-hdmi adapter and fool it into thinking it's displayport (or something like that, I'm paraphrasing. You can find info if you search for cablematters DDC 4k120 m1.)

New comment by sinfulprogeny in "WeWork Goes Bankrupt"

sinfulprogeny — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 12:06:53 +0000

How are they in general to deal with? I was in touch with them last week and there were red flags abound. They don't respond to emails, but would rather spam my phone. The price kept increasing from the first point of contact, and they finally wanted me to pay a bill where fees again were unspecified. When I asked for a detailed, itemized bill, they ghosted me.

Their mother company iwg PLC has less than stellar reviews on trustpilot.

https://www.trustpilot.com/review/iwgplc.com

Am I missing out by looking elsewhere? They were by far the cheapest and most flexible, but I don't have time to deal with administrative bullshit and protecting myself against predatory sales.

New comment by sinfulprogeny in "ChatGPT Enterprise"

sinfulprogeny — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 06:44:16 +0000

Using $technological_aide \in {chatgpt,ide,stackoverflow,google,debuggers,compilers,optimizers,high-mem VMs}$ to code is not a skill. It’s a crutch. Any employees that feel held back by not being able to access it aren’t great in the first place.

New comment by sinfulprogeny in "Sidebery – A Firefox extension for managing tabs and bookmarks in sidebar"

sinfulprogeny — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 09:41:36 +0000

Agreed. The browser itself is amazing though.

New comment by sinfulprogeny in "Zellij New WASM Plugin System"

sinfulprogeny — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 07:27:37 +0000

Would you mind giving an example of what you're thinking of?

New comment by sinfulprogeny in "I moved from the US to Sweden after struggling with burnout"

sinfulprogeny — Wed, 31 May 2023 18:41:16 +0000

> So they don't have disposable income, arent saving for retirement, and can't go to eat at restaurants?

What? 45k USD / year amounts to 40,000 SEK per month. A Swede would receive 30,000 SEK after tax on that. The tax percentage mentioned often includes employer's fees, something that ISN'T taxed on the employee's salary.

She pays about 11,000 SEK per month for her apartment. Groceries are 2,000 to 5,000 SEK with 5,000 being relatively high. I've managed 3-4k for most of my life. Less than 2k as a student.

So she has maybe 15,000 SEK left after rent and groceries. Add maybe 2-5k on top of that for various services, public transport, insurance, phone, whatever. Still leaves her with 10,000 SEK, which is a decent amount to save or use for entertainment or whatever.

Additionally, we have both allmän pension which is state funded, and often occupational pension, so retirement is in some sense covered.

If you want examples of what you net for various salaries, you can use this to get an estimate (that is very accurate, within a few 100 SEK). https://rakna.net/berakna/lon-efter-skatt/

The fields from top to bottom are Fiscal Year, Monthly Salary in SEK, what kommun you reside in (approximately equivalent to County), and if you're a member of the church of Sweden (which adds a tiny amount on top of the tax).

Beräkna means calculate, and the result pops up with details below that.

New comment by sinfulprogeny in "Dose-response relationships of LSD-induced subjective experiences in humans"

sinfulprogeny — Tue, 09 May 2023 21:30:05 +0000

How on earth do you do research for a year and end up taking 600ug for your first time?

New comment by sinfulprogeny in "Why can’t you buy a good webcam?"

sinfulprogeny — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 17:26:58 +0000

> you also can buy a great XLR microphone for $100, but then you’ll need an external sound card with phantom power supply

XLR does not imply need for phantom power. Some XLR microphones do, some don't. There are XLR equipped audio cards for as little as $80.

New comment by sinfulprogeny in "Convolution Is Fancy Multiplication"

sinfulprogeny — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 07:17:31 +0000

I wholeheartedly agree on the point about decentralizing and modernizing education, and thank you for reminding me of this. We still have a massive bias towards academic institutions to work against, but the fact that knowledge is so easily accessible, and of such a high quality, is pretty amazing.