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New comment by smidgeon in "Is anybody using this private key?"

smidgeon — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 15:28:45 +0000

Thank goodness, now I know my private keys have not been leaked ...

New comment by smidgeon in "How to render a mesh gradient using RBF interpolation"

smidgeon — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 14:05:10 +0000

One interesting group is the compactly supported RBFs, for example those of Wendland https://math.iit.edu/~fass/603_ch4.pdf the advantage being that the resulting linear systems are sparse, useful when you have lots of points to interpolate and "gaps" is not an issue.

New comment by smidgeon in "Larry (cat)"

smidgeon — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 13:48:19 +0000

British politicians are notorious sloppy eaters, lots of crumbs to be had.

New comment by smidgeon in "How to render a mesh gradient using RBF interpolation"

smidgeon — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 11:56:36 +0000

RBFs are splendid, but you don't need to have them "decay with distance", indeed, ones which don't (mutliquartics etc) often have better approximation properties and better-conditioned linear systems to solve, give them a go! https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09557...

New comment by smidgeon in "Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean"

smidgeon — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 08:38:24 +0000

As sure as eggs is eggs, there will be sightings of exotic predators (puma, leopard) by little old ladies in the next weeks ...

New comment by smidgeon in "When Your Exit Strategy Dream Is My Customer Nightmare"

smidgeon — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 08:26:58 +0000

I wish there were more people like this.

New comment by smidgeon in "AI note takers are flooding Zoom calls as workers opt to skip meetings"

smidgeon — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 13:31:46 +0000

Peak HN

New comment by smidgeon in "Math.Pow(-1, 2) == -1 in Windows 11 Insider build"

smidgeon — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 12:26:44 +0000

Off by 2, not so bad

New comment by smidgeon in "Legalise AC"

smidgeon — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:08:54 +0000

That's air-conditioning rather than alternating-current (both legal in the UK).

New comment by smidgeon in "The $25k car is going extinct?"

smidgeon — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 11:58:07 +0000

A friend and I bought a car with a busted door for £100 some years ago, we got a cheap replacement door, incompetently resprayed it to be roughly the colour of the rest of the car and sold it, for £100 :-|

New comment by smidgeon in "Show HN: Passgen – Offline C password generator"

smidgeon — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 11:46:08 +0000

Anyone who would run a random binary downloaded from the internet will probably be using the password "password"

New comment by smidgeon in "10 Years of Pomological Watercolors"

smidgeon — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 15:09:32 +0000

Nice apples.

New comment by smidgeon in "'Peak flower power era': The story of first ever Glastonbury Festival in 1970"

smidgeon — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 10:52:18 +0000

Typical rural plod brutality.

New comment by smidgeon in "CSS Functions and Mixins Module"

smidgeon — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 15:36:27 +0000

Interested readers might like to read my original submission at https://drafts.csswg.org/css-mixins/ which details the mixin proposal. No idea why it was changed to this earlier daft which does not :-|

CSS Functions and Mixins Module

smidgeon — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 14:54:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-mixins-1/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44388053

Points: 3

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New comment by smidgeon in "Ask HN: Anyone got advice for someone like me nearing 40s?"

smidgeon — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 09:13:39 +0000

40's a breeze, 41 is the bastard.

New comment by smidgeon in "Originally submitted to Apple's Bug Bounty. Rejected, so sharing publicly"

smidgeon — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 15:06:19 +0000

That would be helpful, there is a (badly placed) README https://github.com/farukalpay/Apple/blob/main/DriftPoC/READM...

New comment by smidgeon in "Learn Makefiles"

smidgeon — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 10:41:57 +0000

Implicit rules are our friends, in life as in make.

New comment by smidgeon in "Comparing Golang SQLite to C SQLite"

smidgeon — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 08:48:19 +0000

C's still the boss.

New comment by smidgeon in "Could the Semicolon Die Out?"

smidgeon — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 08:05:15 +0000

I doubt it; JavaScript would suffer.