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New comment by tempaway43563 in "Mostly dead influential programming languages (2020)"

tempaway43563 — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 21:11:41 +0000

The article does touch on that:

"COBOL was one of the four “mother” languages, along with ALGOL, FORTRAN, and LISP."

New comment by tempaway43563 in "FP8 is ~100 tflops faster when the kernel name has "cutlass" in it"

tempaway43563 — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 11:58:45 +0000

So, what is Cutlass, can someone explain whether checking for kernel names makes sense here or is a form of cheating?

https://docs.nvidia.com/cutlass/index.html

New comment by tempaway43563 in "ChatGPT testing a mysterious new feature called 'study together'"

tempaway43563 — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 11:01:49 +0000

ChatGPT testing a mysterious new feature called 'hype treadmill'

New comment by tempaway43563 in "Touching the back wall of the Apple store"

tempaway43563 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 12:55:12 +0000

oh man I am so old

New comment by tempaway43563 in "Show HN: Lego Island Playable in the Browser"

tempaway43563 — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 16:00:13 +0000

Yeah, its just the contrast between the very exciting intro video and the completely baffling main menu was kindof crushing

New comment by tempaway43563 in "Show HN: Lego Island Playable in the Browser"

tempaway43563 — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 15:59:00 +0000

this was 25 years ago, he's a project manager now

New comment by tempaway43563 in "Show HN: Lego Island Playable in the Browser"

tempaway43563 — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 14:31:32 +0000

Yes but that only works if the child is listening. Children dont listen to wiggly mad dudes waving around on the screen. They just randomly click around and giggle at things.

New comment by tempaway43563 in "Show HN: Lego Island Playable in the Browser"

tempaway43563 — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 09:01:10 +0000

I remember watching my young nephew play Lego Island and the introductory video where the camera flies around the island is amazing. But then he was totally baffled by the 'main menu' when some excited lego guy babbles instructions at you in flowery hard-to-follow language, and you had to do abtract things like write in a book or drag icons onto the map before you got to do anything fun like racing cars. I think he could have clicked around that screen for hours and never realised he had to drag the people onto the map.

Great game but they wouldn't make it like that now. Its like a grown ups idea of an interface that a young child would like, rather than something actually tested.

New comment by tempaway43563 in "Show HN: Lego Island Playable in the Browser"

tempaway43563 — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 08:51:42 +0000

Absolutely nothing should be getting called "legos", dear god, its "lego" or "lego bricks"

New comment by tempaway43563 in "Juneteenth in Photos"

tempaway43563 — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 20:04:15 +0000

argument about naming conventions is exactly what I expected to find on hn

New comment by tempaway43563 in "From SDR to 'Fake HDR': Mario Kart World on Switch 2"

tempaway43563 — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 21:56:57 +0000

Literally only makes a difference to the clouds. Nintendo know what they're doing and made the right call

New comment by tempaway43563 in "The Grug Brained Developer (2022)"

tempaway43563 — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 21:27:39 +0000

I went to look for that bit. It said:

"Bad"

lol

New comment by tempaway43563 in "There should be no Computer Art (1971)"

tempaway43563 — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 12:44:29 +0000

The same author was on twitter until recently giving his take on AI

https://x.com/CarlCanary/status/1479567776272498693

There are people around who successfully predict new modes of creativity when humans and AI will be working together. Seriously: “working together”. Not: “humans using software”. One such software is called “Botto”. An artist is its inventor.

https://x.com/CarlCanary/status/1480107734087479296

I read, there are machines that take an input text to generate images from it. That’s meant to be surprising. Haven’t programs always been texts? You mean, natural language texts are different? So what? Isn’t there Natural Language Programming?

I've got to say though, I dont think his takes were very good

New comment by tempaway43563 in "How to post when no one is reading"

tempaway43563 — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 08:43:46 +0000

Thats fine as long as you're happy to be part of the long tail

New comment by tempaway43563 in "How to post when no one is reading"

tempaway43563 — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 10:15:08 +0000

There's a weird 'blogging is good' mentality around here but the truth is writing a decent blog post takes a lot of time and gives very little return.

Highlighting people who unexpectedly rose to fame is no use, thats just survivor bias, for every Mike Posner there's millions of musicians who spend years trying to make it with no success.

'Write content for your future fans' is also survivor bias advice. In the attention economy most blogs will just be ignored forever.

So here's my advice: Its ok to give up. I think 'never give up' is terrible advice. People can waste years of their lives due to 'never give up'. There is wisdom in knowing when to give up and spend your time on something else. For most people, blogging is a waste of time and they'd be better off going for a nice walk.

New comment by tempaway43563 in "CERN gears up to ship antimatter across Europe"

tempaway43563 — Thu, 22 May 2025 08:33:10 +0000

The point was that the van driving around with the containment device reached 40mph and this establishes that the containment device can handle a bit of rattling around

They only had regular Protons in it for this test though. The point was to see if the Protons were still there after the 40 mph journey in a van

New comment by tempaway43563 in "Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment"

tempaway43563 — Fri, 16 May 2025 10:13:10 +0000

they were able to develop the treatment and fast track it through the FDA in six months, details in this write-up

https://innovativegenomics.org/news/first-patient-treated-wi...

New comment by tempaway43563 in "I ruined my vacation by reverse engineering WSC"

tempaway43563 — Mon, 12 May 2025 10:39:04 +0000

You're right, that never gets defined. Yes, Capture The Flag cybersecurity sort of competition I think

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43960389