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New comment by throwaway2562 in "“CEO said a thing” journalism"

throwaway2562 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:47:20 +0000

Controversially, that would be ‘woke’, but obvs the term is now somewhat tarnished.

As the right has an immovable Evangelical wing, so now does the Left. A good word for such people is currently unoccupied.

New comment by throwaway2562 in "Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world"

throwaway2562 — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 22:28:34 +0000

What is the utility of denying it?

What do you or anyone else actually get from such obvious absurdity, I wonder?

If it helps - and I have doubts - does (say) a working knowledge of Galois theory require more advanced mathematical cognition than arithmetic?

Would it be immoral to introduce such ghastly, hierarchical language? Etc.

I see you ignored the obvious rejoinder downthread, which stated that the utility of classifying behaviours or capacities is to help you predict outcomes.

How much more help do you need here? It’s not very complicated, but you prefer to showboat.

New comment by throwaway2562 in "Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world"

throwaway2562 — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 16:19:01 +0000

Good grief. This is what 20 years of language policing has wrought. People who are nervous (hiding behind ‘skeptical’) about words like ‘advanced’ when, by any number of dimensions, human cognition is uncontroversially superior, more advanced, more fluid, more deep, more adaptive, more various (pick one, nervous people) to that of spiders or cows.

Or is that all just a ‘myth?’

New comment by throwaway2562 in "Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: the story of learned avoidance"

throwaway2562 — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 20:33:18 +0000

An absurd take. The ‘trauma’ people, baggage handlers de nos jours, have already weaponised the phenomenon for political points, before we even know definitively if it exists. Hey ho.

Incidentally, nobody yet I see has suggested that epigenetics could lead to better outcomes. I wonder why?

New comment by throwaway2562 in "Next.js is infuriating"

throwaway2562 — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 13:29:20 +0000

Here come the police, ever-vigilant for perceived or potential slights. Bless you, Officer.

New comment by throwaway2562 in "Areal, Are.na's new typeface"

throwaway2562 — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 20:21:26 +0000

Does anyone know if are.na supports private sharing of content within groups? I’ve looked and I cannot see if this simple thing is possible, or not.

Then I could use it share moodboards and screenshots with my team: I somewhat dislike Miro and all those similarly over-engineered services.

New comment by throwaway2562 in "Who Invented Backpropagation?"

throwaway2562 — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 21:42:45 +0000

Do yourself a big favour and read the article before commenting, perhaps?

Hint: Schmidhuber has amassed solid evidence over years of digging.

New comment by throwaway2562 in "AI could have written this: Birth of a classist slur in knowledge work [pdf]"

throwaway2562 — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 13:14:36 +0000

The real shame of it is that OP claims affiliation to two respectable universities (UCL and Cambridge) and one formerly credible venue (CHI)

Mock scholarship is on the rampage. I agree: this stuff does make me understand the yahoos with a defunding urge too - not something I ever expected to feel any sympathy for, but here we are.

New comment by throwaway2562 in "A skyscraper that could have toppled over in the wind (1995)"

throwaway2562 — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 19:08:34 +0000

What a great story: remarkable how the New Yorker of 1995 has the same efficient but easy-going clarity as 2025.

New comment by throwaway2562 in "Apple introduces a universal design across platforms"

throwaway2562 — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 20:00:38 +0000

This is what a company running out of ideas looks like

New comment by throwaway2562 in "Show HN: Hyvector – A fast and modern SVG editor"

throwaway2562 — Fri, 09 May 2025 14:34:55 +0000

Looks cool! Very polished, I appreciate just how much effort it takes to get something like this out of the door.

Couple of questions for OP

What is it written in? What will the license be?

Context: Currently evaluating the venerable SVGEdit (MIT, JavaScript) for a project

https://github.com/SVG-Edit/svgedit

New comment by throwaway2562 in "I wrote a book called "Crap Towns". It seemed funny at the time"

throwaway2562 — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 17:57:49 +0000

How can invest in money laundering? Serious question. No crypto please, I do have some limits.

New comment by throwaway2562 in "Evelyn Waugh’s Decadent Redemption"

throwaway2562 — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 13:59:23 +0000

Thank you. I will explore.

New comment by throwaway2562 in "Evelyn Waugh’s Decadent Redemption"

throwaway2562 — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 19:59:06 +0000

What of it? The Loved One (1948) was a bit of a squib at best, tonally a throwback to the earlier Waugh. It’s not very good (imho) so you can see why Terry Southern - who had not much taste - liked it enough to make a film of it, also unsuccessful.

The Sword of Honour Trilogy written over the next decade or so is much more representative of the later Waugh: the original article has sketched him out correctly.

The general continuity in Waugh’s life and writing is contempt for modernity: a turn to religion makes perfect sense in that light.

The diaries are worth reading too. He really was quite an unpleasant fellow, as well as a fine writer.

New comment by throwaway2562 in "Show HN: I built website for sharing Drum Patterns"

throwaway2562 — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 19:21:48 +0000

Very cool, and great selection of tracks.

It would help a lot if a track had breaks and fills as well as the main rhythm.

New comment by throwaway2562 in "Arbitrary-Scale Super-Resolution with Neural Heat Fields"

throwaway2562 — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 14:53:02 +0000

Just curious: why?

It wouldn’t be more funny ha-ha, just more funny strange.

New comment by throwaway2562 in "Beyond Diffusion: Inductive Moment Matching"

throwaway2562 — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 08:59:33 +0000

I’m trying to understand what the ‘spectral’ interpretation of IMM is: but perhaps I shouldn’t

https://sander.ai/2024/09/02/spectral-autoregression.html

New comment by throwaway2562 in "Meta’s Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights"

throwaway2562 — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 15:18:44 +0000

Ach. You seem full of (unrelated, unwarranted) ragefulness, and you stand ready to handwave away both scientific studies and actual user experience. Without, I see, providing any grounded counterpoints. As a bonus, anyone who disagrees with you is a ‘tool’ of sinister ‘bad actors’

Are you quite sure you’re on the right forum? That’s not generally how we do things here.

New comment by throwaway2562 in "Meta’s Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights"

throwaway2562 — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 13:04:19 +0000

Not being able to get your kid to sleep because the upstairs flat is now a weekend party place for tourists is… a non-problem?

‘Wonderful’ convenience for tourists, sure. Writing off reasonable objections as ‘ideological zealotry’ from ‘bad political actors’ is a very weird take.

Case in point, I recently backed out of buying a house when I found out the house next door was an Airbnb, and the neighbours were not digging the thoughtless visitors. Is that an ideological preference or a pro-sleep one?

New comment by throwaway2562 in "How the Samuel Smith beer baron built Britain's strangest pub chain"

throwaway2562 — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 21:17:22 +0000

Rather a lopsided article that misses the point somewhat. Humphrey Smith may be an eccentric and unkind loon, but Sam Smith’s pubs in London are far and away the best chain in town, by some distance.

Beautifully maintained or restored interiors, good beer, low prices and no music so you can actually talk to mates while enjoying a pint.

Humphrey Smith is stepping down by the way, and according to the barmaid at my local, his son is taking over. He’s apparently cut from the same cloth, but if he keeps the pubs the way they are, I don’t mind a bit.

https://pubcurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2024/10/passing-on-torch....