Hacker News: tilt_error

New comment by tilt_error in "Show HN: StormWatch – Weather emergency dashboard with prep checklists"

tilt_error — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 23:18:46 +0000

I now know the weather in Beverly Hills...

New comment by tilt_error in "The lost art of XML"

tilt_error — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 12:02:34 +0000

This article/blog post [1] has been on HN several times before, but it is well worth a reminder.

[1] https://seriot.ch/software/parsing_json.html

New comment by tilt_error in "When Abandoned Mines Collapse"

tilt_error — Thu, 08 May 2025 20:28:39 +0000

I think that rocket still stands [0] :) [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxus_(rocket) [1]: http://www.astronautix.com/m/maxus.html

New comment by tilt_error in "The Merovingians: 'Do-Nothing Kings'?"

tilt_error — Sun, 04 May 2025 20:55:53 +0000

There are no see cows mentioned in the Wikipedia article about Merovech [0]. I have no knowledge about this, but such a juicy databit should just jump at you, if it was true. Instead, a quite mundane etymology around ‘merovech’ is provided.

One of these articles are wrong :)

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merovech

New comment by tilt_error in "Show HN: BSE – Semantic Zip Engine for Text, Image and Audio"

tilt_error — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 07:16:28 +0000

The link you gave does not seem to work :)

New comment by tilt_error in "First Orbital Rocket Launched from European Soil, Rocket Crashes, but It's Cool [video]"

tilt_error — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 20:12:59 +0000

In 1995, World War III almost broke out after a rocket launch from the exact same location [1]. It was only a coincidence that stopped the Russians from doing retaliatory nuclear rocket launches. So, indeed, launching to the east is not a good idea from this latitude.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_rocket_incident

New comment by tilt_error in "Else Considered Smelly"

tilt_error — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 13:58:11 +0000

Else is a common name in my part of the world and capitalizing the word makes the connection more explicit.

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

tilt_error — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 13:41:14 +0000

Bear? It is more like a stray dog that keeps shitting on your living room carpet. You don’t need to hate the dog, you just keep it on the outside where it can run around and have a great time on it’s own.

New comment by tilt_error in "Richard Bellman on the Birth of Dynamic Programming (2002) [pdf]"

tilt_error — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 01:40:04 +0000

Interesting. I came in contact with dynamic programming as a means to implement the Viterbi algorithm in an equalizer. This relates to calculating “cost” of routes through a trellis, where you accumulate partial results corresponding to alternative routes.

New comment by tilt_error in "Prompts are Programs"

tilt_error — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 09:21:32 +0000

DSPy?

New comment by tilt_error in "OpenZFS deduplication is good now and you shouldn't use it"

tilt_error — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 22:42:34 +0000

If writing performance is critical, why bother with deduplication at writing time? Do deduplication afterwards, concurrently and with lower priority?

New comment by tilt_error in "Recent BGP leak that redirected internet traffic through Russia"

tilt_error — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 10:48:13 +0000

This is an interception scenario, no? If issued intentionally, traffic will pass through hardware in… unfriendly territory.

New comment by tilt_error in "A near impossible literacy test Louisiana used to suppress the black vote"

tilt_error — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 23:20:54 +0000

Actually: Paris in the the spring

'the' comes twice

New comment by tilt_error in "US Government interagency sea level rise website is live"

tilt_error — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 23:17:29 +0000

https://sealevel.globalchange.gov/sea-level-101/local-sea-le...

New comment by tilt_error in "The 1 Hour per Year Bug, but only in Pacific time"

tilt_error — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 09:53:39 +0000

Makes sense since the Russians have been fiddling with time and seems to have turned it back to 1962.

New comment by tilt_error in "How to develop on Windows: comparing native, MinGW, Cygwin, WSL"

tilt_error — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 21:09:07 +0000

Or moving from RCS to CVS.

New comment by tilt_error in "Software Design Principles I Learned the Hard Way"

tilt_error — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 06:32:10 +0000

Yes, you shouldn't "boil the ocean".

New comment by tilt_error in "The "it" in AI models is the dataset"

tilt_error — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 13:04:42 +0000

Is this a surprise?

Isn't this exactly what Naftali Tishby has been talking about [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL07WEc2TRI

New comment by tilt_error in "Visual overview of a custom malloc() implementation"

tilt_error — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 06:37:24 +0000

Why are the letters ’p’, ’q’ and ’t’ missing from the article? Makes it a bit annoying to read.

New comment by tilt_error in "A bullying scandal closed a historic astronomy department"

tilt_error — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 18:29:12 +0000

I can't reconcile this article with additional background [0]. Maybe what we see here is one party shouting loudest...

[0] https://academicrightswatch.se/?p=4766