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New comment by tmiku in "First convex polyhedron found that can't pass through itself"

tmiku — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 21:15:39 +0000

Yes, they get visually more sphere-like as more faces are added. But spheres are obviously/trivially non-Rupert, while the question of whether a convex polyhedron can be non-Rupert is more interesting.

New comment by tmiku in "Cloudflare Email Service: private beta"

tmiku — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 16:45:20 +0000

Re: Sendgrid killing their free tier - I used them for the contact form on my personal website, and after they ended the free tier I was able to move to Resend (who has a similar free tier) without too much work. Pretty happy with it so far.

New comment by tmiku in "Death rates rose in hospital ERs after private equity firms took over"

tmiku — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 16:32:16 +0000

What does that look like in a more intensive hospital setting? I've seen the shift to midlevels happening in primary care, but I'm not sure how that translates to inpatient settings - I'm vaguely aware that there are rules around when a PA/NP must consult an MD before making a decision, and I feel like they would encounter those situations way more for an inpatient.

New comment by tmiku in "OpenAI and Nvidia announce partnership to deploy 10GW of Nvidia systems"

tmiku — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 18:01:29 +0000

For other readers: "15 Twh per year" is equivalent to 1.71 GW, 17.1% of the "10GW" number used to describe the deal.

New comment by tmiku in "South Korea's President says US investment demands would spark financial crisis"

tmiku — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 17:33:32 +0000

I'll leave it to you and others who read this to evaluate the columnist's argument in the linked article vs. the UN commissioner's argument published last week in the same publication. https://archive.ph/FP2ek

New comment by tmiku in "UTF-8 is a brilliant design"

tmiku — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 21:17:10 +0000

See mort96's comments about 7-bit ASCII and parity bits (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45225911). Kind of archaic now, though - 8-bit bytes with the error checking living elsewhere in the stack seems to be preferred.

New comment by tmiku in "“No tax on tips” is an industry plant"

tmiku — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 18:38:21 +0000

More so than tables per unit time, it's dollars per unit time. When I was a server, the usual metric of how well you performed on a given shift was the total of your bills ("how much you sold"). The best servers were good at encouraging parties to spend on the things they were on the fence about: the appetizer, the second drink, the dessert. Even with the volatility of individual tipping decisions, getting your tables to order more increases the EV of your total tips.

New comment by tmiku in "Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer"

tmiku — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 18:09:58 +0000

That's really cool. I was mostly envisioning hands-on admin stuff (because that's the work I'm most familiar with), but I hadn't thought about how much of a boon it would be to have someone with incident management experience arriving to help out. If you ever do a write-up about your experience, I'd love to read it.

New comment by tmiku in "Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer"

tmiku — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 16:44:06 +0000

> I helped to recover my nearby hospital as a volunteer when it was ransomwared.

I'm curious about how you got in the door here. Very cool, but isn't healthcare IT notoriously cagey about access? I've had to do PHI training and background checks before getting into the system at my (admittedly only 2) PHI-centered jobs.

Granted, if it was such an emergency, I could see them rushing you through a lite version of the HR onboarding process. Did you have a connection in the hospital through whom you offered your services?

New comment by tmiku in "Why are there no good dinosaur films?"

tmiku — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 20:49:35 +0000

"Artslop"? Care to elaborate on your usage here? I'm curious if your problem here is with the incursion of art into your preferred dinoslop, or if artslop is your catch-all for works that aren't in the high-concept genre film realm.

Just trying to keep my finger on the pulse of a neoword as it spends more time outside of containment.

New comment by tmiku in "GCP Outage"

tmiku — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 18:30:00 +0000

Looks like I'm about to start learning which of my time-killing websites are hosted on GCP - The Ringer is down, and since Spotify owns them and is a major GCP customer, it looks like they've been hit by this. CRAZY that the GCP status page is still green.

New comment by tmiku in "The Polymarket users betting on when Jesus will return"

tmiku — Thu, 29 May 2025 17:26:37 +0000

It's worth nothing that it takes less money than you may expect to significantly shift a prediction market's trading price. This article, while its tone aged poorly with the relevant election results, covers the math behind this quite well.

https://quantian.substack.com/p/market-prices-are-not-probab...

New comment by tmiku in "Chairs, Chairs, Chairs"

tmiku — Thu, 29 May 2025 00:00:21 +0000

I like letter-slash-letter abbreviations but I've never run into c/f before. What does it mean? Do you remember where you first picked it up?

New comment by tmiku in "The anomalous magnetic moment of the muon in the Standard Model: an update"

tmiku — Wed, 28 May 2025 23:55:05 +0000

I agree that it's not wrong, but I would certainly call it incomplete too. It's your choice which of those two points you want to emphasize, but calling the Standard Model "not wrong" with no mention of its incompatibility with General Relativity would feel disingenuous to me.

New comment by tmiku in "Unparalleled Misalignments"

tmiku — Mon, 05 May 2025 17:30:03 +0000

"since 2018" means "starting 2018, through the present", no?

New comment by tmiku in "FBI arrests judge accused of helping man evade immigration authorities"

tmiku — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 19:25:22 +0000

You're missing the point - a rapist would have a criminal arrest warrant, which would absolutely be the courthouse's responsibility to enforce. The ICE agents attempted to disrupt a criminal proceeding to enforce a civil immigration warrant not signed by a judge. More on that distinction here: https://www.fletc.gov/ice-administrative-removal-warrants-mp...

New comment by tmiku in "Visiting Us"

tmiku — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 21:53:11 +0000

My small liberal arts college sent a lot of people to Epic (3-5 grads out of each year's class of ~550), including me - they are known for hiring lots of fresh grads with academic-STEM backgrounds who lack tech industry experience into their technical services and QA roles. I think the hiring dynamics for those non-developer technical roles are more favorable to Epic than those for full developers, and those people tend to make up more of a company's headcount overall.

New comment by tmiku in "$3 Trader Joe's tote bags resell for more than $1,500"

tmiku — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 20:05:02 +0000

I feel like this shows up in any news article about resale markups of trendy merch - the highest-price listing gets the headline, regardless of if it ever sells. I get that these soft-news articles are more about driving traffic to the site than quality reporting, but I'm still surprised (and annoyed!) that these easily disprovable eye-grabbers are omnipresent in this class of story.

Edit: further example - come on, man https://www.delish.com/food-news/a64457108/trader-joes-mini-...

New comment by tmiku in "Usability Improvements in GCC 15"

tmiku — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 22:57:52 +0000

I thought that most FOSS projects took multiple compiler implementations as a sign of a healthy language environment, without much prestige associated with being the "premier" compiler and instead having more of an it-takes-a-village attitude. Granted, I'm mostly extrapolating from Go and Python here - is it a sharper divide in the Rust community?

New comment by tmiku in "MLB says Yankees’ new “torpedo bats” are legal and likely coming"

tmiku — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 19:26:59 +0000

I find the road cycling arms race really fascinating too, especially for tech focused on measurement rather than performance. See the 2021 ban on diabetic-style glucose monitors during races [1], the recent restriction of carbon monoxide-based hemoglobin testing [2,3], and the possible upcoming ban on breath sensors during races [4].

[1] https://www.bikeradar.com/news/uci-bans-supersapiens [2] https://www.uci.org/pressrelease/the-uci-bans-repeated-inhal... [3] https://www.bicycling.com/news/a61677020/carbon-monoxide-reb... [4] https://archive.ph/XMrVg