Hacker News: trebligdivad

New comment by trebligdivad in "Pick and Place: Carbon Nanotube Nanoassembly Process"

trebligdivad — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:47:25 +0000

nice work although, the level of marketing of calling your device 'high density...17 quantum devices' or having the bold '50 devices in the last four weeks' - does say there's some way to go!

New comment by trebligdivad in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

trebligdivad — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 13:14:44 +0000

It's a very long contract (till 2029) for just covering themselves for supply.

New comment by trebligdivad in "I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis"

trebligdivad — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 01:34:51 +0000

You do have to worry/wonder how many people are in psych hospitals, jail, or 6ft under when something like this might be the reason.

New comment by trebligdivad in "Iron-rich immune cells help homing pigeons navigate"

trebligdivad — Sat, 30 May 2026 12:00:08 +0000

one of the articles lines is more generally interesting 'In mammals, neurons in the spleen can communicate with macrophages, and in both mammals and birds, these neurons also connect to the central nervous system.'.

New comment by trebligdivad in "A portentous reunion"

trebligdivad — Wed, 27 May 2026 01:23:58 +0000

you mean just like the Document editors or email systems these days? (or cloudflare etc etc)

New comment by trebligdivad in "A portentous reunion"

trebligdivad — Tue, 26 May 2026 23:34:49 +0000

Perhaps the uncertainty is more to do with the public being able to see this new tech; think what's happened in those 30 years, some of which you as a techie would have been well aware of but most people were clueless about. Those of us using PDAs at the time, most of the public didn't imagine constant wireless connectivity and powerful computers in their pockets. Networked games, neat tricks bunches of geeks ran at the time; today everywhere. Is AI really that much of an outlier other than public knowledge?

New comment by trebligdivad in "Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?"

trebligdivad — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:59:45 +0000

Yeh if you want to improve the screening rate then someone needs to figure out how to make the prep easier.

New comment by trebligdivad in "Noroboto: Lying Fonts and Mitigation in Rust"

trebligdivad — Mon, 25 May 2026 01:41:09 +0000

Yeh there's lots of fun things like this; PDF is a full programming language so I think in principal you can generate PDFs that display different things to different people depending on the tools used etc. I've heard it said some of the incorrect text mapping stuff has been used in the past as a copy-protection silly to stop people copy/pasting content. (It's also a pain for those using screen readers).

New comment by trebligdivad in "CBP Directive 3340-049B: Border Search of Electronic Devices"

trebligdivad — Sun, 24 May 2026 21:56:17 +0000

So hmm this allows 'electronic or digital' information to be examined - so you're fine transporting your information read out on cine film?

New comment by trebligdivad in "Where are all the UK red telephone kiosks?"

trebligdivad — Fri, 22 May 2026 11:46:32 +0000

Ah yes, that would be what I was thinking of; I think I saw one somewhere in Manchester as a kid.

New comment by trebligdivad in "Where are all the UK red telephone kiosks?"

trebligdivad — Fri, 22 May 2026 01:47:33 +0000

Wasn't there a short period where they changed the colour? I'm thinking it was a beige thing - in the 80s???

New comment by trebligdivad in "Colossus: The Forbin Project"

trebligdivad — Mon, 18 May 2026 01:37:51 +0000

Oh yeh i grew up on a lot of those; add Silent Running in as well!

New comment by trebligdivad in "Details of the Daring Airdrop at Tristan Da Cunha"

trebligdivad — Fri, 15 May 2026 11:35:29 +0000

Were the ICU nurse and Doctor trained for the tandem jump previously - I've not seen that said in any of the stories published. Or did they just find a random ICU nurse and Doctor who was up for it?

New comment by trebligdivad in "What is Z-Angle Memory and why is Intel developing it?"

trebligdivad — Sun, 03 May 2026 20:36:15 +0000

A search for patents by Stephen Morein who is listed as the CTO of SAIMEMORY shows this one, assigned to Intel, and published strangely close to the press release;

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20260040969A1/en

It talks there about 'Z axis memory' rather than angle, and that one is talking about inductive stuff through stacks of vias.

he's also got: https://patentsgazette.uspto.gov/week02/OG/html/1542-2/US125...

He obviously likes thinking about stacks of dies.

New comment by trebligdivad in "Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet"

trebligdivad — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:06:18 +0000

Haha it's a fun finding though; The source control comment feels a little off; I'm sure there were SCCS (hmm or did cvs use similar?) still around at that time.

New comment by trebligdivad in "UK to permanently ban future generations from buying cigarettes"

trebligdivad — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:55:28 +0000

It's going to make for an interesting future age verification problem; For a few years it'll be easy, because it's still only going to be asking people under say 25 for proof; but then in a few decades it's going to be people trying to figure out if there customer is over 40 say.

New comment by trebligdivad in "Phyphox – Physical Experiments Using a Smartphone"

trebligdivad — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:08:41 +0000

Damn that's very impressive - for a long time Android had a lot of hopeless accelrometer, audio scope, etc apps, and it's always been hard to add your own stuff to it. Sounds very very neat!

New comment by trebligdivad in "Investigating Split Locks on x86-64"

trebligdivad — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:12:01 +0000

To me it seems an artefact of the x86 architecture; where any sane architecture just declared split locks illegal, x86 has some gently hidden away note about it being a bad thing.

New comment by trebligdivad in "Investigating Split Locks on x86-64"

trebligdivad — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:10:20 +0000

I suspect it's the risk of deadlocks and perhaps they have no easy way to avoid it.

New comment by trebligdivad in "LibreOffice – Let's put an end to the speculation"

trebligdivad — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:35:13 +0000

Heck I hope this doesn't result in a bug fork happening; it's already a PITA to deal with fixing bugs that have been inherited from OOo bug trackers or earlier. You hit things like wanting to test against a file that used to be in a long dead bug tracker.