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New comment by veltas in "Gloomberb"

veltas — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 05:22:41 +0000

In defense given the amount of web content being processed it makes a lot of sense to use JS and related tech. It's put to good use here.

New comment by veltas in "England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C"

veltas — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:35:02 +0000

And I'll add that whether the style guide or the journalists, BBC articles tend to be like this: constantly saying sentences without giving the full context needed to understand them. This is why as a right wing person I tend to read The Guardian (famously left wing) instead of the BBC, because their articles just read better.

New comment by veltas in "England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C"

veltas — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:48:16 +0000

This isn't written by AI, this is just how BBC news articles are written. I find it frustrating too.

New comment by veltas in "Recursion is lying to you"

veltas — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:49:44 +0000

Here is the conventional use of Big O notation where the input is a number:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller%E2%80%93Rabin_primality...

As you'll see they are using the number of digits, not the value of the number, because the number of digits is the size of the input.

You can find countless examples of this in literature. So this is not a 'personally-interesting' way as you assert.

New comment by veltas in "Don't be a meat proxy"

veltas — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:28:52 +0000

This is the new "Let Me Google This For You".

New comment by veltas in "Recursion is lying to you"

veltas — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:02:15 +0000

What do you mean by this? I was interested in article and parent, that's why I responded.

New comment by veltas in "Recursion is lying to you"

veltas — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:48:55 +0000

If you want to measure growth based on another variable you are allowed to do so, but for most algorithms I'm more interested in the growth of time according to input size.

New comment by veltas in "Recursion is lying to you"

veltas — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:37:16 +0000

Really it's worse than exponential, because the size of the input is not n, it's the number of bits needed to store n i.e. log n. So as the number of bits k grow, it's growing phi^(2^k).

New comment by veltas in "Teaching Kids Forth"

veltas — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 08:09:36 +0000

To be clear, I'm not accusing you of plagiarism at all. I'm just saying this kind of typo unfortunately doesn't prove anything.

New comment by veltas in "Teaching Kids Forth"

veltas — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 07:37:16 +0000

This is exactly the kind of spelling mistake ChatGPT makes if you ask it to make spelling mistakes to make text look more authentic.

What seems to happen is it will get a lot of words like curriculum wrong that people rarely spell incorrectly because they're long enough that if your English isn't confident you would look it up or use a spell checker, or spell words incorrectly that people don't usually spell wrong like 'imediate' or 'puzzel'.

New comment by veltas in "Teaching Kids Forth"

veltas — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 21:52:41 +0000

I really love Forth and spend almost all my free programming time playing with it and I'd never teach it to a class of kids.

New comment by veltas in "Don't Take the Black Pill [video]"

veltas — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 11:42:42 +0000

It's really easy to miss the value in Pointless Rewrite 5 of Core Module 4, but the grad who rewrites it will at least understand it afterwards and can fix the bugs they introduced and add new features to it easier. But the hard pill to swallow is they spent $200K of the engineering budget making the code worse.

The way to understand the value is to see the engineer as an asset. Engineers aren't interchangeable and no codebase can truly be documented and CI'd to the point where expertise doesn't matter.

New comment by veltas in "It's a shame what's happened to radio"

veltas — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 07:41:24 +0000

Also listened in the car but since they've recently shut down the LW tower I can't receive it anymore in the midlands, only occasionally get FM signal.

New comment by veltas in "Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting"

veltas — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 07:23:34 +0000

The original joke for anyone who doesn't know or remember, Michael, the manager, asks his accountant to explain what a surplus is like he would to an 8 year old. Michael doesn't understand this and asks for how he would explain it to a 5 year old, which Oscar does a very good job with explaining and Michael finally understands.

Later the security guard is called upstairs to break a tie on votes for what to spend the surplus on, and Michael starts reciting Oscar's 5 year old explanation, and the guard cuts him off saying he knows what a surplus is.

I have to imagine this is sort of a joke about the audience too as inevitably the writers were considering that audience members might not know what a surplus is, and this kind of joke is an opportunity to explain it.

New comment by veltas in "Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail"

veltas — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 07:40:59 +0000

Interesting though in retrospect they chose good platforms, Mac and UNIX are still around and flourishing and OS/2 died a death, although would a lot of OS/2 stuff have run on Windows?

New comment by veltas in "Show HN: 18 Words"

veltas — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 04:08:39 +0000

Which would be a problem if it was called "14 words".

New comment by veltas in "M/PC – A Concatenative OS"

veltas — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 07:13:53 +0000

They've been putting interesting update screenshots on fediverse recently: https://merveilles.town/@neauoire/116823589548151098

New comment by veltas in "Show HN: Apply for jobs by directly emailing relevant people at a company"

veltas — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:59:12 +0000

This will probably hurt your chances, bypassing the normal interview process is usually frowned upon.

Cambridge hospital staff accessed records of boy hurt in crocodile pit

veltas — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 09:38:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/26/cambridge-hospital-staff-investigated-accessing-records-boy-crocodile-attack

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48684465

Points: 4

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New comment by veltas in "Why are we so obsessed with lawns?"

veltas — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 07:05:13 +0000

I don't know how this is a counter-point, isn't it just a point? Can lawns co-exist with no lawns?

EDIT: parent has removed "counter-point".