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New comment by wodenokoto in "Claude Opus 4.8"

wodenokoto — Fri, 29 May 2026 08:16:19 +0000

For white collar “thinking”-tasks what is the top here?

Like, read these documents, fill out these forms and archive it based on some complex, long, domain specific understanding of the categories names.

New comment by wodenokoto in "Unicode 18.0.0 Beta"

wodenokoto — Wed, 27 May 2026 10:53:13 +0000

Generally Unicode is for encoding all existing encodings/writing.

So you generally can’t add something because it would be cool or fun or useful, but only because it is currently in use and cannot be encoded by Unicode.

New comment by wodenokoto in "Will MySpace ever lose its monopoly? (2007)"

wodenokoto — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:55:27 +0000

2007/2008 was the turning point for MySpace imho.

I went to a concert early summer 2007, and they asked the audience to friend them on MySpace.

Went away for the autumn/winter on exchange. Came back, went to a show and this band asked audiences to add them on Facebook.

New comment by wodenokoto in "A Comma and a Question Mark"

wodenokoto — Tue, 26 May 2026 04:40:30 +0000

That is exactly what it does.

New comment by wodenokoto in "Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? (2017)"

wodenokoto — Mon, 25 May 2026 11:27:25 +0000

I didn’t say we use more blankets when it’s hot.

But if you are so used to blankets that you can’t fall asleep without one, dropping the blanket because it’s hot is a pretty bad sleeping strategy

New comment by wodenokoto in "Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? (2017)"

wodenokoto — Mon, 25 May 2026 10:00:46 +0000

Yes, it is totally a thing. We don't have a lot of hot nights in Denmark but when we do, we still sleep under a duvet, or maybe half under one and it is just as awful as it sounds.

New comment by wodenokoto in "Book Review: On the Calculation of Volume"

wodenokoto — Mon, 25 May 2026 01:28:04 +0000

Book reviews are not for summaries, they are for opinion and we’ve lost that.

A good review is done by a reviewer that you’ve come to know.

If she says it’s good I know it’s gonna be good.

New comment by wodenokoto in "The Making of Indian Statistics"

wodenokoto — Sat, 23 May 2026 08:22:43 +0000

There's an article? I thought it was a big animation driving a counter and somehow that was a comment on ... indian statistics?

New comment by wodenokoto in "The death of the brick and mortar toy store"

wodenokoto — Fri, 22 May 2026 03:16:51 +0000

Tsutaya, a Japanese dvd rental store has a specialty shop in Hiroshima. It’s best described as a library hosting a small electronics store, a clothing store, a stationery shop and a coffee shop.

New comment by wodenokoto in "Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence"

wodenokoto — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:23:08 +0000

I completed it in ... (I think the rolls are counted wrong. How can I have more packs than rolls?)

106 rolls

160 packs

1,769 numbers

36 battles

and 1 day, 20 hours, 18 minutes

You reached level 11 in battle. Try pushing yourself higher!

New comment by wodenokoto in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

wodenokoto — Thu, 21 May 2026 01:43:57 +0000

The pipeline is obviously not called ADNOC. The exisitng pipeline is called Abu Dhabi Crude Oil Pipeline (ADCOP) and not "Abu Dhabi National Oil Corporation" (ADNOC).

The existing pipeline carries 1.8 million barrels per day [1].

Which you have to put against the 20 million barrels per day that used to be sailed through the strait.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/uae-accelerate-oil-p... [2] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=65504

New comment by wodenokoto in "Google changes its search box"

wodenokoto — Wed, 20 May 2026 08:19:13 +0000

> But you could still dig through it and find those primary sources. That is, in my opinion, the primary purpose of a search engine.

And you are a small minority. People go to google to get answers, not to look for articles in order to look for answers in the articles.

New comment by wodenokoto in "Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence"

wodenokoto — Wed, 20 May 2026 05:59:41 +0000

You need to change the numbers you bring into battle to have at least one star

New comment by wodenokoto in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

wodenokoto — Tue, 19 May 2026 23:05:26 +0000

Speaking of, how did he not lose credibility at “full self driving next year, better buy it now”-Tesla?

It might be Elon who went and said that and said they don’t need lidar, but as director of AI and auto vision Karpathy bears the responsibility for those features.

New comment by wodenokoto in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

wodenokoto — Tue, 19 May 2026 01:51:41 +0000

It’s probably still a lot cheaper to pay toll than moving cargo from Jebel Ali to Fujairah over land

New comment by wodenokoto in "Points are a weird and inconsistent unit of measure"

wodenokoto — Mon, 18 May 2026 07:22:30 +0000

> How the hell large is 133 mm?

1 1/3 decimeter, perhaps?

New comment by wodenokoto in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

wodenokoto — Sun, 10 May 2026 23:41:28 +0000

Almost every organization I’ve worked for has setup their cloud such that:

A) they are receiving massive discounts off of list prices, and

B) they’ve setup everything such that no-one working on the cloud can see the spend.

Companies just really don’t want employees to know what their spend is.

New comment by wodenokoto in "I’ve banned query strings"

wodenokoto — Sun, 10 May 2026 01:41:06 +0000

So my understanding is, he is annoyed that other website adds a query string such as "?ref=origin.com" to links pointing to authors website.

How does this benefit the other website? How does this hurt the authors website?

I am completely confused about the behavior of both side here.

I get that when I run an ad-campaing I want google to add a utm-query string, so I can track which campaign users arrived from - but then the origin and the destination are working together. Here the origin just adds stuff for no reason. Why?

New comment by wodenokoto in "GeoJSON"

wodenokoto — Sat, 09 May 2026 07:11:37 +0000

How did geojson make this easier than .wkt or .csv with a geometry field?

New comment by wodenokoto in "RaTeX: KaTeX-compatible LaTeX rendering engine in pure Rust"

wodenokoto — Fri, 08 May 2026 00:03:46 +0000

It’s my understanding that Knuth has little to nothing to do with latex and he himself uses tex for his books.