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New comment by wolfi1 in "Linux 7.1"

wolfi1 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:07:14 +0000

I miss the days when my 486 took about 12 hours to compile a kernel

New comment by wolfi1 in "Electric motors with no rare earths"

wolfi1 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:01:49 +0000

150kkm - wouldn't that be 150 Mm?

New comment by wolfi1 in "Tectonic: A modernized, complete, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine"

wolfi1 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:41:16 +0000

if I were to write a new TeX system I would use the attempts from the beginning of the 2000s, where they tried to use java und modularize the system, the systems being NTS [0] and ExTeX [1] [0] https://github.com/jamespfennell/new-typesetting-system [1] https://github.com/tex-other/extex

New comment by wolfi1 in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

wolfi1 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:55:20 +0000

but it's not simple html, it's a npm-package

New comment by wolfi1 in "CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOs"

wolfi1 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 04:57:53 +0000

why shouldn't AI then replace the CEOs?

New comment by wolfi1 in "An introduction to functional analysis for science and engineering"

wolfi1 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:35:06 +0000

if you take the spectral theorem, for example, there is a direct connection between linear algebra and functional analysis, basically it's linear algebra in infinite dimensions

New comment by wolfi1 in "Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers"

wolfi1 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:17:58 +0000

he does not use them

New comment by wolfi1 in "Ask HN: How to get your child interested in math?"

wolfi1 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:32:53 +0000

make a little game at the cash register in the supermarket: if he can calculate the right sum of the price he gets a fiver, if he can tell how much change you have to prepare he gets a dollar. for the first thing he needs to memorize the prices and add them up, for the second one he needs some sort of modulo calculation. so there are several ways to incentivize the use of math in everyday situations

New comment by wolfi1 in "Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers"

wolfi1 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:58:45 +0000

his projects were GUIs for machines (HMI)

New comment by wolfi1 in "Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers"

wolfi1 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:55:48 +0000

a friend of mine has a very different solution: he codes everything by hand. he says that the time you need to research to include a new package you can actually use to code the piece you need. and he for sure doesn't have the problems of transitive dependencies

New comment by wolfi1 in "Boron Buckyballs: B80 cages in the lab"

wolfi1 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 19:03:39 +0000

but, don't you need it already for C60?

New comment by wolfi1 in "Introducing Boron Buckyballs: Theory that B80 cages can’t be made is disproved"

wolfi1 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 08:44:59 +0000

about DFT not predicting it: could it be that they used a non-relativistic model?

New comment by wolfi1 in "New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste"

wolfi1 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:25:39 +0000

depends of course, how easy does the brine dissolve, how long does it take that it is so diluted that it can't do any harm, without that information it's not easy to tell

New comment by wolfi1 in "India's surprise baby bust is a warning to the world"

wolfi1 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:19:17 +0000

when there is a power outage it is most likely that the cell towers are down, too

New comment by wolfi1 in "Delacroix's Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople Restored"

wolfi1 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:29:00 +0000

by ship

New comment by wolfi1 in "Delacroix's Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople Restored"

wolfi1 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 07:19:31 +0000

one should bear in mind, that Constantinople at that time was still Christian and most of the goods, that were ransacked, came to Venetia

New comment by wolfi1 in "Thomas Mann: Goethe Heartened by Panama (As Suez for English, or Danube-Rhine)"

wolfi1 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:49:29 +0000

there is a satirical play, called "Goethe im Examen" (Goethe in exams) by Egon Friedell and Alfred Polgar, where Goethe has to answer questions about his life and fails miserably. One of the questions he is asked, is: what Goethes main achievement is and he answers "Farwelehr" (theory of colors) which, of course, is not the right answer, at least not for the professors. it tells us much about how he was perceived by literature professors but he himself might not have had the same perception of himself. unfortunately this play is only on the German WP: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goethe_im_Examen

New comment by wolfi1 in "Show HN: Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface"

wolfi1 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 02:41:35 +0000

btw, there is already a paseo package on f-droid, it's a step counter

New comment by wolfi1 in "Why Janet? (2023)"

wolfi1 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:38:13 +0000

why is it called Janet? perhaps to prevent it to be identified with the acronym for Lots of Irritating Single Parenthesis?

New comment by wolfi1 in "Safer, cheaper vision correction without lasers or surgery"

wolfi1 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:08:24 +0000

he is in his 30s, so he would have to wait another 30 years, approximately