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New comment by zwischenzug in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

zwischenzug — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:29:34 +0000

Similarly, I did group therapy for a few years, and found it highly and profoundly rewarding.

It's much more structured, with a facilitator to help reduce the possibility of dangerous behaviours. It forced me to confront aspects of myself I otherwise might never have. It also (I think) gave me greater insight into what might be behind people's public faces.

New comment by zwischenzug in "AI Perfected Chess. Humans Made It Unpredictable Again"

zwischenzug — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:21:39 +0000

Everything I've known anything about first hand has been utterly garbled - or was completely made up - when written up in Private Eye.

New comment by zwischenzug in "I am definitely missing the pre-AI writing era"

zwischenzug — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:20:21 +0000

The first sentence makes no sense.

New comment by zwischenzug in "Thinking Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI Is Reshaping Human Reasoning"

zwischenzug — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 09:19:07 +0000

You cannot live by thinking alone.

New comment by zwischenzug in "What does " 2>&1 " mean?"

zwischenzug — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:51:37 +0000

Don't know if this is definitive, but:

https://www.johndcook.com/powershell.html#:~:text=The%20core...

POSIX Korn shell, specifically, according to Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerShell#Grammar

so maybe it inherited 2>&1 from Korn shell, which in turn was POSIX.

But yeah, Powershell was not built purely to be a POSIX shell, but I thought it tried to be compatible where it made sense (hence the seeming clash of cultures).

New comment by zwischenzug in "What does " 2>&1 " mean?"

zwischenzug — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 04:28:53 +0000

Isn't that because of posix?

New comment by zwischenzug in "Picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code"

zwischenzug — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:20:14 +0000

If you place a sports bet online, odds (!) are that it will run through tcl in its business logic. I may even have written some of it.

New comment by zwischenzug in "ASML staffing changes could result in a net reduction of around 1700 positions"

zwischenzug — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 10:29:46 +0000

Engineers can definitely contribute to the problem too, in my experience.

New comment by zwischenzug in "Television is 100 years old today"

zwischenzug — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:01:31 +0000

Whatever we all television now, television then was literally "vision at a distance", which Baird was the first to demonstrate (AFAIK).

The TV I have now in my living room is closer to a computer than a television from when I grew up (born 1975) anyway, so the word could mean all sorts of things. I mean, we still call our pocket computers "phones" even though they are mainly used for viewing cats at a distance.

New comment by zwischenzug in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

zwischenzug — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 09:18:54 +0000

Hard disagree with all of this. I feel like I am constantly lamenting the simplicity and usability of old scrollbars and cursing their will o the wisp modern implementations.

Scrollbars used to be invisible to me. They only bubbled up to my consciousness when I needed them, and then there was no friction in their use. Now I am having to think about them constantly. To me that is 'standing out'.

New comment by zwischenzug in "Samsung released a 7M model that achieved 45% on ARC-AGI-1"

zwischenzug — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 14:57:20 +0000

Released where?

New comment by zwischenzug in "Open models by OpenAI"

zwischenzug — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 06:55:43 +0000

Came here to say this. It's behind the 14b Phi-reasoning-plus (which is self-reported).

I don't understand why "TIGER-LAb"-sourced scores are 'unknown' in terms of model size?

Kung Fu Chess – Chess Without Turns

zwischenzug — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 17:49:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.kfchess.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44436373

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

The greatest soccer player never to play soccer

zwischenzug — Sun, 04 May 2025 08:40:07 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Kaiser_(footballer)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43885416

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

New comment by zwischenzug in "Using generative AI as part of historical research: three case studies"

zwischenzug — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 06:14:51 +0000

I wrote this piece in 2023, which argues similarly that LLMs are a boon, not a threat to historians

https://zwischenzugs.com/2023/12/27/what-i-learned-using-pri...

New comment by zwischenzug in "Khalid Sheldrake: The East Dulwich man who would be King"

zwischenzug — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 11:56:41 +0000

So do I!

New comment by zwischenzug in "Methodology is bullshit: principles for product velocity"

zwischenzug — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 10:41:04 +0000

Parent is close to what I argued here:

https://zwischenzugs.com/2017/10/15/my-20-year-experience-of...

New comment by zwischenzug in "Ask HN: What's the most creative 'useless' program you've ever written?"

zwischenzug — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 11:34:33 +0000

A Docker image in less than 1000 bytes:

https://zwischenzugs.com/2018/05/22/a-docker-image-in-less-t...

New comment by zwischenzug in "Money and Happiness: Extended Evidence Against Satiation"

zwischenzug — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 05:55:37 +0000

Wealth != income

New comment by zwischenzug in "At 50 Years Old, Is SQL Becoming a Niche Skill?"

zwischenzug — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 13:44:42 +0000

No.