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Tomte

163,446 karma · joined August 23, 2012

Open Source Compliance, Functional Safety, OT cybersecurity, Education Science.

Knuth cheque owner.

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Tomte··on Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
The Erlang front page was nice, though: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-03-11
Tomte··on Textream – A Free Teleprompter for Mac, iPhone, and iPad
I would have thought, mirror-imaging would be a must-have feature for a teleprompter app.
Tomte··on DeepSeek v4.1 Flash
If only they managed to tell the mobile app to tell the model to reply in English to English prompts.

I suffix everything with "Reply in English", and even so I‘m getting lots of Chinese.

Tomte··on [dead]
Karma farming with predictable URLs about to become interesting. Simply flag it.
Tomte··on iPhone Duo
This page does not exist at the time of this comment, and I‘m so sick of people submitting predictable URLs before they go live, just to be first. We also see that with LLM model releases regularly.
Tomte··on I changed my license
Licenses are contracts, just like an EULA.

And if you expand the acronym EULA you will actually find that it is… a license agreement.

Tomte··on I Changed My License
> BUSL is OSI-approved

Of course it isn‘t.

Tomte··on Meet the Ig Nobel Prize Winners
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49567241
Tomte··on Quarto 2
> Quarto 2 is a full rewrite of the Quarto CLI, written from the ground up in Rust
Tomte··on Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior
Richard McElreath: https://bsky.app/profile/rmcelreath.bsky.social/post/3muofvc...

> In the actual candy study, the participants were all students, status was manipulated in the lab by telling some students they were better than others, and "nearly twice" means 1 piece vs 2 pieces.

> oh and the researchers told participants they could take some candy. There was no stealing!

Tomte··on Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination
Good luck finding an advisor/a department that awards PhDs for that.

“It’s not novel”.

Tomte··on Konrad Zuse Museum shutting down due to lack of funding
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad-Zuse-Museum_H%C3%BCnfel...

Apart from a quite a few museums having his machines (or replicas).

Tomte··on Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days
So we have automated Thomas Pornin?
Tomte··on The Twelve-Factor App (2025)
Every time it gets posted I read through the list and think "export services via port binding… of course a web server binds to a port, of course it‘s decoupled that way, what else would you do" and "treat backing services as attached resources… huh, is that really only about not linking in a database, but connecting using a JDBC string, for example?"

So let me ask for once: what am I missing? Why is that interesting and not trite?

Tomte··on Sydney Marathon medal mistakenly depicts Munich stadium
And when a FIFA world cup is hosted the stadium gets renamed for the duration if the stadium‘s sponsor isn‘t a FIFA sponsor.
Tomte··on Linear algebra done right
No, but a second course. Still firmly in undergraduate territory, second semester at my university. Most undergraduate linear algebra textbooks also contain this, unless they are matrix computation heavy (usually for the first course).
Tomte··on A Preview of DuckDB v2.0
Wait, what? I‘ve always assumed MotherDuck is the company by the main developers of DuckDB? They are unrelated?
Tomte··on Linear algebra done right
Shilov is a very popular recommendation, because it‘s good and very, very cheap (a Dover).
Tomte··on Linear algebra done right
Do not get the latest edition, the layout and typesetting is atrocious!
Tomte··on Linear algebra done right
Axler does limit itself to vector spaces over real and complex fields, though.

That‘s fine, but I would have appreciated notices, which proofs and theorems do not hold in the general case.

It‘s an exercise for the reader.

Tomte··on A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better”
And nobody has used the term in the original meaning (i.e. outside both American and Russian bloc) for the last decades anyway.
Tomte··on A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better”
Based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_vehicle_registra...
Tomte··on Show HN: Ablaut – an open source German verb conjugator
„Abbrechen“ doesn‘t work, but the failure pattern seems very simple and fixable (without any knowledge how your crate works).
Tomte··on Speaking for the Dead
That‘s wrong. Speaking for someone means from their point of view, and it ususally implies a moral permission to do so.
Tomte··on Debian has begun voting on the future of AI/LLM contributions
There is no aggression, and "dudeing" me makes me disregard you immediately anyway.
Tomte··on Debian has begun voting on the future of AI/LLM contributions
> Sounds like several people wrote them and did not agree on the form

Of course several people wrote different position statements to vote on.

Did you expect one Debian developer to cook up half a dozen possible stances he is not even personally invested in? Are you constantly surprised that election programs of different parties are worded differently (and use different fonts)?

Tomte··on "That's not SOC 2 compliant"
We‘ve had code reviews before GitHub existed. PRs are a tool. And just one tool among many.
Tomte··on What's New in SuperMemo 20?
Native PDF and Chrome instead of Internet Explorer is big news, albeit very late.
Tomte··on Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents
I do the same, but with pi.dev in Incus, mapping a project folder into the VM.

What I don‘t have compared to sbx is an outbound firewall, but my VM does not have any personal/interesting data, only a vanilla Fedora installation and the project dir with open source code, so I do not care much about exfiltration.

Tomte··on Why Estonians invite strangers into their back gardens each summer
Swabia has something similar for wineries: Besenwirtschaft is a temporary small restaurant with very lax regulations. The main obligations are: at most 4 months open, at most 40 chairs, only cold food (often bread with lard), the wine does not have to be produced by the owner themselves, but the grapes have to be.

They are „advertised“ by hanging a broom outside (Besen is broom).

You tend to go visit a few over an afternoon, because they concentrate on certain wine-making towns.

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