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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 Show HN: A Handwritten Blogging Platform
Stop replying to every single comment here!
Tomte··on Glyphs 4 – the leading Mac font editor
Fontographer and later Fontlab were totally dominant, and they still have a huge market share.
Tomte··on What do consultants get paid for?
Bringing information to the attention of the C-level that grunt workers weren‘t able to, because they don‘t have access, middle management censors it, or people below feel it‘s too risky for no reward.
Tomte··on MouthPad: A Tongue-Controlled Touchpad
A doctor told me that a few years ago, but googling it myself now, I don‘t find anything, either. I think I missed a joke back then.

Flag my comment, it‘s wrong.

Tomte··on MouthPad: A Tongue-Controlled Touchpad
Surgery robots have a tongue controller. It takes a while to train on that, but when you‘re trained your tongue muscle is the most precise way to control, say, subtle incisions deep inside the brain.
Tomte··on My falling-out with the rationalist community
Like "Non-violent communication"
Tomte··on Found something better than Klavaro touch typing tutor
https://www.tipp10.com/en/index/ is my recommendation.
Tomte··on Logseq 2.0 Beta (DB version) is here
Workflowy.
Tomte··on So you want to learn physics (second edition, 2021)
No surprise, since she is a physicist.
Tomte··on Jellyfish Undersea Roundabout
Flag it. Seriously. It‘s against the rules.
Tomte··on CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps
CoMaps starts maximally zoomed out (showing the whole world). Organic Map starts showing my neighbourhood.

That‘s the simple reason I‘m using Organic Maps and not taking a fifth look at CoMaps (and I downloaded CoMaps yesterday after the HN thread).

Tomte··on Organic Maps
I have downloaded many maps and not paid anything.
Tomte··on The great blogging collapse: What happened to 100 successful blogs?
"A straightforward, honest, zealous officer doing his duty in the most laborious manner—that’s my style. No Frills. No fancy work. Just honest perspiration. Stolid and a bit stupid—that‘s my ticket."

Agatha Christie, 1936

Tomte··on Google loses fight over record $4.7B EU antitrust fine
Yours is a common misunderstanding about antitrust being about prices. That is a distinctly American view, and not useful for analyzing European antitrust decisions. Read https://www.newyorker.com/business/adam-davidson/teddy-roose...
Tomte··on Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI
Their process is a well-known template other organizations look at when creating their own:

https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/releasing

Tomte··on Why Drawing Tablet Brands Won't Collaborate on Linux Floss Drivers
Even worse, I assumed for years that the primary meaning of gimp was bullfinch. See, in German the bird is called a Gimpel. Never bothered to look it up until reltively recently.

BTW: Wikipedia is great for translating technical jargon: the language links invariably lead you to the correct disambiguation of a lemma.

Tomte··on The text in Claude Code’s “Extended Thinking” output
That‘s interesting! Do you have a paper or blog post or so at hand that shows examples of raw and RL‘ed output?
Tomte··on The text in Claude Code’s “Extended Thinking” output
In a parallel universe LLMs have learned that (a) the training material contains many different orthographic errors and (b) that humans follow a non-obvious pattern when "deciding" which error to make, so that their generated output contains such errors, as well.

In our universe LLMs seem to have learned that those errors do not follow patterns in the aggregate and that they should not be emulated.

Tomte··on SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible
It used to be 18 dollars in the ANSI webstore for quite some time.

Also, you can look at smaller European countries putting their national cover page on it, and selling it cheaper. It’s the same standard, in English.

The C standard is only a bit cheaper at the Lithuanian agency: https://eshop.lsd.lt/public#!/product/info/0a640332-9273-166...

Sometimes it‘s much cheaper: the Germans sell IEC 62443-4-2 for 400 Euros, the Estonians for 40 Euros:

https://www.dinmedia.de/de/norm/csa-iec-62443-4-2/331021994?...

https://www.evs.ee/et/evs-en-iec-62443-4-2-2019

Tomte··on Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability
Kerbal Space Program, Civilization 6, Hogwarts Legacy. All games nobody ever played…
Tomte··on Your ePub Is fine
Okular.

It‘s working great on Windows, as well.

Tomte··on Adaptive PDFs
> LaTeX, Chrome's print-to-PDF, most export tools don't produce tags

LaTeX is actually one of the best ways to create tagged PDF: https://latex3.github.io/tagging-project/tagging-status/ and https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/An_introduction_to_tagg...

Tomte··on Ask HN: What software feels exceptionally polished?
BBEdit.
Tomte··on I built a domain registrar that shows renewal prices before you register
That‘s your USP? Every registrar I‘ve used in the past did that.
Tomte··on C++: The Documentary
That‘s cool, since it establishes a brand. If one was done well, the others probably are, too, so even if it‘s not your language of choice, it will be interesting.
Tomte··on C++: The Documentary
I‘m out of the loop: we‘ve had Python, Clojure and possibly something else recently. Is that a series by the same people working through several languages? Is it happenstance? Is it a trend, and every programming language is now scrambling to get their own video documentary?
Tomte··on Branchless Quicksort faster than std:sort and pdqsort with C and C++ API
I‘m always a bit envious when I see those branchless styles. In my day job I have the obligation to hit 100% modified condition/decision coverage, and I‘m daydreaming about having just one control flow through everything, in order to save module tests that only test the umpteenth condition combination.

Obviously, readable code wins, but at least once I had the computing time budget to be able to have a central function go straight through by calculating all five or so variations (it was about several kinds of encodings of the output values) and just pick the correct one in the end. That felt good.

Tomte··on Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services
You rely on the security companies scanning the packages.
Tomte··on The Pope Should Be Going to War Against A.I. Why Isn't He?
The NYT has always used the em dash.

This is a style article about it, from 2019, long before ChatGPT: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/style/em-dash-punctuation...

Tomte··on Stop Advertising in Your Commits
You don‘t ask, you configure it: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/settings#attribution-setting...
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