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Tomte

163,447 karma · joined August 23, 2012

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

Knuth cheque owner.

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Tomte··on Baba Is Eval
It‘s academic jargon. Desiderata are often at the end of a paper, in the section „someone should investigate X, but I‘m moving on to the next funded project“.
Tomte··on YouTube No Translation
> who don’t want English (or any language they already know) automatically translated into their native tongue.

It‘s even the other way around!

Tomte··on YouTube No Translation
I‘m German, watching a German creator in a German-language recording.

Only that YouTube decides to use their Mickey Mouse sounding AI voice to deliver an English audio track. Not every time, but at least a third of the time. I have to hunt for the audio setting each time, because you cannot turn off AI voices permanently.

Tell me again how I‘m wrong.

Tomte··on Why Matt Mullenweg went to war over WordPress
> I think something I’ve learned in this process is not to talk as much while it’s going on

No more off-the-cuff HN comments, it seems.

Tomte··on I deleted my second brain
Jürgen Habermas had this to say about Luhmann‘s theory: "All of it is wrong, but it‘s got quality."
Tomte··on I deleted my second brain
> some academic sociologist of old

> Never mind that those publications have practically zero impact on the field currently

You‘re so cool and edgy.

Luhmann is still one of the most cited, grappled-with and thought-about sociologist across a number of disciplines.

Tomte··on Claude Code feels like magic because it is iterative
It‘s not unlimited.
Tomte··on Munich from a Hamburger's perspective
> So while Munich was ruled by a single dynasty for centuries, Hamburg was more independent and focused on trade.

> There are also clear religious differences. Both cities were Catholic until the 16th century, but during the Reformation, Hamburg became Protestant.

Etc.

At this point not getting it seems willful.

Tomte··on [dead]
You already posted that an hour ago. Stop it.
Tomte··on Agentic Coding Recommendations
I’m wondering whether we may see programming languages that are either unreadable to humans or at least designed towards use by LLMs.
Tomte··on The FAIR Package Manager: Decentralized WordPress infrastructure
No, it must be according to the core‘s license, but if the plugin author doesn‘t license it as GPLv2, it isn‘t.

The plugin‘s author breaches the core‘s license, but that doesn‘t make the plugin GPLv2 by itself.

Tomte··on Why Pandas feels clunky when coming from R (2024)
Everyone in statistics, and lots of people applying statistics in other disciplines (anthropology etc.).
Tomte··on The X.Org Server just got forked (announcing XLibre)
Oh, it’s the vaccines are a "human experiment that basically creates a new humanoid race“ guy from LKML!
Tomte··on Sid Meier's Pirates – In-depth (2017)
Probably the iPad port.
Tomte··on Whatever happened to cheap eReaders?
Thanks!
Tomte··on Whatever happened to cheap eReaders?
Tolino is a rebranded Kobo with modified firmware, I think.
Tomte··on Tipp10 – Free Touch Typing Tutor
There is a software version. Also, you can choose your keyboard layout, including Dvorak and Neo.

Stop complaining out of reflex.

Tomte··on How I like to install NixOS (declaratively)
Not visible to me. Probably because of the Guidelines: „Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.“
Tomte··on Change for the wurst: VW puts best-selling sausage in supermarkets
Sausage and ketchup (separate products) have already been in some supermarkets. i‘ve bought them a few times. New is the microwave-ready meal, and the broader rollout.
Tomte··on AI is not our future – Procreate
Last release in 2022, so probably still alive.
Tomte··on MultiWikiServer: Multiple Users, Multiple Wikis
> This is not ready for primetime. Do not use it to protect feelings or intellectual property.
Tomte··on German court sends VW execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal
He used to work in the US, but at the time of the US prosecution and his arrest he was back in Wolfsburg, and the vacation was in Florida.

The English Wikipedia article isn‘t terribly clear about that.

Tomte··on German court sends VW execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal
And one engineer went on vacation to America. Congratulations, you‘ve won seven years in a foreign prison!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Schmidt_(engineer)

Tomte··on There is no German word for "self-aware"
We have “selbstreflektiert” which seems to be close enough.
Tomte··on Inigo Quilez: computer graphics, mathematics, shaders, fractals, demoscene
> hg_sdf

What is that?

Tomte··on Linguists find proof of sweeping language pattern once deemed a 'hoax'
I was participant in an fMRI study (done as PhD work by a computational linguist) that contrasted native speakers of German and Polish, showing that phonemes that exist in your native tongue are processed in different areas of your brain than phonemes that are non-native to you.
Tomte··on #embed is in C23 (2022)
Too bad the mods changed the title. The original submission title was the post‘s title, not clickbait, and it was pretty obvious what the submission is about.
Tomte··on Spaced repetition memory system (2024)
AnkiDroid
Tomte··on Ditching Obsidian and building my own
If you run the node.js server version it can handle images properly, as separate files. That also gives you the practical ability to use many large images and videos.
Tomte··on Spaced repetition systems have gotten better
Look up Deci/Ryan, self determination theory.
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