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gnatolf··on Biological Miracle – Wood Frog
Hard to imagine that this is significant, given that the (un)thawing is likely quite slow.

Did not think that my early morning would be spend trying to imagine how thawing a frog works. :)

gnatolf··on The motor turns too much
And as now Tesla has moved past that early 'greenfielding' stage, their situation has changed to be dramatically more similar to the 'legacy' car makers. And suddenly, Tesla sees that their supposedly superior quirky approaches to carmaking generally are probably going to 'solidify' into systems eerily similar to the legacy ones.

Whoever was dismissive of the legacy car makers was also assuming decades of innovations in maintainability planning and reuse logic in one of the most highly competitive industries. Turns out, Tesla - even though the shook up the legacy contenders early on - is losing a lot of the advantages quicker that they have imagined to stay. Hardly a surprise to anyone who understands that millions of highly skilled engineers in the car industries aren't exactly less competent than the average Tesla engineer.

gnatolf··on Apple's AirPods Pro hearing health features
Spotify high quality is usually 320kbps. If not, it's because only worse qualities are recorded/available. I have sincere doubts you're able to hear a difference to lossless qualities, especially if you're listening on the go or in non-hifi setups.

The Apple RDF seems strong here.

gnatolf··on Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT
> which is basically ChatGPT?

Yea, I'm wondering the same. Is there any good resource to look up whether copilot follows the ChatGPT updates? I would be renewing my subscription, but it does not feel like it has improved similarly to how the new models have...

gnatolf··on iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max
Nah, but phones are commodities by now.
gnatolf··on Why are Texas interchanges so tall?
Maybe it's just me but I expected these links to open in the recently established apple maps web page. However, on an Android phone, Google Maps opens.
gnatolf··on Free-threaded CPython is ready to experiment with
Good to hear. The authors are touching on the journey it is to make Cython continue to work. I wonder how hard it'll be to continue to provide bdist packages, or within what timeframe, if at all, Cython can transparently ensure correctness for a no-gil build. Anyone got any insights?
gnatolf··on Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac
I'm just unhappy that this will mostly end up to make the moat larger and the platform lock-in more painful either way. iPhones have been going up in price, serious compute once you're deep in this will be simply extortion, as leaving the apple universe is going to be nigh impossible.

Also no competitor is going to be as good at integrating everything, as none of those have as integrated systems.

gnatolf··on Tesla's Sales in Europe Fall to a 15-Month Low
That supercharger dominance is much less so in Europe. I'd even say, completely nonexistent. Therefore, much more even competition. And Tesla's competition at similar prices is just getting started - to me it seems that the technological gap (if there ever was such a thing) has been completely levelled, and the cars from all other factories are iterating faster and more efficiently. Turns out that if the big car companies really go for it, their ability to build good EVs isn't systematically worse than Tesla's. Not that any sane person ever really thought that, other than hype believers.
gnatolf··on How well can LLMs write COBOL?
Fortran also has the disadvantage of numerous separate dialects/flavours that plenty of times can't be mixed. And rarely is the exact style mentioned in random code found somewhere.

It got a lot better with Fortran 95 and newer, but in the old world of e.g. lahey compilers and custom commands only available there, any LLM has failed me consistently to stick to these intricacies. I can't even blame them, when asking humans questions about these topics, you'll get all sorts of answers that are equally close to a correct solution, but almost never precisely correct.

gnatolf··on Power Metal: is it really about dragons? (2018)
I wonder whether bands are more consistent in style of play over their lifetime, as compared to lyrics or other 'metrics'. It's probably easy to find all types of variance/consistency.

My hunch would be that the more specific and entrenched a genre is, the closer these bands stick to their styles (and lyrics).

gnatolf··on Power Metal: is it really about dragons? (2018)
This is lovely!

Since I always struggle with the ton of subgenres, some lyric based clustering is as good as anything to separate genres.

Maybe we should run this on all that has electric guitars...

gnatolf··on Improving Interoperability Between Rust and C++
Thank you for that great link!
gnatolf··on Show HN: Twine – Open source multiplatform RSS app
Not having folders is a deal-breaker, all other things look great.

I'm ready to give feedly the boot.

gnatolf··on Lessons learned from bringing promotional sweets to a conference
Oh. Maybe. Is a 'tong'-sticking-out smiley appropriate? :-P
gnatolf··on Lessons learned from bringing promotional sweets to a conference
We had a very interesting and successful run with branded BBQ tongues. They are very cheap, unassuming and large enough that you could see them sticking out of bags here and there.

It was by far the oddest giveaway at that conference. The 13th pen just doesn't yield any reaction at all. The tongues were a bit of a conversation starter.

gnatolf··on Show HN: #!/usr/bin/env docker run
Isn't this still the Windows Server images only? Can I expect everything to run that would run on win 10, 11 and/or server?
gnatolf··on UI considerations for designing large data tables
I was equally scrolling for the big reveal only to leave very unsatisfied
gnatolf··on Pikchr: A PIC-like markup language for diagrams in technical documentation
Yet another one, it feels like. In the end, these all drop their promises of ease of use when slightly off the path.

The one and true power lies with tikz, as hard as it is.

gnatolf··on Why are Apple Silicon VMs so different?
Thanks. I'm sorry if my question wasn't particularly complex to answer ; - )
gnatolf··on Why are Apple Silicon VMs so different?
What's the progress, or who's behind a virtio layer for windows? Any hope that this will work in the foreseeable future?
gnatolf··on Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers
I've always used multiple tabbed unsaved files in notepad++ to do the same. Funny how things converge, this is very similar.
gnatolf··on A structured note-taking app for personal use
This looks robust and the example project works fine.

I am low-key into these type of apps. Similar enough to Google Keep, with more privacy and (potentially, didn't really check) E2E encryption.

Sharing and cooperating notes with others is a must-have, but it's unclear if there are any plans.

gnatolf··on Fantasy Map Brushes
I mostly agree.

Every time they add a new feature (none of those have ever been useful to me) I am afraid they're going to take it further from what I use it for. Which is only RSS feed reader.

To their credit - if you ignore all the little additions, the base functionality is remarkably identical over the last decade or so.

gnatolf··on A software epiphany
What an incredibly annoying popup. Sorry, can't read that.
gnatolf··on Hackers manage to unlock Tesla software-locked features
A vast majority of kidnappings are done by family members. It's a movie thing that a ski mask vigilante enters your home to kidnap you. I'm almost 100% positive there's virtually no risk of being kidnapped at home by ski-mask wearing criminals that staked your house previously.

Or, if you are in that specific, very small target group for e.g. ransom etc, you probably should've been investing in home security beyond a front door camera anyways.

gnatolf··on Introducing ChatGPT and Whisper APIs
Care to give a link to that video?
gnatolf··on Take more screenshots
Is there a similar program for Windows?
gnatolf··on Writing my PhD using groff
Still even using all of that, my thesis with heavy inline tikz took about 5 minutes per run (about 120 pages). And a full rerun with all tikz graphs redone (about 20), it took just shy of 20 minutes if the indexes existed already. That was all on a surface 4 pro from ~2015.
gnatolf··on Writing my PhD using groff
It does take some getting used to, I'll give you that. But it's very predictable.

Annoyingly, 'new' users, especially led by KOMAScript hints are drawn to use the 'total' positioning that is promised by using the H B P and other options. However, since these aren't holding their promises - at least not the misunderstood promised 'absolute' positioning, frustration is very often creeping in.

I've had too many co authors and friends ask me how to push figures to certain positions where all I saw was premature optimization in terms of positions and tons of wasted cycles (CPU and user) to get to intermediate solutions that are completely unnecessary if only they were saved until the last layouting runs. The change in document creation paradigm (to not care about the layout until the far end) is what 'manages' expectations and where the perceived errors mostly come from.

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