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Blog thing: https://thomasburgess.github.io Github: https://github.com/thomasburgess
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nxpnsv··on Albert Einstein's theory of relativity in words of four letters or less (1999)
And what is the deal with functional scrolling?
nxpnsv··on Albert Einstein's theory of relativity in words of four letters or less (1999)
the lack of large video ads really is jarring too
nxpnsv··on Learn electricity and electronics fundamentals without taking a formal course
I agree options are good as no single solution fits everyone, but I feel I too often hear the sentiment that school/uni/courses is useless. And that is just not true.
nxpnsv··on Learn electricity and electronics fundamentals without taking a formal course
What's wrong with taking formal courses? I think that is a perfectly legitimate way of learning stuff.
nxpnsv··on Microsoft’s original source code
Nice design
nxpnsv··on One Last Ride for Antarctica's 'Ivan the Terra Bus'
I was driven in this from the ice runway to McMurdo station in 2001. It was very loud and slow and bouncy. I loved it.
nxpnsv··on Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water
Sure, but they are also not fighting about it, this seems crucial.
nxpnsv··on LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs
I really enjoy the affinity suite.
nxpnsv··on Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi
This is convicing me to try Kagi for a while... search without pintrest would feel good.
nxpnsv··on First Known Photographs of Living Specimens
That's so cool, I live close to a bug only observed once!
nxpnsv··on Show HN: I built website for sharing Drum Patterns
I guess you could make a 3x16 pattern but interpret it as a 4x12, so each beat is three steps...
nxpnsv··on LLM Agents Are Simply Graph – Tutorial for Dummies
I found it understandable and clear. Pocket flow looks cool, although that magic with - >> operators seems a bit obtuse... Also, I think "simply" is a trap - an agent might be modeled by a graph, but that graph can be arbitrarily complex.
nxpnsv··on (Any) 8-hour time-restricted-eating window effective for weight loss
the 8 minute window is probably even better...
nxpnsv··on TeX Live 2025 Released
That's good.
nxpnsv··on TeX Live 2025 Released
The page wanted me to sign up for a free account for some service, so I perhaps unfairly assumed it’s non free.
nxpnsv··on TeX Live 2025 Released
What about my of decades worth of snippets, custom commands, templates for all the journals, my bib files, and of course my published works that I borrow pieces from? I should replace that with something nonfree that I have to learn from scratch? Howabout you do you?
nxpnsv··on Volkswagen reintroducing physical controls for vital functions
Touch screens & feature subscriptions are things that just don't belong in cars.
nxpnsv··on The German language broke my website
Bodenschwelle is used, at least it’s common in Austria.
nxpnsv··on Solving First Order Differential Equations with Julia
I didn't try it yet, but the docs looks great.
nxpnsv··on Solving First Order Differential Equations with Julia
Cool, the link is helpful, and the package is pretty cool. I'd just add that the examples are simple and be done with it, you can revisit with more later. Keep writing :)
nxpnsv··on Solving First Order Differential Equations with Julia
I didn't find a link to the package in the article. It seems to be a quite capable package, and the given two examples that are trivial to solve analytically don't really do it justice.
nxpnsv··on What is vibe coding? How creators are building software with no coding knowledge
I've been dealing with a particularly vibed plumbling, luckily it's going away with the remodeling...
nxpnsv··on Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma duration
Tbh it sounds like that cure is worse than the problem…
nxpnsv··on The Generative AI Con
That's 100x more bugs to fix. Moreover, increasingly complex models produce bugs that are increasingly hard to spot and fix.
nxpnsv··on You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023)
Good advice, now I’m going to have to figure out the office printer, and find my linkedin account…
nxpnsv··on X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links
Who owns bsky? What prevents a random billionaire to buy it and use it their election platform? Mastodon just feels as a safer bet...
nxpnsv··on DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player
Infinite autoplay of stupid recommendations is so annoying too.
nxpnsv··on The average CPU performance of PCs and notebooks fell for the first time
Arguably a majority of improvements in 2025 haven’t happened yet, seems premature to conclude anything in February.
nxpnsv··on Record-breaking neutrino is most energetic ever detected
Nothing else that we know of would create a muon of that energy deep inside bedrock.
nxpnsv··on Don't "optimize" conditional moves in shaders with mix()+step()
He also is one of the main authors of the whole site... legend.
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