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tilt_error··on What changes when your search index lives on S3?
Isn't this the same as Elasticsearch searchable snapshots?
tilt_error··on Abu Fanous
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hessdalen_lights
tilt_error··on Brunost: The Nynorsk Programming Language
Eg saknar kvisleis.
tilt_error··on The Seasons Are Wrong
”Winter was short, this year”. “Spring came early”. It does not make sense to tie these concepts to a calendar. Summer is when you dare to dip your toes in the ocean. In winter we have a meter of ice. I generally place vacation weeks in July and august, because the weather is nice and other people are on vacation as well.

The statement that the seasons are wrong, does not make sense. To tie these names to a calendar, does not make sense.

tilt_error··on Show HN: StormWatch – Weather emergency dashboard with prep checklists
I now know the weather in Beverly Hills...
tilt_error··on The lost art of XML
This article/blog post [1] has been on HN several times before, but it is well worth a reminder.

[1] https://seriot.ch/software/parsing_json.html

tilt_error··on When Abandoned Mines Collapse
I think that rocket still stands [0] :) [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxus_(rocket) [1]: http://www.astronautix.com/m/maxus.html
tilt_error··on The Merovingians: 'Do-Nothing Kings'?
There are no see cows mentioned in the Wikipedia article about Merovech [0]. I have no knowledge about this, but such a juicy databit should just jump at you, if it was true. Instead, a quite mundane etymology around ‘merovech’ is provided.

One of these articles are wrong :)

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merovech

tilt_error··on Show HN: BSE – Semantic Zip Engine for Text, Image and Audio
The link you gave does not seem to work :)
tilt_error··on First Orbital Rocket Launched from European Soil, Rocket Crashes, but It's Cool [video]
In 1995, World War III almost broke out after a rocket launch from the exact same location [1]. It was only a coincidence that stopped the Russians from doing retaliatory nuclear rocket launches. So, indeed, launching to the east is not a good idea from this latitude.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_rocket_incident

tilt_error··on Else Considered Smelly
Else is a common name in my part of the world and capitalizing the word makes the connection more explicit.
tilt_error··on Cable-cutting tanker seized by Finland 'was loaded with spying equipment'
Bear? It is more like a stray dog that keeps shitting on your living room carpet. You don’t need to hate the dog, you just keep it on the outside where it can run around and have a great time on it’s own.
tilt_error··on Richard Bellman on the Birth of Dynamic Programming (2002) [pdf]
Interesting. I came in contact with dynamic programming as a means to implement the Viterbi algorithm in an equalizer. This relates to calculating “cost” of routes through a trellis, where you accumulate partial results corresponding to alternative routes.
tilt_error··on Prompts are Programs
DSPy?
tilt_error··on OpenZFS deduplication is good now and you shouldn't use it
If writing performance is critical, why bother with deduplication at writing time? Do deduplication afterwards, concurrently and with lower priority?
tilt_error··on Recent BGP leak that redirected internet traffic through Russia
This is an interception scenario, no? If issued intentionally, traffic will pass through hardware in… unfriendly territory.
tilt_error··on A near impossible literacy test Louisiana used to suppress the black vote
Actually: Paris in the the spring

'the' comes twice

tilt_error··on US Government interagency sea level rise website is live
https://sealevel.globalchange.gov/sea-level-101/local-sea-le...
tilt_error··on The 1 Hour per Year Bug, but only in Pacific time
Makes sense since the Russians have been fiddling with time and seems to have turned it back to 1962.
tilt_error··on How to develop on Windows: comparing native, MinGW, Cygwin, WSL
Or moving from RCS to CVS.
tilt_error··on Software Design Principles I Learned the Hard Way
Yes, you shouldn't "boil the ocean".
tilt_error··on The "it" in AI models is the dataset
Is this a surprise?

Isn't this exactly what Naftali Tishby has been talking about [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL07WEc2TRI

tilt_error··on Visual overview of a custom malloc() implementation
Why are the letters ’p’, ’q’ and ’t’ missing from the article? Makes it a bit annoying to read.
tilt_error··on A bullying scandal closed a historic astronomy department
I can't reconcile this article with additional background [0]. Maybe what we see here is one party shouting loudest...

[0] https://academicrightswatch.se/?p=4766

tilt_error··on [dead]
What’s the problem?

I’m white and can need to be reminded that I’m actually in minority on this planet, but act as I’m not. The text is pretentious, but I can take that.

tilt_error··on Learn PostScript by Doing (2005) [pdf]
It is a pity that PostScript has to live such a dwindling life. It is a very fascinating language in itself. After Display PostScript disappeared, I think the only use is in printers nowadays. I once invested in a development environment for PostScript — psalter — where I could step through code and see contents on the various stacks. I used it when developing overlays on printouts of scanned images, as PostScript files with TIFF content was much smaller than print bitmaps from Windows and LANs weren’t faster than 10 MBit :) It made a huge difference in printout speeds.

I also found a bug in libtiff by studying produced PostScript. I don’t think anybody looks at this anymore.

tilt_error··on Creator of Elratio language admits majority of compiler was written by ChatGPT
“A Python-based programming language that combines the performance of Ruby with the readability of Perl.”

…with the readability of Perl. Surely a joke.

I have written quite a lot of Perl code in my life. It was obvious to me what it did as I wrote it, but I have real problems understanding it/reading it now.

tilt_error··on Detailed miniature models of historic computer
Here you go: https://www.chrisfenton.com/homebrew-cray-1a/
tilt_error··on ChatGPT simulates 1987 BBS System
Email as technology existed, but as I recall commonly based on UUCP with bang-type addresses. A BBS kind of assume public accessible phone based access and that was kind of orthogonal to UUCP.
tilt_error··on I lost everything that made me love my job through Midjourney
There is also a language factor here. 100 years ago, English was not the ‘lingua franca’ of the world, traveling in Europe you were better off with French, German or even Latin.

US marketing currently happen to be understood almost everywhere and native speakers of English have an advantage. A company does not necessarily need to execute better, but through effective communication they may be able to pretend they are.

There are lot of examples of ideas being picked up and reimplemented in the US, where the original was better but where the adaptation got better traction. The film industry is full of it.

Why should ingenuity not be evenly spread around the globe as well as hopes for a better future? The US represents one particular policy for wealth distribution that happen to work well for, in particular, VCs.

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