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by dmitrybrant 7d ago
Thanks! Yes, I'm trying to pay extra close attention to modelling every perceivable effect as closely as possible. The remarkable thing is that none of the mathematics is particularly complicated, so if you get the math right, then all
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Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?(rivendell.dmitrybrant.com)
629 points by dmitrybrant 8d ago|290 comments
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by dmitrybrant 10d ago
Don Knuth would like a word: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html
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Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver(dmitrybrant.com)
929 points by dmitrybrant 1y ago|318 comments
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by dmitrybrant 1y ago
A hearty +1 to using WinForms (as long as your desktop app targets Windows only, of course). The fact that WinForms has outlasted so many other UI toolkits is a testament to its simplicity and ease of use. I still use it in numerous persona
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by dmitrybrant 2y ago
My biggest gripe with these AI film enhancements is that they are adding information that was never there. You're no longer watching the original film. You no longer have a sense of how contemporary film equipment worked, what its li
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by dmitrybrant 3y ago
Very cool prototype, and a very interesting idea to sort nearby Wikipedia articles by number of pageviews. Just a note that the Wikipedia app for iOS does in fact have a map with nearby articles, and we will soon bring the feature (back) to
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by dmitrybrant 3y ago
Yep, I'm also seeing a 2px scrollbar that does not expand.
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by dmitrybrant 3y ago
In other words, touch grass?
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by dmitrybrant 3y ago
I approach it not from a perspective of "taste" per se, but from a perspective of purity and truth. All of these techniques (AI upscaling, colorizing, interpolation, etc) are adding information that was never there, which means yo
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by dmitrybrant 3y ago
Please, for the love of god, stop with the custom scroll bars, and on the wrong side of the viewport, no less!
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by dmitrybrant 3y ago
I literally just met Werner Herzog on a flight to Chicago the other day. He was flying coach, like a boss.
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by dmitrybrant 3y ago
> I stay active on a Slack community of devs and creators in my country, as well as go to meet-ups and events in interesting communities How does one find these supposed Slack groups and meetups? I live in a major metropolitan area, but
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by dmitrybrant 3y ago
Love the concept, and might even consider getting one. But please, please let me have my scrollbar when browsing your website.
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by dmitrybrant 3y ago
I don't upvote a lot, but this is well earned.
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by dmitrybrant 3y ago
Assuming everything in the video is real, the only remaining question is: what is the actual temperature of that sample? If all of this checks out, then it's a new era.
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by dmitrybrant 3y ago
Can I ask why we're using a special definition of "levitation" that doesn't really mean levitation? I'm finding it very annoying to click headlines that say "Levitation of LK-99!", and... ohh it's sti
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by dmitrybrant 3y ago
In what sense were any of them nut jobs? All of these were traditionally pedigreed scientists, doing groundbreaking research at their institutions, under their own names. I'm asking for a historical parallel of a researcher who publis
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by dmitrybrant 3y ago
Can you give an example? I'm struggling to think of historical comparisons. I suppose I can think of a couple of "unlikely" achievers: - Ramanujan: if he lived today, I could imagine him tweeting some awesome infinite series,
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by dmitrybrant 3y ago
That may be true, but I'm not seeing 999 other people with geeky interests reporting their failed attempts. We are, however, starting to see actual labs reporting negative results.
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by dmitrybrant 3y ago
Don't get me wrong, I want to believe (tm) as much as anyone, but this particular part of the story has a lot working against it: * This person is anonymous (account created in Apr 2023), so we don't know anything about their affi
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by dmitrybrant 3y ago
The "demonstration" is a photo of a single crumb of material inside a transparent pipette. It's claimed that the crumb is "levitating" inside the pipette, but what's stopping a random internet anon from gluing
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by dmitrybrant 3y ago
It seems to be based loosely on this preprint from 2018: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.09376 ...which was never peer-reviewed or reproduced. The authors of the patent are also not physicists, chemists, or materials-scient
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by dmitrybrant 3y ago
For sure, but it's a bit weirder than that: 1) They applied for the patent in 2021, long before the current hype coming from Korea. 2) The patent was officially granted by the Patent Office on pretty much the same day as the Korean p
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Blockchain company is granted a patent for a room-temperature superconductor(twitter.com)
12 points by dmitrybrant 3y ago|10 comments
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by dmitrybrant 3y ago
> Samsung is hoping the launch of its foldables will help level out these losses Very serious question: Who is asking for foldable phones? Who is saying, "You know what's missing from my phone? More moving parts! A huge hinge
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by dmitrybrant 3y ago
Like so many other programmers of a certain age, I cut my teeth on Borland IDEs in the late 90s, building software for Windows 9x, which was a time when Borland was absolutely crushing it with tools that were light years ahead of Microsoft&
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by dmitrybrant 4y ago
I haven't formed a definite opinion on this, and I think I largely agree, but what about a counterargument like this one: Virtually no one does long division manually anymore, or really any basic arithmetic greater than two digits, bec
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by dmitrybrant 4y ago
BetterHelp has been around for a while now, and I'd be curious if it's actually helping with long-term mental health outcomes, on an individual and population level. I mean, their advertising campaigns are massive. They advertise
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by dmitrybrant 4y ago
Interestingly, just this week we saw a perfect example of how an actual UFO sighting would play out, namely the Chinese spy balloon. We saw real, actual photos of it in the sky, instead of grainy radar images and verbal testimony. We had

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