QuantumSeed (u/QuantumSeed)

QuantumSeed commented on Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City cnbc.com/2025/08/22/waymo... · Posted by u/achristmascarl

vinkelhake · 9 days ago

I live in the bay and occasionally ride Waymo in SF and I pretty much always have a good time.

I visited NYC a few weeks ago and was instantly reminded of how much the traffic fucking sucks :) While I was there I actually thought of Waymo and how they'd have to turn up the "aggression" slider up to 11 to get anything done there. I mean, could you imagine the audacity of actually not driving into an intersection when the light is yellow and you know you're going to block the crossing traffic?

QuantumSeed · 9 days ago

I was in a Waymo in SF last weekend riding from the Richmond district to SOMA, and the car actually surprised me by accelerating through two yellow lights. It was exactly what I would have done. So it seems the cars are able to dial up the assertiveness when appropriate.

QuantumSeed commented on You Should Add Debug Views to Your DB chrispenner.ca/posts/view... · Posted by u/ezekg

vincekerrazzi · 10 days ago

I agree. So I did. And over the span of a year I was the only one that used them. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

QuantumSeed · 10 days ago

I address that problem by scheduling a brown bag lunch and inviting devs from related teams to join in so I can present my cool new tools and techniques to everyone. Sometimes it's wasted effort, but sometimes it does result in wider usage

QuantumSeed commented on Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup pcworld.com/article/26517... · Posted by u/airstrike

QuantumSeed · 4 months ago

I think Microsoft may doing that with Microsoft Edge as well. My Windows 11 Registry has an HKCU key called MicrosoftEdgeAutoLaunch_[...]

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe" --no-startup-window --win-session-start

QuantumSeed commented on Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March axios.com/2025/04/04/fore... · Posted by u/timvdalen

QuantumSeed · 5 months ago

I've cancelled my planned visits outside of the US for fear of being unwelcome and fear of difficulty getting back into the US.

QuantumSeed commented on Notepad++ is 21 years old learnhub.top/celebrating-... · Posted by u/thunderbong

mrmetanoia · 10 months ago

Me too! It's my go-to large text file manipulator. It's also what I keep open all the time to paste things into since it's so easy to open a new tab and it keeps temp files of things i haven't saved until i've closed them and told it I don't want them saved, so it opens up with a decent history of crap I've been using until I'm ready to clear it.

QuantumSeed · 10 months ago

For Windows 11 users, the latest Notepad.exe can also pick up where you left off the last time the app was closed.

QuantumSeed commented on Ask HN: What's the most creative 'useless' program you've ever written? · Posted by u/reverseCh

QuantumSeed · 10 months ago

The last oddity I wrote on a whim was a C++ MFC dialog application that was a Spirograph-like epicycle/hypocycle generator. It would would generate screen art by semi-randomly generating layered epicycles and hypocycles with evolving colors. I spent an entire week of evenings tweaking that thing and adding more and more variations before I burned out on it and moved on.

QuantumSeed commented on Overengineering a way to know if people are in my university's CS lab amoses.dev/blog/upl-peopl... · Posted by u/nicosalm

QuantumSeed · 10 months ago

When I was in the CS department at NMSU, the Computer Science building was open to the public 24-hours a day. I suppose that's not commonly the case nowadays.

QuantumSeed commented on GeForce RTX 5090 twitter.com/kopite7kimi/s... · Posted by u/doener

QuantumSeed · a year ago

Every new generation of GPU seems larger and more power-hungry than their predecessor. Is there any effort to produce faster GPUs that are smaller and use less power?

QuantumSeed commented on Intel Meteor Lake's NPU chipsandcheese.com/2024/0... · Posted by u/rbanffy

The_Colonel · a year ago

What does the Apple Silicon (NPU?) accelerator do? I mean, what is it used for?

QuantumSeed · a year ago

- Face and object detection in photos and videos

- Computational photography features like Night Mode and Smart HDR

- Real-time video processing for effects and stabilization

- Object and action recognition in videos

- Faster on-device speech recognition and natural language understanding for Siri

- Real-time translation, object detection, and scene understanding in AR

QuantumSeed commented on Los Alamos Chess en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los... · Posted by u/nanna

keid · a year ago

I knew one of the authors, Mark Wells. After he retired from Los Alamos National Laboratory he moved, temporarily, to Las Cruces, NM, to be head of the CS department at New Mexico State University, so became my boss as a student employee in the department. I don't recall his authorship of the chess program being mentioned by any of the profs or grad students (it was a very small department). When I moved to Los Alamos many years later I discovered that he lived just down the street--they'd kept their house in Los Alamos while in Las Cruces and had returned (for the skiing, he said).

The first article linked below has some details about the chess program not in the Wikipedia article.

Chess was his (serious) hobby; his research was in programming language design, specifically concerning type theory.

https://ladailypost.com/former-lanl-mathematician-computer-s...

https://ladailypost.com/obituary-mark-brimhall-wells-oct-7-2...

QuantumSeed · a year ago

I was at NMSU during his time as head of the CS department. His interest in chess inspired to write my first chess playing program