lordgrenville (u/lordgrenville)

lordgrenville commented on Beyond agentic coding haskellforall.com/2026/02... · Posted by u/RebelPotato

Insanity · 13 hours ago

Post had nothing to do with Haskell so the title is a bit misleading. But rest of article is good, and I actually think that Agentic/AI coding will probably evolve in this way.

The current tools are the infancy of AI assisted coding. It’s like the MS-DOS era. Over time maybe the backpropagating from “your comfort language” to “target language” could become commonplace.

lordgrenville · 7 hours ago

Agreed. This website seems to prepend the blog name to each page's document.title

Would suggest that one of the mods remove it

lordgrenville commented on A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs pdfa.org/a-case-study-in-... · Posted by u/DuffJohnson

turboponyy · 3 days ago

I guess the Gnome-specific part is that Gnome comes with the Nautilus file browser, and the instructions add a script for Nautilus.

But yea, this will work as long as you have imagemagick and Nautilus installed.

lordgrenville · 3 days ago

Oh I missed that part, was just looking at the script

lordgrenville commented on A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs pdfa.org/a-case-study-in-... · Posted by u/DuffJohnson

tombrossman · 4 days ago

GNOME Desktop users can put this in a Bash script in ~/.local/share/nautilus/ for more convincing looking fake PDF scans, accessible from your right-click menu. I do not recall where I copied it from originally to give credit so thanks, random internet person (probably on Stack Exchange). It works perfectly.

  ROTATION=$(shuf -n 1 -e '-' '')$(shuf -n 1 -e $(seq 0.05 .5))

  for pdf in "$@";
    do magick  -density 150 $pdf \
              -linear-stretch '1.5%x2%' \
              -rotate 0.4 \
              -attenuate '0.01' \
              +noise  Multiplicative \
              -colorspace 'gray' \
              "${pdf%.*}-fakescan.${pdf##*.}"
  done

lordgrenville · 3 days ago

Nothing about this is specific to GNOME, right? Imagemagick is cross-platform

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lordgrenville commented on Significant US farm losses persist, despite federal assistance fb.org/market-intel/signi... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo

lordgrenville · 17 days ago

Mildly surprised that this domain belongs to the Farm Bureau. Maybe they should sell it to Meta and donate the proceeds to the money-losing farms...

lordgrenville commented on Our approach to age prediction openai.com/index/our-appr... · Posted by u/pretext

duskwuff · 18 days ago

Also, hilariously, a lot of those questions require a trip to Wikipedia (or a game guide) today. A lot of them reference bits of 1960s/1970s pop culture which are no longer common knowledge.

https://allowe.com/games/larry/tips-manuals/lsl1-age-quiz.ht...

lordgrenville · 18 days ago

This is fun, I asked AI to come up with some modern ones to check someone is over 30. Zune, Friends, early memes, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, etc https://chat.deepseek.com/share/v9d5ckb8gv9rahwetq

lordgrenville commented on Prediction markets are ushering in a world in which news becomes about gambling theatlantic.com/technolog... · Posted by u/krustyburger

tantalor · 19 days ago

> MoviePass announced that it will begin testing a betting platform.

Huh. That's interesting. Given futures markets on box office receipts are illegal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Futures_Act

lordgrenville · 19 days ago

Matt Levine discussed this a couple of weeks back: "It’s probably fine, though; you can bet on Netflix streaming numbers or Rotten Tomatoes scores. It is fun to think that everything is gambling except onions and movies, but it’s probably not true."

Posted by u/lordgrenville a month ago

Self-driving cars aren't nearly a solved problem strangecosmos.substack.co...

lordgrenville commented on Nabokov's guide to foreigners learning Russian twitter.com/haravayin_hog... · Posted by u/flaxxen

CGamesPlay · 2 months ago

Georgian is really interesting. Very few cognates for non-modern words. Colors in Georgian are fun: you don't have "brown", you have "coffee-color" (ყავისფერი / ყავის ფერი); you don't have "light blue", you have "sky-color" (ცისფერი / ცის ფერი).

lordgrenville · 2 months ago

Sky-colour makes sense, but coffee drinking only goes back to the 15th century or so. Did Georgians not have a word for this colour before then?!

lordgrenville commented on Lie groups are crucial to some of the most fundamental theories in physics quantamagazine.org/what-a... · Posted by u/ibobev

cvoss · 2 months ago

The quality of this article is par for the course for Quanta Magazine, sadly. I do not need to accuse the author of using AI to explain the data I'm seeing here. It feels like every submission on HN from Quanta garners the exact same discussion: The article is almost worthless because it presents complex ideas in such a cheap, dumbed-down, and imprecise way that it ceases to communicate anything interesting. (Interested readers can fare much better by reading other sources.) It's been this way for years. The phenomenon is almost Wolfram-Derangement-Syndrome-like.

lordgrenville · 2 months ago

> Interested readers can fare much better by reading other sources

Would love to hear some recommendations!

u/lordgrenville

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