Hacker News: 3dprintscanner

New comment by 3dprintscanner in "Docs like code in basic terms"

3dprintscanner — Thu, 08 May 2025 07:03:18 +0000

And fruit flies like a banana

New comment by 3dprintscanner in "You Don't Batch Cook When You're Suicidal (2020)"

3dprintscanner — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 17:15:09 +0000

Would it not be better if they spent more money on wholesome things like oranges and wholemeal bread or if they even, like the writer of the letter to the New Statesman, saved on fuel and ate their carrots raw? Yes, it would, but the point is that no ordinary human being is ever going to do such a thing. The ordinary human being would sooner starve than live on brown bread and raw carrots. And the peculiar evil is this, that the less money you have, the less inclined you feel to spend it on wholesome food. A millionaire may enjoy breakfasting off orange juice and Ryvita biscuits; an unemployed man doesn’t. When you are unemployed, which is to say when you are underfed, harassed, bored, and miserable, you don’t want to eat dull wholesome food. You want something a little bit ’tasty’. There is always some cheaply pleasant thing to tempt you. Let’s have three pennorth of chips! Run out and buy us a twopenny ice-cream! Put the kettle on and we’ll all have a nice cup of tea! That is how your mind works when you are at the P.A.C. level. White bread-and-marg and sugared tea don’t nourish you to any extent, but they are nicer (at least most people think so) than brown bread-and-dripping and cold water. Unemployment is an endless misery that has got to be constantly palliated, and especially with tea, the English-man’s opium. A cup of tea or even an aspirin is much better as a temporary stimulant than a crust of brown bread.

George Orwell - The Road to Wigan Pier

New comment by 3dprintscanner in "Never pay for online dating (2010)"

3dprintscanner — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 15:55:47 +0000

Interestingly the Chinese government does something similar:

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2017/06/27/China-lau...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/comrade-me...

New comment by 3dprintscanner in "Guest WiFi using a QR code"

3dprintscanner — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 15:57:11 +0000

A QR code by itself is completely unreadable to a human. Can't this have the SSID / password too? All too often you see what should be simple textual data wrapped in this obtuse form which only specific machines can read. Text and a QR code can be read by everyone.

See: <https://twitter.com/adambowie/status/1521078234057695233> for context

New comment by 3dprintscanner in "I visited a friend who is watching Breaking Bad. Now clips appear on my YouTube?"

3dprintscanner — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 16:59:48 +0000

I listened to a podcast which mentioned a relatively obscure topic in passing using the basic samsung music app on my phone which didn't have a SIM card in, location turned on or an internet connection.

Later that day I see an advert for said obscure topic served on a web page.

Is it possible that there is someone transcribing podcasts or at least scraping databases of their RSS feeds and somehow my music player app is broadcasting that I've listened to a particular file(after receiving an internet connection)? The alternative is that the machines really are listening.

New comment by 3dprintscanner in "R number for UK below 1 for first time since August"

3dprintscanner — Sat, 28 Nov 2020 00:45:36 +0000

Is having the virus without symptoms really a case? The Coronavirus act says so. However, there's only tenuous evidence of asymptomatic and presymptiomatic transmission of the virus.

Spreadsheet capacity limit causes 16k missing positive Coronavirus test results

3dprintscanner — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 14:14:18 +0000

Article URL: https://order-order.com/2020/10/05/spreadsheet-capacity-limit-cause-of-lost-16000-covid-test-results/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24687923

Points: 2

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New comment by 3dprintscanner in "Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?"

3dprintscanner — Thu, 14 May 2020 10:10:16 +0000

Been working with a group building a mobile COVID testing laboratory and have written a Rails app for managing the test data & laboratory flow.

https://github.com/UK-CoVid19/opencell-testing https://arcane-island-35232.herokuapp.com/

Also a set of mini-sites built on eleventy / netlify for local community COVID voluntary groups in London.

https://islington.coronacorps.com/ https://github.com/3dprintscanner/coronacorps

Museum of Fezology

3dprintscanner — Wed, 06 May 2020 08:53:03 +0000

Article URL: http://fezmuseum.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23089071

Points: 9

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New comment by 3dprintscanner in "What is the Strategic Petroleum Reserve?"

3dprintscanner — Sat, 04 Apr 2020 19:10:32 +0000

Two jet engines mounted on a tank ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7Ss3BMrscE

New comment by 3dprintscanner in "A Starter Kit for Emergency Websites"

3dprintscanner — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 22:29:31 +0000

I've been using exactly the same approach for spinning up local COVID-19 support groups around London, one nice example is at https://holloway.coronacorps.com/. Really like the branch to subdomain mapping feature from them.

New comment by 3dprintscanner in "18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated"

3dprintscanner — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 15:39:49 +0000

Another mention of this fantastic cycling website: https://www.sheldonbrown.com/harris/

Ask HN: Rails Devise Auth Equivalents for React, Angular, Vue.js etc.?

3dprintscanner — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 16:52:18 +0000

What libraries exist which give an out of the box auth & login solution similar to Devise for Rails?

I like the devise library as for very little configuration you get registration, confirmations, account management, oAuth integration, lockable accounts and password reset without having to reinvent much yourself. So what else exists out there that would work with React / Angular / Vue etc in a similar way?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22161098

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by 3dprintscanner in "Why Do American Houses Have So Many Bathrooms?"

3dprintscanner — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 13:44:01 +0000

Reminds me of this gem of a comedy sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npEwra5344s

New comment by 3dprintscanner in "Luis von Ahn, co-founder and CEO of Duolingo"

3dprintscanner — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 12:22:36 +0000

Duolingo works reasonably well when used as a supplementary aid to learning a language. I've found that it has reasonable utility when combined with taking a physical class as a low-effort boredom filler for building familiarity with the vocabulary of a language.

What I find pressingly missing is any meaningful way of learning about the grammar of a language. When learning German there was absolutely nothing in the lessons which even hinted at the rules of tenses, cases, conjugations etc and the lack of that content stunts the possibility of building much more than a rote-learning knowledge of a language.

The app does seem to have a great gamification mechanic and is good at driving user engagement, so I guess they have that though.

New comment by 3dprintscanner in "Who wants to play the status game?"

3dprintscanner — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 14:57:08 +0000

This reminds me a lot of the idea of Transactional Analysis. It's a study of the Ego state of people interacting with the world around them and whether they act as a figurative Parent, Adult or Child in a certain situation and can explain why people might play a particular status game in some situations and not in others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_analysis

New comment by 3dprintscanner in "How to Download Live Images from Government Weather Satellites (2018)"

3dprintscanner — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 12:18:12 +0000

You can also download fairly up-to-date ESA imagery and radar images from https://scihub.copernicus.eu/. This covers a fairly large area worldwide.

New comment by 3dprintscanner in "Ask HN: Solo devs, how do you plan your development?"

3dprintscanner — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 16:47:45 +0000

For 1 person, you can keep most of it in very short form. Currently I use github projects for a prioritised list of items to do, a new board per release and an ongoing Evernote file for notes & ideas.

New comment by 3dprintscanner in "Digital Exile: How I Got Banned for Life from Airbnb (2018)"

3dprintscanner — Fri, 27 Dec 2019 18:47:26 +0000

Even better you can make a subject access request (SAR) to Airbnb and get the internal communications about the person in question.

New comment by 3dprintscanner in "The Road to Scala 3"

3dprintscanner — Sat, 21 Dec 2019 20:58:33 +0000

Having recently jumped into a Scala team from a mainly OOP background, I'm starting to see the light with the language. Using the type system to handle code you would otherwise have to write defensively. Letting the compiler take more of the strain of the second order functional concerns of the program and leaving what's left to be an accurate description of your problem domain is a refreshing perspective on coding. Your code looks a lot more like the problem you are trying to solve rather than 75% if(x==null) and 25% business logic. That said, the learning curve is steep and the quasi-hidden nature of implicits never sits well with me. It seems like a way of adding semi-defined behavior to your code and is one of those language features that should be treated with care.