Hacker News: Accujack

New comment by Accujack in "Gravitational wave researchers cast new light on Antikythera mechanism mystery"

Accujack — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 01:19:24 +0000

Precision matters, and legos only have a certain amount of precision.

Besides that, things like the number of holes in the calendar ring matter.

Check out Clickspring on youtube, he's one of the people who narrowed the hole count down to 2 numbers, and this paper argues hard for one of those.

He's building a replica of the mechanism using period tools, and it's amazingly precise so far.

New comment by Accujack in "Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for official acts"

Accujack — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 23:24:45 +0000

...and that example was actually used in one of the dissenting opinions.

New comment by Accujack in "GM's data sharing scandal shows need for better connected car consent"

Accujack — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 20:39:59 +0000

We really need legislation in the US to regulate the use of data... something like the GDPR with enforcement for people who are careless with their customers.

As well as strongly regulating sales of data/data brokers, of course.

New comment by Accujack in "Memories from when you were a baby might not be gone"

Accujack — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 05:12:17 +0000

We are, all of us, born EBCDIC. The world teaches us ASCII, and we can make no sense of all we knew.

New comment by Accujack in "1,100-year-old Viking sword pulled from UK river by magnet fisher"

Accujack — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 04:19:05 +0000

The reward is the find. No magnet fisherman except the ones on Youtube or Patreon actually makes enough to pay for their magnets.

You don't do this to try to make money, you do it for fun, knowledge, and the occasional cool (but not very valuable) item.

New comment by Accujack in "Scientists Discovered a 'Fear Switch' in the Brain, and How to Turn It Off"

Accujack — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 03:57:32 +0000

"...And they shall know no fear."

https://imgur.com/a/5oMQhEu

New comment by Accujack in "Dealing with surprising human emotions: desk moves (2017)"

Accujack — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 02:29:24 +0000

New comment by Accujack in "Wall Street Traders Are Too Scared to Fight the AI Rally Short Are Missing"

Accujack — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 06:13:50 +0000

AI Bubble!

New comment by Accujack in "Reddit hasn't turned a profit in 20 years, filed to go public anyway"

Accujack — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 06:06:37 +0000

Think about it... Google could train its AI to recognize malicious behavior for moderation purposes, to recognize astroturfing and manipulation of public opinion (for purposes of stopping it or carrying it out).

There's not much value in training it to simulate a redditor, but there's a lot in modeling bad behavior.

New comment by Accujack in "Reddit Files to Go Public, in First Social Media IPO in Years"

Accujack — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 02:34:20 +0000

They haven't innovated in years. The only real changes to reddit have been a cosmetic re-work and release of an app for mobile use.

Well, that and the API changes that drove away something like a third of the users.

New comment by Accujack in "How SSH port became 22 (2017)"

Accujack — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 05:13:51 +0000

My experience as well.

Much depends on whether your systems were running BSD-style RPC services.

New comment by Accujack in "Stack Overflow: 79% of Developers Considering a Career Move"

Accujack — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 06:03:13 +0000

Best of luck.

My pay peaked in 2001. If subsequent job moves and raises had kept up with inflation, I'd be making just under $150,000 a year today.

As it stands, the job market is so poor (and my skills need updating, to be honest) I'm having trouble getting a job that pays even $80k.

New comment by Accujack in "Henry Ford helped popularize charcoal briquets"

Accujack — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 00:38:38 +0000

Yeah. Briquettes are basically bottom of the barrel coal powder, sawdust and other additives mixed with a binder.

New comment by Accujack in "Thailand discovers nearly 15M tonnes of lithium"

Accujack — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 22:01:11 +0000

Or under the Salton Sea.

New comment by Accujack in "A vision for the alleviation of water scarcity in the US Southwest"

Accujack — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 16:22:11 +0000

They'd be mining the brine in which the lithium is dissolved as well as constructing geothermal plants to take advantage of the temperature of the liquid.

Construction is already beginning.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/12/07/lithiu...

New comment by Accujack in "Uber shutting down alcohol delivery service Drizly"

Accujack — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 03:32:58 +0000

My brother used it to keep getting alcohol while he was home bound due to complications from diabetes. He was able to hide his consumption from us during the last few months of his life because Drizly delivered for him.

I'm not attacking them or anything, I'm sure there are people out there who are home bound who love to get a bit of a tipple now and then for whom such a service is wonderful. It just wasn't in my family's case.

New comment by Accujack in "A vision for the alleviation of water scarcity in the US Southwest"

Accujack — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 19:30:31 +0000

The Salton sea is the home of a huge lithium deposit, and it's unlikely that anything but geothermal and lithium mining will happen there in the near future. Certainly not "restoration" to what it was when it was accidentally created.

New comment by Accujack in "I'm sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy"

Accujack — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 19:24:09 +0000

And also to hope hard that whatever you buy from Amazon is genuine and not a counterfeit copy. Amazon uses the same bin for both.

New comment by Accujack in "First new VAX in 30 years? (2021)"

Accujack — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 03:10:25 +0000

For those not noticing, all the posts were made in 2021.

I'm regretting I didn't get more done during the pandemic, but then I was a "critical" worker and I didn't get to stay home.

New comment by Accujack in "Possible Meissner effect near room temperature: copper-substituted lead apatite"

Accujack — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 01:52:45 +0000

The thing is.... all the failed reproductions of LK-99 were based on the leaked version of the paper, which according to the authors is missing some information/steps for production. They said they would publish the complete/final version of the paper in 2024, waiting to see that.