Hacker News: ChristianGeek

New comment by ChristianGeek in "When we die do we still have any of the original cells from our birth? (2020)"

ChristianGeek — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 06:53:47 +0000

Is something defined by its form or its substance?

New comment by ChristianGeek in "Kawasaki Reveals Four-Legged Robot You Can Ride Like a Horse"

ChristianGeek — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 06:19:33 +0000

It’s not even good CGI!

New comment by ChristianGeek in "Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option"

ChristianGeek — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 07:36:56 +0000

It depends on how recently they came out of the fryer, how fresh the oil is, and the grease-to-salt ratio.

New comment by ChristianGeek in "Nearly 1,300 stores are closing across the US in 2024. Here's the list"

ChristianGeek — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 23:07:58 +0000

Add 371 99 Cents Only stores to the list (not related to Family Dollar stores).

New comment by ChristianGeek in "Music for Programming"

ChristianGeek — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 19:21:18 +0000

I use Endel.

(Sorry, meant to reply to the main thread.)

New comment by ChristianGeek in "Apple Vision Pro review"

ChristianGeek — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 05:36:56 +0000

Steve used to excel at it.

New comment by ChristianGeek in "I bought mysqldump.com and built this, what ya think?"

ChristianGeek — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 09:01:15 +0000

I would solve this by not asking for the password and just putting a password placeholder in the generated command.

New comment by ChristianGeek in "A battery has replaced Hawaii's last coal plant"

ChristianGeek — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 01:35:24 +0000

It also shut down over a year ago (9/1/22).

New comment by ChristianGeek in "My $500M Mars rover mistake"

ChristianGeek — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 05:38:32 +0000

I’d be interested in talking to the team at Boeing.

New comment by ChristianGeek in "Two years of raising a bilingual daughter"

ChristianGeek — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 21:50:49 +0000

Think of anyone you’ve encountered whose native language is different than yours. Chances are they had an accent. The less fluent they were, or the more different their native language was to yours, the thicker the accent. The thicker their accent, the harder they were for you to understand.

New comment by ChristianGeek in "Extracting Hacker News book recommendations with the ChatGPT API"

ChristianGeek — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 06:21:50 +0000

It’s at the top of the Hacker News All Time Top Books list referenced above by __rito__.

New comment by ChristianGeek in "Predictive policing software terrible at predicting crimes"

ChristianGeek — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 03:03:53 +0000

What about the application to serial criminals, where you have one person committing a series of crimes over time. Wouldn’t geographic profiling and ML be better suited for this?

New comment by ChristianGeek in "Hey, computer, make me a font"

ChristianGeek — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 22:24:04 +0000

It depends on exactly what is learned from looking through them. If you end up copying shapes and segments then there are possible grounds for a lawsuit. If you’re able to determine the rules to make a good font from your analysis, however, then nothing is stopping you from applying them.

New comment by ChristianGeek in "Living to 120 is becoming an imaginable prospect"

ChristianGeek — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 07:59:34 +0000

Hmm, reminds me of a certain movie…

New comment by ChristianGeek in "Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses"

ChristianGeek — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 02:58:48 +0000

Not if you’ve never heard of them!

New comment by ChristianGeek in "Linear Book Scanner – Open-source automatic book scanner (2014)"

ChristianGeek — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 14:40:41 +0000

If you haven’t already seen this site, it’s well worth a visit:

https://www.diybookscanner.org/en/intro.html

New comment by ChristianGeek in "Apple iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max"

ChristianGeek — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 22:13:51 +0000

I have a 13 Pro Max and carry it in my jeans back pocket.

New comment by ChristianGeek in "iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus"

ChristianGeek — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 20:03:13 +0000

Look at the optical zoom options. Granted, it’s not obvious that the Max has 5x while the base Pro only has 3x.

New comment by ChristianGeek in "Rare Otis Pop-Out Elevators (2016) [video]"

ChristianGeek — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 16:58:16 +0000

Too bad Americans can’t be trusted with these. (Source: am American.)

New comment by ChristianGeek in "time.apple.com (17.253.14.253) is returning the wrong date and time"

ChristianGeek — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 21:41:18 +0000

Perhaps you have just stumbled upon a way to make time stand still, in which case you’ll never see any of these replies.