Hacker News: ConcernedCoder

New comment by ConcernedCoder in "What we know about CEO shooting suspect"

ConcernedCoder — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 15:47:59 +0000

my money's on him being "suicided" with the cameras off before a public trial can take place...

New comment by ConcernedCoder in "What we know about CEO shooting suspect"

ConcernedCoder — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 15:44:33 +0000

this is the correct answer, as long as health care is for-profit we will always be the product instead of the consumer

New comment by ConcernedCoder in "Star Citizen crowdfunding passes $750M"

ConcernedCoder — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 06:43:25 +0000

so who's holding the $750 million?

New comment by ConcernedCoder in "DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome"

ConcernedCoder — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 07:59:22 +0000

The DOJ are apparently idiots that do not understand tech, let alone anti-trust or monopolies... for instance: I create a useful device that consumers love and use, I sell ads on the device to anyone who will pay, in fact I auction them to the highest bidder... DOJ: you are a monopoly and must sell the device... wtf?

New comment by ConcernedCoder in "The brain summons deep sleep for healing from life-threatening injury"

ConcernedCoder — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 03:33:22 +0000

almost like it's a business and they don't want to lose any customers...

New comment by ConcernedCoder in "The Lion of St. Mark's Square in Venice Is Chinese"

ConcernedCoder — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 10:24:00 +0000

Possibly related are silver coins called "trade dollars" that were minted in the usa and used for trade with china which exibit "chop marks" signifying validity: https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=9cb25f21911ea42e&q=tra...

New comment by ConcernedCoder in "First images from Euclid are in"

ConcernedCoder — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 05:53:11 +0000

In theory, couldn't we focus on a perfect spot near a black hole where the light has been warped 180 degrees around it... i.e. if the black hole is 100 light years away, you'd see ( with perfect zoom, of course ) a picture of the earth 200 years ago...?

I understand that we'd have to account for the movement of objects, of course, but with computers, seems like a small hurdle...

New comment by ConcernedCoder in ""Bad Apple" in Minecraft"

ConcernedCoder — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 18:53:49 +0000

ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: "Get'r Done" -- The ability to interate and solve individual hurdles and issues within the constraints of a system to achieve a grand idea.

New comment by ConcernedCoder in "Chemistry Nobel: Computational protein design and protein structure prediction"

ConcernedCoder — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 12:02:18 +0000

people still folding@home

New comment by ConcernedCoder in "Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today"

ConcernedCoder — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 14:08:10 +0000

ask them if they push back the same way with other knowledge professionals like the family doctor or lawyer...

New comment by ConcernedCoder in "Spinning the Night Self"

ConcernedCoder — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 08:34:17 +0000

I suffered insomnia for many years when working days, it seems I'm just a night owl and I've learned that working the night shift works best for me, midnight - 8am local time seems to be the sweet spot for me, in bed before noon, up for a late dinner and a night with family before they're all off to sleep while I work the night away in peaceful quiet... and no more insomnia, with black-out curtains in the bedroom and a running fan I no longer have trouble sleeping...

New comment by ConcernedCoder in "Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week"

ConcernedCoder — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 06:30:21 +0000

this is why we need a union

New comment by ConcernedCoder in "The complete Code of Hammurabi (~1750 BC)"

ConcernedCoder — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 06:22:07 +0000

people got executed for EVERYTHING back then... sheesh...

New comment by ConcernedCoder in "Boeing Starliner launches first crewed mission"

ConcernedCoder — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 19:15:40 +0000

I'm glad everything went ok.

New comment by ConcernedCoder in "Simulating Jupiter"

ConcernedCoder — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 06:45:59 +0000

now this is programming :) thank you!

New comment by ConcernedCoder in "The Mystery of the Coin That Shouldn't Exist"

ConcernedCoder — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 03:54:03 +0000

For the curious, and to get a deeper idea of what's being discussed, (vamworld)[http://ec2-13-58-222-16.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/wiki...] is a website detailing the different known die varieties for Morgan and Peace Silver Dollar coins.

New comment by ConcernedCoder in "Asking your customers what they want doesn't work"

ConcernedCoder — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 04:51:18 +0000

I often tell my wife my software job is like being a home builder, people think they know what they want, but it's not until they're standing in the thing trying to use it that they figure out what parts work and don't work well for what they actually need... and I spend quite a bit of iterating before we end up with the final working thing -- which is usually far removed from the initial design.

New comment by ConcernedCoder in "How to clean chemistry glassware"

ConcernedCoder — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 16:31:43 +0000

for anyone curious, this guy uses it all the time to refine gold, it's very interesting work: https://www.youtube.com/@sreetips

New comment by ConcernedCoder in "Making ethylene – without using fossil fuels"

ConcernedCoder — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 09:03:58 +0000

Continuous Carbon Dioxide Electroreduction to Concentrated Multi-carbon Products Using a Membrane Electrode Assembly: https://www.cell.com/joule/pdfExtended/S2542-4351(19)30365-4

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

ConcernedCoder — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 04:30:33 +0000

so where's the virtual HUD ?