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New comment by Cycl0ps in "NASA Force"

Cycl0ps — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:15:18 +0000

Incompetent sycophants

New comment by Cycl0ps in "TSA leaves passenger needing surgery after illegally forcing her through scanner"

Cycl0ps — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:31:42 +0000

>They didn't force this person through the scanner

"Despite the woman's request for a pat-down search, a TSA agent told her that her only option was to pass through the AIT device."

>they could have asked for a supervisor and discussed the situation

"Before passing through the device, the plaintiff spoke to another officer, trying to explain the situation, but was told that the AIT machine had been “adjusted” so that it would not damage her spinal cord implant."

New comment by Cycl0ps in "Building for an audience of one: starting and finishing side projects with AI"

Cycl0ps — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 03:00:19 +0000

I’m in agreement with the blog post. I’ve been treating AI more like a tool and less like a science experiment and I’ve gotten some good results when working on my various side projects. In the past much of my time was taken up by research and learning the various little parts of how everything works. What starts as a little python project to play around with APIs ends with me spending 5 hours learning tkinter and barely making any API calls.

New comment by Cycl0ps in "Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists"

Cycl0ps — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:08:09 +0000

A little late, but this is something that I've been considering a lot lately. When there's a limited resource (funding) how do you determine who will receive it?

For something like this I think a citizens assembly[1] may work best. Take all artists receiving funding and are NOT up for renewal. Select a number of them randomly to form the assembly. This assembly then reviews submissions from artists up for renewal and determines if they meet a minimum standard for funding to be renewed.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_assembly

New comment by Cycl0ps in "UMichigan study: EVs are cleaner than ICEs over average vehicle life"

Cycl0ps — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 15:12:30 +0000

None of these are issues specific to EVs. This is more of a problem with all modern cars. Valid concerns, but they impact ICE vehicles just as much

Eggflation: Are Candy Eggs Cheaper Than the Real Thing?

Cycl0ps — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 12:21:59 +0000

Article URL: https://tidalfire.com/2025/04/18/eggflation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43727389

Points: 1

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New comment by Cycl0ps in "Dead trees keep surprisingly large amounts of carbon out of atmosphere"

Cycl0ps — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 15:36:46 +0000

Carbon sequestration!

I grew up in an area known for coal and logging. Ever since I heard of sequestration brought up I thought the area sounded perfect for it. Fell (maybe mulch) the trees, kiln dry to remove weight/moisture, and toss them down a mineshaft.

It always felt a bit peotic to 'reseed' a coal mine

New comment by Cycl0ps in "The April Fools joke that might have got me fired"

Cycl0ps — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 17:14:57 +0000

My brother in Christ it's Tuesday

New comment by Cycl0ps in "The April Fools joke that might have got me fired"

Cycl0ps — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 17:14:00 +0000

Of course! I'm doing it right now!

New comment by Cycl0ps in "Losing My Nonreligion"

Cycl0ps — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 21:08:06 +0000

So he burned his relationship with an organization that he was a recognized member of. An organization where he was on the advisory board and had some control in steering, for what exactly?

Just another transphobe thinking their definition of a word is a silver bullet against someone's way of life.

New comment by Cycl0ps in "Eco Cycles or How I Feel About Technology"

Cycl0ps — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 19:50:47 +0000

If I do something good because it makes me feel good, is that a selfish action or is it feedback from my 'innate human tendency'?

We are social creatures. Seeing our social group benefit is a hardwired desire, and it makes us feel good. Being recognized as a valuable member of the group also feels good, and double-dipping on the dopamine hit is what motivates people towards contributing.

New comment by Cycl0ps in "Akira ransomware can be cracked with sixteen RTX 4090 GPUs in around ten hours"

Cycl0ps — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 15:52:38 +0000

Back of the napkin math:

Googling the TFlops as an estimate of power shows a roughly 12x improvement on the H100 over the 4090. A single 4090 takes 160 hours so a single H100 should take about 13 hours.

AWS will rent a p5.48xlarge instance of 8xH100 for $31.464/hr. That will take roughly two hours and cost around $60 bucks.

Assume I'm off by an order of magnitude, this is still a reasonable cost to recover key infrastructure. If the $60/endpoint stands then it would be reasonable to recover workstations this way

New comment by Cycl0ps in "Fediverse Donut Club"

Cycl0ps — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 16:55:14 +0000

I'm curious to see if this will work like the author intends. I feel like this idea works great in an office environment but won't translate well to a digital space. The biggest reason being that there is no 1-on-1 or group interaction, everything is broadcast out to the entire "office" and that influences people's behavior.

I like the intent though, and I agree it's something that could be beneficial if it works as hoped. Even if it doesn't this might give the author or someone else the idea of a different version that may work better

New comment by Cycl0ps in "US bill proposes jail time for people who download DeepSeek"

Cycl0ps — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 15:39:16 +0000

We've lived through a number of "That could never happen, though" scenarios in the past decade. I'm feeling a bit skeptical towards skepticism at the moment.

New comment by Cycl0ps in "The Line of Death (2017)"

Cycl0ps — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 02:08:24 +0000

Reminds me of EURion rings on banknotes. The issue is that this needs to be visible while unobstructive to the user. What about something pictographic, like HTTPS' padlock icon? Look for that in any user content with an input field and flag it when found. Of course, that still assumes users would check for the lock in the first place.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation

New comment by Cycl0ps in "My First 80 Days of VR for Exercise"

Cycl0ps — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 03:16:31 +0000

For anyone wanting additional info, the VR Health Institute has been reviewing games by their intensity and estimates calorie burn per minute of playing.

https://vrhealth.institute/vr-ratings/

New comment by Cycl0ps in "Wordle – But for D&D"

Cycl0ps — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 19:26:27 +0000

To go further, your modifier from stats only increases on even numbers, so most of the time that's what you can expect a stat to be. 8,10,12,14,16,18 for example covers the expected range that every L1 player character is likely to fall in. That also let's you estimate the CR of a monster by seeing if the stats tend toward a negative modifier or a positive one.

To go further, stats have interconnections between them. The physical stats (STR DEX CON) are likely to sit within a few points of each other, same goes for mental stats (INT WIS CHA). The physical section is also likely to be higher because most of the creatures on this list were designed for combat and will have stats reflecting that. The exception is WIS, which is used to determine initiative order in combat and is usually high regardless of creature level.

New comment by Cycl0ps in "BBC censors its own archives"

Cycl0ps — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 23:48:33 +0000

Fair enough. I was on my phone when I posted that and I agree that I could have provided a bit more context than a random Youtube link. Thanks for filling in the details for people

Search for mysterious noise in Brooklyn Heights (Dec 6 2021)

Cycl0ps — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 19:55:38 +0000

Article URL: https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2021/12/06/search-for-mysterious-noise-in-brooklyn-heights-turns-into-massive-crowdsourced-investigation/