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New comment by CydeWeys in "Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks"

CydeWeys — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:40:53 +0000

Retiring TO something is important, but ideally it needs to involve a lot of in-person socializing, which many hobbies do not have. Golfing, for example, is pretty much the platonic ideal of a hobby that involves both socialization and old-person-friendly exercise.

New comment by CydeWeys in "Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks"

CydeWeys — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:38:15 +0000

Or maybe that's just the human condition? Retirement is a pretty recent concept anyway. Back when people were hunter/gatherers or subsistence farmers, you didn't have the option of retiring. You either kept working or you starved, perished from the elements, etc.

New comment by CydeWeys in "Ti-84 Evo"

CydeWeys — Sat, 02 May 2026 08:52:25 +0000

One other factor that others haven't yet covered is that the different lines had different capabilities, e.g. the T-89 had Computer Algebra System symbolic manipulation meaning it could pretty much solve many types of math problems on its own, so it wasn't generally allowed in school. And then the Ti-85/86 was a step down, but had matrix support that the lower models lacked, so it was necessary for some specific types of classes.

My favorite was always the TI-85/86 line. I loved those F1-F5 buttons right beneath the screen, which made the interface overall better to navigate. The first programming I ever did was on one of those (either the 85 or 82, can't exactly remember at this point which I owned first). And, the only thing of note I ever had stolen from me was a TI-82, taken out of my unattended backpack by another student during gym class :( (And I had even carved my name into the back of it with a knife, so it would've been identifiable.)

New comment by CydeWeys in "Never buy a .online domain"

CydeWeys — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:34:32 +0000

What are you envisioning exactly?

New comment by CydeWeys in "We installed a single turnstile to feel secure"

CydeWeys — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:21:57 +0000

I'm not really sure what the point of this article is. Yes, obviously, you need to implement systems that are secure and performant so that you don't get a backed-up line of people waiting an hour just to get into the office in the morning. But that's a notably flawed rollout; millions of employees go into badge-in-required offices every day without issue. And it's kind of hard to imagine running a large office while lacking such basic physical security as "keep unauthorized people out of the building". Having electronic badges and readers is table stakes.

New comment by CydeWeys in "Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans"

CydeWeys — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:10:37 +0000

> especially when it comes to dynamic range

You can solve this by having multiple cameras for each vantage point, with different sensors and lenses that are optimized for different light levels. Tesla isn't doing this mind you, but with the use of multiple cameras, it should be easy enough to exceed the dynamic range of the human eye so long as you are auto-selecting whichever camera is getting you the correct exposure at any given point.

New comment by CydeWeys in "HPV vaccination reduces oncogenic HPV16/18 prevalence from 16% to <1% in Denmark"

CydeWeys — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 18:25:24 +0000

Beg for forgiveness, don't ask permission. I got Shingrix when I was under the age of 40, and at no cost to myself even, simply by scheduling a Shingrix vaccine at CVS. It wasn't until I went back for the booster shot months later that the nurse was like "Wait, aren't you too young for this?", but they nevertheless gave me the second dose to complete the vaccine course. You can just so things.

New comment by CydeWeys in "HPV vaccination reduces oncogenic HPV16/18 prevalence from 16% to <1% in Denmark"

CydeWeys — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 18:22:38 +0000

Your average HN reader can absolutely afford paying a few hundred bucks to avoid getting a potentially life-changing disease, and should. I know multiple young adults who got messed up by shingles.

New comment by CydeWeys in "One to two Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth each day"

CydeWeys — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 21:45:17 +0000

The deorbits are controlled to occur over nonpopulated areas (i.e. the middle of the ocean). I don't think it amounts to much of a concern, compared to, say, the sum total emissions of all factories, power plants, ships, airplanes, and vehicles.

New comment by CydeWeys in "The Storm Hits the Art Market"

CydeWeys — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 02:53:16 +0000

I'm amazed that the article doesn't discuss the end of ZIRP. The bursting of the art market bubble in mid 2022 coincides exactly with when interest rates started rising following the 'transitory' inflation caused by pandemic relief measures. This was also the same time that we started seeing hiring freezes in tech, the bursting of the luxury watch bubble, etc. It's all tied together, and has the same root cause: It stopped being cheap to borrow money, and it started being lucrative to lend it out for guaranteed returns (e.g. by buying Treasuries) rather than speculating on artworks, or NFTs, or whatever.

New comment by CydeWeys in "Google shifts goo.gl policy: Inactive links deactivated, active links preserved"

CydeWeys — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 15:54:39 +0000

Well, it's either that or a paywall. Pick your poison.

New comment by CydeWeys in "Google shifts goo.gl policy: Inactive links deactivated, active links preserved"

CydeWeys — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 20:06:33 +0000

Link shorteners are old enough that likely more URLs that were targeted by link shorteners have rotted away than have link shorteners themselves.

Go look at a decade+ old webpage. So many of the links to specific resources (as in, not just a link to a domain name with no path) simply don't work anymore.

New comment by CydeWeys in "Google shifts goo.gl policy: Inactive links deactivated, active links preserved"

CydeWeys — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 20:05:03 +0000

One wonders why they don't, instead of showing down, display a 15s interstitial unskippable YouTube-style ad prior to redirecting.

That way they'll make money, and they can fund the service not having to shut down, and there isn't any linkrot.

New comment by CydeWeys in "4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program"

CydeWeys — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 17:40:00 +0000

No, payroll is still down, it's just that labor is now being used less efficiently and thus less useful work gets done.

New comment by CydeWeys in "Linda Yaccarino is leaving X"

CydeWeys — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 22:49:03 +0000

Sadly there's a bunch of interesting communities on there that aren't really available anywhere else, plus some of the competing platforms are even worse just in different ways (though their ads are for sure better).

New comment by CydeWeys in "Linda Yaccarino is leaving X"

CydeWeys — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:29:44 +0000

Hey man, just wanted to let you know, I had to downvote a bunch of your comments in this thread, not because I disagree with you, but because your commenting style is unnecessarily hostile and abusive. You can politely disagree with someone without calling their take "stupid and clueless", or any of the other mean-spirited things you've said elsewhere in the thread.

New comment by CydeWeys in "Linda Yaccarino is leaving X"

CydeWeys — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:23:51 +0000

I curate a relatively tame Twitter feed, but X has been showing me animated advertisements of some fleshlight-like device going to town on a dildo. W. T. A. F.

It's started making me worried that I can't even use the app in a place where anyone else is, lest someone shoulder surf that and wonder WTF I'm looking at.

New comment by CydeWeys in "Linda Yaccarino is leaving X"

CydeWeys — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:21:09 +0000

Ironically, most of his stories were blowing smoke. He wasn't actually nearly as successful at any of that as he was at making up stories and convincing everyone how successful he had been at it. When dealing with a con artist, rule number one is believe nothing they say, certainly not about what they've done!

New comment by CydeWeys in "I use zip bombs to protect my server"

CydeWeys — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 20:26:15 +0000

Yeah but in the mean time it's tying up a connection on your webserver.

New comment by CydeWeys in "A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen"

CydeWeys — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 19:16:58 +0000

I'm wondering why the hood is so big, given that it doesn't need to contain an engine? Is that where the batteries are located? Or is it just mostly empty space in the form of a frunk serving as a crumple zone to meet crash testing standards? I hope it's not just a strictly aesthetic thing, because you could reduce that distance and end up with an even more practical truck.