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New comment by LandStander in "AI is a tool and using it well takes skill"

LandStander — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:21:59 +0000

How feasible is it to have a local, FOSS, encyclopedic LLM for question answering and basic help with common technical tasks? I feel like that would be enough for me.

New comment by LandStander in "The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment"

LandStander — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 01:09:10 +0000

FTA Modafinil

Free Trade Agreement Modafinil?

New comment by LandStander in "Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (2019)"

LandStander — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 04:43:34 +0000

why did we start with main+tail rotor helicopters? Nowadays 4-rotor quadcopters appeared and have taken over

The quadcopter advantage is in it's mechanical simplicity, but having fewer longer blades is better for aerodynamic efficiency(at the expense of max airspeed). This matters less at RC scale, but at full size, even an all-electric helicopter will likely have more range than a quadcopter with the same batteries.

New comment by LandStander in "Ask HN: Anyone else tired of brands discontinuing your favorite everyday items?"

LandStander — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:02:56 +0000

That's why I repurpose or discard all of my old socks every time I Invest in a new set. I do this about every two years. I rotate them for uniform wear. I've successfully eliminated the possibility of mismatched socks.

New comment by LandStander in "Marble Fountain"

LandStander — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 19:35:05 +0000

This is a great example of a good use case for 3D printers. The smooth marble run action combined with the interwoven organic forms would be a huge PITA to fabricate with any other method I can think of, even if your just making one.

New comment by LandStander in "I analyzed chord progressions in 680k songs"

LandStander — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 01:09:50 +0000

The song is "Never Gonna Let You Go" by Sergio Mendes

New comment by LandStander in "Oldest known wild bird lays egg at 74"

LandStander — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 03:08:50 +0000

OneZoom.org has a nice common ancestor search feature. Here are the results for albatross and crocodile:

https://www.onezoom.org/life/@Archelosauria=4947372?otthome=...

New comment by LandStander in "The Most Desperately Needed Airplane Is Back in Production"

LandStander — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 12:07:01 +0000

I remember as a young kid, it was the closest I could find to the Sea Duck from Tail Spin.

New comment by LandStander in "The world nearly adopted a calendar with 13 months of 28 days"

LandStander — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 14:43:32 +0000

I know not to hope for it to ever catch on, but my dream date-time format would be:

year/day/hectosecond.second(.millisecond and so on to the desired precision)

The current date-time, to the second, would be 2023/308/342.65

The days, like the years and second-based units, are 0-indexed.

There are 100 seconds in a hectosecond, and normally 864 hectoseconds in a day.

And to go with it, I'd advocate either a "3-on, 2-off", or "6-on, 4-off" work cycle, depending on the nature of the work, or even just personal preference. This way, today(308) would obviously be on a "weekend" either way.

New comment by LandStander in "One Revolution per Minute [video]"

LandStander — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 16:50:16 +0000

Water mined from the moon might be much cheaper by the time something like this is built. That being said, a giant sterile swimming pool seems like an odd feature for an interplanetary spacecraft. I'd rather see a well-balanced aquatic habitat, if anything.

New comment by LandStander in "Clusivity"

LandStander — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 20:56:08 +0000

I'm wondering if this post was inspired by the recent comic from SMBC:

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/clusivity

New comment by LandStander in "The impact of the ‘long peace’ on modern military capabilities"

LandStander — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 17:44:26 +0000

Paintball.

New comment by LandStander in "Hackaday 2022 cyberdeck contest winners"

LandStander — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 17:41:33 +0000

That PERSEUS-9 is a thing of beauty.

New comment by LandStander in "Solar-powered headphones"

LandStander — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 08:23:55 +0000

I like this idea. To take it even further, I propose this wire terminate to a sturdy cylindrical plug which can rotate 360 degrees. Furthermore, if the signal were to be analog, it would allow universal compatibility with all other analog sound devices. I think this could be revolutionary.

New comment by LandStander in "Robo-Ostrich Sprints to 100-Meter World Record"

LandStander — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 19:03:13 +0000

Many zoos and aquariums conduct scientific research, and may have breeding programs for endangered species.

New comment by LandStander in "The Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition"

LandStander — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 16:02:37 +0000

Concerns of spyware are precisely why those switches exist.

New comment by LandStander in "Faster, Meaner, Deadlier: The Evolution of “BattleBots”"

LandStander — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 15:22:25 +0000

Then you just get modern warfare miniaturized. I guess that could be fun to watch if well presented, but I've been thinking it would be cool to just have a bigger, more rugged battlebox that demands more versatile movement, rather then having everyone just trying to hug the metal floor as closely as possible.

New comment by LandStander in "The U.S. diet is deadly. Here are 7 ideas to get Americans eating healthier"

LandStander — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 19:38:37 +0000

So you don't like seafood?

New comment by LandStander in "After 50 years, Michael Heizer is finally ready to unveil City, his life's work"

LandStander — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 07:12:20 +0000

Isn't it always

New comment by LandStander in "A Whirlwind Tutorial on Creating Teensy ELF Executables for Linux"

LandStander — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 18:59:45 +0000

I thought this was going to be about the Teensy boards. https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/