<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: NyxWulf</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=NyxWulf</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:43:15 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=NyxWulf" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NyxWulf in "Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is an interesting knot, the thing with knots though, you have to spend enough time with them to get familiar with tying them blindfolded from memory.  My experience is most people don't care enough to do it.<p>So I have a simple alternative to tying my shoes that you can teach and learn easily.  Knots are all about the number of turns or wraps, so when tying your shoes instead of crossing the laces over once, do it twice.  When you wrap around the loop, do that twice too.  You may have to try it to understand, but it is easy and readily understandable to anyone who can already tie their shoes.  The best part is the way you tighten it down and untie are are exactly the same as you have always done.  It almost never comes untied, but still releases easily.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:02:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48400585</link><dc:creator>NyxWulf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48400585</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48400585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NyxWulf in "Asteroid ZTm0038 with a >3% impact probability"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When I was taking physics at the University 20 years ago, one of my professors said that the closest we have ever come to predicting an asteroid impact was "whoa that was close" as it zipped by.<p>Sounds like that's still state of the art.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2023 22:41:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37140231</link><dc:creator>NyxWulf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37140231</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37140231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NyxWulf in "Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My maternal grandfather changed his last name when he turned 18, from the German Uhren to Uhrey.  If your last name bothers you, fix it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2023 21:35:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36396772</link><dc:creator>NyxWulf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36396772</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36396772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NyxWulf in "Show HN: Vim Tutorial as RPG"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This does cost money, but if you are serious about learning vim, this is an excellent game, and reasonably priced.  One benefit I found is that the game creates a curriculum that exposes you to things you wouldn't otherwise try in your day to day, simply because you don't know them.<p>It helped improve my vim muscle memory substantially.  Well done imo.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2022 16:10:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32953826</link><dc:creator>NyxWulf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32953826</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32953826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NyxWulf in "The relationship between plant-based diet and risk of digestive system cancers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In the introduction to the study they include this statement, which I think agrees with your comment:<p>"This study systematically searched two databases and included six cohort studies included with limited types of digestive system cancers. Therefore, the evidence is not sufficiently strong to evaluate the relationship between digestive system cancers and plant-based diets. Comprehensive evaluations are scarce, especially for various digestive system cancers and multiple dietary patterns."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2022 19:48:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32815850</link><dc:creator>NyxWulf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32815850</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32815850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NyxWulf in "Game Jam 2 Results"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One of the features in go that makes it workable is you can assign it away via:
_ = somevar<p>That eliminates the unused chain problem.  Not sure if zig included that part of the feature as well.<p>Generally I agree though.  The main problem with forcing unused variables, imo, is that it forces you to <i>think</i> a certain way.  When I'm exploring the solution space on something, those constraints feel inhibiting.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2022 17:51:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32782589</link><dc:creator>NyxWulf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32782589</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32782589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NyxWulf in "A/B testing gets misused to juice metrics in the short term"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A/B testing is a tool, and as Deming said, the aim defines the system.  In your definition of Good, you are defining the aim.<p>I've been in a similar situation, where I created a relatively sophisticated A/* testing and control system.  My idea of good use of the system ended up being very different from how the team employing the system thought about it.<p>I believe that is part of the point of the post, that unintended, and even unimagined side effects plague even the best of ideas.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2022 15:52:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32071721</link><dc:creator>NyxWulf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32071721</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32071721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NyxWulf in "Show HN: 3D live tracking two climbers attempting a Sierra Nevada record"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I saw this when the Palisade Crest was the farthest point.  Now there is a line almost straight down.  It's been almost 15 minutes since an update, I hope that wasn't a tragic accident.<p>Can someone confirm if there is some type of speed descent down from the Palisade Crest?<p>Update: it rerendered, now it looks like a rendering artifact (I hope).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2022 16:37:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32003398</link><dc:creator>NyxWulf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32003398</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32003398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NyxWulf in "Two Vexing Problems in Functional Programming"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Did you read the article?  The entire discussion was on the tension between immutable data structures and cognitive complexity on one side, and machine performance and mutability on the other side.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2022 17:37:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30880943</link><dc:creator>NyxWulf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30880943</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30880943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NyxWulf in "Famous Navy UFO video was camera glare, evidence suggests"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So the claim is...these highly trained pilots and the other sensor systems didn't realize that objects cause IR glare, but this guy did.  Case closed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2022 18:58:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30702593</link><dc:creator>NyxWulf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30702593</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30702593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NyxWulf in "Famous Navy UFO video was camera glare, evidence suggests"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So the anomaly that the carrier group tracked, then scrambled fighter jets for.  The object that four different pilots saw visually, and was confirmed on multiple different sensors.  That was camera glare?<p>The video is only one piece of the evidence.  The pilots are trained, and other sensor systems confirmed what the camera was showing.  This analysis is pretty flimsy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2022 18:52:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30702528</link><dc:creator>NyxWulf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30702528</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30702528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NyxWulf in "When did computer science theory get so hard?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think infinitesimals are more like the partitions in a Riemann Sum.  The limit is where you are heading, whereas infinitesimals are how you get there.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2021 15:51:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29241902</link><dc:creator>NyxWulf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29241902</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29241902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NyxWulf in "An Overview of Docker Desktop Alternatives"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As an overview of Docker Desktop alternatives, running on Docker Desktop makes it not an alternative.  Your comment seems to have missed the point of the article.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2021 17:58:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28383386</link><dc:creator>NyxWulf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28383386</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28383386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NyxWulf in "U.S. Officials in Germany Hit by Havana Syndrome"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We could propose Anomalous Sonic Stimulated HeadAche Trauma</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2021 15:48:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28222952</link><dc:creator>NyxWulf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28222952</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28222952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NyxWulf in "Time to retire the CSV?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Csv is only one form of delimited files.  Tsv or Tab Separated Values is yet another.  If you have either field delimiters or row delimiters (new line) in your data, change your delimiters and process appropriately.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2021 15:23:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28222438</link><dc:creator>NyxWulf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28222438</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28222438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NyxWulf in "New UUID Formats – IETF Draft"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>v7 allows to you trade time precision for randomness.  Adding time precision allows the surface area for conflicts to decrease, so the loss of random bits to higher time precision is worth it if you are generating a lot of ids.  Unless it is a security application, I would use v7 for most things.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2021 18:59:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28091456</link><dc:creator>NyxWulf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28091456</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28091456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NyxWulf in "New UUID Formats – IETF Draft"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The lack of sorting is what this rfc is fixing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2021 18:51:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28091377</link><dc:creator>NyxWulf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28091377</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28091377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NyxWulf in "New UUID Formats – IETF Draft"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Uuids are bulky if you store them in text form, but in binary form they are only 128 bits.<p>The main feature of a uuid is it allows distributed generation.  32-bit or 64-bit integers are almost always sequential numbers.  The sequential nature allows efficient page filling and index creation, but the contention involved in creating a sequence grows rapidly with scale.<p>So while a 128-bit uuid is larger than a 64 bit integer, this version allows for the bulk of the benefits of sequential integers while reducing the biggest drawback of contention at the point of creation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2021 18:47:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28091332</link><dc:creator>NyxWulf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28091332</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28091332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NyxWulf in "New UUID Formats – IETF Draft"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I found that confusing as well.  If the machine id is before the unixts, the primary advantage of using this is lost for me.
Scanning an index for a 24 hour period is only fast if you can easily find the start and stop, and they have locality.  Since that is the primary problem addressed with this rfc, I hope it is just a poorly worded section, rather than a design flaw.</p>
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<p>spacemacs has a very complete vim layer.  By far it's the most complete implementation outside of actual vim I've seen.</p>
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