Hacker News: PhoenixFlame101

New comment by PhoenixFlame101 in "GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry"

PhoenixFlame101 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:26:33 +0000

But collecting data and looking for insights doesn't mean you mechanically optimize features, especially user-hostile ones? This is just as, if not more, likely to happen when basing your decisions on what people say they want over what they actually do.

New comment by PhoenixFlame101 in "Scientists discover why bread can cause weight gain without extra calories"

PhoenixFlame101 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:56:37 +0000

The "all calories are the same" statement doesn't mean that all foods with the same caloric values satiate you the same, and no one has ever claimed that. In fact it's very common knowledge; the entire basis of diets like keto that remove carbs, the least satiating of the marcos per calorie.

The only thing hormones can affect is your maintenance requirement, meaning you can gain weight if your body chooses to store the calories instead of burning them for whatever reason, even while eating the same as always.

New comment by PhoenixFlame101 in "AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice"

PhoenixFlame101 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 03:12:41 +0000

The power of an echo chamber; makes extremism seem logical.

New comment by PhoenixFlame101 in "Ryugu asteroid samples contain all DNA and RNA building blocks"

PhoenixFlame101 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 05:59:12 +0000

GP probably meant he would've relied on chatgpt instead of the help of a kind user to get the same info, not that he would actually post it here.

New comment by PhoenixFlame101 in "EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear"

PhoenixFlame101 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 19:17:33 +0000

Luxury brands do in fact intentionally destroy old stock to make sure their value doesn't drop due to excess supply. I suppose the next step is making everything extremely limited like hypercars?

New comment by PhoenixFlame101 in "A Cosmic Miracle: A Remarkably Luminous Galaxy at z=14.44 Confirmed with JWST"

PhoenixFlame101 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:36:55 +0000

Relevant PhD comics: https://phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1911

New comment by PhoenixFlame101 in "Formula One Handovers and Handovers From Surgery to Intensive Care (2008) [pdf]"

PhoenixFlame101 — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 05:26:02 +0000

To play devil's advocate a bit, Ferrari won both championships in 2007 and the constructors in 2008, so it's hard to say they were robbed when they actually won. Massa though, is another story.

New comment by PhoenixFlame101 in "A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool"

PhoenixFlame101 — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 03:30:15 +0000

Video format if anyone prefers it: https://youtu.be/EFRUL7vKdU8

New comment by PhoenixFlame101 in "Open-Sora does pretty good video generation on consumer GPUs"

PhoenixFlame101 — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 11:28:54 +0000

It's very likely the comment you replied to said it in a joking sense

New comment by PhoenixFlame101 in "My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore"

PhoenixFlame101 — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 04:56:55 +0000

While I agree with you, the registry is the windows way of hiding away config files. It's either the GUI, or it's the registry.

Linux alternatively uses config files directly meant to be altered by the end user. It's less user-friendly, but better than the registry.

The real crime is having a registry in the first place instead of a .config directory.

New comment by PhoenixFlame101 in "Fixing the iterative damping interpolation in video games"

PhoenixFlame101 — Mon, 20 May 2024 01:40:42 +0000

While this is true for simpler games, the author mentions the possibility where we aren't able to hit the target of 60 FPS or whatever, and we get physics spikes on slower computers.