Hacker News: SnowHill9902

New comment by SnowHill9902 in "Young people are flocking to astrology"

SnowHill9902 — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 11:26:46 +0000

You think that by studying engineering you see the world as it is?

New comment by SnowHill9902 in "Stem Formulas"

SnowHill9902 — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 22:28:58 +0000

Formulas are like magic spells. You don’t get to use them without understanding what they mean, and more importantly what they assume.

New comment by SnowHill9902 in "Confronting failure as a core life skill"

SnowHill9902 — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 14:01:07 +0000

Read the book of Job.

New comment by SnowHill9902 in "StabilityAI cofounder says CEO tricked him into selling stake for $100"

SnowHill9902 — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 02:47:42 +0000

“You have to be prepared to walk away.”

New comment by SnowHill9902 in "Telling the Bees"

SnowHill9902 — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 03:07:23 +0000

Except that life is not for enjoyment and entertainment.

New comment by SnowHill9902 in "Telling the Bees"

SnowHill9902 — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 03:06:06 +0000

“Yes, and?”

—- that’s a Zen response not a snarky question.

New comment by SnowHill9902 in "The real lesson of The Truman Show"

SnowHill9902 — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 12:02:28 +0000

The answer is that good and evil are just human perspectives. His plan is beyond our understanding and is neither good nor evil.

New comment by SnowHill9902 in "Mental Liquidity"

SnowHill9902 — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 14:01:39 +0000

Stay humble.

New comment by SnowHill9902 in "Lung cancer pill cuts risk of death by half"

SnowHill9902 — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 20:51:44 +0000

Increase your natural T. Doubt you maxed it.

New comment by SnowHill9902 in "Why Is GPS Free?"

SnowHill9902 — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 20:51:32 +0000

Pharmaceutical companies are not charging for the cost it took to develop that drug, but for the rolling cost it’ll take to develop future ones.

New comment by SnowHill9902 in "Notes apps are where ideas go to die (2022)"

SnowHill9902 — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 02:11:49 +0000

Ideas prove their worth by fighting back.

New comment by SnowHill9902 in "HBO Max new Captcha system"

SnowHill9902 — Tue, 30 May 2023 10:17:39 +0000

For captchas you don’t have to be right in the strict sense. You have to do as most humans would do.

New comment by SnowHill9902 in "Unnatural Keys – Nature doesn’t come with identifiers"

SnowHill9902 — Sun, 28 May 2023 14:17:49 +0000

This is not true. Given two songs A, B, an informed human can tell whether A and B are the same song or not. Now you’ve created a UNIQUE constraint on your data, so you have a unique identifier.

New comment by SnowHill9902 in "Ask HN: How do you not take criticism of your work personally?"

SnowHill9902 — Thu, 25 May 2023 13:41:23 +0000

By not taking it personally.

New comment by SnowHill9902 in "The hypergamy hypothesis: much more than you wanted to know"

SnowHill9902 — Wed, 24 May 2023 11:00:57 +0000

This can be deduced from the mere fact that reproduction and raising is extremely asymmetric between male and female.

New comment by SnowHill9902 in "A raw dump of companies from all over the world by LinkedIn handle"

SnowHill9902 — Wed, 17 May 2023 18:30:04 +0000

So it’s not gray, it’s melange.

New comment by SnowHill9902 in "Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease"

SnowHill9902 — Tue, 16 May 2023 11:26:45 +0000

“Tricholoroethylene strongly linked to Parkinson”

New comment by SnowHill9902 in "Monte Carlo methods"

SnowHill9902 — Sun, 14 May 2023 18:17:36 +0000

Can you link to some projects? Ideally also Haskell or also functional?

New comment by SnowHill9902 in "The Greatest Wealth Transfer in History Is Here, with Familiar (Rich) Winners"

SnowHill9902 — Sun, 14 May 2023 13:33:45 +0000

Buy, borrow, die.

New comment by SnowHill9902 in "I stopped worrying and learned to love denormalized tables"

SnowHill9902 — Sat, 13 May 2023 03:18:08 +0000

The world is always 6NF.