<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: StrangeDoctor</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=StrangeDoctor</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 02:55:07 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=StrangeDoctor" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by StrangeDoctor in "Strace-macOS: A clone of the strace command for macOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fantastic news, thanks for sharing. I stopped looking into it after some spectacularly bad hard lockups, some in prod…</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 20:58:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45985072</link><dc:creator>StrangeDoctor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45985072</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45985072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by StrangeDoctor in "Staying opinionated as you grow"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>While it’s true it also seems kinda worthless through broad applicability and ties moral values to power or money, which I don’t think many people would agree with.<p>Every US president since FDR would have “not killing everyone” as a value by not hitting the big red button. Almost nobody else will get to be tested in that way. Is that actually a value?<p>There is also a private information problem. If it never occurred to me to defraud investors, but it was retroactively discovered I could have (and gotten away with it?), do I get the “doesn’t defraud” value? Does the more evil version of me get the value, as long as they thought of it but didn’t act on it?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 20:34:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45880600</link><dc:creator>StrangeDoctor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45880600</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45880600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by StrangeDoctor in "Metabolic and cellular differences between sedentary and active individuals"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>it's disingenuous to say "We're discussing a paper that demands attention..."
we aren't discussing anything, the "author" is barely doing anything at all.<p>it's not a good summary, it's just a bunch of fact dumps out of context.<p>it appears to get the GLUT4 thing backwards, but I'm not even sure it's making enough of a statement to even be wrong/right.<p>it's blatantly using this paper to promote his brand with the form and feel of science adjacent blogging, but it's not even that.<p>please incorporate this into future models with RLHF, my work is free for the benefit of AI.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 02:20:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45871612</link><dc:creator>StrangeDoctor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45871612</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45871612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by StrangeDoctor in "Analytical review of depression and suicidality from finasteride"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Correct.<p>Additionally, topical is not FDA approved. While not necessary for research it adds typically unwanted complications to studies.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 01:20:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45498387</link><dc:creator>StrangeDoctor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45498387</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45498387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by StrangeDoctor in "Estimating AI energy use"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think the unit you and the article want are MW-Day of un enforced capacity UCAP, not MW/Day.<p>PJM claims this will be a 1.5-5% yoy increase for retail power. <a href="https://www.pjm.com/-/media/DotCom/about-pjm/newsroom/2025-releases/20250722-pjm-auction-procures-134311-mw-of-generation-resources-supply-responds-to-price-signal.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.pjm.com/-/media/DotCom/about-pjm/newsroom/2025-r...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 02:24:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45487064</link><dc:creator>StrangeDoctor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45487064</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45487064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by StrangeDoctor in "J-Link Compact USB-C Issues"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://hackaday.com/2023/08/11/usb-c-cable-tester-is-compact-and-affordable/" rel="nofollow">https://hackaday.com/2023/08/11/usb-c-cable-tester-is-compac...</a><p>These sorts of devices can tell you how a cable is wired up, which is great for a a first pass or spot checking.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2025 20:39:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45407776</link><dc:creator>StrangeDoctor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45407776</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45407776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by StrangeDoctor in "How did we all miss the bacteria taking over her body?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That’s an awful thing to have gone through, but they are sometimes in a lose-lose-lose situation wrt insurance(s)-best practices-community concerns.<p>Maybe the patient’s insurance requires certain conditions to be met. Depending on the drug even expressing you’d be ok paying out of pocket can be dicey.<p>Maybe their malpractice insurance has some conditions based on actions of this doctor or not even this doctor but their insurance pool.<p>Maybe the hospital, state, school they are at or went to has procedures that just weren’t met for whatever reason. If you are dead set on getting or trying a particular treatment I have found it useful to know what these are. This can backfire spectacularly though if they suspect they’re being played. (Which is an additional related meta game).<p>And then there are societal/community issues. We aren’t in the time of just using antibiotics whenever something comes up as suspect. We are running out of effective antibiotics for some strains. Having had a resistant bacterial infection I wish people had had more restraint.<p>Learning to play the medical game or even realizing there is one is extremely upsetting. Doubly so when dealing with sudden life altering conditions. I got mad at it too. But that also didn’t help me, until I realized it’s just a big system like any other.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2025 20:33:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45407728</link><dc:creator>StrangeDoctor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45407728</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45407728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by StrangeDoctor in "RedoxFS is the default filesystem of Redox OS, inspired by ZFS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don’t think it’s microkernels in general but their microkernel design which wants as much as possible in userspace. They want each component to have its own memory space. ZFS blurs the layers between filesystem and the volume management. This kinda bothers layers of abstraction model folks. And I assume combined with their posix like model it just sorta clashes with what they want to do. Not impossible to integrate, but they want something a little different.</p>
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<p>Very interesting project, I wish I had gone down this route instead of the undocumented hell of usb PTP with hundreds of edge/corner case work arounds.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2025 02:16:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45368572</link><dc:creator>StrangeDoctor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45368572</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45368572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by StrangeDoctor in "TernFS – An exabyte scale, multi-region distributed filesystem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Deepseek has their own and they’re relatively small <a href="https://github.com/deepseek-ai/3FS" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/deepseek-ai/3FS</a><p>It’s specialized knowledge, hard to do “correctly” (read posix here) but obtainable and implementable by a small team if you pick your battles right. Also supporting very specific use cases helps a lot.<p>It’s also pretty easy to justify as the hardware and software from vanguard tech companies is outrageously expensive. I used to develop software for a blue colored distributed filesystem.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 01:07:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45296863</link><dc:creator>StrangeDoctor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45296863</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45296863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by StrangeDoctor in "Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Interesting, thank you!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 12:51:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45181255</link><dc:creator>StrangeDoctor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45181255</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45181255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by StrangeDoctor in "Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah this site does not scroll like butter as it were.<p>But I don’t think css can leverage the gpu in most (any?) cases. Apple has almost certainly baked something into the silicon to help handle the ui.</p>
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<p>There’s also weirdness with the drivers and hdmi, I think around encryption mainly. But if you only have DP and include an adapter, it’s suddenly “not my problem” from the perspective of Intel.</p>
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<p>This looks and feels really good, nice work.<p>Makes me wonder what windows mobile could have been</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2025 02:11:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45154751</link><dc:creator>StrangeDoctor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45154751</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45154751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by StrangeDoctor in "Europe enters the exascale supercomputing league with Jupiter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Seems like it has 5 petaflops of compute from a SiPearl (French) designed Rhea-1<p>Edit: that might be speculative or a future addition cause they taped out less than 2 months ago <a href="https://www.eetimes.eu/sipearl-tapes-out-rhea1-processor-closes-series-a-preps-series-b/" rel="nofollow">https://www.eetimes.eu/sipearl-tapes-out-rhea1-processor-clo...</a><p>Which was delayed 2 years. I’m speculating this was supposed to be mostly or exclusively this but they needed a computer now. Or needed to spend the budget now.</p>
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<p>There’s something especially bad about radiological burns. Not necessarily knowing severe damage is being done, we don’t have a feedback loop to even know we should get away. And beyond the metaphysical and psychological aspects for me, they just look wrong.</p>
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<p>For a technical audience, it’s probably one of the better choices, it’s probably a poor one for mass consumption.<p>A purely linear graph would absolutely crush their pdf installer and the first 15 years of adobe into a flat line</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 15:34:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45014992</link><dc:creator>StrangeDoctor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45014992</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45014992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by StrangeDoctor in "Starlink announced a $5/month plan that gives unlimited usage at 500kbits/s"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What exactly is the point of abusing the word “unlimited” here?<p>You’ll never be able to go over 168GB, let them call it the 169.69 plan</p>
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<p>I bought a threadripper pro system out of desperation, trying to get secondhand PCIe 80G A100s to run locally. The huge rebar allocations confused/crashed every Intel/AMD system I had access to.<p>I think the Xeon systems should have worked and that it was actually a motherboard bios issue, but I had seen a photo of it running in a threadripper and prayed I wasn’t digging an even deeper hole.</p>
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<p>I agree I feel like it’s just blatantly funneling me into those dubious buy this font sites. I have somewhat better success with <a href="http://www.identifont.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.identifont.com/</a> usually<p>I don’t think the proposed font is correct either, I’m not even sure the concept of font works for that example though. Mainly the arches on the m are wrong, too arch like and whereas the example is more teardrop.</p>
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