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First image of our Milky Way's black hole may be inaccurate, scientists say

Stubb — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 16:12:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.space.com/the-universe/black-holes/1st-image-of-our-milky-ways-black-hole-may-be-inaccurate-scientists-say

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42087932

Points: 26

# Comments: 11

New comment by Stubb in "CNBC just deleted 5 pages showing CD5 data for banks including JPM and BAC"

Stubb — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 17:52:09 +0000

It's malinformation—true but inconvenient for the ruling class and therefore to be suppressed.

New comment by Stubb in "A eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece"

Stubb — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 21:04:52 +0000

I still haven't forgiven Apple for killing off Aperture.

To date nothing has come close to Aperture's seamless blending of image organizing, editing, and metadata enrichment. I'm not holding my breath that an app that feels like DarkSky will ever come along.

The Telefunken RA 770 Analog Computer

Stubb — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 14:42:09 +0000

Article URL: http://www.analogmuseum.org/english/collection/telefunken/ra770/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33262945

Points: 108

# Comments: 10

New comment by Stubb in "Poll: How much time on average do you exercise in a week?"

Stubb — Sun, 02 Jan 2022 16:55:20 +0000

We moved into a new house seven years ago and turned half the basement into a home gym to combine with working from home. During the week, I'll stretch for 5–10 minutes after waking up, do ~20 minutes of light exercise at lunch, and more serious exercise after work (could be a bike ride, kettlebell/bodyweight exercises, running, etc.). After-work exercise varies depending on energy/recovery. Getting a standing desk was also a nice addition. Weekends we'll go for a longer bike ride one day and do something outside but lower intensity the other.

New comment by Stubb in "Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac to Back Home Loans of Nearly $1M as Prices Soar"

Stubb — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 15:10:32 +0000

Next you're going to claim that non-dischargeable student loans drive up the price of higher education in the US. Crazy talk!

(macOS) Disk Utility now has full features for managing snapshots

Stubb — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 12:42:33 +0000

Article URL: https://eclecticlight.co/2021/11/09/disk-utility-now-has-full-features-for-managing-snapshots/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29160957

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Stubb in "Command line tools for productive programmers"

Stubb — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 14:06:17 +0000

Coming from remote development Emacs TRAMP, vscode + remote-ssh mercifully removed the cognitive load of dealing with Emacs. Not only do you not have to manually install & configure everything, vscode will tell you what you need and give you a working installation automatically.

New comment by Stubb in "Do nothing (2020)"

Stubb — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 11:57:22 +0000

"If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you."

—Calvin Coolidge

New comment by Stubb in "Crypto crash deepens, stocks slip"

Stubb — Wed, 19 May 2021 16:05:02 +0000

The value of crypto is the access to the underlying network, which lets the users of that network transfer a known supply of tokens in a manner that's not forgeable, repudiable, confiscable, etc. or reliant on the permission of outside authorities. Final settlement takes an hour. It's worth whatever people will pay for that access.

New comment by Stubb in "Crypto crash deepens, stocks slip"

Stubb — Wed, 19 May 2021 13:51:50 +0000

Crypto isn't a Ponzi scheme. A Ponzi scheme is form of fraud where funds from recent investors are used to pay (fictitious) profits to earlier investors. Say the ringleader claims a 10% profit. An early investor had deposited $100 and wants their $100. The ringleader had blown that investor's $100 on coke and hookers and gives him $110 from new investors.

Crypto is more accurately a pyramid scheme. But then so are precious metals and fiat currency.

New comment by Stubb in "Why Working from Home Will Stick"

Stubb — Tue, 04 May 2021 03:09:43 +0000

It will stick if people refuse to go back to offices. I started working 100% from home nearly seven years ago and wouldn't take a job that involved commuting unless an astronomical amount of money was delivered up front. Simply no comparison in terms of quality of life.

New comment by Stubb in "Duolingo's language notes all on one page"

Stubb — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 19:25:18 +0000

Know if there a way to access these tips from the iPhone/iPad app?

New comment by Stubb in "Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp Outage"

Stubb — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 12:59:57 +0000

Or they know that responding via SMS only encourages the use of a messaging system whose time has past.

New comment by Stubb in "GNU Octave 6.1.0"

Stubb — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 12:54:16 +0000

A horror show mentally reconciling its one-based indexing with the zero-based indexing you're used to in Python.

The use of a zero is admittedly a relatively new concept, and it may not catch on.

New comment by Stubb in "Arecibo telescope, on the brink of collapse, will be dismantled"

Stubb — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 17:24:09 +0000

Which is also a symbol of the degradation of human intellectual capability in the 21st century. Certainly the ability to focus it toward advancing the understanding of the natural world.

New comment by Stubb in "The New Facebook Design Sucks"

Stubb — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 21:37:26 +0000

Very possible that the majority of people who truly care about these things "haven't logged on Facebook much in the past couple years". I very much fall into that category. There are so many awful things about it that the UI is the least of my reasons for drastically limiting usage.

Uber’s self-driving car unit has made little progress despite $2.5B price tag

Stubb — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 23:47:00 +0000

Article URL: https://nypost.com/2020/09/28/ubers-self-driving-car-unit-makes-little-progress-despite-price-tag/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24634400

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Stubb in "Compact nuclear fusion reactor is 'very likely to work,' studies suggest"

Stubb — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 21:00:47 +0000

Make an efficient fusion reactor of any size, and you can power Fischer-Tropsch plants to synthesize carbon-neutral hydrocarbon fuel for the existing fossil-fuel infrastructure.

New comment by Stubb in "Almost Realtime Live Data Visualization in QGIS – Air Traffic Use Case"

Stubb — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 12:56:13 +0000

Is QGIS the go-to app for visualization of position data like this?

Can it send commands back to the app from which it's receiving position data? Things like pause/play and adjusting the time being displayed?