Hacker News: UpstandingUser

New comment by UpstandingUser in "uBlock Origin Lite"

UpstandingUser — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 22:50:51 +0000

Pretty sure he just passed the torch off to someone else (without selling it) because he was tired of it, then continued development shortly aftwards as "ublock origin". uBlock itself (not origin) got sold off the Adblocker Plus and allows some ads.

New comment by UpstandingUser in "Ask HN: What do you think when companies ask for gritty people?"

UpstandingUser — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 03:03:18 +0000

Sorry VSCoders. You just aren't griTTY enough.

New comment by UpstandingUser in "Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turned on?"

UpstandingUser — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 02:09:08 +0000

> Pig

...was terrible, I wanted more screentime with that adorable pig...sorry Nic, you're in the shadow of a real star...

Ask HN: Looking for an old hacker fiction short story

UpstandingUser — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 02:56:14 +0000

I've been looking for a short story I saw on Slashdot around 2003-2005 for a while now, and I was hoping somebody here might remember it and point me in the right direction. My google skills are failing me.

The general idea is a sysadmin in the 90's or early 2000's gets shrunken down to the size of an ant along with the son of his boss, who is an anarchist that wears a swastika T-shirt. Him and the sysadmin go into an ant colony and meet the queen; the son convinces her to have a Marxist revolution after a debate about monarchy and personal liberty, and she's all into the revolution.

Can't say I remember much more, except I have the notion that it might have been hosted on kuro5hin.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32861536

Points: 2

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New comment by UpstandingUser in "YouTube ads appear to be ramping up, with as many as 10 unskippable ads"

UpstandingUser — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 01:32:45 +0000

Or I could rip my legally purchased* CDs and give the finger to the leeches and rent seekers that fuck us almost as hard as they do the artists. Yes I support corporate genocide.

* lol

New comment by UpstandingUser in "How a QR code works"

UpstandingUser — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 16:52:53 +0000

> they eventually just gave me a beer and put a tally mark on a notepad

oof

New comment by UpstandingUser in "The Hardest Natural Languages (1979) [pdf]"

UpstandingUser — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 21:28:45 +0000

The second claim comes from something I heard mentioned the other day in relation to a New Yorker article about parents finding out during covid lockdowns that their elementary school kids couldn't read hardly at all. I guess they've changed the teaching styles so kids don't really learn like most millenials did.

FWIW, here's what I was found on Google:

> According to the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), 21 percent of adults in the United States (about 43 million) fall into the illiterate/functionally illiterate category.

New comment by UpstandingUser in "The Hardest Natural Languages (1979) [pdf]"

UpstandingUser — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 19:50:35 +0000

While I'm inclined to agree with your point and I do think that some languages really are just more difficult, I think it should be pointed out that something like 54% of adults in the USA read below a sixth grade level. Many of them (about half) are functionally illiterate.

source:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_State...

New comment by UpstandingUser in "Heavier cars are safer for their drivers, but far deadlier for everyone else"

UpstandingUser — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 01:34:18 +0000

> SUV shaming is a lot like drink driver shaming.

Are you drink?

New comment by UpstandingUser in "Kiwi Farms has been removed from the Internet Archive"

UpstandingUser — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 00:45:37 +0000

This...was very informative. Thanks.

New comment by UpstandingUser in "Ramanujan Factorial Approximation (2012)"

UpstandingUser — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 00:38:08 +0000

This is one of the big tragedies of Ramanujan. We have all these miraculous mathematics from him but we don't really know how he got there. A lot of this stuff we already knew, but he seems to have found it all out independently. No idea how though, all because he was too poor to buy paper. Jeez.

New comment by UpstandingUser in "Flat-to-curved screens have an identity crisis"

UpstandingUser — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 00:22:05 +0000

I'm trying to think of where I've seen this in TV and movies. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (IIRC) and there was a TV show where some Asian man had a plasma gun embedded in his wrist or something. Aliens were involved, and their cell phones all had roll up screens.

New comment by UpstandingUser in "Kiwi Farms has been removed from the Internet Archive"

UpstandingUser — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 21:23:36 +0000

Can somebody explain the back story? What is Kiwi Farms?

New comment by UpstandingUser in "Using saltpetre for cooling drinks (2013)"

UpstandingUser — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 18:29:00 +0000

You can get it at the hardware store, it'll break down tree stumps pretty quickly (and very inexpensively).

New comment by UpstandingUser in "Things I Won't Work With: Azidoazide Azides, More or Less (2013)"

UpstandingUser — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 16:40:55 +0000

This is it, and holy hell it's worse than I remembered.

New comment by UpstandingUser in "Things I Won't Work With: Azidoazide Azides, More or Less (2013)"

UpstandingUser — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 16:25:39 +0000

I can't find it now, but my favorite of TIWWW was this chemical that just smelled terrible and did so in exceedingly small quantities. Like, a stray drop of this gets the building evacuated kind of bad, and people are asking what that smell is a mile or more downwind.

New comment by UpstandingUser in "Cast iron leet"

UpstandingUser — Sat, 13 Aug 2022 20:15:34 +0000

Cast iron's real strength is the huge amount thermal mass and the relatively low rate of heat transmission. You preheat it, throw whatever you're cooking in it and the residual heat alone will brown it perfectly, even a huge slab of meat. It holds tons of energy and releases it relatively slowly. Steel pans will sometimes have all the heat sucked out of them before you're done searing (lower thermal mass, higher transmission) and it doesn't come out right, especially if you have a low output stovetop because it can't keep up with the cooking and maintain proper temperature.

Cast iron is kind of the opposite of a wok, which is made so you get about as close as you can to cooking with the flame and no residual heat from the cooking vessel. Note that woks are designed to be cooked on crazy output stoves that you don't really see in Western homes. This allows you to sear with much more control of the thermal transmission at the cost of a blazing hot kitchen and a hefty gas bill.

New comment by UpstandingUser in "Local simulation feature to be removed from all Autodesk Fusion 360 versions"

UpstandingUser — Sat, 13 Aug 2022 04:30:40 +0000

Say funding is a given, how do you attract the talent?

New comment by UpstandingUser in "Local simulation feature to be removed from all Autodesk Fusion 360 versions"

UpstandingUser — Sat, 13 Aug 2022 04:22:29 +0000

That wasn't clear to me

UTC vs. UT1 time and other nuances (2020)

UpstandingUser — Sat, 13 Aug 2022 02:48:44 +0000

Article URL: https://mperdikeas.github.io/utc-vs-ut1-time.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32446477

Points: 78

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