Hacker News: aimor

New comment by aimor in "The largest number representable in 64 bits"

aimor — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:20:04 +0000

I can do it in half a bit

New comment by aimor in "Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica"

aimor — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 18:10:30 +0000

The school speed limit there is 15 mph, and that wasn't enough to prevent an accident.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/child-struck-waymo-near-...

https://maps.app.goo.gl/7PcB2zskuKyYB56W8?g_st=ac

New comment by aimor in "Meet the Alaska Student Arrested for Eating an AI Art Exhibit"

aimor — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:31:31 +0000

Don't take him to the MoMA he'll need his stomach pumped.

New comment by aimor in "You can make up HTML tags"

aimor — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 20:07:11 +0000

If you use the predefined HTML tags you also get whatever default styling the browser decided is appropriate.

New comment by aimor in "Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices"

aimor — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 15:47:15 +0000

"the default is a dollar"

There is no default price.

New comment by aimor in "I just want working RCS messaging"

aimor — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:24:40 +0000

Do you mean my message inbox isn't supposed to look like this? https://i.ibb.co/mFhdGkbH/Samsung-Google-Android-Messages.jp...

This has been a problem (for others) for years and apparently nobody knows why or how to fix it. So go through a checklist of disabling, uninstalling, clearing, removing, inserting, restarting, updating, toggling, calling, waiting, praying.

New comment by aimor in "How they clean the balls in a ball pit"

aimor — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 14:32:52 +0000

How do they clean the blocks in a foam pit?

New comment by aimor in "Death by AI"

aimor — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 04:34:58 +0000

I went to a party today at a park. Google maps wanted me to drive my car on the walking path to the picnic pavilion. Here, you can get the same directions: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/38.8615917,-77.1034763/Alcov...

New comment by aimor in "Why are there no good dinosaur films?"

aimor — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 15:06:05 +0000

When I was a kid I loved "Dinosaur Time" by Peggy Parish (and illustrated by Arnold Lobel). Originally published in 1974 it ends, "Dinosaurs lived everywhere for a long time. Then they died. Nobody knows why. But once it was their world. It was Dinosaur Time."

There was a revision to the book (not sure the date) with changes to the text and an expanded author's note at the end that talks about the new things we understand about dinosaurs including how Brachiosaurus are no longer believed to have spent their time in water to support their weight and how it's now believed an asteroid killed off the dinosaurs.

Original: https://archive.org/details/dinosaurtime00pari

New comment by aimor in "The scientific “unit” we call the decibel"

aimor — Thu, 22 May 2025 14:45:31 +0000

Yes, dB is a mess and if we could do it again we ought to use something more explicit like just annotating the units with log10 such as log10(W). Then it's easy to use other convenient units like log2(W) or if you want to reproduce dBV: 20log10(V). dB is fine shorthand, but it gets used all the time in places where things should be explicit.

New comment by aimor in "How “The Great Gatsby” took over high school"

aimor — Wed, 14 May 2025 14:40:06 +0000

How else are you supposed to know that you've grown since highschool if you can't reread Catcher in the Rye in a different light?

New comment by aimor in "You could just choose optimism"

aimor — Sat, 03 May 2025 03:01:24 +0000

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/rudyard-kipling/just-so-st...

New comment by aimor in "Find the Odd Disk"

aimor — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 01:17:50 +0000

I noticed this too. I did much better covering up two of the disks and looking at them one at a time, or comparing pairs of disks.

New comment by aimor in "How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?"

aimor — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 16:37:57 +0000

Yes that's right. The manufacturing cost in the US would have to be $46 or less to undercut the import. So ignoring tax changes, something like...

A Made in USA shoe that sells for $100:

- $7+ goes to the US gov't (? shoemaker tax, 3 Nike tax, 4 Footlocker tax)

- $79 goes to US employees or businesses (46 to shoemaker, 5 Nike marketing, 11 Nike expenses, 17 Footlocker expenses)

- $7 goes to Nike (11% return, 7.15 exactly)

- $7 goes to Footlocker (8% return, 7.45 exactly)

New comment by aimor in "How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?"

aimor — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 16:21:07 +0000

Trying to summarize the summary for myself

From a $100 shoe that sells for $76:

- $24 goes overseas (22 cost, 2 freight)

- $8 goes to the US gov't (3 import, 2 Nike tax, 3 Footlocker tax)

- $33 goes to US employees or businesses (5 Nike marketing, 11 Nike expenses, 17 Footlocker expenses)

- $5 goes to Nike (11% return)

- $6 goes to Footlocker (8% return)

But now with 100% tariffs, it's a $100 shoe that sells for $100 (or a $132 shoe that sells for $100) and:

- $24 goes overseas (22 cost, 2 freight)

- $29 goes to the US gov't (22 import, 3 Nike tax, 4 Footlocker tax)

- $33 goes to US employees or businesses (5 Nike marketing, 11 Nike expenses, 17 Footlocker expenses)

- $7 goes to Nike (11% return, 7.15 exactly)

- $7 goes to Footlocker (8% return, 7.45 exactly)

And if a US shoemaker wanted to undercut the import, a Made in USA shoe that sells for $100:

- $7+ goes to the US gov't (? shoemaker tax, 3 Nike tax, 4 Footlocker tax)

- $79 goes to US employees or businesses (46 to shoemaker, 5 Nike marketing, 11 Nike expenses, 17 Footlocker expenses)

- $7 goes to Nike (11% return, 7.15 exactly)

- $7 goes to Footlocker (8% return, 7.45 exactly)

New comment by aimor in "I've acquired a new superpower"

aimor — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 05:02:32 +0000

For when you feel a sneeze coming on:

- Want to sneeze? Look at a bright light.

- Don't want to sneeze? Scratch your ear.

New comment by aimor in "You need 4 colors"

aimor — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 15:31:50 +0000

Well these are the colors they define:

    --primary-color: hsl(var(--hue), 50%, 90%);
    --pre-primary-color: hsl(var(--hue), 50%, 95%);
    --secondary-color: hsl(var(--hue), 50%, 10%);
    --tertiary-color: hsl(var(--tertiary-hue), 80%, 20%);
    --accent-color: hsl(var(--accent-hue), 80%, 20%);

As I see it that's either 3 colors or 5 colors but not 4

Ohio State's "Buckeyemail for Life" service to be discontinued on April 1, 2025

aimor — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 14:28:12 +0000

Article URL: https://it.osu.edu/buckeyemail-changes-information-alumni

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42204612

Points: 1

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New comment by aimor in "Passport Photos"

aimor — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 03:52:34 +0000

A tip for 10 years from now: take the picture with diffuse backlighting and you can easily blow out the background completely. For example, a sheer curtain in front of an outdoor window is just about perfect.

New comment by aimor in "Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Joyful Life"

aimor — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 22:08:14 +0000

You're not reading it right. The labels overlap, they are not disjoint.