<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: alex989</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=alex989</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 14:40:54 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=alex989" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alex989 in "AI and the ironies of automation – Part 2"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I disagree about how calculators and math are deterministic a in real world scenarios where you use math at work. When you compute a formula in your calculator or in a fancy design software, it will always give you answer but it doesn't mean you asked the right question. If you use the wrong units in your input or if you make a typo, if you used the wrong formula, etc., the calculator/software will blindly give you an answer and only an experienced engineer will spot it a first glance. As soon as there is a human in the loop, things get messy.<p>For exemple, if your calculator tells you that a 15m long W200x31 steel beam can resist 215kN•m in bending moment, I know at first glance its at least 4x too much for that length, but how many people reading my comment could? A civil engineer fresh out of college would not.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 01:48:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46269420</link><dc:creator>alex989</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46269420</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46269420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alex989 in "Covid-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The Covid deaths were measured in thousands before they could find a single individual under 18 yrs old who died from it. The only reason to vaccinate kids was to try to prevent them from spreading it to adults. Right from the beginning (eg. With the cruise ship that was infected), it was extremely obvious that the main factor in survivability was age. The younger you were, the safer it was. Weight was also very important but we learned that later</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 20:27:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46166804</link><dc:creator>alex989</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46166804</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46166804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alex989 in "F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do you really believe it's Trump's fault that politicians in the EU are pushing for the end of encryption, mandatory digital ID, and age verifications?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2025 07:25:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45411155</link><dc:creator>alex989</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45411155</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45411155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alex989 in "iPhone 17 chip becomes the fastest single-core CPU in the world on PassMark"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The limit is artificial. That's the entire point. There is no laws or bible verse telling apple it's illigal to let you use the cpu on your phone for workstation workloads. Wouldn't it be nice if you could hook up your phone to a usb dock, boot Linux/windows/macos and get a workstation that's faster than a 2000$ laptop? Sure you can buy a Mac mini, but iphone owners already have one in their pocket.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2025 09:40:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45403047</link><dc:creator>alex989</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45403047</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45403047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alex989 in "iPhone 17 chip becomes the fastest single-core CPU in the world on PassMark"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You are completely missing his point. It's not about the mhz, it's about making a super high performence product but refusing to let you use it for things that actually benefit from that performance.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2025 21:33:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45399495</link><dc:creator>alex989</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45399495</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45399495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alex989 in "YouTube says it'll bring back creators banned for Covid and election content"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And a lot of them got banned on social media for it. It was considered racist and dangerous misinformation for a long time.</p>
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<p>A significant difference with gatcha games compared to traditional cash gambling is that you cannot chase your losses. You either get the skin/item or you don't, but there is no false hope that you could recover the money you gambled with if you spend even more. Obviously, that's not true when the game allows you resell the skins individually for real cash (eg. CS skins). Chasing losses and borrowing money to earn back the money you lost and getting even more in debt is what makes people kill themselves in casino parking lots.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2025 15:48:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45374289</link><dc:creator>alex989</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45374289</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45374289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alex989 in "A simple way to measure knots has come unraveled"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I used to be a rope access worker, mostly for consstruction, maintenance and inspections in hard to access places. Most knots are only useful in very niche situations or to impress your friends. You probably don't need more than 5 to solve almost every situation you could realistically get yourself into (eg. Figure height, alpine butterfly). In a lot of cases, the fancy knots you see online are only usefull because they are easier to untie after getting loaded (eg. Using figure-nine instead of figure-height) and you can ignore them.<p>I would recommend looking at the ones that are thought in the Irata and Sprat certifications. IIRC there is fewer than 10 but there is a wide range of ways you can use them or combine them together.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2025 18:02:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45337184</link><dc:creator>alex989</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45337184</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45337184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alex989 in "Unhooking from Amazon Ebooks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Most ebooks can be found online drm-free extremely easily and/or you can remove the drm yourself.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 05:39:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44419803</link><dc:creator>alex989</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44419803</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44419803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alex989 in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>Instead, they can introduce a whole new class of bug that's way harder to debug<p>That sounds like a new opportunity for a startup that will collect hundreds of millions a of dollars, brag about how their new AI prototype is so smart that it scares them, and devliver nothing</p>
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<p>>And it will do all of this while consuming truly shocking amounts of energy.<p>You need to lookup how much an "average" human consumes. When I replace 2 humans with a ChatGPT subscription, I can guarantee you that OpenAI is generating less co2 than what these two interns were creating with their transport to the office (and back). That's before we consider things like the 25 years it took to raise and train them or the very expensive tastes (eg. Travelling around the world) they get after they earn a large salary.</p>
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<p>Depends on what you do. You lose like 85% of the features but I bet most users never touch any on them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 12:55:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43857060</link><dc:creator>alex989</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43857060</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43857060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alex989 in "It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They openly admit that insults can also get you a fine and have your computer confiscated. And this isn't a weird conspiracy theory, they are proud of it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 23 Feb 2025 17:10:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43150987</link><dc:creator>alex989</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43150987</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43150987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alex989 in "Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since the 1960s? (2009)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That doesn't really solve the problem of your bag not arriving at destination. So far my ratio is 3 out of 14 that had bagage problems when I didn't bring them in with me as carry on.</p>
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<p>It gets worse, if you try to see the url from a phone, there is a good chance it will load the page for you to show a preview. They think it's helpful....  that motherfucking preview on the iPhone forced me to spend a full hour in training because they think I clicked on the link.<p>Now I send all of these types of email to spam and don't give a fuck. Anything "internal" with a link to click goes to spam unless it's directly from my boss. Turns out 99% of it is not that important.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2025 07:03:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42608393</link><dc:creator>alex989</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42608393</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42608393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alex989 in "Why was there a wall near runway at S Korea plane crash airport?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How does hiding videos help anyone? It's not like the footage magicaly disappears when you show it to the public and investigators can't use it. We live in the digital era, it takes like 7 clicks to share the footage to the entire world. Are pilots and engineers around the world gonna be better at preventing this type of disaster if we all make sure they never ever get to see it?</p>
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<p>If you lose your house keys, you don't have to give up your house and all your furniture. You are allowed to pay a locksmith or break a windows, you own it after all.</p>
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