Hacker News: badcppdev

New comment by badcppdev in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell"

badcppdev — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:55:01 +0000

Are you saying that you don't want to deal with Purchase Orders?

Is that because you don't want to provide a product in advance of payment or just the overhead of creation/tracking?

New comment by badcppdev in "Show HN: Hacker Herald – like HN but with crowdsourced pics and subtitles"

badcppdev — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 15:13:26 +0000

I like how this looks but I have a feature suggestion....

Could you crowd-source categories/tags for the stories and then try and implement an opt-in / opt-out function that lets us exclude certain categories. I'm not even sure if it's possible but you're some of the way there.

New comment by badcppdev in "Oscilloscope Music N-Spheres"

badcppdev — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 11:11:43 +0000

Do the definitions of these two overlap? Apart from having music and images?

New comment by badcppdev in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024)"

badcppdev — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 12:18:31 +0000

My kids would go crazy if I got a job for these guys :-D

New comment by badcppdev in "Engineers do not get to make startup mistakes when they build ledgers"

badcppdev — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 10:01:31 +0000

Can you please provide a reference to the regulators coming after an engineer in the UK.

Also you say regulations in the UK have been changed recently.

I'm not aware of regulations that apply to software engineers.

New comment by badcppdev in "Engineers do not get to make startup mistakes when they build ledgers"

badcppdev — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 09:53:11 +0000

I think your last sentence is correct. I think author is saying that you can't make it work and THEN make it right with payment systems.

This is my opinion as well and I've been involved in the audit of a fintech system where auditors had to download EVERYTHING into excel spreadsheets and make the numbers balance before they would sign off on the books. That took a lot of time and money I'm guessing made a difference of at least .1 unicorns in the liquidity even that took place 3 years later.

New comment by badcppdev in "Five Companies Produce Nearly 25 Percent of All Plastic Waste Worldwide"

badcppdev — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 09:42:57 +0000

I was going to say the same. There is a chance that they sailed to the location.

However a 6 hour flight from the closest major city would have given off 1500 kg of CO2 (per passenger). And presumably another 1500kg to get back again.

New comment by badcppdev in "The Birthday Paradox Experiment (2018)"

badcppdev — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 09:48:36 +0000

I was going to say that I was disappointed that the page didn't show the formula for the probability and show how it changes as you change the number of people in the room.

Then I checked the wiki page and understood that some of the maths is actually quite fiendish (for non mathematicians anyway) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem

New comment by badcppdev in "Show HN: Microsoft Teams Ticketing System – Ticketing as a Service"

badcppdev — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 09:40:45 +0000

Do you have any paying customers?

The premium plan has a quota of approx. 4 tickets per day which feels quite low for a tool used by a company. What happens when someone submits a ticket but the plan has used up the quota? Does it just get deleted?

New comment by badcppdev in "The Book of Kells, now digitized and available online"

badcppdev — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:56:14 +0000

What do people think about the Copyright notices on the images? Can someone with knowledge of Irish law comment on how something so old can still be considered copyright? Is there separate rules for images of art in galleries?

New comment by badcppdev in "The Book of Kells, now digitized and available online"

badcppdev — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:53:32 +0000

Dromberg looks great and Stonehenge is definitely far too crowded with tourists[0] but with respect to age Dromberg is considered to be 3000 years old [1] versus Stone henge being 5000 years old [2]

I will resist the temptation to joke about time travelling aliens

0 - Why do the tourists have so many Disney shirts, hats, and backpacks???

1 - https://www.tuatha.ie/drombeg-stone-circle/

2 - https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/stonehenge/...

New comment by badcppdev in "The possibilities for dark matter have shrunk"

badcppdev — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 11:34:00 +0000

LZ Dark Matter experiment page: https://lz.lbl.gov/

Way better press release with lots of cool pictures: https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2024/08/26/lz-experiment-sets-new...

New comment by badcppdev in "Trainwreck Design"

badcppdev — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 08:21:19 +0000

Agreed. And having the link at the bottom as https://archive.is/XYABC without information about the link to also a questionable choice.

New comment by badcppdev in "Building Lego Machines to Destroy Tall Lego Towers"

badcppdev — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 08:14:41 +0000

There's a line between "consumerism" and living a good life. I believe that many people in HN think that well made construction kits with parts that last for decades like Lego are part of having a good life rather than simply 'mass-martketed mass-producted plastic'.

New comment by badcppdev in "Open Source Farming Robot"

badcppdev — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 20:58:20 +0000

Some kind of high tech squirrel protection like mesh?

New comment by badcppdev in "Review of Dark Star: A New History of the Space Shuttle"

badcppdev — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 20:53:04 +0000

Are you sure? https://www.space.com/34522-secret-shuttle-missions.html

New comment by badcppdev in "Divers discover Roman mosaic"

badcppdev — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 16:21:33 +0000

I think you could watch some of the youtube videos the Professor Shawn Willsey has posted about the Icelandic volcanic activity over the last 6 months. As well as lots of cool stuff about the actual volcanoes and lava floes there is a lot of information about the magma chamber underneath the peninsula that is filling up and raising the land in a very measurable way. That's over a time scale of months. I think you'll see it's very plausible that over decades and centuries the level of land can change dramatically with respect to a the local 'base' level.

New comment by badcppdev in "Ask HN: Best way to learn robotics with a 10 year old?"

badcppdev — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 16:38:37 +0000

In your build guide you write:

"Assembly Instructions - how to build a Blossom. In our experience, this takes about 2-3 hours for first-timers once you have all the parts cut and printed."

This is just my opinion but I feel it would be clearer if you wrote something like:

For a first-timer who can crochet or knit it might take: 1. 1-2 hours to cut the wooden parts

2. 1 hour to print the 3D parts

3. 2-3 hours to assemble the 'skeleton' of the robot

4. 4 hours to knit the skin for your blossom.

New comment by badcppdev in "Dual action antibiotic could make bacterial resistance nearly impossible"

badcppdev — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 11:51:13 +0000

I'm embarrassed to admit that I clicked into the comments looking for that, uh, quote.

New comment by badcppdev in "Dual action antibiotic could make bacterial resistance nearly impossible"

badcppdev — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 11:50:01 +0000

It's a probability game isn't it. There's a chance of that super super bug given normal antibiotics. But also chances are that any super super bug is going to have a downside that stops it spreading unhindered through other hosts or something like that.

There's always the possibility of a microbe/prion/other that can attack and consume all DNA based life forms. Or a 'nearby' gamma ray burst that sterilises everything within 200 light years.