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New comment by black6 in "Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up"

black6 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:01:21 +0000

They were getting inconsistent results, not just weird ones. However I agree that suicide probably wouldn't be where they would end up.

Sit Down and Shut Up

black6 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:47:53 +0000

Article URL: https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=255763

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49109274

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by black6 in "Kalshi attacks a Wisconsin law banning election bets as 'voter suppression'"

black6 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:25:25 +0000

That's almost all economic dogma, too.

New comment by black6 in "A 77-year-old Republican man is staging a solo protest against Flock cameras"

black6 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 23:45:23 +0000

I got news for you about the DNC as well...

How to Handle Data Center Construction

black6 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:20:50 +0000

Article URL: https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=255721

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48980124

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by black6 in "When can a power company take your land for data center infrastructure?"

black6 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:44:04 +0000

Heat rejection.

New comment by black6 in "Three ways people respond to a problem (other than solving it)"

black6 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:29:52 +0000

The company for which I work seems to be run by engineers. When learning to be an engineer you're taught that doing nothing is always a valid option. In Army leadership courses we were taught that ANY decision is better than NO decision.

My company is stifled by a bunch of engineers in leadership positions who always choose to defer up the chain rather than make a decision themselves.

New comment by black6 in "The Human Cost of DOGE's War on USAID"

black6 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:22:27 +0000

The people who cheer the USAID cuts fail to grasp the moral necessity of sending their already inflated away tax dollars to other nations while there are still problems aplenty at home.

New comment by black6 in "Why it's so difficult to produce American-made medical gloves"

black6 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:11:34 +0000

Asian manufacturing will continue to undercut Western manufacturing on cost due to the absence of safety culture and the spending that comes with it. The value of human life is higher in the West, and the manufacturing costs reflect that.

New comment by black6 in "Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)"

black6 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:54:06 +0000

[2015], with a nice correction from 2017 about the differences between compressive and tensile strength.

New comment by black6 in "Moby Dick Workout (2022)"

black6 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 14:30:14 +0000

Turn on the sink before you flush so a sizeable drop in header pressure becomes obvious.

New comment by black6 in "Hackers shoveled snow for company, were rewarded with network admin access"

black6 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:08:35 +0000

Due to corporate IT working its fingers into everything vaguely computer related, I now have to annually change the passwords that operators use to log onto the HMIs on my OT network (which has no connection to the greater Internet.)

That means I now get calls after hours for a couple weeks (allowing for all shifts to cycle through) from operators who are locked out of their ops stations. I can't send the password via email, obviously, and word-of-mouth is inconsistent at best. So I'm left with the sticky note under the keyboard or stuck to the monitor, which the operators won't read anyway.

New comment by black6 in "California AB 2047 makes 3D printers off-limits to students, educators, business"

black6 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 23:11:21 +0000

Loading a tennis ball full of the heads of strike anywhere matches is a core childhood memory.

New comment by black6 in "Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring"

black6 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 23:08:44 +0000

Thanks. It was unclear reading the article and linked paper. I didn't follow the citation/link trail far enough.

New comment by black6 in "Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring"

black6 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:39:15 +0000

I'm struggling to figure out what they're trying to say here in the linked (and very anemic) paper:

> 30% of Black applicants apply to at least one position that demonstrates adverse impact against Black applicants.

The whole thing reads like a tautology.

New comment by black6 in "75% More Pedestrians Have Been Killed Since 2009. Giant Trucks and SUVs Are Why"

black6 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:00:58 +0000

You don't understand! I NEED to drive a one-ton pickup every day to and from work! I MIGHT stop by the feed store on the way home to pick up some fence posts and fertilizer for my hobby farm. I HAVE to have the flexibility of a daily driver F350 just in case! It doesn't make sense for me to have a farm truck AND an economical Honda for daily driving!

GentleOS: A Hobby Operating System for Vintage PCs

black6 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:56:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/gentleos-vintage-pc-operating-system/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48631073

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by black6 in "Britain's prime minister to step down, Burnham puts himself forward as successor"

black6 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:44:28 +0000

What were the Belfast arson and Edinburgh stabbing in response to?

New comment by black6 in "Britain’s output per person is now only just above that of Mississippi"

black6 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:10:23 +0000

I've lived in Mississippi Hill Country, the Delta, and the Mississippi coast. The Delta is awful. Mechanization in farming and fleeing industry left the population behind to wither. North MS and the coast both have great things going for them and are relatively nice places to live, especially when cost of living is taken into account.

New comment by black6 in "GnuCash is right. It's also why I built my own finance app"

black6 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:35:20 +0000

> Accounts you can create inline as you go. Scheduled and automatic movements that just happen.

Things Gnucash does.