Hacker News: bobabob

New comment by bobabob in "I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs"

bobabob — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:24:12 +0000

Using grep and xargs is worth a whole blog post now? hmmmmm

New comment by bobabob in "Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition"

bobabob — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 01:14:25 +0000

Yes, and that should also take 1 year.

New comment by bobabob in "Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition"

bobabob — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 22:41:21 +0000

Why does it say the Chrysalis spends 400 years in inertial age at 0.01c if it accelerates for 1 year at 0.1g? That should bring it to actually ~0.1c and the whole trip would take less than 15 years.

New comment by bobabob in "Visualizing Weather Forecasts Through Landscape Imagery"

bobabob — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 18:13:12 +0000

It looks lovely but it's absolutely incomprehensible beyond "maybe it'll rain" and "maybe i'll be sunny". Without the explanation of what the symbols meant I'd never guess.

New comment by bobabob in "Astronomers unveil strong magnetic fields spiraling Milky Way's black hole"

bobabob — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 03:44:25 +0000

This image is not from the JWST.

New comment by bobabob in "Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its tech-heavy schools"

bobabob — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 02:51:46 +0000

I had perfectly joined up handwriting by that same age. They should've let your son continue to use his perfectly legibly print but that doesn't mean that calligraphy is necessarily unreadable, just that your son was bad at it.

New comment by bobabob in "Fungi and bacteria are binging on burned soil"

bobabob — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 17:51:21 +0000

Mushroom picking does not impair future harvests – results of a long-term study in Switzerland [1]

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00063...

New comment by bobabob in "Ask HN: Are Any of You Tired from macOS and Want to Go Back to Linux?"

bobabob — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:39:15 +0000

Absolutely not. I gave up on Linux UI/UX after I became an adult. I don't have time to go through the nightmare amount of tweaks needed to make anything look good or work the way I want. MacOS might not be perfect but it lets me focus on my work instead of someone else's work.

New comment by bobabob in "I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language"

bobabob — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 02:02:44 +0000

This is so retarded, I love it.

New comment by bobabob in "Alien Truth"

bobabob — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 14:45:33 +0000

> We'd probably share Occam's razor. There doesn't seem anything specifically human about any of these ideas.

Except the fact that humans are the only species that we know so far to have thought about them?

New comment by bobabob in "El Sueño Americano / The American Dream"

bobabob — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 16:16:32 +0000

Try coming here without an H1B working for big tech and let's see how long that dream will last.

New comment by bobabob in "After 50 years, Michael Heizer is finally ready to unveil City, his life's work"

bobabob — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 14:03:50 +0000

Looks like a place I'd like ride my dirt bike and that's all I can appreciate about it.

New comment by bobabob in "[dead]"

bobabob — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 21:08:11 +0000

That's just someone's youtube channel doing a redirect to a video

New comment by bobabob in "Why does anything exist?"

bobabob — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 23:41:24 +0000

Evolution is not a theory, it's a fact, you can see it happening.

New comment by bobabob in "Microrobots can brush and floss teeth in a proof-of-concept study"

bobabob — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 23:15:01 +0000

ffs, that's about time. I can brush my teeth just fine, I just hate doing it and I felt like this field had been lacking advances like this for a very very long time.

New comment by bobabob in "Vampire Attack Twitter"

bobabob — Sun, 17 Apr 2022 20:49:04 +0000

I fucking love geohot.

New comment by bobabob in "Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes"

bobabob — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 07:53:21 +0000

You're just arguing with sellers that's why. There's no downside for buyers.

New comment by bobabob in "Ask HN: Beating depression with or without anti-depressants?"

bobabob — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 07:20:02 +0000

lol this thread is cancer.

a bunch of wiki-google-doctors that think they know more than the people who actually studied for at least a decade; get away while you can.

> These drugs are very powerful but have really bad side-effects for most people that take them.

This is bullshit. Antidepressants have mild side-effects for most people who take them. Some people have bad side effects and then they try a different one with a different side-effects profile and that usually helps. The only thing I have on Zoloft are annoying night sweats. Without it I was unable to function and had chronic anxiety and panic attacks.

> Is my utter terror of these drugs warranted or should I just bite the bullet and try them?

You said it yourself. You tried therapy, you tried all sorts of coping mechanisms and nothing helped. So yes, find a psychiatrist and talk to him about taking drugs.

There's absolutely nothing wrong about drugs. Some people need blood pressure medication their whole life; the brain is just another part of you that responds to medication.

It is a fact that the mechanism of almost all of these drugs are not completely understood, but fully understanding the mechanism of a drug is not a requirement for it to be therapeutic. Sometimes you just find that stuff works and then you spend a whole lot of time trying to understand why it does.

New comment by bobabob in "Ask HN: When did 7 interviews become “normal”?"

bobabob — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 17:34:07 +0000

Do all that without writing decent code and you still have nothing to show.

> Lack of communication skills is a bug not a feature.

A bug I'm willing to take in exchange of producing high quality code. Besides, we live in 2022 now, we can type. I just said I suck at talking not at communicating. There are multiples forms of communication which don't involve opening your mouth.

New comment by bobabob in "Ask HN: When did 7 interviews become “normal”?"

bobabob — Sat, 02 Apr 2022 20:42:36 +0000

> I think it's time we accept that the person we are talking to is who they say they are on their resume.

Yea because we live in a place where everyone is super honest and no one is going to try and take advantage of that to make 500k a year.

IMO, it doesn't work. Talk is cheap.

I wouldn't have a job if I had to talk my way into any company, I'm an introvert, I suck at communicating orally. But I can solve problems and write really good code. You throw problems at me during an interview and I'll solve them. Ultimately your company's code is not going to write itself.