Hacker News: bobmichael

New comment by bobmichael in "Echo Chess: The Quest for Solvability"

bobmichael — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 10:47:45 +0000

That's a brilliantly simple approach. You could even have an estimated difficulty score that updates based on number of moves, switches, etc. and ramp up target difficulty as the random run progresses.

New comment by bobmichael in "At my first meeting with Saddam, within 30 seconds, he knew two things about me"

bobmichael — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 14:25:35 +0000

As a Lebanese person, this is absolutely unremarkable. Almost any Arab, after hearing "my name is George Piro" in Arabic, would be able to tell recognize a Lebanese accent and the Christian name.

New comment by bobmichael in "After seven years of Brexit talks, Europe has emerged as the clear winner"

bobmichael — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 16:08:05 +0000

Thanks, it does help to get different opinions, as I'm new to EU citizenship and still forming my opinion. Do you have sources for some of the claims you make? Asking out of curiosity, not doubt, as I'd be interested to dig deeper.

Also curious what you think of the perspective that acknowledges most of the dysfunction you're naming while considering it part of the growing pains of figuring out how to do transnational politics as a species. RE no cross-border parties, what about parties like Volt Europa?

New comment by bobmichael in "After seven years of Brexit talks, Europe has emerged as the clear winner"

bobmichael — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 23:10:32 +0000

I'm curious what your objections to the EU are if you'd care to share?

New comment by bobmichael in "Signal is for everyone, and everyone is different"

bobmichael — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 17:28:42 +0000

Ha, I agree that the pin prompt is confusing. If you're curious, it's used as a passcode for the on-device key. You need it e.g. if you're transferring messages to a new device.

New comment by bobmichael in "YouTube Addiction"

bobmichael — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 18:14:36 +0000

Don't ignore it. Laugh about it! It wasn't lost on me writing the comment either. Isn't it great that the very thing that brings us pain can also be the vehicle for our healing?

New comment by bobmichael in "YouTube Addiction"

bobmichael — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 18:00:52 +0000

You can't willpower through it if it's a defense mechanism employed by your brain to hide underlying pain. Maybe it's time to try something new. Check out Gabor Maté: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=74DDEDmHDvw

New comment by bobmichael in "Artificial womb facility concept for 30k babies per year"

bobmichael — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 14:50:36 +0000

Brave New World IRL.

New comment by bobmichael in "reMarkable 2"

bobmichael — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 10:44:13 +0000

I'm a lefty with a Remarkable 2 that I've use almost daily for a year and a half, and I haven't had trouble with accidental button presses as long as I close the context menu when I'm writing. The toggle for the context menu is a dot on the top right corner of the page, so not easy to accidentally press as a lefty. I guess if you're using it for complex drawings where you need the context menu open to constantly erase, cut, and change thickness then it might be annoying, but for my use cases of journaling, note-taking, and the occasional diagram, I'm extremely satisfied.

New comment by bobmichael in "I had a dream"

bobmichael — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 10:57:39 +0000

Link to full text for the curious: https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v47n04_1951-06_Gorgon...

Complaint Tablet to EA-Nasir

bobmichael — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 13:03:23 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nasir

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32799279

Points: 3

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New comment by bobmichael in "The Harry Potter fallacy"

bobmichael — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 06:00:10 +0000

Reminds me of Daniel Schmachtenberger's excellent article, The Endgames of Bad Faith Communication: https://consilienceproject.org/endgames-of-bad-communication....

Under his framework, this would be a specific example of bad faith communication, and he agrees that the breakdown in our ability to communicate in good faith is a threat to true democracy.

New comment by bobmichael in "EU Commission is planning automatic CSAM scanning of private communications"

bobmichael — Thu, 12 May 2022 13:32:58 +0000

Source?

New comment by bobmichael in "Getting my personal data from Amazon was weeks of confusion and tedium"

bobmichael — Sun, 27 Mar 2022 18:54:33 +0000

When I went to the German site and tried to generate a data request, the generated email was in English. Is that intended? I think I'm Germany you're much more likely to get a response if you write in German.

New comment by bobmichael in "Getting my personal data from Amazon was weeks of confusion and tedium"

bobmichael — Sun, 27 Mar 2022 18:35:10 +0000

That's so great. I wish there was something like this for Germany.

New comment by bobmichael in "Be good to your mentors"

bobmichael — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 10:20:53 +0000

One of the most valuable things about a conversation with a mentor is getting insight into their thinking processes: how do they decompose a problem into smaller parts, what mental models they make use of, etc.

Given that, in my experience I've always learned a lot when I've asked my mentors to talk about a challenge they're currently facing and have them ramble on about it while I ask clarifying questions.

New comment by bobmichael in "Firefox removed Yandex search option"

bobmichael — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 21:21:59 +0000

Why? Honest question.

New comment by bobmichael in "World of Text is an infinite grid of text editable by any visitor"

bobmichael — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 10:34:48 +0000

GP didn't imply it wasn't!

New comment by bobmichael in "The Handwavy Technobabble Nothingburger of Crypto"

bobmichael — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 16:20:06 +0000

One IMO realistic use-case is providing a wealth preservation mechanism for people living in a country with a corrupt government that's experiencing hyperinflation, for example Lebanon.

New comment by bobmichael in "Facebook Renames to Meta"

bobmichael — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 09:10:45 +0000

Have you heard of solarpunk? It's a movement that arose out of a desire to balance techno-optimism with recognition of the dire need for technology that is more Earth- and human-friendly.

You might resonate with the manifesto: https://www.re-des.org/a-solarpunk-manifesto/