Hacker News: causi

New comment by causi in "Yellowish Nodules on a Man Consuming a Carnivore Diet"

causi — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 12:50:44 +0000

Something is fishy. How is it physically possible to eat 12,000 calories of cheese per day plus hamburgers and lose weight? Somebody here is lying.

New comment by causi in "Show HN: Design/build of some parametric speaker cabinets with OpenSCAD"

causi — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 20:06:58 +0000

This guy might be good at designing but he is really bad at 3D-printing. All of that post-processing would've been completely unnecessary if he'd made better choices about material and print orientation.

New comment by causi in "Almost one in 10 people use the same four-digit PIN"

causi — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 19:53:29 +0000

I know people with "8472" as well.

New comment by causi in "Almost one in 10 people use the same four-digit PIN"

causi — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 16:15:13 +0000

I'm flatly amazed "1701" isn't in the top 50.

New comment by causi in "Why is homeschooling becoming fashionable?"

causi — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 20:33:18 +0000

I have many teachers in both my immediate and extended family. All of the ones who aren't retired say the same thing: the quality of parents is in the absolute shitter in two major aspects: parents don't want to teach their children anything they see as "the school's job" such as how to read or work on anything with their children at home. The second way is discipline. They instill no values of discipline or respect for the rights of others in their children. The "back of the room peanut gallery" that was one in ten or one in twenty children when I was young has grown to one in three. These are kids who've never seen negative consequences for anything they've ever done and steadfastly believe that will continue into their adulthood.

New comment by causi in "Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M"

causi — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 13:03:34 +0000

I'm not able to try it until later, but regarding the sample audio: The voice quality is quite good, but what's going on with all the random pauses between words? It's very Captain Kirk.

New comment by causi in "Celebrating the timeless allure of Tintin's aesthetics"

causi — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 15:21:43 +0000

It's really not that far out, considering the backdrop of what actual Belgians were doing to actual Congolese at the time.

New comment by causi in "USB On-The-Go"

causi — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 13:23:52 +0000

You're correct, but I felt the need to mention it as the OP's one is just a bare circuit board unless you pay extra for a similar acrylic frame.

New comment by causi in "Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs"

causi — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 18:12:07 +0000

Right. For the large companies, and the majority of the workforce, they mean nothing. Then the small to mid size businesses with some whackadoo who goes "we're not hiring X anymore, underrepresented groups only!" get a ton of press and create political capital.

New comment by causi in "Starlink is now cheaper than leading internet provider in some African countries"

causi — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 18:06:15 +0000

It's all so tiresome.

New comment by causi in "USB On-The-Go"

causi — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 14:09:23 +0000

I didn't comment on the kickstarter product. I commented on the forty dollar continuity tester.

New comment by causi in "USB On-The-Go"

causi — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 20:14:23 +0000

Wow that is some massively overpriced crap right there. Forty dollars for a USB continuity tester with a basic plastic case that only does type-C cables. Meanwhile you can get one, with acrylic case, that does types A, B, C, Micro, and Micro 3.0 for $17 off Amazon or $11 off Aliexpress.

https://www.amazon.com/Treedix-Tester-Checker-Acrylic-Chargi...

New comment by causi in "Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs"

causi — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 19:07:20 +0000

Personally I've yet to see a ray tracing implementation that I would sacrifice 10% of my framerate for, let alone 30%+. Most of the time, to my tastes, it doesn't even look better, it just looks different.

New comment by causi in "The GPU, not the TPM, is the root of hardware DRM"

causi — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 19:48:58 +0000

This is why it's so important to have local copies of things you value. Movies, shows, games, Youtube channels, everything.

New comment by causi in "In Defense of Y'All"

causi — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 13:40:50 +0000

I still don't understand why some Hollywood writers are so out of touch with reality that they create characters with horrible fake Southern accents saying "y'all" as a singular pronoun. Nobody would actually do that unless they have brain damage.

New comment by causi in "The unbearable slowness of being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s?"

causi — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 18:20:34 +0000

The vast majority of the brain's processing power, including conceptual processing, is not conscious. Conscious thought is the framebuffer of the mind, subconscious is the RAM.

New comment by causi in "A simple math error sparked a panic about black plastic kitchen utensils"

causi — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 20:14:15 +0000

"The fuckup in the paper doesn't mean the paper is wrong, according to the person who fucked up the paper."

New comment by causi in "A simple math error sparked a panic about black plastic kitchen utensils"

causi — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 20:08:35 +0000

I don't know where this "unless the surface is sterile it is significantly dangerous" thing comes from. How many people have died from bacteria that grew on wooden utensils that were regularly washed? Is it anything other than zero?

New comment by causi in "BlenderGPT"

causi — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 19:57:47 +0000

AI-generated modeling is such a fun concept. If you want to pee yourself laughing, ask ChatGPT to generate SCAD files of things like animals or everyday objects.

New comment by causi in "The PayPal Mafia is taking over America's government"

causi — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 14:29:18 +0000

What is this? A stub of an article with no author whose only content is "Trump is best buddies with a group of tech bros" with no comment on what that means or predictions about what policy decisions it implies. Is this AI-generated?