Hacker News: cli

New comment by cli in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

cli — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:18:49 +0000

I do not see this behaviour on the latest version of Firefox. I do use old.reddit, however.

New comment by cli in "The Rise and Fall of the 'IBM Way'"

cli — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 08:27:47 +0000

What is the CATRA scale? Searching brings up a fictional character from a cartoon, and something to do with knife sharpening.

New comment by cli in "So you want to learn physics (2021)"

cli — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 19:54:19 +0000

The order seems fine to me.

Thermodynamics/statistical mechanics was taught as a junior level class at my undergraduate alma mater. During that year, students would take electrodynamics, classical mechanics, and statistical mechanics as separate classes in some loose order, although of course simpler versions of these topics would have been introduced in first year physics.

The lack of fluid mechanics also, unfortunately, tracks with my experience.

New comment by cli in "Most buildings at MIT campus are remaining closed to the public"

cli — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 02:21:55 +0000

Your experience matches mine, except for the libraries. In my experience at 3 private eastern US universities (two ivy leagues and one liberal arts), all libraries required university IDs or a pass to enter beyond the lobby. I do not know what was required for a non-university person to obtain a pass.

New comment by cli in "At 4.4 miles, Wyoming team sets new rifle shot world record"

cli — Sat, 24 Sep 2022 03:46:29 +0000

I doubt it. The bullet movement may be chaotic, which means that tiny changes in initial conditions will drastically affect the trajectory, but it is theoretically possible to predict the trajectory. However, it is likely that quantum effects such as the movement of an electron through slits is actually non-deterministic, so we can only predict it in a statistical way even in principle.

Age of Invention: Leveraged Philanthropy

cli — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 03:22:12 +0000

Article URL: https://antonhowes.substack.com/p/age-of-invention-leveraged-philanthropy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32124203

Points: 2

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New comment by cli in "WTF Nextdoor? Over 130 clicks to disable email and push notifications?"

cli — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 02:55:56 +0000

This is also my experience with Patreon. Recently, I have been receiving popups from them about opting out of marketing emails. However, they do not seem to save my choices and ask me this every several days.

New comment by cli in "How James Patterson became the world’s best-selling author"

cli — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 06:43:23 +0000

His books are everywhere in airport bookstores in Canada and the US. I think I have also seen them in large bookstores, such as Indigo.

New comment by cli in "Canadians fly south for shot as US demand falls"

cli — Wed, 05 May 2021 22:58:28 +0000

A few months ago, the Canadian government chose to prioritize first doses first. I know the BC government changed their vaccination schedule after this announcement such that everyone should be able to get their first dose by June or July. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26360556

New comment by cli in "The Black Hole information loss problem is unsolvable"

cli — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 20:59:46 +0000

I believe this was addressed in the first few paragraphs of the article: this problem is not about 'information', which is a vague phrase. Rather, it is about how black hole evaporation is fundamentally time irreversible.

New comment by cli in "NASA’s Sofia Discovers Water on Sunlit Surface of Moon"

cli — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 19:54:09 +0000

But every side faces the sun at some point. The first paragraph of that article even says so.

New comment by cli in "Impact of Go AI on the professional Go world"

cli — Sat, 29 Aug 2020 02:50:18 +0000

I have the opposite experience on this site. I am not a software engineer, so every time I see the word "go" in a submission title, my first thought is of the game.

New comment by cli in "OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin"

cli — Sun, 19 Jul 2020 01:18:50 +0000

Are you referring only to the title?

New comment by cli in "The magnetic universe begins to come into view"

cli — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 16:46:51 +0000

Any undergraduate level textbook on E&M. Griffith's 'Introduction to Electrodynamics' is a commonly used one.

New comment by cli in "How to assess the quality of garments (2014)"

cli — Tue, 23 Jul 2019 02:46:05 +0000

>Take a look at Primark seams and then take a look at Brooks Brothers seams

I'm not familiar with either. Which store is supposed to have the better seams?

New comment by cli in "Thirty-three Miniatures: Applications of Linear Algebra (2012) [pdf]"

cli — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 16:05:37 +0000

According to his Wikipedia article, he held a professor position without a PhD. Is that usual in parts of Europe? That seems unthinkable in the US.

I am getting your support tickets on my Bethesda account. I know where you live

cli — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 02:11:49 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/fo76/comments/a3ga47/i_am_getting_your_support_tickets_on_my_bethesda/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18614788

Points: 6

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New comment by cli in "The present phase of stagnation in the foundations of physics is not normal"

cli — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 23:25:22 +0000

I suppose this is as an appropriate time as any to ask for advice: I am a multimillionaire from inheritance, and am about to complete my masters in physics. I wish to work on long term theoretical physics problems that do not seem to be possible under the current publish-or-perish academic system. The plan was to complete a PhD, then leave academia, but lately I have been having severe doubts about continuing onto a PhD, partly due to the cruft that comes with academia. Obviously, future employability due to financial reasons is completely irrelevant to me.

I would greatly appreciate any advice.

New comment by cli in "Reboot Your Dreamliner Every 248 Days to Avoid Integer Overflow (2015)"

cli — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 18:26:37 +0000

I've been reading this site since 2009 and can barely write anything more complex than Hello World. The guidelines on submissions say nothing about software engineering, and the definition of hackers as written by Paul Graham does not limit it to software engineers.

New comment by cli in "How to start a lab when funds are tight"

cli — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 20:50:30 +0000

I will definitely bring this to the attention of my PI.