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New comment by coolcase in "How to live on $432 a month in America"

coolcase — Fri, 23 May 2025 23:17:03 +0000

> I'm going to guess that you're a really good shape that a 2 km walk isn't a big deal, but I don't think most Americans can do that.

Shit that's horrifying.

I have health issues and walking 2km a day to try to help fix. So I see 2km a day as basic. 6-10km run a day would be "fit" IMO. things as humans are designed to walk.

Living in suburbia means I have to walk "for the sake of it" although I cam make it useful e.g. get some milk!

As for cold. Anything above minus 5 should be OK just wear stuff like skiiers wear which can be got cheap off brand.

New comment by coolcase in "How to live on $432 a month in America"

coolcase — Fri, 23 May 2025 23:13:19 +0000

Should be budgeted though right.

New comment by coolcase in "Google worried it couldn't control how Israel uses Project Nimbus, files reveal"

coolcase — Fri, 23 May 2025 22:08:21 +0000

No mystery really.

New comment by coolcase in "Google worried it couldn't control how Israel uses Project Nimbus, files reveal"

coolcase — Fri, 23 May 2025 22:07:11 +0000

Looks like the 72/90 is actually from shadow banning.

But to answer whose opinions do you want to ban? Who is speaking correctly?

New comment by coolcase in "When good pseudorandom numbers go bad"

coolcase — Fri, 23 May 2025 22:01:15 +0000

Thanks. So sounds like the same machine should run the same calculations and get the same results each time, but differences may appear between machines.

New comment by coolcase in "Find Your People"

coolcase — Fri, 23 May 2025 21:56:54 +0000

Startups might be the new SDE1 while trying to do stuff outside of capitalism might be the new startup.

Not in terms of financial reward of course. But in terms of rewarding career off the beaten path.

Personally while I want to do a startup I am finding the boring path you mention quite fascinating!

New comment by coolcase in "'Turbocharged' Mitochondria Power Birds' Epic Migratory Journeys"

coolcase — Fri, 23 May 2025 10:39:35 +0000

25Mhz to 33MHz. Oh yeaaaaaaa!

New comment by coolcase in "'Turbocharged' Mitochondria Power Birds' Epic Migratory Journeys"

coolcase — Fri, 23 May 2025 10:36:29 +0000

Do you have any feeling as to why it only lasted 4 months. Sounds unusual to have the spot on CFS like experience for such a short time so wonder if there was a trigger to recovery.

New comment by coolcase in "'Turbocharged' Mitochondria Power Birds' Epic Migratory Journeys"

coolcase — Fri, 23 May 2025 10:32:26 +0000

Root causes I suspect. The problem of a syndrome.

New comment by coolcase in "Tallest Wooden Wind Turbine"

coolcase — Fri, 23 May 2025 10:23:57 +0000

Was a root cause done on that? Was it due to wind power?

New comment by coolcase in "'Turbocharged' Mitochondria Power Birds' Epic Migratory Journeys"

coolcase — Fri, 23 May 2025 10:05:29 +0000

Wouldn't mind some bird mitochondria!

New comment by coolcase in "When good pseudorandom numbers go bad"

coolcase — Fri, 23 May 2025 06:26:53 +0000

Thanks! So machine differences in their FP units drives the entropy, and the code doesn't handle that when picking eigenvectors?

New comment by coolcase in "1,145 pull requests per day"

coolcase — Fri, 23 May 2025 06:23:34 +0000

It is good for ballparking. PR count is more interesting as if it is high it means you must have a good CI CD pipeline. I worked places where there were limits on commits a day due to monolith plus master CI/CD taking an hour. You then end up thinking of strategies like "I'll do that in the afternoon and get it to that state and it gets merged at this time" and so on. Which is inefficient.

New comment by coolcase in "1,145 pull requests per day"

coolcase — Fri, 23 May 2025 06:19:58 +0000

Not every PR is a feature. There will be lots of laying groundwork. Stuff going in but not yet activated as a feature flag. Small changes often make roll back easier. Regressions easier to detect. You can blue green your little change and auto detect if it is causing latency or availability issues on 1% then 10% etc. of traffic. This means you can early detect and do easy roll backs as nothing much has changed.

Downside: your code is always a Frankenstein monster of feature flags that need to be cleared up! But hey that's more PRs to boast about.

New comment by coolcase in "1,145 pull requests per day"

coolcase — Fri, 23 May 2025 06:16:00 +0000

Yeah I get itchy if the pipeline to prod ain't working for more than 24h for one microservice. I love continuous deployment.

New comment by coolcase in "Silly job interview questions in Haskell"

coolcase — Fri, 23 May 2025 04:45:27 +0000

Nice. C looks like a safe language with the casual using an int as a bool.

New comment by coolcase in "When good pseudorandom numbers go bad"

coolcase — Fri, 23 May 2025 02:39:38 +0000

I don't grok this but if you had to describe it in a nutshell, is this because of a race condition? Differences in HW? Floating point ops have some randomness built in?

New comment by coolcase in "I Built My Own Audio Player"

coolcase — Fri, 23 May 2025 02:14:03 +0000

More like the country bans the sales of cannnabis but you are allowed to grow your own, so you buy some lamps etc.

New comment by coolcase in "Does Earth have two high-tide bulges on opposite sides? (2014)"

coolcase — Fri, 23 May 2025 01:05:41 +0000

I agree, I meant to add "as a mind bending exercise to realize how complex nature is!"

New comment by coolcase in "Ask HN: Do you have a side project you're getting tired of?"

coolcase — Thu, 22 May 2025 21:28:00 +0000

If you could get some YT influencers to take it a look (or sponsor them) I think that might work than app store optimisation. There is too much competition on app/play stores even 10 years ago when I last looked.