Hacker News: deathgripsss

New comment by deathgripsss in "Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?"

deathgripsss — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 14:10:26 +0000

Still have a liquid scintillation counter running on DOS with raw data printed on a dot matrix

New comment by deathgripsss in "Ask HN: What are all the bad things that AI companies have done which we forgot"

deathgripsss — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:12:10 +0000

Yes, most definitely.

New comment by deathgripsss in "Why it’s impossible to measure England’s coastline"

deathgripsss — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:08:08 +0000

Side anecdote, as a kid growing up I watched a documentary about the coastline problem on the BBC and I started thinking about the paradox and infinity and it made me incredibly scared and unwell and then threw up. Has anyone else ever experienced this?

New comment by deathgripsss in "Ask HN: What are all the bad things that AI companies have done which we forgot"

deathgripsss — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:16:13 +0000

Stealing copyrighted material by scraping databases like Anna's archive.

New comment by deathgripsss in "Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2024"

deathgripsss — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 21:47:09 +0000

As someone who was mid-diamond around HotS I couldn't disagree more :D. I started playing the piano this year and my blood pressure is significantly lower, still get the dopamine rush of successfully playing a piece without the rage of getting cannon rushed

New comment by deathgripsss in "Show HN: Tinder, but to Decide What to Eat"

deathgripsss — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 07:59:09 +0000

A good strategy that works for us is the first person picks 5 places to eat, the second person narrows it down to 3 of the 5 and the first person then decides out of the 3 the place to eat.

New comment by deathgripsss in "Ask HN: What's the best YouTube lecture you've seen recently?"

deathgripsss — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 16:33:55 +0000

I don't understand where people see the optimism at the end of the video?

New comment by deathgripsss in "Ask HN: Do you use the Pomodoro technique?"

deathgripsss — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 06:52:45 +0000

Yes but not for anything requiring deep thought as the intervals don't lend itself to that style of work for me.

But any admin tasks, emails, etc work great.

New comment by deathgripsss in "Ask HN: What's the best book you've read so far in 2024?"

deathgripsss — Thu, 23 May 2024 18:10:22 +0000

I finally got round to reading The Passenger and the companion piece Stella Maris. Cormac McCarthy still had it even in his late 80's. Not quite as good as his earlier novels but still very sharp.

New comment by deathgripsss in "Scientists tame chaotic protein fueling 75% of cancers"

deathgripsss — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 08:27:20 +0000

If an assay can be made based off this compound i could imagine some sort of screening tool that could be made. You would just need some sort of linker that could fluoresce or produce a signal.

New comment by deathgripsss in "Ask HN: Programmers and Technologists in Scotland"

deathgripsss — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 07:38:52 +0000

You can't mention Scotland without talking about James Clerk Maxwell, one of the greatest physicists of all time.

New comment by deathgripsss in "Android 14 adds support for using your smartphone as a webcam"

deathgripsss — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 14:36:48 +0000

This is the sort of thing android should lean into heavily to differentiate itself from apple as I can't see apple supporting this kind of thing outside of their écosystème.

New comment by deathgripsss in "Young climate activist tells Greenpeace to drop ‘old-fashioned’ anti-nuclear"

deathgripsss — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 10:56:37 +0000

But we will need baseload power for a long time to come. The UK is not investing in battery technology and on still winter days the UK needs to be able to spin up a lot of power generation quickly. That role is currently filled by natural gas. Nuclear should have taken its place.

New comment by deathgripsss in "Why Britain doesn’t build"

deathgripsss — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 21:04:02 +0000

Britain moved away from being a manufacturing to a service based economy which uses significantly less energy.

New comment by deathgripsss in "Ice loss from Greenland and Antarctica hits new record"

deathgripsss — Wed, 24 May 2023 15:39:50 +0000

Is there anything to even be remotely positive about with regards to climate change? It's getting very depressing.

New comment by deathgripsss in "UK’s GDPR replacement could wipe out oversight of live facial recognition"

deathgripsss — Mon, 22 May 2023 12:51:56 +0000

The UK isn't even scrapping the "bendy banana" law https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/bendy-bananas-brexit-uk-e...

New comment by deathgripsss in "Amazon Is Being Flooded with Books Written Entirely by AI"

deathgripsss — Wed, 10 May 2023 00:02:42 +0000

Ah yes SBF, the paragon of intellect. Edit: I just saw your username... Fuck me

New comment by deathgripsss in "Liz Holmes Wants You to Forget About Elizabeth"

deathgripsss — Mon, 08 May 2023 08:36:21 +0000

I don't think any of that happened. It's all a narrative.

New comment by deathgripsss in "Global rice shortage is set to be the biggest in 20 years"

deathgripsss — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 14:55:58 +0000

There's always enough food to feed the hungry... Until there isn't. What makes you so sure that there will continue to be enough food indefinitely?

New comment by deathgripsss in "Permafrost engine – An OpenGL RTS game engine written in C"

deathgripsss — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 20:20:26 +0000

For some reason this made me think of Frostpunk, not quite an RTS game though