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New comment by drabadur in "Dog Walk: Blender Studio's official game project"

drabadur — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 04:44:44 +0000

The paper objects were unfolded, scanned/photographed, imported into Blender, and mapped onto 3D Models of the objects; no photogrammetry was used afaik.

New comment by drabadur in "Ask HN: What cool skill or project interests you, but feels out of reach?"

drabadur — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 19:06:52 +0000

For robotics, I recently came across this course to learn the basics: https://github.com/henki-robotics/robotics_essentials_ros2. Haven't started it yet though.

New comment by drabadur in "‘The country is becoming a desert’: Drought-struck Spain is running out of water"

drabadur — Sun, 14 May 2023 18:30:21 +0000

Deforestation is the only major relevant factor that led to the formation of any desert in Spain, and this started a "long" time ago, and is purely and simply controlled by humans. For example, the famous Tabernas desert is the result of deforestation, followed by intensive erosion.

New comment by drabadur in "‘The country is becoming a desert’: Drought-struck Spain is running out of water"

drabadur — Sat, 13 May 2023 19:03:59 +0000

The problem of Spain is intense anthropogenic land (mis-)use including deforestation and mining, which led to the desertification especially in the south in the first place; this has been happening since pre-historic times. So, no, there shouldn't be deserts in Spain right now, and they are for the most part not natural. Read further here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00346... (free version available via google search on ResearchGate)

New comment by drabadur in "Fix your resume using AI"

drabadur — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 13:27:39 +0000

So what does it actually do? Check if keywords from job description appear in sufficient number in resume?

New comment by drabadur in "Ask HN: LastPass Alternatives"

drabadur — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 16:01:19 +0000

I use a KeePass database stored on iCloud, with the KeePassium client on IOS, and the KeePass client on Windows. Works like a charm.

New comment by drabadur in "Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2023?"

drabadur — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 16:38:46 +0000

Frightening how many of the predictions for 2022 actually came true. E.g., Russia invading a country, queen dying ...

New comment by drabadur in "Ask HN: AI is really exciting but where do I start?"

drabadur — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 15:19:05 +0000

What's so special about Karpathy's youtube channel?

New comment by drabadur in "Ask HN: AI is really exciting but where do I start?"

drabadur — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 15:15:47 +0000

This site also list the main courses that would make sense: https://www.deeplearning.ai/courses/

Ask HN: How to deal with side-project fatigue, incl. hobbies, etc.?

drabadur — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 18:51:55 +0000

Currently I am in somewhat of a predicament, in that I have so many things I want to do in a day, after work, but once I finally have the time, I'm unable to choose and just start to aimlessly surf or go to bed early. These things include gaming, learning specific things like a new language, creating a blog post, working on personal website, woodworking, more sports, list goes on and on. This has become more and more severe as time goes on for me, and leads to a form of regret that I've again wasted time.

How do you deal with this? How can I focus on one specific think after work?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32880226

Points: 12

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New comment by drabadur in "Dos and Don'ts of Machine Learning in Computer Security [pdf]"

drabadur — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 13:55:34 +0000

Is this a new trend or why is there no publishing date anywhere to be found in this paper?!

New comment by drabadur in "Tell HN: Unpaid home assignments are not ok"

drabadur — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 13:03:57 +0000

For Japanese companies, it seems to be common to ask candidates to complete coding assignments before any interview. These assignments are usually extremely complex, and would take maybe 2-3 days to complete, depending on the candidates experience.

Combine this with relatively low salaries even for experienced developers, I don't think it is something anyone should want to do, no matter how much you'd love to go there.

New comment by drabadur in "Coronavirus clue? Most cases aboard U.S. aircraft carrier are symptom-free"

drabadur — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 02:25:02 +0000

If people on here are so keen on calculating CFR and not R0 to estimate how bad the virus is, they should also take into account logistic and demographic problems of every area. Hence, the CFR of New York might be so bad because of terrible medical infrastructure in the first place, and additionally patients who are not willing to go to the hospital because of fear of bankrupting themselves. Certainly not saying this virus is "just like the flu" because it is not and it is killing a lot of people. But epidemiologically this is much more complex than all of us are able to understand as non-epidemiologists.

Also, here's are actual estimations of R0: http://www.dkriesel.com/corona

New comment by drabadur in "Fear and beauty: two weeks living with Covid-19"

drabadur — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 14:53:51 +0000

Fact is, that when I know when something feels unusual. And when this happened, I had no idea what the Covid symptoms are like. And at the time, I also didn't think that it was this. Only after several people in my community reported the same "symptoms" did I become suspicious.

New comment by drabadur in "Fear and beauty: two weeks living with Covid-19"

drabadur — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 09:52:06 +0000

What exactly is this dull chest pain? I've had symptoms of lower chest and back-pain more than a month ago, with a strange feeling of not being able to get sufficient air through my nose as well as seemingly high blood-pressure and heart racing in late afternoons. This all lasted just short of a week, but took a couple of weeks in total until I could say it was gone, with a persistent minor dry cough. No idea if it was Covid but the symptoms sound strangely familiar with what other people experience elsewhere in my community. Could be panic attacks as well, obviously, but it felt strange.

New comment by drabadur in "What happened to Mint?"

drabadur — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 06:59:47 +0000

Understandable, thanks for the extensive info! I think this should be included in the lowest paid tier, at the very least. Or disable SMS/phone calls and have people have the option to only use an authenticator app.

New comment by drabadur in "What happened to Mint?"

drabadur — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 04:53:49 +0000

Curious to know why MFA is only available in the most expensive category (PRIME)?

It seems like if I don't pay the full amount I don't deserve my budget to be as secure as possible. And this is a no go for me.