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New comment by drojas in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"

drojas — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:32:26 +0000

I agree 100% with this

New comment by drojas in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"

drojas — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:14:06 +0000

This is my personal opinion. I think it doesn't have to be a short term fix. If you are curious enough and open minded you can find a long term relationship with God that doesn't contradict verifiable truth as long as you are willing to question collectively accepted "truths". For me, Natural theology has been one of the main foundations in my path to get closer to God. Understanding that physics stumbled upon the Spirit of God (the aether / zero point energy) and decided to look away has been super important in this journey. If you look at the recent work from physicist Nassim Haramein you'll see that Creation was not an event in a remote past after which God retired to his throne (Haramein doesn't mention God, but he explains how zero point energy sustains all matter at all times). If you agree that there is a Creator entity and you approve Haramein's theory, then zero point energy is the active force by which the Creator operates, and then creation is happening everywhere, always, and the same force that created everything is actively sustaining everything, everywhere, forever.

New comment by drojas in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"

drojas — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:48:40 +0000

I would NOT recommend dating apps, you will most likely not find a real connection there and given the circumstances it might give you anxiety you don't need. I have had a similar path and situation lately and some things that have helped me are group activities like playing sports (I play soccer), group gym activities (I attend a strength and conditioning class) and most recently Bible study (I became friends with a Christian group of my area and attend their meetings now). Developing a relationship with God has been a huge upgrade for my life which is hard to put into words, but we also need human contact, and I was praying for that for me last night and this morning before reading this. I will also pray for you to find someone with whom you can share your life forever and never be alone again. If I could only recommend one thing I would say start with exercise, preferably a group. You'd be amazed by how much it can help to cope with loneliness and how much it helps to improve mental health in general. God bless you.

New comment by drojas in "Self-Taught Engineers Often Outperform"

drojas — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 16:30:35 +0000

Learning to learn efficiently is an incredibly useful skill that is required for survival in the self-taught path. Deciding what to learn next while making progress in your project in order to strategically unlock better decision-making at the right time before investing in the wrong path will compound over time and lead to increasingly improving skills like technical design, architecture, and project planning. The only major downside to this path in my experience is the increased probability of impostor syndrome which can be detrimental specially during the early years of your career and when you are trying to grow into the next level.

New comment by drojas in "What Is Entropy?"

drojas — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 19:55:13 +0000

My definition: Entropy is a measure of the accumulation of non-reversible energy transfers.

Side note: All reversible energy transfers involve an increase in potential energy. All non-reversible energy transfers involve a decrease in potential energy.

New comment by drojas in "Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free"

drojas — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 17:36:24 +0000

This is almost bringing me to tears today. I am happy he's finally going to be free but I am still in deep sadness because this is not the world we are supposed to living in. With all of our knowledge and technology we are still doing horrible things as a civilization and we have lost control of our leadership. This scares me a lot because it is a growing problem and every day it seems like humanity is losing more and more of itself to evil and greedy powers that be. Assange did a great thing by exposing corrupt and criminal behavior at the highest levels and got such a inhumane treatment from the most powerful organizations on earth. He should not have been punished, he should have been protected and praised and his case should be a matter of study on every school on earth.

New comment by drojas in "Don't DRY Your Code Prematurely"

drojas — Thu, 30 May 2024 17:13:50 +0000

I agree and would add that one of the goals for technical design or architecture work is to choose the architecture that minimizes the friction between best practices. For example if you architecture makes cohesion decrease readability too much then perhaps there is a better architecture. I see this tradeoff pop up from time to time at my work for example when we deal with features that support multiple "flavors" of the same data model, then we have either a bunch of functions for each providing extensibility or a messy root function that provides cohesion. At the end both best practices can be supported by using an interface (or similar construct depending on the language) in which cohesion is provided by logic that only cares about the interface and extensibility is provided by having the right interface (offload details to the specific implementations)

New comment by drojas in "Possible association between tattoos and lymphoma"

drojas — Tue, 28 May 2024 04:32:41 +0000

I wonder if laser tattoo removal adds to or decreases the potential risk. On one hand it gets rid of the ink but on the other hand it does so by releasing it into the system for a short period.

New comment by drojas in "Is the Sun Conscious? (2021) [pdf]"

drojas — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 16:23:35 +0000

I think panpsychism might be explained as an observation of prevalence of goal-oriented behavior [1]. In a nutshell, as M. Levine said (paraphrasing) "evolution doesn't create solutions but rather it creates problem solving machines", so it is natural (to me) that we can expect evolutionary systems that are old enough (biological lineages, and star systems) to accumulate behaviors that we now see as "goal-oriented" where the goal is perceived by us as a problem to be solved or a set of problems to be solved, in a particular way that is related and explained by the evolutionary trajectory of the system being studied but might not be "justified" outside of this particular historical frame.

1. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbioe.2021.7206...

New comment by drojas in "Home Lab Beginners guide"

drojas — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 21:19:08 +0000

Oh I wish companies like Framework or System76 launched a reproducible manufacturing process where you code your hardware similarly to how Nix/Guix manages builds. Disaster recovery would be much easier. Perhaps Super Micro Computer can do this already but they target data centers. One can only dream.

New comment by drojas in "Show HN: Elodin – A better framework for physics simulation"

drojas — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 20:14:54 +0000

The subject I am studying is not atoms but perhaps it is similar so I think I can start with force field software and see if it works for my use case. Thanks!

New comment by drojas in "Show HN: Elodin – A better framework for physics simulation"

drojas — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 00:29:41 +0000

This is great. Does anyone know any framework for simulating crystals or 3d lattices in general? I am trying to find something but I am not very familiar with this space.

New comment by drojas in "Cyclomatic complexity"

drojas — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 21:13:10 +0000

As a former biologist and self-taught programmer your comment and the paper you shared made my day (thank you). I often use biological and evolutionary analogies to prioritize best practices in my head, this one goes is at the top now.

New comment by drojas in "Cannabis use linked to anxiety diagnoses, worsened anxiety disorders"

drojas — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 22:56:13 +0000

The older you get the more responsibilities and also regrets you have. With more responsibilities and the feeling of not being able to manage them you feel as soon as the THC goes away, it is hard not to get anxious as you age, and it also adds more regrets which directly add to the anxiety and feeling of self-defeat and lack self-control. At least that was in my experience and the reason why I dropped it completely soon after turning 30.

New comment by drojas in "Pandoc"

drojas — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 21:20:30 +0000

I have used it to kickstart a blogging project that I wish to come back to soon. The Lua inter-op for custom readers, writers and filters is great but I wish there was more editor integration and even perhaps an official IDE/editor with built-in debugging features (probably something already do-able with Emacs but I haven't checked). The only blocker for my project is no support for "ChunkedDoc" for Lua filters [1] which forces me to write more code and a complicated Makefile.

[1]: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/9061

New comment by drojas in "I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions"

drojas — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 20:40:24 +0000

Interesting, it seems like we can "dissect" each piece into independent properties like possible directions and possible distances. Then one could generate chess set spaces randomly and have a lot of fun.

New comment by drojas in ""432 Hz tuned music can decrease heart rate more than 440 Hz tuned music""

drojas — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 22:38:24 +0000

> Both sessions used the same music (movie soundtracks) but tuned to 440 Hz on one day and 432 Hz on the other. Each session consisted of 20 min' listening.

New comment by drojas in "Nota is a language for writing documents, like academic papers and blog posts"

drojas — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 17:01:05 +0000

Yes, and you can use Pandoc to export to different formats, including Epub, HTML, Docx, etc. You can embed LaTeX and customize in multiple ways using Lua filters for Pandoc. I've found Pandoc to be more powerful than Emacs when it comes to writing documents in Org mode, while Emacs is more powerful when you use Org mode to do literate programming. YMMV

New comment by drojas in "Is Venus in some way tidally locked to Earth? (2020)"

drojas — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 18:10:28 +0000

If it is a coincidence then perhaps this case of "correlation is not causation" is explained by both planets having some magnetic interaction with the sun and perhaps the interaction with the sun determines rotational behavior of planets (speculation). I read sometime ago about "magnetic flux ropes" https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspas.2020.6059...

Also I read time ago there is a "cometary" aspect to venus and it's "tail" touches the earth, which might also be in the same realm of physics (electromagnetic interactions leading to rotational behavior)

New comment by drojas in "Astronomers witness energetic switch on of black hole"

drojas — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 20:50:29 +0000

I think this is good evidence in favor the plasmoid model from Eric Lerner as a replacement for black holes. Some key differences.

* Instead of a black hole eating a star, a plasmoid is having an increased load. * Black holes are "gravitational" machines while plasmoid are "electromagnetic" machines. * With the plasmoid model there is no time dilation * With the plasmoid model, the load is any source of plasma, not necessarily a star

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=eric...

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Big_Bang_Never_Happ...