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New comment by eat_veggies in "Trump fires NSF's oversight board"

eat_veggies — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:03:05 +0000

From the Wikipedia article about the NSF:

> With an annual budget of about $9.9 billion (fiscal year 2023), the NSF funds approximately 25% of all federally supported basic research conducted by the United States' colleges and universities. In some fields, such as mathematics, computer science, economics, and the social sciences, the NSF is the major source of federal backing [...] Since the technology boom of the 1980s, the U.S. Congress has generally embraced the premise that government-funded basic research is essential for the nation's economic health and global competitiveness, and for national defense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Science_Foundation

OpenPGP Cleartext Signature Framework Susceptible to Format Confusion

eat_veggies — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 02:01:25 +0000

Article URL: https://paste.debian.net/plainh/97923151

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46388544

Points: 8

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New comment by eat_veggies in "How devtools map minified JS code back to your TypeScript source code"

eat_veggies — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 21:40:00 +0000

perhaps the delta between offsets

New comment by eat_veggies in "Building Bluesky comments for my blog"

eat_veggies — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 16:37:47 +0000

Spam isn't the only challenge of going self-hosted and it's cool to tie into an existing ecosystem for identity. Also it's pretty neat that people can engage outside of your website while you still get to pick what gets surfaced on your own website.

Show HN: Approve merge requests with your eyes closed

eat_veggies — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 23:57:40 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.jse.li/posts/approval/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44717316

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Write HTML on HTML Paper

eat_veggies — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:55:34 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/veggiedefender/htmlpaper

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44637454

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Monitor Your Company's Stock Price on Grafana

eat_veggies — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 15:38:18 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.jse.li/posts/stocks/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44435003

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by eat_veggies in "Why Is It Lovely"

eat_veggies — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 17:52:58 +0000

I read "with a fake mustache" as just another way of saying "in disguise," not that it literally looks like a mustache

New comment by eat_veggies in "Why Is It Lovely"

eat_veggies — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 17:32:57 +0000

For me it is lovely because it exploits the fact that the order does not matter mathematically, but it matters in our heads.

Multiplication commutes (a fact pointed out by everyone) but our human brains are better at multiplying some numbers or fractions than others. Computing 50% of 34 is easier than 34% of 50 because we are more accustomed to cutting things in half than multiplying two-digit numbers.

And it's even more lovely when you realize that this applies equally to computers where you may have to rearrange terms or rewrite formulas to get better numerical stability.

New comment by eat_veggies in "Rewilding the Self"

eat_veggies — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 16:25:30 +0000

William Cronon, "The Trouble with Wilderness: Or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature"

https://faculty.washington.edu/timbillo/Readings%20and%20doc...

New comment by eat_veggies in "An autumn bike adventure down the US portion of the Eastern Divide Trail"

eat_veggies — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 02:43:27 +0000

In particular, I wonder how people set up their health insurance while on these epic bike tours. It makes sense that costs are minimal, you can have savings, etc. but insurance is usually tied to employment around here..

New comment by eat_veggies in "Joco almost died at launch. Now, it's a lifeline for e-bike delivery riders"

eat_veggies — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 16:04:36 +0000

It's possible to weld an aluminum frame but you'll have to heat treat it, at which point it's no longer a simple and cheap operation.

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/To-the-Point-Heat-Treating-Alu...

New comment by eat_veggies in "We're only beginning to understand the historic nature of Helene's flooding"

eat_veggies — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 17:21:57 +0000

when a post enters the second chance pool, the timestamps of the post and comments get rewritten. if you hover over a timestamp you can see its original value.

New comment by eat_veggies in "Twitter banned me after publishing the JD Vance Dossier"

eat_veggies — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 20:59:20 +0000

only one of the vp candidates has a dossier like this

New comment by eat_veggies in "Free DDNS with Cloudflare and a cronjob"

eat_veggies — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 17:24:00 +0000

As the other commenter says, you can get pretty granular with the permissions. If you want to go even further, you can build a Cloudflare Worker that performs exactly the request that you want to do, and nothing else. Then you can configure your router to hit that instead of the API directly.

New comment by eat_veggies in "Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publishers' court win"

eat_veggies — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 09:03:02 +0000

If you recall, the original contention was that "You cannot make money off of people who are starving." Clearly you can—in the short term, and enabled by violent coercion, as you've helpfully added.

My argument summed up is that slavery was a "local maximum" that A) generated an enormous amount of wealth early on, and was thus a crucial factor in developing the American economy, even if it was no longer the main driver of wealth by the time of the civil war, and B) made it unattractive for the south to risk seeking a global maximum (investing in industrialization) a strategic misstep for sure.

It's clear which strategy wins long term, I don't think that's a debate. I should have phrased my earlier comment better, sorry.

New comment by eat_veggies in "Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publishers' court win"

eat_veggies — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 08:15:02 +0000

Do you understand the difference between starting an engine and keeping it running? I'm referring to northern wealth btw.

> Where were the industries in the South? Where were the industries in South America?

They weren't there precisely because slave labor was so profitable that they did not see the need to industrialize.

> Why did the South secede to protect their economy from the North?

The south seceded in order to protect the institution of slavery.

> Take a look at contemporary photos and paintings of the North and South before 1865

Good thing we don't measure wealth by photos and paintings, and instead we have census data. Be serious, think about why an economy based on slave labor and agriculture would not build a network of railroads even if they had the money for it.

New comment by eat_veggies in "Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publishers' court win"

eat_veggies — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 07:47:48 +0000

Slavery created the wealth that made industrialization in the north possible, and was the basis of the economic machine that you speak of.

You've reduced slavery to a parenthetical. Where do you think the cotton and tobacco went? Where do you think the money came from? Where do you think it got spent?

https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/8/16/20806069/slavery-ec...

New comment by eat_veggies in "Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publishers' court win"

eat_veggies — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 06:49:29 +0000

Indeed the arrangement is violent and enforced with terrible violence, and in no way is this incompatible with profits.

New comment by eat_veggies in "Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publishers' court win"

eat_veggies — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 06:09:02 +0000

You can force starving people into unfair arrangements where the choice is between getting screwed or dying of hunger. You can use the existence of starving people as a threat to keep your work force in line. Sometimes it's not even the starving people that you're making money off of, but their minerals and land.

There are a lot of ways to profit from suffering. And sometimes it's not even about profit—it can just feel so good to have an Other to oppress.