<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: fellowniusmonk</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fellowniusmonk</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:09:48 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=fellowniusmonk" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fellowniusmonk in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I use the r+cmd app for deterministic app switching.<p>Caps mapped to right command.<p>Karabiner to map dual-cmd+jkl; to mapped vertical slice so j is left quarter, j+k is left side, etc.<p>dual-cmd+i moves windows between screens and dual-cmd+u rotates current window through full, top half, bottom half.<p>The whole thing is deterministic and super fast and gives me more permutations than I'll ever need.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:30:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47709492</link><dc:creator>fellowniusmonk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47709492</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47709492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fellowniusmonk in "Let yourself fall down more"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's just time in for me, no games per se. I keep it intentionally in the open and in the way as much as I can, just hopping on and trying to stay upright while the tv is on or during a short break between meetings. Improvement is non linear and my skill cap is unknown so just spending time on it and letting my mastery/boredom drive how I evolve my use is good enough.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:33:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47456061</link><dc:creator>fellowniusmonk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47456061</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47456061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fellowniusmonk in "How the Turner twins are mythbusting modern technical apparel"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Also: Freezing right away when you stop moving at 8k altitude? I was just skiing at 11k and it never even crossed my mind.</p>
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<p>I ride my bike and rollerblade around Austin.<p>If only Waymo's were on the road I wouldn't worry about bike path dividers at all.<p>I sometimes pace them to act as a moving shield.<p>Nothing else comes close, not even eye contact and being waved on by a human. The other autonomous cars that have been introduced are at least just as scary to be around as people.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:29:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47446479</link><dc:creator>fellowniusmonk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47446479</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47446479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fellowniusmonk in "Michael Faraday: Scientist and Nonconformist (1996)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I do like to see the historic use of non-conformist.<p>Non-conformists and free thinkers/ non-theists teaming up has produced some great outcomes. Think of the popular non-conformist support for Jefferson & Madison in VA in 1786.<p>The idea of baptists handing out copies of common sense has always had a certain beauty to it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:52:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47377288</link><dc:creator>fellowniusmonk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47377288</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47377288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fellowniusmonk in "Grief and the AI split"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I love developing clever algorithms and writing elegant code. It's a hobby of mine and it makes me happy.<p>I love shipping tangible products because it makes others happy and makes me money.<p>Do what you love for work and you'll never love anything again.<p>Do what you love for a hobby and keep it pure.<p>Don't let either be your identity, you only diminish yourself and grow old in the doing.</p>
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<p>I picked up inline skating at ~39, I realized that for all my cycling and lifting my balance and propreoception was crap and skiing once a year wasn't going to solve that problem.<p>I slapped on all the padding I could and it took me nearly a year to get my bodyweight outside of my feet and really carve at high speed. Why? Because my flexibility, strength and muscle activation all had weird gaps.<p>I ended up getting a slackboard as well about a year in.<p>I am basically impossible to knock over now, I can wear sperrys on ice, my legs and core are incredibly strong in a way lifting heavy never accomplished, I no longer have weird little muscle pains, all the muscles are strong.<p>When cycling I used to have occasional knee pain in my left exterior of my knee. No longer.<p>I've found 3 fast stretches to do after... I mean, rollerblading is basically yoga (which I find boring) at 15mph with pebbles and no ability to bail, it's fucking awesome and pretty damn hard.<p>I wear all the pads and it's glorious, I'm ~40 and I haven't felt this athletic since my late 20s.<p>I was getting sore before I started, that creeping old man shit, now I skate between 3 and 30 miles a week and its great. I skiied 3 days straight at 11k ft elevation and had no muscle soreness and no multi day fade, it was unreal.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:27:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47337694</link><dc:creator>fellowniusmonk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47337694</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47337694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fellowniusmonk in "Put the zip code first"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, this is 100% an instant classic in the lies programmers believe series.<p>How long have we had browser auto complete for addresses? A long time, I assume it's devs like this one who just can't be bothered to support it and have to pretend their flawed approach is somehow faster than literal auto complete.</p>
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<p>yeah, the audacity is insane China's been manufacturing and deploying more solar than anyone and solar+battery is a clear path forward.<p>The people making these arguments are mendacious and misanthropic to the point of deep irrationality, so many people have been trained to do nothing, try nothing, and assume the worst, I don't know who trained these people to embody epistemological learned helplessness but it boggles the mind.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:38:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47281420</link><dc:creator>fellowniusmonk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47281420</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47281420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fellowniusmonk in "Malm Whale"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, cool, what categories do you have in mind? Sure we have bias but not infinite bias.<p>I'll start!<p>How about sea urchin destruction? I bet otters and sheepshead fish probably have little bookies keeping track and they know which species or virus hold the records! Very fun stuff! I bet they have little tablets to keep track of their records that go back thousands of years? Oh man, yeah, good point about species bias!</p>
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<p>Our capabilities are so high and our population so differentiated we basically hold nearly all the records for everything (barring some extremeophile metrics) so it makes sense.</p>
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<p>Effectively a distributed ~OS that hands off between browser and cloud using websocket presence.<p>So its like the human facing side of an OS where time, space (structure) and minds are all the only first class types and any apps exist as apptributes on the data itself.<p>It's basically a document editor, cal, feed, chat app, etc. in one interface where temporal search and retrieve is built in.</p>
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<p>Thank you for your work. Diamond Types is probably my favorite piece of programming, transliterating the algo for line edits for a situation where I needed a a different algo for the line management itself, is probably the most rewarding deep dive on a algorithm I've ever done.</p>
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<p>I love diamond types personally, which I think Loro uses in certain cases. I find not only is DT fast under normal usage, allows for easy archiving and retrieval of past data but it also quickly outputs a per user casuality rendering that LLMs can pretty easily rectify in most cases. Compact and archival to flat files works very well.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 23:13:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47240465</link><dc:creator>fellowniusmonk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47240465</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47240465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fellowniusmonk in "The normalization of corruption in organizations (2003) [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Did that ever replicate?<p>Is prestige the number one motivator only statistically?<p>In other words is it the number one motivator for 31% percent of the college students that were tested and lets say empathy was at 29%?<p>Misanthropy and bald self interest gets overplayed I think. Often times because it allows bad actors to normalize and justify their own misanthropy.<p>Presenting this kind of unbacked, unqualified anecdotal data is great for "edgy truthtellers" but also deeply poisoning the well.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:52:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47181943</link><dc:creator>fellowniusmonk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47181943</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47181943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fellowniusmonk in "Dinosaur Food: 100M year old foods we still eat today (2022)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I eat foods with long history of co-evolution and domestication.<p>Barley and Yogurt, they are the dogs we domesticated from wolves that changed us too.<p>Daily barley water is a life changer, I don't think our digestive systems really function without a smidgen of daily barley.</p>
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<p>Oh Dear. If McLuhan is now considered obscure on a site like HN I'm feeling a little disoriented.</p>
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<p>I spent a lot of time on philosophy and religion when I was younger, a lot of time, focus and money, and man...<p>I read these posts and feel sad for these people and it makes me realize now as an older guy how much more I value learning how to skateboard or run a committee, or write code, run a business or any time I spent on investigating the real world.<p>Life is short, these people are getting emotionally nerd sniped and dumped into thought loops that have no resolution, no termination point, no interconnectedness with physical reality, and no real growth. It's worse than any video game that can be beaten.<p>Maybe that's all uncharitable. I remember when I was a child people around me in the academic religous circles my parents ran talking about how "engineers" lacked imagination and could never push human progress forward, and now decades later I see, those people have at most written papers in already dead niche flights of fancy where even in their own imaginary field their work is relegated. I know what they did isn't "nothing", but man... it's a lot of work for a bunch of paper in a trashcan no ine even cites.</p>
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<p>The end of every night should start with an empty page<p>and then start every morning with an empty page<p>It's pretty simple.<p>As a data hoarder something like onetab is amazing, there is still a lot of room for improvement though in browser ergonomics, session resets that force you to log back in and refind your place, it's nice to see some tools like data bricks that will at least let you reauth in a new tab.</p>
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<p>A lot of introverts are best served by parallel proximal work and the only stratification should be around noise levels of the activity.<p>But frankly it's best for everyone, the isolated computer age has made in person get togethers have friction when they historically have had zero friction and were just things we did along the way.<p>This is part of why I love going to NYC, as long as you understand and respect the local rules it's an incredibly positive, effortless social area, so much pleasant casual interaction.</p>
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