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New comment by fghorow in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

fghorow — Thu, 14 May 2026 21:14:56 +0000

Turo.

Earthset Video

fghorow — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:34:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/science/reid-wiseman-earthset-photo-artemis-2.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841946

Points: 1

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New comment by fghorow in "A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)"

fghorow — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 11:34:46 +0000

(Mode I) So fracture mechanics does have its uses, eh?

New comment by fghorow in "//go:fix inline and the source-level inliner"

fghorow — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 09:07:37 +0000

I know this is off-topic, and likely to get me down-voted, but hey! I'll live dangerously for the sake of repeating a hilarious (to me) .sig in a now ancient Usenet post.

These //go.* commands always remind me of this:

"""

//GO.SYSIN DD *

DOO DAH

"""

(Why yes, that is IBM System 360 JCL from circa 1975. Why do you ask?)

New comment by fghorow in "Can you instruct a robot to make a PBJ sandwich?"

fghorow — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 04:29:54 +0000

As always, there's an XKCD [1] for this!

[1] https://xkcd.com/149/

Stop macOS 26 nagging with one tiny policy tweak

fghorow — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 05:37:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/02/stop_tahoe_update/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47228538

Points: 2

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New comment by fghorow in "New iron nanomaterial wipes out cancer cells without harming healthy tissue"

fghorow — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 01:20:58 +0000

What is the delivery mechanism for the MOF. The chemistry sounds promising (to this amateur, at least) but how does it get to and enter cancer cells?

New comment by fghorow in "New iron nanomaterial wipes out cancer cells without harming healthy tissue"

fghorow — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 01:17:46 +0000

May peace be unto him, you, and the rest of your family.

When (if?) you feel ready, there is an organization [1] whose mission is to support siblings, parents, and grandparents of children who have died at any age. I have been heavily active with them since losing my only child 9+ years ago. I commend them to your attention. (Once again, when you feel ready.)

[1] compassionatefriends.org

New comment by fghorow in "Antarctica sits above Earth's strongest 'gravity hole' – how it got that way"

fghorow — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 13:17:48 +0000

Geophysicist here. Look up potential fields methods in geophysics.

Such things have been measured and mapped for quite some time.

The grandfather of all modern gravimeters was invented in 1936 by LaCoste and Romberg.

New comment by fghorow in "OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission"

fghorow — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 23:27:50 +0000

May you never need to be in a bereaved parent's shoes.

New comment by fghorow in "OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission"

fghorow — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 22:45:46 +0000

Thank you. And shame on the NYT.

New comment by fghorow in "OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission"

fghorow — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 22:31:09 +0000

Yes. ChatGPT "safely" helped[1] my friend's daughter write a suicide note.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/opinion/chat-gpt-mental-h...

New comment by fghorow in "Show HN: Octosphere, a tool to decentralise scientific publishing"

fghorow — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 02:58:10 +0000

In whose interests would it be for academics to "leave email"?

Theirs? (Personally, I think not.)

New comment by fghorow in "The Cray-1 Computer System (1977) [pdf]"

fghorow — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 09:43:19 +0000

I just did a BOTE calculation for my iPhone (A17 Pro chip; GPU rated at 4 Tflops). According to the sales blurbage in TFA, the Cray 1 performed at 80 Mflops. (Yes, that is OBVIOUSLY not comparing apples to Apples -- pun intended). Unless I've dropped a decimal point, my iPhone is (capable of) 50,000 times the floating point speed of a Cray 1.

In my back pocket. To watch cat videos.

New comment by fghorow in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

fghorow — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 03:26:41 +0000

The doco mentions "left" and "right" mouse. I have the ctrl-click already mapped to right mouse on my trackpad. Before I take the plunge, how well does this work with a trackpad on a MB Air?

Trump admin funds geothermal network expansion

fghorow — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 21:30:24 +0000

Article URL: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03122025/rare-win-for-renewable-energy-trump-administration-funds-geothermal-network-expansion/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46140420

Points: 3

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New comment by fghorow in "'Once in 300 years' rain hits Thai city as floods ravage South East Asia"

fghorow — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 08:14:36 +0000

'Once in 300 years'???

While the functional form of the statistical distributions themselves might still be valid, certainly the old parameters are no longer so.

New comment by fghorow in "Loose wire leads to blackout, contact with Francis Scott Key bridge"

fghorow — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 11:39:00 +0000

Does this comment apply to the current crop of American politicians? (Just curious.)

New comment by fghorow in "Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright"

fghorow — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 15:13:32 +0000

I need the brights at night for deer (in N. America) and kangaroos (in Oz).

Steering them away automagically from oncoming traffic is a better solution than abandoning them altogether.

(And yes, I do have cataracts. So oncoming lights _are_ a problem for me.)

New comment by fghorow in "Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k"

fghorow — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 11:59:19 +0000

Yeah, I'm not a human either.

(Edited to add: that was from Safari. Chrome worked. YMMV.)