Hacker News: fluxem

New comment by fluxem in "Ask HN: How do you juggle side projects vs. "just for fun" projects"

fluxem — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 05:50:59 +0000

I don’t. I have other hobbies that don’t involve staring at a screen all day

New comment by fluxem in "Cool website to remove the paywall on any article"

fluxem — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 03:58:48 +0000

Maybe a paywall is there for a reason

New comment by fluxem in "Daunting papers/books and how to read them"

fluxem — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 07:57:08 +0000

Just don’t read it then. You are not the intended audience for that book. It’s ok to not to read a book

New comment by fluxem in "Anime is a $25B industry that pays its animators pennies"

fluxem — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 02:55:47 +0000

That’s because no one wants to draw degeneracy. You read stories about what artists had draw because “rent was due” and just shake your head

New comment by fluxem in ""LibreOffice is better at reading old Word files than Word""

fluxem — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 03:15:17 +0000

It’s great for all the people still living in 1992. The rest want good collaboration tools with a grammar checker

New comment by fluxem in "Stop the same song from autoplaying every time you plug your phone into a car"

fluxem — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 17:06:13 +0000

Also, I cannot believe that some cars (looking at you, Subaru) don’t have a pause button, only mute. Not an issue when you’re playing to music. But when you are Listening to an audiobook, it’s another story

New comment by fluxem in "The CEO and the Three Envelopes (2010)"

fluxem — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 19:43:32 +0000

Add two more envelopes:

“Blame covid “

“Blame market conditions”

New comment by fluxem in "Intel CEO: 'The entire industry is motivated to eliminate the CUDA market'"

fluxem — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 19:09:23 +0000

CUDA = C++ on GPUs. Compute shader - subset of C with a weird quirks.

New comment by fluxem in "Lessons from building GitHub code search [video]"

fluxem — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 06:47:22 +0000

It boggles my mind that github search is case-insensitive and doesn't search the whole words. For a search term getInfo it will return: GetInfoCell

Don't get me started about how it's harder than it needs to be to limit the search to your own repos

New comment by fluxem in "I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video]"

fluxem — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 08:07:16 +0000

Here’s an idea. Instead of the rod being parallel with the wall, have multiple small rods perpendicular to the wall. They can easily accommodate full size coat hangers. Problem solved

New comment by fluxem in "Firefox Is Going to Try and Ship with Wayland Enabled by Default"

fluxem — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 23:21:54 +0000

Mark my words, 2023 is the year of Wayland

New comment by fluxem in "Typing fast is about latency, not throughput"

fluxem — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 15:27:50 +0000

I wish my productivity was bound by my typing speed and not my thinking

New comment by fluxem in "Meta to charge for ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram in Europe"

fluxem — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 20:51:59 +0000

People here moaned that they despise ads and gladly will pay not to see them. Well, this is the opportunity to do so

New comment by fluxem in "Roughly 80% of Grades Given at Harvard Are in the 'A' Range"

fluxem — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 17:25:48 +0000

To get to Harvard, you need to be a valedictorian or close to that. And not every valedictorian gets to go to to Harvard. It’s not a surprise then that Harvard is full of overachievers with straight A’s.

New comment by fluxem in "Is giving people cash working? Six months of Denver's Basic Income Project"

fluxem — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 21:05:38 +0000

Of course Basic Universal Income works in experiments. You select a group of people and give them money for some time. To be honest, it’s no longer basic nor universal. It’s just income.

New comment by fluxem in "Feds find "substantial'' safety issue at SC nuclear plant"

fluxem — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 20:56:24 +0000

Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_submarine#Reactor_acci...

New comment by fluxem in "Feds find "substantial'' safety issue at SC nuclear plant"

fluxem — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 20:45:35 +0000

Nuclear subs and air carriers are part of deterrence strategy. So, most reports will be classified, unlike for nuclear plants. Never the less, we know about numerous accidents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sunken_nuclear_submari...

Also, let’s not forget about Hanford site, which was part of the US nuclear program

New comment by fluxem in "Feds find "substantial'' safety issue at SC nuclear plant"

fluxem — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 18:44:41 +0000

Good news is that nuclear energy is safe and has zero long lasting ecological effects! Also management and governments are always competent. Otherwise, we would be in big, big trouble

New comment by fluxem in "How to compete with Patreon"

fluxem — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 19:18:25 +0000

I'm not convinced by the arguments.

Do the majority of creators want anonymity? I don't think so. They can set up a company and hide behind it if they do. Being an anonymous platform invites tax evasion and money laundering. Do you really want to deal with that?

Why would I open up an API so that competitors can swoop in? What benefit that would provide to me? No one will use API over UI.

The author clearly wants a donation platform that caters to a very niche group of users. I would guess there are less than 100 people in the world who want it (and do not need it)

New comment by fluxem in "Deepfakes start ringing in voters' ears"

fluxem — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 20:20:02 +0000

No, they don’t. Vocal impersonators are a thing since forever