Hacker News: gengelbro

New comment by gengelbro in "My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”"

gengelbro — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 23:32:53 +0000

Ha. I was in London for work and had my phone snatched on a work trip the second day. Kings Cross area. Massive pain to get insurance to figure it out and I had to buy a burner.

Two guys hopped a wide sidewalk, never stopped and were back into traffic in an instant.

Everyone gave me the "you should't have been dressed that way" response. Police did nothing dispite certainly plenty of evidence (video, from apple, etc. etc).

New comment by gengelbro in "The letter ℘: name and origin? (2017)"

gengelbro — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 18:38:38 +0000

There has been various modernization efforts in the past correct? I wonder why nothing has succeeded. Math has always been somehow very tied to keeping credit and personal achievement close to the "source" it feels. Conjectures always coming with names attached, or this symbol named after a whimsical stoke of a pen.

New comment by gengelbro in "SpaceX wants to go to Mars. To do so, environmentalists say it's trashing Texas"

gengelbro — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 19:04:40 +0000

Someone compare the pollution to the average steel mill. The focus here is political and clickbait focused.

New comment by gengelbro in "GPT-4o"

gengelbro — Mon, 13 May 2024 20:54:05 +0000

Possible it's in the training set then?

New comment by gengelbro in "Spirit Airlines to furlough 260 pilots, defer Airbus plane deliveries"

gengelbro — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 02:18:52 +0000

Zero interest rate policy.

New comment by gengelbro in "A drone that calculates coordinates using a camera and Google Maps"

gengelbro — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:16:01 +0000

The future of warfare does seem to be incredibly cheap autonomous (or nearly so) drones. I know Palmer Lucky's working on this, but his offering is still incredibly high priced...

Who's looking at this problem with the perspective that these should be 'ammo' and not 'aircraft'?

New comment by gengelbro in "[dead]"

gengelbro — Mon, 22 May 2023 17:23:55 +0000

A bit of a stretch to say that public schools breed nonconformity?

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gengelbro — Mon, 22 May 2023 17:20:16 +0000

I don't see the relevance to hackers here. This is simple political commentary and belongs on /r/politics or whatever.

New comment by gengelbro in "What to do when you’ve ruined your life"

gengelbro — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 17:47:41 +0000

First article: "For no reason". Second article: "Mighta been the drugs."

New comment by gengelbro in "Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to buy company"

gengelbro — Sat, 16 Apr 2022 03:30:24 +0000

And this course of events is certain why? Because you've stated so?

New comment by gengelbro in "Names of Canada truck convoy donors leaked after reported hack"

gengelbro — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 22:00:20 +0000

How about citizens of Seattle when the CHAZ was operating? Were they majority for that?

New comment by gengelbro in "Over 20k servers have their iLO interfaces exposed to the internet"

gengelbro — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 19:15:41 +0000

I've had the bad fortune of dealing with iLO in the past. There's absolutely nothing surprising to me that it would be remotely exploitable, as well as default remote accessible.

New comment by gengelbro in "YouTube banned most videos from “JCS – Criminal Psychology”"

gengelbro — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 06:15:37 +0000

Explain please?

New comment by gengelbro in "Lufthansa confirmed that 18k flights had been flown empty to keep slots"

gengelbro — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 01:42:58 +0000

Surely they flew cargo? This seems absent in the article.

New comment by gengelbro in "No Way to Grow Up"

gengelbro — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 23:01:19 +0000

I wonder how we'll look back at this in 10 years.

New comment by gengelbro in "“New York Times”: Exorcism in Lieu of Enlightenment (2020)"

gengelbro — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 23:01:10 +0000

If one believes as you do that they are "nutjob senators", it should be all the more important that you're appraised as to their thinking and thought process no?

Why would you choose selective ignorance to those which wield power?

New comment by gengelbro in "“New York Times”: Exorcism in Lieu of Enlightenment (2020)"

gengelbro — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 20:37:48 +0000

I think the sophisticated reader (NYTs being the 'paper of record' and all), should be able to be exposed to commonly held opinions of their political enemies, even if the rhetoric or 'factual basis' they might hold in disrepute.

The fact is the NYT can't even put the words of a sitting US Senator on their pages, with no implicit _agreement_ of its factual value, and instead decapitates their own for it, shows crippling ideological constraint.

New comment by gengelbro in "Lead poisoning among US children"

gengelbro — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 00:19:30 +0000

This implies the _vast majority_ is precisely the opposite. With ~75% being personal use.

New comment by gengelbro in "Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' could meet its doom within 3 years"

gengelbro — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 21:29:46 +0000

OK, then what do you call something astronomically worse than this, say a mile wide astroid strike?

You see that you have no more granularity? That you can't describe it as worse than a meter of sea level rise?

New comment by gengelbro in "Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' could meet its doom within 3 years"

gengelbro — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 21:09:06 +0000

"Doomsday Glacier".

At some point we'll run out of hyperbole right? What could be worse than doomsday? Perhaps, apocalypse? Maybe cataclysm?