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New comment by heironimus in "Show HN: 18 Words"

heironimus — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:37:00 +0000

2. Yes! Allow continue for no score after timeout

New comment by heironimus in "Midjourney Medical"

heironimus — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:35:25 +0000

We already have had that for millennia. Moles. Benign cysts. Unusual body shapes. Doctors have learned to say more than “just pretend that’s not there”. They have learned what’s important and what’s not and how to explain such things.

Why can’t learning more about unusual things we can’t see with the naked eye be the same?

“Bury your head in the sand to avoid harm” does not seem to be the right path.

Scans like this will have short term difficulties while we better figure out what’s important and what’s not but will only help long term.

New comment by heironimus in "City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo"

heironimus — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:32:43 +0000

That does not demo well at all.

New comment by heironimus in "City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo"

heironimus — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:31:48 +0000

I’ve seen dozens of these types of demos and it’s always live footage from a semi public place like this.

It’s much easier to just show live footage rather than rig up canned looping footage.

It’s pretty astonishing how no one watching the demo with me seems to care. No one asking “Hey, will you just be able to do this with our video if we buy from you?”

New comment by heironimus in "The MacBook Neo"

heironimus — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 02:14:10 +0000

You don’t buy a $600 laptop to be useful in 5 years. And I’ll bet it will be more useful in 5 years than any 2031 $600 PC laptop.

New comment by heironimus in "The MacBook Neo"

heironimus — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 02:09:33 +0000

If you had 32G RAM it would use that too. It uses all it can. 8GB is fine. And will be for years.

New comment by heironimus in "After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand"

heironimus — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:38:34 +0000

> It was pure, unadulterated slop. I was bewildered. Had I not reviewed every line of code before admitting it? Where did all this...gunk..come from?

I chuckled at this. This describes pretty much every large piece of software I've ever worked on. You don't need an LLM to create a giant piece of slop. To avoid it takes tons of planning, refinement, and diligence whether it's LLM's or humans writing it.

New comment by heironimus in "US destroying its reputation as a scientific leader – European science diplomat"

heironimus — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 20:18:59 +0000

Is there any metric saying what the proper amount is or is it always “more”? Is there a point where others should do more and the US less?

New comment by heironimus in "For $595, you get what nobody else can give you for twice the price (1982) [pdf]"

heironimus — Sat, 10 May 2025 23:13:27 +0000

You could touch type on that horrible keyboard? I learned to type on typewriters at school, but never could very well on my C64 with its elevated, mushy keyboard.

New comment by heironimus in "For $595, you get what nobody else can give you for twice the price (1982) [pdf]"

heironimus — Sat, 10 May 2025 23:10:56 +0000

Similar to me, but years earlier in the US. The best thing that happened to me at that time was not being able to afford a floppy drive. My friends who had one just played games. I had to learn to program instead.

New comment by heironimus in "Reusable rockets are here, so why is NASA paying more to launch stuff to space?"

heironimus — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 13:49:11 +0000

This implies that Space X is overcharging compared to launches from 25 years ago, but is cheaper relative to ULA launches from 10 years ago.

But how does, for example, "1998: Deep Space 1 — Delta II rocket — $86 million" compare to "2025: SPHEREx astronomy mission — Falcon 9 rocket — $99 million"? Are they similar payloads? Are the reliability requirements the same? Could there be a reason the Falcon 9 launch costs more instead of less, as we would expect?

The article does mention interesting reasons why some cost more than others such as scheduling, hazardous payload, weight, non-combined payloads, etc., but without addressing each launch individually there is no way to address the headline, "Why is NASA paying more?"

Incidentally, from the data, I don't see any case of them paying significantly more. It's actually about the same, so even that is misleading.

New comment by heironimus in "Astronomers delete asteroid because it turned out to be Tesla Roadster"

heironimus — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 23:16:53 +0000

So the takeaway I get is that these two databases should be cross linked so this doesn’t happen again. Maybe there’s a community of software developers who could help.

New comment by heironimus in "Google's Results Are Infested, Open AI Is Using Their Playbook from the 2000s"

heironimus — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 18:53:23 +0000

I was using ChatGPT to compare Docker and Podman and getting reasonable comparisons. I also asked it about c code searching tools and getting a reasonable list with what I think were reasonable comparisons.

It hit me that in a few years, this may not be available as Docker and other tool suppliers start paying for advertising. We’ll see.

New comment by heironimus in "A neurology ICU nurse on AI in hospitals"

heironimus — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 15:45:50 +0000

This is the same technology story told thousands of times a day with nearly every technology. Medical seems to be especially bad at this.

Take a very promising technology that could be very useful. Jump on it early without even trying to get buy in and without fully understanding the people that will use it. Then push a poor version of it.

Now the nurses hate the tech, not the poor implementation of it. The techies then bypass the nurses because they are difficult, even though they could be their best resource for improvement.

New comment by heironimus in "Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone"

heironimus — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 16:29:50 +0000

Me: This does not look interesting at all, but its really popular, so I'll quickly skim it. Me, 5 mins later: I can't stop reading this!

New comment by heironimus in "Fraud, so much fraud"

heironimus — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 21:08:35 +0000

Exactly. “This is bad because dumb people won’t believe us.”

Not “This is bad because it undermines science, is lying, and unethical, regardless of what people think.”

New comment by heironimus in "Inside a Ferroelectric RAM Chip"

heironimus — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 03:31:15 +0000

These saved me from a redesign 25 years ago. I had an 8051 with 256 bytes of RAM and a serial EEPROM with limited writes. Replacing the EEPROM with a serial FRAM allowed me to increase the effective RAM. I had to do some tweaking and figuring because it was so much slower. Also, FRAMs had limited writes AND reads, but on the order of billions instead of millions. Billions of reads are a lot, but you still had to be careful.

New comment by heironimus in "Boeing 777 loses tire while taking off from SF, crushing cars on the ground"

heironimus — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 22:42:07 +0000

If I live within two miles of an airport, directly on the flight path, what are the odds of my house being damaged by a plane versus burning down by other causes, damaged by a falling tree, struck by lightning, etc. I don’t know, but am certain it’s negligible comparatively.

New comment by heironimus in "Nine US states are teaming up to accelerate the adoption of heat pumps"

heironimus — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 15:45:22 +0000

Problem is, if everyone has resistance backup and it gets really cold, I doubt if the grid could keep up.

Engineering as a Profession – Herbert Hoover (1954)

heironimus — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 03:45:06 +0000

Article URL: https://hooverpresidentialfoundation.org/speeches/engineering-as-a-profession/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39311138

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