<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: highcountess</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=highcountess</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:17:13 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=highcountess" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by highcountess in "Gridfinity: The modular, open-source grid storage system"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That is a great improvement, but best would be a combination of both designs, the former adding the "finder shelf that can also serve for labeling, and the slopped bottom that allows scooping out individual pieces.<p>Another improvement may be to make the top and bottom pieces stackable along with the snapping grid system compatibility.</p>
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<p>I think the lock-in is the biggest issue. If you have a hanging rail system, you can't just transition off the hanging rail to bottom rail when no longer needed like you could with elevated bottom rail.</p>
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<p>I’m glad you said that, because I was also surprised by the fact that the bwv-1011 only made it to honorable mention even though its technical focus was on visualizing the rarity of books, which ostensibly was the primary objective of the whole effort.</p>
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<p>To answer your question, it already has changed us in many ways. You are not the only one who does not realize this though. It is in fact the prevailing position.<p>We have diseases and genetic defects, among other impacts through modern behaviors and environments/toxins, which are also retained in the genetic mutational load. We even have a whole lot of energy and human activity working to counter evolutionary pressures and assure those accumulated mutational loads remain in the genetic code.</p>
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<p>That was clearly a training flight</p>
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<p>Military flights do not fly ADB hot outside of the DC FRZ. It was also clearly exactly following flight route 4.<p>There are a few locations in that area it could have been coming from. Anything else would have made no sense flying through the FRZ from/to Belvoir.</p>
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<p>Humans are generally not very good at properly evaluating things in general. They are exceptionally good at believing themselves to be very good at properly evaluating things though.<p>It is why empires collapse from miscalculations about war by their experts, it is the foundational mental model underlying communism that simply cannot work but keeps being attempted, and it is how countries can be destroyed in every which way while the experts maintain that everything is just fine.<p>Never underestimate the powers of the ego, the destroyer of worlds. I mean they don’t know what they are doing, but we have advanced technical knowledge and experience, so we should clearly be in charge of all things, including those beyond our narrow scope of advanced technical knowledge and experience.</p>
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<p>Anyone who wants freedom and to control the excesses and abuses of the people in power would support the ideals of the Constitution. Just because white people created it does not mean that non-white people may not want to also be free and protected from abuses of the powerful.<p>Considering how non-white people keep streaming into white countries that have benefited from these white created Constitutional limitations on power, it seems they too desire freedom and liberty even if they are being used and manipulated by the powerful in the white world to essentially break those shackles on the powerful by a kind of civilization fracking, pumping so many people into a system until it collapses and those shackles on the powerful can be removed and the powerful can once again act just like the powerful act in all the non-white countries that have not implemented the white created constitutional limitations on power.<p>People may not realize they are a tool of the rich and powerful to destroy the very freedoms you currently enjoy, but this has never been a white vs non-white issue even though the jealousy has been used to further the aims of the rich and powerful. It has always been a rich and powerful vs the middle class and poor, with the rich and powerful manipulating the middle and lower classes to act against their own interests and in the interests of the rich and powerful. The saddest thing is that people on the “left” and often the poor, are just useful idiots for the rich and powerful, no different than some gang leader uses and abuses people to commit more abuse and crimes to get richer and more powerful.<p>I’m not sure what people imagine will happen when white people, who essentially created everything we all enjoy, including freedoms from tyrannical violence and oppression, have been eradicated, but there is no indication that it will end well.<p>And no, I’m not white since that seems very important to you.</p>
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<p>Are there any pitfalls to prepare for or avoid for people trying to get their parents permanent residency/green cards?</p>
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<p>interesting you said that, because I was totally unimpressed and bored with it and thought, "Ok, so this it? So it's just the Switch, scaled up by 10%?"<p>It's not that I expected something groundbreaking, but if I had been the creative director I would have said that they need to focus on whatever was updated, e.g., graphics or performance since effectively nothing major has changed.</p>
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<p>This is a bunch of nonsense. Of course reduction in C02 can limit growth. You even make that very point by mentioning the use of CO2 generators in commercial greenhouse operations.
The argument NASA makes is basically the same that CO2 increases have resulted in expected increases of plant growth, as is observable by satellite.<p>I do not subscribe to the insane CO2 Bad religion that you appear to subscribe to because it is yet another dumb religion to harness the naive and gullible peasants, but you go right ahead. How about you stop being horrible to other people about it though and stop traveling and using technology that all produces CO2.</p>
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<p>I would explain it to you, but there are topics that simply cannot be discussed, regardless of how correct, important, and critical they are. I may as well try to tell you about the heliocentric model in the 17th century.</p>
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<p>You are conflating things, and then also making my argument, but are unnecessarily cantankerous so you just want to argue. Are you a Brit by any chance?<p>Have you ever seen the school books that Americans had to carry around? They were/are 2"/5cm thick books, weigh a few pounds each, and kids carried around about 6-8 per semester.<p>You made my point in that European school books are a lot less heavy and also less physically voluminous. The theory behind American books being that more spacing and less information per page makes learning easier, even though all the evidence clearly indicates that is very likely inaccurate.<p>Even though you are clearly one of those necessarily contrarian types for reasons that are your own, my point still stands that even if you had lockers for other reasons, the fact that school books in most European countries in which I have visited schools, utilize books that are a lot less heavy and are more information dense and can easily be carried around.<p>What is it with you types that you latch onto meaningless and nonsense things like that you did have lockers, while totally missing the core of the point, that the argument was about the weight and size of books??? That sounds like something you may want to think about.</p>
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<p>The 30lb backpacks were only a function of our deranged society, economy, and government. I am sure others here will be able to attest that education in Europe not only was better for reasons that cannot be openly discussed in our censorious society, but the textbooks were denser with information that was also better structured, while also being lighter in weight. Lockers are simply not even a thing in Europe because children are carrying less and they have standardized backpacks.</p>
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<p>That’s correct, but there is also something else, NASA has argued that their satellite imagery has shown an increase in the planet’s plant coverage as CO2 has increased, since to plants, CO2 is what not just oxygen is to us, but also in many ways like nourishment by absorbing the carbon from the air, which they use to grow.</p>
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<p>That’s not the same and hopefully you know that and are just recklessly equating incomparable things.</p>
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<p>Ethically viable? That threshold has been crossed a long time ago when any of these related sets of technocratic tyranny enabling abilities were developed.<p>There are now cameras everywhere and now facial recognition is being integrated into everything, on top of all the other ways of essentially harvesting human rights and dignity for profit and oppressive purposes.<p>Your mention of ethical viability seems rather late to the situation, a bit of a feel of closing the barn door after the horses have bolted.<p>What humanity is creating here is more akin to the Matrix than people are able or willing to even acknowledge, even if it is many years out and turns out even worse than the limited imagination of people from the past. Maybe Her and The Terminator are more immediate phases of human development, but the trajectory is clearly there when you simply look at humanity’s tendencies over history and even now. Just as an example, did you ever think you would see something so nakedly and blatantly homicidal and evil as what the Israelis have done and are even still doing in Gaza? Does any of that indicate that humanity is going to do anything responsible and ethical?<p>The only purpose of appeals to ethics and morality appear to have been to disarm the dominant power by the subordinate power that aspires to become the dominant power in the world, an amoral, unethical, nakedly narcissistic and psychopathic power.</p>
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<p>Quite curious how no one ever talks about “responsible use of facial recognition” or policies to control the use of facial recognition, as it totally pervades and destroys the ability of a person to remain anonymous, at all.<p>It’s always curious to me how the peasants always seem eager to facilitate the interests of the monarchs to oppress them rather than their own interests to remain free from control by the narcissistic psychopathy of the ruling class prone to tyranny. What do you do as a peasant once you’ve closed the trap you created and led yourself into? I guess maybe more accurately would be to say that it is the aspirational minor nobility that facilitates the creation of the structure that serves the creation of oppressive, top down structures. It’s an odd human characteristic.</p>
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<p>Dev palms just got that much more sweaty.</p>
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<p>Can I ask you to explain how and why it is acceptable to you that people in Canada would be opposed to having foreigners imposed upon them against their will and then you just dismiss their wishes and justified anger about such abuses by using a preprinted trigger command that justifies abusing them further by uttering the letters/sound of “racism”?<p>Is it racism if all Canadians en masse, just up and moved to, e.g., El Salvador and totally swamped their culture and wrecked their identify and then started abusing them in their own homes?<p>Why is it always only the trigger word “racism” when people complain about abuses, but it’s not “racism” when the abusers abuse the victims, the local indigenous population that is being assaulted and abused?</p>
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