Hacker News: jjslocum3

New comment by jjslocum3 in "Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people"

jjslocum3 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:27:02 +0000

I'm still more comfortable keeping my code in America.

New comment by jjslocum3 in "Google kills diversity hiring targets"

jjslocum3 — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 13:46:32 +0000

The real metric should be how good looking they are. That transcends household income, race, and gender. /sarc

New comment by jjslocum3 in "Show HN: Tramway SDK – The Unholy Union Between Half-Life and Morrowind Engines"

jjslocum3 — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 22:13:18 +0000

Yes! In programming speak, you're talking about levels of abstraction.

New comment by jjslocum3 in "Hitting OKRs vs. Doing Your Job"

jjslocum3 — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 20:28:12 +0000

Are people still talking about OKRs? Dang that's so '00s

New comment by jjslocum3 in "All clocks are 30 seconds late"

jjslocum3 — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:59:01 +0000

Plenty of nitpicking here, for me this piece was a fun and clever thought-ride.

New comment by jjslocum3 in "Insects rely on sounds made by distressed vegetation to guide reproduction"

jjslocum3 — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 14:59:32 +0000

If a tree is distressed in the forest and there are no insects there to hear it, does it make a sound?

New comment by jjslocum3 in "Show HN: Microtonal Piano"

jjslocum3 — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 22:41:42 +0000

I knew a musician who once clicked on a "ring for customer service" bell at the service counter of a laundromat, and then told the arriving attendant "Your bell is a quarter-tone flat."

New comment by jjslocum3 in "Start presentations on the second slide"

jjslocum3 — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 15:54:48 +0000

For me the real nugget is the first comment:

"Programmers have a pavlovian engineering response. Pose them a problem and they'll start trying to solve it."

New comment by jjslocum3 in "EU elections 2024 live: Macron dissolves French parliament [snip]"

jjslocum3 — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 21:32:56 +0000

What exactly does this mean?

New comment by jjslocum3 in "Show HN: Every mountain, building and tree shadow mapped for any date and time"

jjslocum3 — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 14:28:24 +0000

Doesnt work for the map around my home. While the buildings in my neighborhood generate shadows on the map, none of the trees do.

New comment by jjslocum3 in "A skeptic's take on beaming power to Earth from space"

jjslocum3 — Fri, 10 May 2024 19:46:54 +0000

I really would love another sentence or two on this. I can't immediately think why that would be, e.g. don't Maxwell's equations apply at very large scales? Any ideas?

All the Endangered Languages, by Country

jjslocum3 — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 20:35:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/all-the-worlds-endangered-languages-by-country/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39810253

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by jjslocum3 in "Neuralink patient controls games by thinking during interview"

jjslocum3 — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:50:57 +0000

Musk says "Blindsight is the next @Neuralink product after Telepathy."

Let's see, I think after that, the next product should be Magic Missle. Or maybe Sanctuary?

New comment by jjslocum3 in "Shields up: New ideas might make active shielding viable"

jjslocum3 — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 17:41:41 +0000

Comical and Strangelovian perhaps, but also the only hope for humankind. How many years until the expanding sun's corona envelops the earth? Assuming we make it that long without first destroying ourselves or meeting an unfriendly asteroid, you can bet that all of humanity will be behind the effort. So while it's not on this week's scrum board, it's definitely a high-priority TODO.

New comment by jjslocum3 in "Launch HN: Onedoc (YC W24) – A better way to create PDFs"

jjslocum3 — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 19:51:44 +0000

Does Onedoc retain any visibility into, or in any way use or reserve the right to use any content created using its API in any way? Obviously, calling an API means sending document contents to Onedoc.

New comment by jjslocum3 in "More than 2M research papers have disappeared from the Internet"

jjslocum3 — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 16:18:08 +0000

I imagine this would be of great benefit to plagiarists.

New comment by jjslocum3 in "I Wrote What? Google's AI-Powered Libel Machine"

jjslocum3 — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 20:21:48 +0000

Using Gemini, a former Rolling Stone editor discovers his involvement in past scandals.

I Wrote What? Google's AI-Powered Libel Machine

jjslocum3 — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 20:21:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.racket.news/p/i-wrote-what-googles-ai-powered-libel

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39554524

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by jjslocum3 in "Why flying insects gather at artificial light"

jjslocum3 — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 18:57:47 +0000

This seems like a pretty important finding, entymology's version of cracking Fermat's Last Theorem. I wonder if there's a Nobel category for entymology.

Columbia School of Social Work: Glossary of Terms [pdf]

jjslocum3 — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 16:48:27 +0000

Article URL: https://socialwork.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/DEI-Glossary-of-Terms-2022.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38710659

Points: 1

# Comments: 0