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New comment by jmhammond in "Back to Kagi"

jmhammond — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 01:47:37 +0000

Also, people in North America who don’t have tech jobs exist. I make pretty good money as a teacher, and it’s still significantly less than many of the parent posters salaries.

New comment by jmhammond in "I started a “dirt notebook”"

jmhammond — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 18:55:21 +0000

Thanks! This is really neat

New comment by jmhammond in "I started a “dirt notebook”"

jmhammond — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 16:08:43 +0000

Can you share the shortcut link? That sounds very useful

And if you like the Pentel GraphGear 500, you might want to check out the Pentel Sharp Kerry -- it's metal but with a post-able cap which makes it very pocketable.

New comment by jmhammond in "I'm a USB-C Maximalist"

jmhammond — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 02:08:12 +0000

For what an anecdote’s worth, I have the same rechargeable Norelco razor that I’ve had going on 17 years. Same nicd battery it came with; gets recharged about once every three weeks. I think it’ll relive me.

New comment by jmhammond in "The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated"

jmhammond — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:33:47 +0000

In case the author is here, you can find the Garland & Garland (1980) article on sci-hub.

And if link is allowed https://sci-hub.ru/https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/9.3.227

New comment by jmhammond in "Habitual coffee intake shapes the microbiome, modifies physiology and cognition"

jmhammond — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:36:57 +0000

I drink “two cups a day.” But it’s like 24-30 ounces.

New comment by jmhammond in "Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy"

jmhammond — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:23:16 +0000

Mine was defaulted to disabled. I’m on the Education pro plan (academic), so maybe that’s different than personal?

New comment by jmhammond in "I stopped following the news"

jmhammond — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 01:01:05 +0000

I subscribe to this model as well, with the caveat that I try to only look at local news to my city and my field. I can’t do anything about the nonsense at a national level, I can do my part in the local context.

New comment by jmhammond in "Chuck Klosterman on why we've never actually seen a real football game"

jmhammond — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 01:00:08 +0000

That was a really fun experience. Thank you for sharing!

New comment by jmhammond in "Zotero 8"

jmhammond — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:50:22 +0000

My understanding then is the answer is “probably no.”

New comment by jmhammond in "Zotero 8"

jmhammond — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 23:22:25 +0000

I do both. I have the Zotero account for the library and webdav for the pdf files.

New comment by jmhammond in "Hypnosis with Aphantasia"

jmhammond — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 13:34:57 +0000

I didn’t find out it was a thing until I was 38 or 39. And yes, I daydream. But it’s not like watching a movie. I don’t know how to describe it besides my mind wanders and there’s a narrative.

New comment by jmhammond in "UNC System President Peter Hans confirms all syllabuses will be public records"

jmhammond — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 03:58:21 +0000

I’ll take the bait. I’m guessing you don’t pay state tax in Kansas, so you don’t pay my salary. I’m totally down with anyone in the state reading my stuff, though.

New comment by jmhammond in "Show HN: Hephaestus – Autonomous Multi-Agent Orchestration Framework"

jmhammond — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 00:16:52 +0000

I mean more to the name, Hephaestus did a lot in the Horizon Zero Dawn project…

Ask HN: Anything to be done with lost Time Machine backup password?

jmhammond — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 21:32:04 +0000

My wife's macbook air was destroyed due to a watery-incident, and it turns out that the Time Machine password isn't anything that we can think of.

The computer was sent off to Apple for applecare+ repair, but when we got it back, the key is no longer in Keychain Access. It's gone.

Some of my students are cybersecurity majors, and they're doing a "class project" trying to crack in during downtime on our university's super computer.

Outside of just being bummed at losing 2 years of content, is there anything to be done that I haven't thought of?

Many thanks!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45869395

Points: 2

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New comment by jmhammond in "Some people can't see mental images"

jmhammond — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 12:30:20 +0000

I think it’s because you can find supports to help you learn.

I’ve been teaching math for almost 18 years at this point, and only a couple years ago learned that I lean towards aphantasia. Back in high school, geometry was HARD. Calc 3 was HARD. It was presented as visualize and imagine, and I tried my best. It just turns out other people could do that, and the fuzzy thing thing (or, more commonly, the ‘bulleted list of information’ that make up my imagination) was not “normal.”

If I’d known this (and my teachers were in a position to also know this), then maybe we’d spend more time with external visual models (what Geogebra now does for us, for example) to help me out.

Now that I teach future high school math teachers, it’s definitely something I talk about to normalize “not everyone can see in their mind.”

New comment by jmhammond in "Kevo app shutdown"

jmhammond — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 17:00:36 +0000

This made my day. Thank you for this Lovecraftian horror!

New comment by jmhammond in "Digg.com is back"

jmhammond — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 02:58:23 +0000

I have a trans kid at 15. Living their best life. Knew the kid from day one (today’s their 15th birthday). Guess what? It’s all their choice, suggestion, etc. While I’d prefer their original name (I mean, I chose that for a reason), everything else is obvious and right in retrospect.

Instead of just /watching/ a neighbor, you could /be/ a neighbor and get to know them. You might feel differently about your preconceptions when you actually know the human.

New comment by jmhammond in "Face it: you're a crazy person"

jmhammond — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 12:13:59 +0000

> For example, in grad school I worked with lots of undergrads who thought they wanted to be professors. Then I’d send ‘em to my advisor Dan, and he would unpack them in 10 seconds flat. “I do this,” he would say, miming typing on a keyboard, “And I do this,” he would add, gesturing to the student and himself. “I write research papers and I talk to students. Would you like to do those things?”

I’m a professor, and I’d only add gesturing to represent teaching and banging head on a table to represent committee meetings.

But I freaking love my job.

New comment by jmhammond in "Rotring 600 Ballpoint Pen"

jmhammond — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 12:20:41 +0000

Imagine writing smoothly like butter as clouds part and angels sing.

Unfortunately, it’s not water safe, but it’s great. My favorite feature is that it dries REALLY quickly, so I can left-hand without smudging.