Hacker News: joelvalleroy

New comment by joelvalleroy in "Show HN: Doom (1993) in a PDF"

joelvalleroy — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 02:26:41 +0000

Cool! Next up, PDF reader that runs in Doom.

New comment by joelvalleroy in "Major Microsoft 365 outage caused by Azure configuration change"

joelvalleroy — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 21:48:16 +0000

ah you are right, I misread the Microsoft notification

New comment by joelvalleroy in "Major Microsoft 365 outage caused by Azure configuration change"

joelvalleroy — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 13:43:35 +0000

The Crowdstrike issue is causing the Azure issue as I understand, lots of machines using that software that all updated to the blue screen feature around 6 PM apparently.

New comment by joelvalleroy in "Chimpanzees 'self-medicate' with healing plants"

joelvalleroy — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 13:59:07 +0000

They didn’t use ChimpGPT to write the papers and aren’t in a replication crisis yet so they’re really a few steps ahead!

New comment by joelvalleroy in "The U.S. government may finally mandate safer table saws"

joelvalleroy — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 01:21:29 +0000

Air bags can cause harm to people who can't sit far enough away from the steering column [1], while there are some more advanced technology air bags that may mitigate that risk, the average airbag in the average car is not so advanced.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/air-bags-may-harm-tall-small-people-...

New comment by joelvalleroy in "LED Industrial Piercing"

joelvalleroy — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 06:28:02 +0000

The model that the user can interact with to rotate and pan on this website performed amazingly.

New comment by joelvalleroy in "Ask HN: How are quantum computing companies making money?"

joelvalleroy — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 16:21:43 +0000

Amazon found a way to make money ;) https://aws.amazon.com/braket/

New comment by joelvalleroy in "Ask HN: How can this happen without the phone covertly listening?"

joelvalleroy — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 14:45:20 +0000

We know.

New comment by joelvalleroy in "White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help meet climate targets"

joelvalleroy — Wed, 05 May 2021 17:20:31 +0000

Their job is to enforce safety, not good business decisions. :)

New comment by joelvalleroy in "Bug in Notepad Involving Asterisk in Title Bar"

joelvalleroy — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 17:33:09 +0000

The URL bar is useful for that too (before pasting into a webpage text box) :)

New comment by joelvalleroy in "Ask HN: Who wants to be fired? (March 2021)"

joelvalleroy — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 16:30:34 +0000

If you won't lose scholarships or your seat, you can take a gap semester or year and return later. Most programs do have a time limit but full time students taking one gap year will likely be fine. There's a lot of valuable things you can do during a gap year to keep your career progressing such as (paid) internships, projects, other educational pursuits, or volunteering.

But don't get expelled! That will tarnish your academic record and the credits won't transfer.

New comment by joelvalleroy in "Ask HN: What are you working on?"

joelvalleroy — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 06:02:26 +0000

I just downloaded it for my Android, it's on Google Play.

New comment by joelvalleroy in "2020 Game"

joelvalleroy — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 05:09:59 +0000

Nice work Max!

New comment by joelvalleroy in "Ask HN: What finished/done/complete software do you use?"

joelvalleroy — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 12:34:37 +0000

Notepad is discontinued, please use NotepadVR instead.

New comment by joelvalleroy in "Not everyone needs 8 hours of sleep: new research"

joelvalleroy — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 15:19:33 +0000

I have a buddy who did a few years in the military, in one of the more stressful specialties. He had an especially damaged sleep habit as well from this.

He went to some sort of "sleep therapist", I forget the exact nomenclature. Anyway, he was recommended a series of tips (from limit screen time to everything else you may see online). He found it did help. That sort of service may be worth looking into.

New comment by joelvalleroy in "Belgian man has been receiving pizzas he never ordered for years"

joelvalleroy — Sun, 07 Jun 2020 08:13:27 +0000

"Mental disorder" in English :), psychics are the people who read your fortune.

New comment by joelvalleroy in "Tracking Coronavirus by Smell Test"

joelvalleroy — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 14:54:41 +0000

Would 1) work if the tap water has chlorine? Can a dead or inactivated virus still be tested for?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-does-chlorine...

"To ensure continued protection against harmful organisms, a certain amount of chlorine must remain in the water after treatment. The remaining chlorine is known as a residual chlorine. It is this tiny amount that you sometimes smell in your tap water."

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/php/water.html

"Can the COVID-19 virus spread through pools and hot tubs? There is no evidence that COVID-19 can be spread to humans through the use of pools and hot tubs. Proper operation, maintenance, and disinfection (e.g., with chlorine and bromine) of pools and hot tubs should remove or inactivate the virus that causes COVID-19."

New comment by joelvalleroy in "Alphabet, Walmart join U.S. effort to speed up coronavirus testing"

joelvalleroy — Sun, 15 Mar 2020 13:48:47 +0000

NBC: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/coronavirus-testi...

tldr; call your provider or local public health

New comment by joelvalleroy in "Two of America's biggest coal plants closed this month"

joelvalleroy — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 17:58:28 +0000

Does that apply also to nuclear fuel? The byproducts of fission with uranium is less radioactive, or has a shorter half life, if I recall.

New comment by joelvalleroy in "Black Tide in Brazil"

joelvalleroy — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 16:41:12 +0000

Can they see the oil? I read mobile fish can avoid it, but shellfish and such can't move that fast if they're already in it.

https://www.itopf.org/knowledge-resources/documents-guides/e...