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New comment by k3lsi3r in "Cormac McCarthy's personal library"

k3lsi3r — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 19:36:36 +0000

Initially thought you may have meant revisionist as a slight, but I see that it's a sub-genre. For anyone else unfamiliar (from wikipedia):

> The revisionist Western is a sub-genre of the Western fiction. Called a post-classical variation of the traditional Western, the revisionist subverts the myth and romance of the traditional by means of character development and realism to present a less simplistic view of life in the "Old West". While the traditional Western always embodies a clear boundary between good and evil, the revisionist Western does not.

New comment by k3lsi3r in "The belay test and the modern American climbing gym"

k3lsi3r — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 01:26:24 +0000

Important point. It's not actually all that trivial to give a good and safe lead belay with a grigri. I see folks wrap their thumb over the Grigri cam to pay slack all the time. It is extremely dangerous when combined with not paying much attention because a surprise fall will cause the belayer to seize their grip on the device and lock it open. Heart breaking example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBGkKqLhM8Y

All that said, I still prefer to be belayed with a grigri.

New comment by k3lsi3r in "Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option"

k3lsi3r — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 04:51:45 +0000

These same corps have opinions on where users can be logged into Slack as well. And ffiw most enterprises that have this kind of device management don't allow login via magic links via email anyways.

New comment by k3lsi3r in "Gene-Engineered Mouth Bacteria"

k3lsi3r — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 18:41:26 +0000

Michael Laufer from the Four Thieves Vinegar Collective gave a talk that included a bit about this at a 2018 Defcon talk at the bio-hacking village. You can watch it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzqEJM8B0h4&t=1935s. Entire talk is quite entertaining but this segment always stuck with me since I get cavities fairly frequently.

New comment by k3lsi3r in "37signals Introduces "Once" - Buy software one time"

k3lsi3r — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 19:41:16 +0000

Not OP but I agree with his sentiment. Maybe I'm not as "into music" as some people, but I do like finding new artists and songs, though probably only to the tune of 1-5 new artists a year and I buy on average about 5 new albums a year.

It's cheaper and better for me to own the stuff I want to listen to than sign up for a subscription in perpetuity.

New comment by k3lsi3r in "Tell HN: Security notice from Slack regarding Shared Invitation links"

k3lsi3r — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 22:37:46 +0000

https://slack.com/blog/news/notice-about-slack-password-rese...

New comment by k3lsi3r in "Monty Hall Problem"

k3lsi3r — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 18:36:19 +0000

The host revealing the door is irrelevant, right?

An equivalent offer would be if you had the chance to either: - keep your door OR - choose both of the other doors (since you know at least one of the other doors is a goat/non-prize)

New comment by k3lsi3r in "FAA investigating controversial crash video"

k3lsi3r — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 00:14:37 +0000

> 3. He is an accomplished skydiver flying a controllable skydiving chute (not an emergency chute). He could have put that chute down wherever he chose, but instead of landing on clear flat terrain (in the riverbed) he chose to land in the brush on the mountainside. That was either the most incredibly stupid decision anyone has ever made in an emergency situation, or part of a deliberate plan. I don't see any other possibilities.

Yeah, this one seemed really silly. There is even a large open field at 5:36 pretty close to where he chose to "crash" land. Maybe not completely level, but as you said, many other options.

Faro energy raises $60 mil for solar projects in Brazil

k3lsi3r — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 15:43:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/faro-energy-raises-60-million-for-solar-energy-bets-in-brazil-11610971200

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25822810

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New comment by k3lsi3r in "Learning Rust via Advent of Code"

k3lsi3r — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 18:28:54 +0000

This is slightly off-topic, but someone mentioned that it would be a good idea to check out BurntSushi's solutions after trying it yourself which seems like a fantastic idea.

It would be cool if there was some resource that linked well-written, idiomatic solutions for other languages as well. Anyone know if this has been done?

New comment by k3lsi3r in "Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible?"

k3lsi3r — Sat, 18 Aug 2018 05:49:21 +0000

if you consider how doctors are happy to prescribe drugs that are not ideal (understatement) for their patients' health for money from pharmaceutical companies, your argument falls apart. consider the opioid epidemic

New comment by k3lsi3r in "The Wrong Abstraction (2016)"

k3lsi3r — Sat, 21 Jul 2018 03:42:42 +0000

I don't fully understand the state part. Could someone provide an example of what the OP is talking about? thanks!

New comment by k3lsi3r in "The Strange Brain of the World’s Greatest Solo Climber (2016)"

k3lsi3r — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 16:18:54 +0000

While I disagree with your assertion that Honnold isn't "ripped" (a word for which we seem to have different definitions) it is worth noting that the primary muscles(/tendons) used in climbing are hand/forearm based and you can do quite well even with everything else being significantly weaker in comparison.

New comment by k3lsi3r in "Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street"

k3lsi3r — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 17:39:28 +0000

I'm guessing people are downvoting because of the implication that the software team should be held responsible?

Something does feel wrong about punishing them when the decision to put the car on the road in the first place was almost certainly not their own.

Though I agree Uber should be held accountable for it and it shouldn't be a token fine since the whole point of punishing an accident like this is to discourage them from occurring in the first place.

This sort of accident orchestrated by a group of people probably won't be gracefully handled by our legal system.

New comment by k3lsi3r in "Ask HN: What are some interesting papers in CS for a beginner?"

k3lsi3r — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 22:50:40 +0000

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/intro... is a good resource for understanding Turing Machines. There used to be a way to share a link with non-subscribers but for some reason I can't find it now.