Hacker News: kcarter80

New comment by kcarter80 in "Blood cells from 80-year-old donor become stem cells with molecular age under 20"

kcarter80 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:29:32 +0000

Maybe. But that's contingent on serious life extension possibilities only becoming apparent recently.

New comment by kcarter80 in "Blood cells from 80-year-old donor become stem cells with molecular age under 20"

kcarter80 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 02:00:01 +0000

Seems like you are interested in living longer. One cool trick to doing that has always been to focus on your health. Are you saying that before recent developments the extension of life benefit wasn't worth it for you? By the way, when you die it's impossible to be "pissed".

New comment by kcarter80 in "X ordered to pay €550k to Irish employee fired after yes-or-resign ultimatum"

kcarter80 — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 15:59:25 +0000

It is unlimited if the employee is talented and good at advocating for themselves.

It isn't if they are meek or mid.

In general: it's good to let your employer know that you value your time. If you don't suck, they'll respect you more, not less.

New comment by kcarter80 in "Show HN: An extension to track your Wikipedia adventures"

kcarter80 — Thu, 02 May 2024 15:43:34 +0000

Narrator: they didn't.

New comment by kcarter80 in "NASA’s Webb finds carbon source on surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa"

kcarter80 — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 23:57:40 +0000

As a percentage of total water on earth, how many of the H2O molecules do you speculate came from comets or industrial processes?

Same question for the biological processes you mention.

New comment by kcarter80 in "1 Dead After Tesla Slams Into Fire Truck on I-680 in Walnut Creek"

kcarter80 — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 02:35:20 +0000

Losing to a fire truck is hardly an indictment against a car's safety. Everything loses to a fire truck.

New comment by kcarter80 in "Ask HN: 10x developers, how do you monetize the rest 9x?"

kcarter80 — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 14:19:49 +0000

Contract work. I don't take contracts that aren't worth my time and my time is very valuable to me. When my clients blush at my cost, which they sometimes do, I point out that they are welcome to measure my output however they like and to cancel the contract at any time. Most new clients come from word of mouth, which of course is a position of privilege, but not that hard if you do great work.

I think you're generally right that it's difficult to find salaried positions that are properly compensated.

A nuclear fusion reaction resulting in a net energy gain has occurred

kcarter80 — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 14:18:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/12/politics/nuclear-fusion-energy-us-scientists-climate/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33954817

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by kcarter80 in "Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate accounts"

kcarter80 — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 20:28:25 +0000

Could you elaborate on why it's obvious why you won't name the account?

New comment by kcarter80 in "Live vote counting for Brazilian presidential election"

kcarter80 — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 21:35:12 +0000

Futures markets favor Lula 10:1. Do you have reason to doubt the herd?

Himars Transform the Battle for Ukraine–and Modern Warfare

kcarter80 — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 19:24:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/himars-transform-battle-for-ukraine-modern-warfare-11665169716

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33144368

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

New comment by kcarter80 in "RootMyTV is a user-friendly exploit for rooting/jailbreaking LG webOS smart TVs"

kcarter80 — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 07:16:52 +0000

OP wasn't arguing your use case doesn't exist.

They were arguing it's uncommon and requires above average competency.

New comment by kcarter80 in "The end of the manual transmission is near?"

kcarter80 — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 09:07:36 +0000

You must be really looking forward to fully autonomous vehicles, then!

New comment by kcarter80 in "Mary Schmich's “Wear Sunscreen”, which turned into an unlikely 90s hit (2019)"

kcarter80 — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 18:15:42 +0000

Thanks for replying!

New comment by kcarter80 in "Mary Schmich's “Wear Sunscreen”, which turned into an unlikely 90s hit (2019)"

kcarter80 — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 18:15:25 +0000

> We were all massively into music at the time.

There was something consistent and unusual about your lack of exposure to this song.

New comment by kcarter80 in "Mary Schmich's “Wear Sunscreen”, which turned into an unlikely 90s hit (2019)"

kcarter80 — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 13:28:03 +0000

I'm 41. I just asked 6 friends who are my contemporaries and each of them knew this song well. It was also, of course, extremely popular, as the link points out.

Can you introspect a bit about what may be unusual about you so that you were never exposed to this song?

New comment by kcarter80 in "Web Audio Modem (2017)"

kcarter80 — Fri, 27 May 2022 15:43:46 +0000

I skimmed and couldn't find. Is the baud rate mentioned?

New comment by kcarter80 in "Ask HN: What's the “best” way for a senior to begin learning how to code?"

kcarter80 — Thu, 12 May 2022 19:17:25 +0000

She's not trying to turn this into a career. She's just curious to understand and potentially interested in picking up a new hobby.

My dad (also 72) has been learning to play guitar lately. He's not very good, and his progress is slow, but he's thoroughly enjoying it.

Ask HN: What's the “best” way for a senior to begin learning how to code?

kcarter80 — Thu, 12 May 2022 17:01:37 +0000

My mother told me her 72 year old friend wants to learn "how to code" and that she mentioned Python. She's starting from zero, so my first thought was that could be prohibitively complicated to get to "Hello World".

I'm interested in suggestions about what language/platform/resources I should suggest. Something she could show off to my mom and their friends would probably have value to her.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31356791

Points: 20

# Comments: 22

New comment by kcarter80 in "French fighter jet joy ride goes très, très wrong (2020)"

kcarter80 — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 01:04:08 +0000

Your opinion is almost universally disagreed upon by the comments in the article itself and here. Care to elaborate?