<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: mankyd</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mankyd</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:23:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mankyd" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mankyd in "Chess puzzle I found in my dad's old book"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It matters if you're going to call it an "interesting test".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 12:59:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48134773</link><dc:creator>mankyd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48134773</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48134773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mankyd in "Chess puzzle I found in my dad's old book"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is it? Or has ChatGPT read the answer before.</p>
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<p>Use a stack? LIFO.<p>As long as you have capacity to keep it mostly empty, it's fine. When requests backup, at least some people will still get quick responses, instead of making everyone suffer.</p>
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<p><a href="https://archive.is/asQ2x" rel="nofollow">https://archive.is/asQ2x</a></p>
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<p>> in ways very stupid simple people can understand<p>The problem is rarely the ability to understand. It is the ability (or desire) to listen that many lack.</p>
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<p>It's 14 years old at this point, but here you go: <a href="https://www.ohthehugemanatee.net/2011/07/gpgl-reference-courtesy-of-graphtec/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ohthehugemanatee.net/2011/07/gpgl-reference-cour...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 16:25:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44890518</link><dc:creator>mankyd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44890518</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44890518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mankyd in "So what's the difference between plotted and printed artwork?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Seconded. My Silhouette is great. I even emailed them and received a copy of the GPGL docs one time. It wasn't full on support, but they were willing to give me a start.<p>The first thing I programmed was having it draw a hilbert curve and it worked great!</p>
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<p>Why is that stupid? They did get lucky. They are acknowledging that, had they used that, they would have had problems. And now they will work to be more prepared.<p>Acknowledging that one still has risks and that luck plays a factor is important.</p>
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<p>Who's to say they didn't?<p>Writing a follow up post is certainly valuable for raising awareness to anyone who had already read the original erroneous article.</p>
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<p>You gotta start by typing your password into a comment. Like this: ****.</p>
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<p>I feel like saying that is supports AI players, but not having a simple, already hosted example is a disservice. Even tic tac toe, or go fish would be a nice hook to help people understand what it actually delivers.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/" rel="nofollow">https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/</a><p>It's worth clicking through and reading details on each one before you commit. Most of them are quite complete, but some only support a handful of devices or features. You can also get a sense if the control is local (i.e. no internet connection) or cloud based.</p>
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<p>Nah. I live in Boston. I strongly prefer public transit, but I'll take driving here over most other cities, any day of the week.<p>The _road layout_ is awful, but drivers are pretty cooperative on the whole. Certainly more than my years driving in DC, for instance.<p>Granted, you need to be commmital here: if you put on your turn signal, drivers will generally make space for you to get in - briefly - but you need to be quick to take advantage of the gap. I could see Waymo being too slow to the draw for this, based on what I've seen online.</p>
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<p>Importantly - you don't have to know the odds of the coin ahead of time, or which side is more likely. You only need to know that it is consistent.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 Nov 2024 15:29:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42184523</link><dc:creator>mankyd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42184523</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42184523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mankyd in "A new dental scam is to pull healthy teeth to sell you expensive fake ones"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I did a bit more digging and think I might have gotten the story a tiny bit muddled, but maybe not?<p>Most the articles I find talk about the barber vs doctor distinction, but they also all bring up a story about a proposal to add dentistry to the University of Maryland's medical school.<p>Evidently this proposal was put before the state legislature, was rejected, and thus was born the Baltimore College of Dentistry. From their own website:<p>> With the founding of the college, dentistry became a profession separate from medicine. Dentistry could have become a medical specialty if the Maryland legislature had approved a request to incorporate it as a department at the University of Maryland’s medical school, but the request was rejected owing to cost. Dentistry then set its own course.<p><a href="https://www.mchoralhealth.org/milestones/1840.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.mchoralhealth.org/milestones/1840.html</a><p>From what I can see, people seem to point to this story as a historical waypoint for the division of the two in the US.</p>
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<p>There is some history here, at least in the US.<p>As I recall, when "modern medicine" was first forming, there was a push to make it part of what we would consider standard medical care, but another, more influential party decided (incorrectly) that teeth weren't living tissue and should be excluded.<p>The divide took hold and we ended up with the system we have today, where teeth are independent of the rest of the medical field. It's especially noticeable when you have dentists, orthodontists, and oral surgeons, each separate specialties referring between each other, but only oral surgeons falling under medical insurance.</p>
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<p>Every time I see this take, I am caught by the subtle arrogance that we are doing anything meaningfully differently in our own minds.<p>Hyperbole aside, I do think we do more than an LLM with our reasoning abilities, but it I suspect it is a mash of these capabilities that result in what we think of as our consciousness. I am almost certain there is a part of our minds that is "just couning votes".</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/08/this-man-has-nothing-to-hide/379041/">https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/08/this-man-has-nothing-to-hide/379041/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41558410">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41558410</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
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]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 17:30:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/08/this-man-has-nothing-to-hide/379041/</link><dc:creator>mankyd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41558410</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41558410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mankyd in "Fake insects – Find the AI generated insect"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Outside of the few that seemed cartoonish, the key signs seemed to be:<p>1) Furriness that seems a little too soft and fuzzy.<p>2) Overdone bokeh or depth-of-field.<p>3) Insect on a flower.</p>
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<p>That's mentioned at the bottom: "However, liquid oxygen and boron fullerenes (B80) are paramagnetic."</p>
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