Hacker News: marcelluspye

New comment by marcelluspye in "Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads"

marcelluspye — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 21:03:08 +0000

This idea is the subject of the 2013 book "Who Owns the Future?" By Jaron Lanier.

New comment by marcelluspye in "Henry Kissinger Has Died"

marcelluspye — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 16:47:25 +0000

>That is not who we are.

No, that is not who you would like us to be/have been. Very evidently, that is who we are.

New comment by marcelluspye in "99-year old trucking company Yellow shuts down, putting 30k out of work"

marcelluspye — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 16:08:24 +0000

Privatize the gains, socialize the losses. Even in the news.

New comment by marcelluspye in "Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)"

marcelluspye — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 14:08:14 +0000

I hated when textbooks/papers did this. Half the time you can't tell if they meant to use the bold letter or if the printer was just being generous on that character. Made legibility quite a bit more difficult. BB letters are unambiguous.

New comment by marcelluspye in "Americans have quit quitting their jobs"

marcelluspye — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 16:48:38 +0000

Citation needed.

New comment by marcelluspye in "The hype around esports is fading as investors and sponsors dry up"

marcelluspye — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 16:25:02 +0000

The closest thing to this at the moment, I think, is online Chess.

New comment by marcelluspye in "Idaho Stop"

marcelluspye — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 14:45:14 +0000

Not the OP, but here's my observation: When I have to stop at a light until it turns green, I have to navigate the intersection while the cars around me are entering it as well. Suddenly there's a car trying to pass me, a car in the oncoming lane turning left, etc. If I can skirt through the intersection while the light is red and there's no transverse traffic, I can get through without interacting with any other moving vehicles.

I've also been involved in car(-car, not car-bike) accidents before where some idiot at a light was looking at their phone while stopped, and did something stupid when they noticed others moving in their peripheral vision. Plausibly, such idiots could be the cause of a lot of accidents at intersections.

New comment by marcelluspye in "Uzi Nissan (nissan.com) died of covid July 2020 and the website is now down"

marcelluspye — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 19:32:43 +0000

Is this comment supposed to be the hook for a short story or film where you slowly learn that you're actually the grandson of the impostor?

New comment by marcelluspye in "Ask HN: Do you use a physical calculator in your day job, and why?"

marcelluspye — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 13:17:09 +0000

My father still has his an HP-41CX he was given for his HS graduation in the early 80s, which he had restored about a decade ago. He uses it mainly, but not exclusively, when he wants to show it off.

New comment by marcelluspye in "UN registers 'Türkiye' as new country name to replace 'Turkey'"

marcelluspye — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 15:23:20 +0000

I don't mean any personal offense, but as an American I associate this behavior with "you can't afford not to travel" and "eating $regionalFood in $location has ruined the dish for me; I can't eat it anywhere else" types.

New comment by marcelluspye in "Ask HN: What video games do you play during the day?"

marcelluspye — Mon, 30 May 2022 13:50:58 +0000

Chess. Any time I have a couple minutes I manage to squeeze in a blitz game.

New comment by marcelluspye in "Studying the impact of U.S. immigration barriers on global knowledge production"

marcelluspye — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 03:22:26 +0000

I'm pretty sure these racial categories are American abstractions, whose names have only reflected their composition in recent decades. The Irish, for instance, were long not considered 'white'; they were just 'Irish'.

New comment by marcelluspye in "Show HN: A Mashup to find LineageOS supported phones that are repairable"

marcelluspye — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 21:01:36 +0000

I just meant that I haven't made any efforts to keep google from snooping on me through that phone. So I get all the convenience of e.g. google screening my calls and waiting on hold for me, with all the associated privacy concerns, as opposed to the LineageOS device which I don't think has any google apps/services at all.

I do enjoy the 4a very much however, it's a great device.

New comment by marcelluspye in "Show HN: A Mashup to find LineageOS supported phones that are repairable"

marcelluspye — Sun, 03 Jan 2021 01:08:48 +0000

It probably should be explained. Their classification makes sense, but I think some may be misled. The demographic of people getting older phones and running LineageOS would probably be comfortable with managing a few obnoxiously tiny screws to replace a battery, and just want to be able to replace them when they start crapping out, whereas the older phones I've had which advertised a replaceable battery (consistent with this list) made it easy enough for grandma.

New comment by marcelluspye in "Show HN: A Mashup to find LineageOS supported phones that are repairable"

marcelluspye — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 20:24:29 +0000

Coincidentally, yesterday my father handed me his old Moto X 2014 with a shattered screen, asking me if I wanted to do anything with it before he trashed it. I wiped it and installed lineageOS, which is what I'm using to write this comment; its definitely a less fluid experience than my full-dystopia-mode pixel 4A, but its a refreshing experience nonetheless and I could imagine it's great for people who want to treat their phone as a tool and not a perpetual distraction device (I would guess that even with further tinkering I would be hard pressed to get all my apps integrated sufficiently seamlessly so as to enable such levels of distraction).

I watched a teardown video for the phone on YouTube and it appears the battery is replaceable, just not easily, whereas its given an "x" on this list (is this true of all phones?). Fortunately I don't seem to be suffering any battery-related problems at the moment, but I will be attempting to replace the screen, which does not seem to be easy on this dwvice.

New comment by marcelluspye in "Hackathon and Challenge to build a new Terminal – $20k investment"

marcelluspye — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 22:12:54 +0000

>Imagine instead a tmux that could allow multiple users to connect to it simultaneously, and drive different panes at the same time, or view the commands that another user is using in a given pane.

I think this is what tmate does? I haven't used it, but I saw it mentioned on HN a couple days ago.

https://tmate.io/

New comment by marcelluspye in "Ask HN: Impossible Ideas?"

marcelluspye — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 20:07:34 +0000

I think somewhere in between these two options is emacs.

New comment by marcelluspye in "Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?"

marcelluspye — Sat, 23 May 2020 03:47:12 +0000

Are you referring to the time the US air force built a cluster out of 2000 PS3s? Seems good.

New comment by marcelluspye in "Insignificant Choice Polynomial Time"

marcelluspye — Wed, 13 May 2020 03:08:26 +0000

Big if true.

Clicking around arXiv and google scholar, I get the sense the author is legitimate. But I wouldn't be surprised if some technical barrier was found by another expert. I don't think the author has published anything in complexity theory before, and the story of 'older academic attempts to enter new field with old tools, immediately solves most important problem in field' is a tad fishy to me, though not entirely without precedent. The idea sounds pretty cool though; I'd definitely prefer to be mistaken.

New comment by marcelluspye in "State of Oklahoma's New Brand Identity / Logo"

marcelluspye — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 21:08:49 +0000

That's just 'democratization' of the word 'democratization', man.