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New comment by mcmoor in "The Wonders of the Male Human Pelvis"

mcmoor — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 02:09:10 +0000

I'm still curious on how much this is an artefact of less participants that run >150km marathons. The link in the other comment compiles data over lots of runners from lots of marathons, but I still haven't found data about how much actually runs the >150km marathons.

New comment by mcmoor in "Two wheels, a few tradeoffs, and gas prices"

mcmoor — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 02:38:02 +0000

About the risk part, I'm still not really sure how third world countries traffic change the equation. There are a lot of them so cars have to already account for them by default. The sheer quantity also makes traffic slower, and when accidents do happen, when it's between motorcycles there's not that much energy involved compared to cars accident. Also people here rarely have motorcycle with >150cc so accident impact is reduced even further.

But we also have much worse roads and people drive much more recklessly. But maybe this is risk compensation in action. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation

New comment by mcmoor in "Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's"

mcmoor — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 01:41:29 +0000

Also https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... and https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/26/stop-confounding-yours...

New comment by mcmoor in "Show HN: Reverse Minesweeper"

mcmoor — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:44:17 +0000

Strangely I also easily solve insane, then I try extreme. First I can solve with difficulty, second I almost gave up and it do need some whole board logic. Haven't tried third.

New comment by mcmoor in "The kids with phones are alright"

mcmoor — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 02:10:11 +0000

It's still funny how much it's celebrated because it brings down establishments, not realizing it'll also bring down their own. Reminds me of why no one should start biological warfare.

New comment by mcmoor in "Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made"

mcmoor — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 01:40:52 +0000

The other comment said that obviously no solo dev do everything by himself. They must have asset maker or song maker who do all things mostly uncredited. But, here we are, of course there are true solo devs!

New comment by mcmoor in "A software engineering interview question I like: computing the median"

mcmoor — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 05:28:44 +0000

With worst case of O(n^2) though? In hindsight it should be possible, since if we use insertion sort, we also get best of O(n) and worst of O(n^2). Though quick select do have average O(n).

New comment by mcmoor in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

mcmoor — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 08:55:54 +0000

Yeah I guess this is a legit problem, but also applies to foreign language warnings. Especially ones who have manual written in foreign glyphs.

New comment by mcmoor in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

mcmoor — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 06:24:44 +0000

Feels like it'd be easier to differentiate jingles compared to different words of a language you don't know. You can vary intonations etc, but by that point you're back to jingles.

New comment by mcmoor in "Introduction to Genomics for Engineers"

mcmoor — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 08:27:17 +0000

There always seems to be a difference between the "normal" stamp collecting biology, and the anatomy/genetics biology. The latter part is always more fascinating to me (and I'm better at it) than the former. In essence, intra-organism biology >> inter-organism biology.

New comment by mcmoor in "Internal Combustion Engine (2021)"

mcmoor — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:42:13 +0000

It's unclear to me, why would the compression stroke (the 2nd out of 4) happens? There's nothing pushing the piston upwards.

New comment by mcmoor in "What to learn to be a graphics programmer"

mcmoor — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 07:32:15 +0000

Any resources? It actually sounds more interesting to me since hearing about Rollback Netcode. Any front-end thing always gives me headache anyway.

New comment by mcmoor in "What Ozempic does to the gut-brain axis"

mcmoor — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:48:53 +0000

The beer part is relatable. I've seen people advising on cutting soda, beer, any sweety beverages. I've only consumed water for years now and here I am. Though i imagine if I do drink those beverages I'd be even bigger.

New comment by mcmoor in "The origins of the school system aimed to produce independent, critical thinkers (2024)"

mcmoor — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:38:14 +0000

Yeah I've seen people try to push choice into kids as early as possible, while some students remain in doubt long into adulthood.

New comment by mcmoor in "I am a person who will look at the Steam Machine and cry"

mcmoor — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 03:11:33 +0000

My hope is that whatever makes hardware prices go down over last decades would eventually work again now. I guess CPU is a dead end, but why not RAM and storage?

New comment by mcmoor in "Steam Machine launches today"

mcmoor — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 01:50:05 +0000

Aaah so scalpers are only as bad as they are because they corner the market. Thanks, I think this is the only reasonable explanation that don't just ignore supply and demand mechanism.

New comment by mcmoor in "How Alberta Eradicated Rats"

mcmoor — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 08:23:14 +0000

Anglicized Arabic I guess. In my spelling, it is Musa.

New comment by mcmoor in "U.S. science is in chaos"

mcmoor — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 01:29:08 +0000

Sounds like this is what's still done in last decade Amazon who didn't report profit for so long. Though it's also stopped by another regulatory change that no longer regards S&W dev as R&D for tax purposes, but I don't remember the name.

New comment by mcmoor in "U.S. science is in chaos"

mcmoor — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 01:11:07 +0000

I've actually heard suggestions to do that, at least.

New comment by mcmoor in "Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?"

mcmoor — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 05:49:01 +0000

I'm curious how correlated they are to decline of books in general