Hacker News: meristem

New comment by meristem in "Sorry, I'm in a meeting"

meristem — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 21:20:45 +0000

Holistic problem management < Make this problem disappear today

New comment by meristem in "A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal"

meristem — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:45:35 +0000

“ You can remove the drawn-in borders just by adding a little visual space, and use subtle color differences to separate rows if needed” ———> “Let’s make it 10 rows per screen (and somehow still with low-legibility font choices and low-readability text design)! Make the design breathe, you know, white space!” ———> Me, having an aneurysm

New comment by meristem in "Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer"

meristem — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 00:31:31 +0000

This will probably have zero traction, yet:

1.ADHD is often misdiagnosed in women

2. The drop in estrogen around perimenopause/menopause worsens symptoms. It leads to late-life diagnoses as women's coping strategies no longer work as well.

3. Perimenopause starts 10-20 years before menopause; women in their 30's can suffer from perimenopausal symptoms.

New comment by meristem in "Ask HN: What is your policy regarding smartphones for your children?"

meristem — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 01:29:06 +0000

We are delaying as long as possible. Right now it is ‘let’s evaluate when you are 13’.

Many peers have a locked down apple watch.

New comment by meristem in "So you want to learn physics (2021)"

meristem — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 21:37:19 +0000

Do you have text/other sources suggestions for this? I agree with you, would like to learn more.

New comment by meristem in "Espresso coffee mitigates the aggregation of Alzheimer′s associated tau protein"

meristem — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 16:38:46 +0000

I’d like to know what team will replicate this.

New comment by meristem in "I am dying of squamous cell carcinoma, and potential treatments are out of reach"

meristem — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 21:33:59 +0000

Mentally able =/= intellectually sophisticated to parse the legalese in the offer

New comment by meristem in "Debate over 'fake work' and 'lazy management' in tech industry"

meristem — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 15:53:09 +0000

TL; DR: the perception of “ghost work” can also appear when employees work in functions where failure doesn’t immediately break the company. The work may have value, but the contributions support longer tails, look not needed. ———- I used to ask direct reports “how does what you are doing map to company strategies?” And if they could not do so we’d talk about what they were working on, how ‘mapping’ might work, and then decide if the work was worth it/ how to learn more about the company so their tactical was also strategic.

This was significantly easier in roles the company publicly supported. For roles where our team failure would destabilize things in a longer timeline, it was extremely easy to not be able to directly map to success, or feel fungible within the company.

If you have a complex project, follow “Gall’s law” – or it will fail

meristem — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 15:39:02 +0000

Article URL: https://bigthink.com/smart-skills/complex-project-galls-law/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36668000

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The subsea cable firm helping America take on China

meristem — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 16:53:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/us-china-tech-subcom/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36656136

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by meristem in "Aspartame: Once More Unto the Breach"

meristem — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 18:32:26 +0000

What is the difference between Coke Zero and Diet Coke?

New comment by meristem in "WHO advises not to use non-sugar sweeteners for weight control"

meristem — Mon, 15 May 2023 15:38:52 +0000

Unclear to me is whether steviosides are in the NSS category. WHO spells out xylitol and others in same category are not.

New comment by meristem in "PFC bans are going to change waterproof garments"

meristem — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 23:21:14 +0000

Ski-related followup: What do you wear over it?

New comment by meristem in "Sperm counts worldwide are plummeting faster than we thought"

meristem — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 16:06:42 +0000

Some fertility problems go unnoticed for a decade. I suggest to my younger (25-29) female friends to have their egg reserve estimated, even if they at that point are not thinking about ever having children. This is because the original issue can be upstream of the couple: a parent who had early menopause, or low ovarian reserve, may pass similar characteristics down to their female progeny.

(Source: conversations with IVF team)

New comment by meristem in "Ask HN: Should students be taught the benefits of having and raising children?"

meristem — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 17:46:14 +0000

Having been up since 3 AM with a child, I can say the cost-benefit fluctuates wildly.

Would love OP to indicate if they do not know the benefits and want to know, or if they know the benefits and want others to know as well.

Some old reasons to have progeny: free labor, keeping property in the family, nepotism, enforced helping parents in old age.

An idea apparently returning to popularity: "my genetics are a gift to the world and can save the world from itself"

New comment by meristem in "FTX’s ownership of a U.S. bank raises questions"

meristem — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 17:35:42 +0000

I'll leave aside "the transaction was fraudulently approved" for the moment. I can see a possible, if naïve, thought process being "It's a tiny bank, hedge and crypto do absurd types of silly transactions, let's let them burn their cash since they think yolo with their own money."

New comment by meristem in "Tell HN: Beware 'Ungrowth' in Your Job"

meristem — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 14:21:55 +0000

There is research that supports your experience and conclusions. See Clifton Strengthsfinder, based on Gallup's research. The gist is: build on your superpowers instead of on the qualities you are less strong.

New comment by meristem in "YKK zippers: Why so many designers use them (2012)"

meristem — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 15:02:32 +0000

Depending on the failure you can get kits to fix it.

New comment by meristem in "The toll of dating app burnout"

meristem — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 14:56:31 +0000

Maybe the problem starts with talking about grown women using "girls".

New comment by meristem in "The toll of dating app burnout"

meristem — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 14:47:18 +0000

From my experience in Human Factors this is not a real graph. It is bs disguised as information.