Hacker News: mikeyjk

New comment by mikeyjk in "“Alien corpses” shown to Mexican Congress"

mikeyjk — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 12:49:05 +0000

Wouldn't we expect to see substantially more than 30% of the DNA be different.

I don't think carbon dating can be used to extract DNA.

I also would have thought DNA would have degraded significantly over that period of time.

There are probably a thousand more reasons this is blatantly false, to those with scientific knowledge beyond my early highschool experiences.

It's bizarre and fascinating the Mexican government has entertained this.

New comment by mikeyjk in "Modern action films fetishize the body even as they desexualize it (2021)"

mikeyjk — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 15:24:07 +0000

Not that this is really the core of your point at all - but I believe the state of the science currently suggests that pheromones in humans are a myth at worst, at best unproven. We only have a vestigial vomeronasal organ, which no longer functions - as I've understood it:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160509-the-tantalising-...

New comment by mikeyjk in "ChatGPT is not ‘artificial intelligence.’ It’s theft"

mikeyjk — Wed, 17 May 2023 00:33:04 +0000

Is this also an argument for determinism in the Bible? I'm guessing not because that would somewhat goes against some of the bigger messaging.

New comment by mikeyjk in "We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it"

mikeyjk — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 02:05:11 +0000

How has it sped up your writing of software?

It's not integrated into an IDE like GH co-pilot yet is it?

I only find I reach for it for stuff like navigating some curly regex or forgetting date time format syntax for the millionth time. But I would be very keen to understand if I'm missing out.

New comment by mikeyjk in "How do video games stay in sync?"

mikeyjk — Sat, 28 May 2022 13:39:11 +0000

Seems reasonable. Although I would tweak it to say you can't control when each turn ends.

New comment by mikeyjk in "Twitter Deal Temporarily on Hold"

mikeyjk — Fri, 13 May 2022 11:09:42 +0000

That is not a clinically recognised term.

New comment by mikeyjk in "The Owen Wilson Wow API"

mikeyjk — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 07:11:42 +0000

You are responding to a satirical comment, riffing on the 'hacker news famous' comment that was criticising Dropbox during its infancy.

New comment by mikeyjk in "Zelensky video deepfake"

mikeyjk — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 15:10:57 +0000

That is hilarious. Can we use deep fakes combined with trump's spite to move him closer toward the left??

New comment by mikeyjk in "Amazon Pip Horror Story"

mikeyjk — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 13:30:53 +0000

The "agree?" is quintessential LinkedIn.

Such an utterly shallow pretence for engaging a discussion.

New comment by mikeyjk in "What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity"

mikeyjk — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 16:11:38 +0000

I feel like I've missed the context leading to this perspective. Where was the discourse on t-cells shut down?

New comment by mikeyjk in "“Autism is a spectrum” doesn’t mean what you think (2019)"

mikeyjk — Sun, 26 Dec 2021 04:39:50 +0000

What makes it important?

Isn't protein really easy to get from veges? Like chickpeas, tofu, tempeh, quinoa, edamame, lentils, etc

New comment by mikeyjk in "JFK Assassination Records – 2021 Additional Documents Release"

mikeyjk — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 22:58:13 +0000

As a young boy I was convinced this was a conspiracy. Until I saw the PBS documentary and a 90s website debunking the JFK movie (which I really enjoyed). Helped set me on my journey of learning and appreciating critical thinking skills.

New comment by mikeyjk in "Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less severe Covid: study"

mikeyjk — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 03:45:02 +0000

What level of testing would make these vaccines non experimental in your mind, and what other vaccine do you know that has had that level of rigour applied? I'm genuinely curious

New comment by mikeyjk in "Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust"

mikeyjk — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 10:11:57 +0000

Jetbrains is trying to catch up on this, and in some cases has.

New comment by mikeyjk in "Django, HTMX and Alpine.js: Modern websites, JavaScript optional"

mikeyjk — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 23:29:26 +0000

There's no way to be notified of comment replies, or see votes, though. But otherwise I love it as well.

New comment by mikeyjk in "Making the dislike count private across YouTube"

mikeyjk — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 00:49:14 +0000

This, imo. Netflix did the exact same thing.

New comment by mikeyjk in "Making the dislike count private across YouTube"

mikeyjk — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 00:47:29 +0000

This makes me think of how steam does indeed have some smarts to warn users when a game may be getting review brigaded. I think it's a combination of volume of reviews by time, and perhaps the referrer (?). It does seem to work fairly well afaict.

New comment by mikeyjk in "Making the dislike count private across YouTube"

mikeyjk — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 00:45:26 +0000

Agreed, people made the same argument for removing 5 star ratings from Netflix ('people only ever vote 1 star or 5 stars'). If this were an input for the decision making, these platforms could very easily present that evidence.

I do miss the Netflix of years gone past.

New comment by mikeyjk in "Stephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality – Lex Fridman Podcast #234"

mikeyjk — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 05:50:28 +0000

I felt like Lex just took him on faith for so many points. This was a hard listen to me. Some really interesting points were raised but I didn't feel like there was much fleshing out of how certain the conclusion was not exactly how any of the conclusions were reached. Maybe I'm just not intelligent enough.

New comment by mikeyjk in "Willingness to look stupid"

mikeyjk — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 15:07:26 +0000

It must only be pretty extreme cases as Russel Brand and Brett Weinstein still have their videos up.