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New comment by molbioguy in "Ask HN: How do you justify your existence?"

molbioguy — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 23:08:14 +0000

I'm gonna repurpose this ...

"They can see no reasons 'cause there are no reasons What reasons do you need? Oh oh oh whoa whoa"

Boomtown Rats

New comment by molbioguy in "ID This SciFi Short Story"

molbioguy — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 20:44:23 +0000

Yes, this sounds like a close match. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0r6w3pNpGc

New comment by molbioguy in "Things I Have Drawn is a site in which the things kids draw are real"

molbioguy — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 14:52:30 +0000

Unpopular opinion, but here goes ... The pictures are absolutely charming. This is because they distill the essential qualities of the object (from the child's POV), which is lost when you have perfect representation art. But turning them into real objects results in things that are often terrifying and grotesque, not charming. I don't believe the kids wanted their object to look like that in real life. They may be proud that their creation is realized, but I doubt their drawing is an expression of desire. They just have imperfect skills in representation. In contrast, there is imaginative art that kids excel at (e.g. a puppy with wings and a goatee). That's something that is really cool to see as a real object.

New comment by molbioguy in "Coding as a greybeard"

molbioguy — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 17:31:12 +0000

Saruman :)

New comment by molbioguy in "Coding as a greybeard"

molbioguy — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 13:37:28 +0000

Greybeard is but a stage. Coding wisdom is accrued, powers tested. I have transformed to the next stage -- whitebeard! Now I wield power openly and code with ease ignoring the stares and doubts of younger coders :)

New comment by molbioguy in "Cardpunch: Punch a punched card"

molbioguy — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 12:29:21 +0000

Yes, that helped you. But you still had to put them back in order :( Visual sorting O(n).

New comment by molbioguy in "Cardpunch: Punch a punched card"

molbioguy — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 23:25:44 +0000

Working with the real thing, I remember the horrible feeling when the rubber band holding the card deck together snaps! The FORTRAN cards all had line numbers, but what a pain for a several hundred line program.

New comment by molbioguy in "Scientists have finally found the potential “cure” for baldness"

molbioguy — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 15:05:53 +0000

> divided from the hirsute future by a follicle singularity

I love the sound of that! Pretty awesome prose :)

New comment by molbioguy in "Fleeting memories of youth and the increasing impermanence of culture (2021)"

molbioguy — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 13:12:47 +0000

You're right, and you're an optimist! But people lose things not just from a loss of will to maintain them, but rather also from events outside their control. The means to read digital media survive, but could events lead to the loss/corruption of the digital media itself. And the effort to maintain digital archives is sometimes large, especially when tech changes rapidly. Convenience trumps almost everything else! And I'm not talking about my kids. At some point, I'll be too old to deal with the digital archives on my own, but a box of pictures will be within reach.

New comment by molbioguy in "Fleeting memories of youth and the increasing impermanence of culture (2021)"

molbioguy — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 11:35:08 +0000

My grandparents and parents either experienced or personally knew people who lost everything at some point, through war, social strife, or economics, and personal tragedies. Same on my spouse's side. Physical photos and letters were among the few things that often survived, possibly because they are only of value to the original 'owner'. I think that close brush with the impermanence of belongings fueled the habits of preparing for loss by archiving and preserving physical mementos. People trust that digital artifacts will survive through redundancy, but we're so early in the process of testing that belief. And society has been rather stable in comparison to my grandparents' generation ...

Building a lock free continuous ring buffer

molbioguy — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 12:23:51 +0000

Article URL: https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/lock-free-ring-buffer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32150489

Points: 3

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New comment by molbioguy in "How did REST come to mean the opposite of REST?"

molbioguy — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 12:15:23 +0000

I know you're not supposed to complain about downvotes, but seriously?! A complement about a witty comment gets me downvoted. I give up.

New comment by molbioguy in "How did REST come to mean the opposite of REST?"

molbioguy — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 23:16:29 +0000

Brilliant!

New comment by molbioguy in "It's normal to play the same song over and over again (2016)"

molbioguy — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 17:36:57 +0000

Thanks. Come to think of it, that rings true in my experience.

New comment by molbioguy in "It's normal to play the same song over and over again (2016)"

molbioguy — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 15:17:03 +0000

Somewhat the opposite, but are there tips/tricks to get a song stuck in head -- sort of in a controllable manner? I enjoy having songs stuck in my head, but usually it's not the song I want!

New comment by molbioguy in "A Tesla was in a junkyard for three weeks. Then it burst into flames"

molbioguy — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 20:49:41 +0000

Isn't there something besides water that could be used that would be more effective at putting out battery fires? I doubt this is Tesla-specific and the number of EVBs is growing.

New comment by molbioguy in "How the Ballpoint Pen Killed Cursive"

molbioguy — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 10:33:47 +0000

At that price, sampling becomes very reasonable. Sometimes knock offs can be perfectly usable, though I've had my share of disappointments when I didn't expect a fake.

New comment by molbioguy in "How the Ballpoint Pen Killed Cursive"

molbioguy — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 10:05:24 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by molbioguy in "How the Ballpoint Pen Killed Cursive"

molbioguy — Sat, 18 Jun 2022 21:47:42 +0000

Thanks!

macOS EXC_CRASH (SIGKILL) Error codes in hex are mnemonic

molbioguy — Sat, 18 Jun 2022 20:32:28 +0000

Article URL: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/understanding-the-exception-types-in-a-crash-report

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31793562

Points: 2

# Comments: 0