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New comment by mpmpmpmp in "Ask HN: When will car prices normalize?"

mpmpmpmp — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 15:49:40 +0000

How does it drive prices down when speculators are buying up residential houses and outbidding regular people?

New comment by mpmpmpmp in "It's always been you, Canvas2D"

mpmpmpmp — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 14:00:26 +0000

What would your strategy for working with raw image data and implementing a digital “zoom” that doesn’t do any anti aliasing or smoothing? My current thought is to just have an original copy of the data and then the current canvas is just a smaller subset of the original data when zoomed. So a 100x100 pixel image when zoomed 1x would take a 50x50 subset based on the center of the viewport and copy each pixel into a 2x2 to get back to a 100x100 image.

New comment by mpmpmpmp in "The Kalman filter: helping chickens cross the road"

mpmpmpmp — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 15:20:49 +0000

The wikipedia page for Kalman filter says it's also known as "linear quadratic estimation" so that might be a good place to start.

New comment by mpmpmpmp in "20 Years of .NET"

mpmpmpmp — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 16:10:25 +0000

That's interesting because the 3 blazor projects that I have done client work for are all WASM not server. Do you have a source for the stats on server vs wasm deployments or just what you've experienced so far?

New comment by mpmpmpmp in "20 Years of .NET"

mpmpmpmp — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 16:07:14 +0000

For sure. There has been a lot of pushback in the community from both sides of that issue. They wanted to reduce the boilerplate and make it cleaner to make simpler projects (with the goal of enabling microservice scenarios). But that moved some people's cheese from the standpoint of what the recommended path is. The problem is that there's a huge amount of very good documentation on the microsoft documentation site, but it's not organized in a way that makes it easy to find.

New comment by mpmpmpmp in "20 Years of .NET"

mpmpmpmp — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 16:03:52 +0000

Event sourcing

New comment by mpmpmpmp in "I took down my Starlink dish (but haven't cancelled)"

mpmpmpmp — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 16:54:46 +0000

My static IP geolocates to a town 50 miles away. So unless it's some list that has good accuracy i wouldn't think so.

New comment by mpmpmpmp in "Ask HN: How to get started in amateur astronomy?"

mpmpmpmp — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 01:44:32 +0000

The AAVSO and Project Panoptes are two citizen science astronomy projects that are welcoming to all levels of experience. I think like with all hobbies you can spend a lot or a little, although for good astronomy equipment you either have to have machining/engineering skills or deep pockets for the best stuff. You can't really cheat the laws of physics when it comes to lenses, cameras, and mounts. What interests me is the science behind the data processing of photometry. That and the engineering behind building a remote observatory without spending a fortune. You definitely can find things that the pros can't because you will be able to get way more telescope time than a pro does. Things like verifying exoplanet candidates, or observing variable stars and eclipsing binaries and recording the light curves. All stuff that amateurs can contribute to.

New comment by mpmpmpmp in "When my wife developed Alzheimer’s, the story of our marriage kept us connected"

mpmpmpmp — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 15:31:23 +0000

The word luxury in this context usually implies some kind of privilege. Which is a strange thing to say.

New comment by mpmpmpmp in "GPS"

mpmpmpmp — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 22:48:45 +0000

I think the slowness of the bitrate is about making sure any errors in transmission caused my the atmosphere can be detected and accounted for.

New comment by mpmpmpmp in "In defense of flat earthers (2020)"

mpmpmpmp — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 03:25:51 +0000

> What the author is saying is that much of what we call science are actually facts that we take on faith

This is true from a practical sense in that most people don't validate scientific assumptions that are widely accepted for themselves. But the reason why we are able to reliably take them on faith is the interesting part to me.

Peer review and the scientific method allow for incentive to "prove each other wrong" as well as to have the ability to replicate (or try to) the results for yourself. When I ask my Catholic friend why he believes the Christian God is real, and he says his evidence is that he feels the holy spirit. I have no way to disprove that and no way to replicate or prove that evidence. Therefore it's not really a reliable way to have faith in that fact.

New comment by mpmpmpmp in "Tell HN: Salary data is for sale"

mpmpmpmp — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 13:18:08 +0000

Straight from your link.

"No data is shared unless your employees specifically request it to be shared, usually as part of an application process for loans, credit, or public aid, or in response to a permissible purpose under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”), such as a court order."

New comment by mpmpmpmp in "CDC reports increase in human rabies cases linked to bats in the U.S."

mpmpmpmp — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 00:14:32 +0000

I got bit on my finger tip by a feral cat and had to get the first dose injection in the fingertip. It was not pleasant. The rest of them were in the butt which was not great but nothing compared to the fingertip. The cat did die and my parents were able to send it in and luckily the tests for the cat came back negative after a couple of days and I did not have to get all the doses.

New comment by mpmpmpmp in "The UX on this small child is terrible"

mpmpmpmp — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 05:33:38 +0000

I realize the satire, but honestly the best thing we ever did was have a vegetable garden. She started eating random vegetables from the garden when she went outside to play and it's been a breeze to get her to love vegetables in meals since. Really feel lucky about that one!

New comment by mpmpmpmp in "Do you ever avoid submitting something on HN so devs won't ruin it?"

mpmpmpmp — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 19:47:00 +0000

I think your points are still valid, but "still notice downvotes happening" doesn't make sense. You can still dislike a video on youtube. The difference is that when you go to a video with 12 million views making extraordinary claims you'll no longer see 65k downvotes and realize it's a waste of the next 12 minutes of your life and skip it.

New comment by mpmpmpmp in "In major shift, EU says vaccine boosters should be considered for all adults"

mpmpmpmp — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 18:53:51 +0000

Your last paragraph seems like the sort of discussion that should be had with a healthcare professional, not random people on the internet.

New comment by mpmpmpmp in "How I got wealthy without working too hard"

mpmpmpmp — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 17:08:02 +0000

I think the point is if you're a contractor and you're not getting the same rates as an equivalent company would for that contract/position you're under-selling yourself. As for the "tax trick" you still don't get out of paying income taxes on the entire revenue you generate. You just pay employment taxes on the portion that is salary. Whether that's "fair" or not is open to debate of course.

New comment by mpmpmpmp in "An original Apple-1 computer sells for $400k"

mpmpmpmp — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 14:03:15 +0000

It’s typically referred to as a wash trade or a wash sale.

New comment by mpmpmpmp in "U.S. crude oil price tops $80 a barrel, the highest since 2014"

mpmpmpmp — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 16:48:16 +0000

Yes and it's precisely because futures and forward contracts are being used that is possible. If it wasn't then market uncertainty and fluctuations in the economy would be more instantly reflected in prices of the end user products consuming those commodities. With hedging now you can focus on margin and operations which is the whole point of your business, not predicting the global economy.

New comment by mpmpmpmp in "U.S. crude oil price tops $80 a barrel, the highest since 2014"

mpmpmpmp — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 15:43:52 +0000

The last sentence is not true. The whole point of a futures contract is to hedge risk and allow price discovery. It is true the companies consuming commodities will buy at almost any price but more active trading results in a price more closer to fair market value over time. It’s the same reason why prices for rarely sold items fluctuate widely between sales. There’s no activity to visibly show the change in demand or supply in between.