<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: nomel</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nomel</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 01:47:56 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=nomel" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nomel in "Worlds more habitable than Earth?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you're a believer in panspermia, then there's a chance "we" over there too. ;)</p>
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<p>> I'd say no pathogens but they'll come with us regardless.<p>I think <i>NOT</i> bringing the "right" microbes would be the problem, since it's not well understood. Childhood leukemia is linked to over cleanliness (lack of hepatitis A) [1]. Fecal transplants are being tested for neurological disorders, with some positive results!<p>Similarly, germ free rats have all sorts of problems, from under developed intestines to significant problems with brain development!<p>Who knows what's required, that we just happen to pick up while kids, sharing snot and mud with each other.<p>[1] <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9684709/" rel="nofollow">https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9684709/</a></p>
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<p>This and your original comment aren't compatible.</p>
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<p>Google, to find articles generated by claude, of course!</p>
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<p>The Machine Stops: <a href="https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teaching/ECS188/PDF_files/Machine_stops.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teaching/ECS188/PDF_files/...</a></p>
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<p>Yet, in all that noise, a git bisect will still function to find when a bug was introduced.</p>
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<p>Take away all reference books/material/notes, from any engineer, in any field, and see how well they do.<p>Human memory is shite. Understanding, and knowing what you need to reference, is <i>ludicrously</i> more valuable than rote memorization.</p>
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<p>I want mini games! "Score 5 points" style. Although, it would surely fail ADA compliance. I don't see how any of this could be practically effective, respecting ADA.</p>
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<p>I remember this was one of the killer features of Netscape! It was a browser with resume built in! Pretty funny, considering Firefox is a descendant of that browser.</p>
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<p>> and many hold the smallest subscription with all the models or at least two<p>This was part of the issue, as stated in their comment. We <i>couldn't</i> jump around to try it for the reason that is wasn't made available to, as you say, "all the power users".</p>
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<p>Yet, they're all almost exactly the same in style and composition.</p>
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<p>In my group, the person who helped the vendor set up our new DB has convinced management to convert all of our metadata tables (which we use for <i>every</i> filter operation) to JSON. As you can guess, he's never benchmarked a DB in his life.<p>Since our visualization tool went from 2 seconds per click (when I set it up the original DB) to over 40 now, even before implementing this change, I'm watching in amazement, waiting for someone to complain. It's <i>truly incredible</i> how tolerant users are. It's one of the reasons I think AI will take our jobs much sooner than most think: the average user has no useful perspective on silly things like performance or determinism, "that's just how it is".</p>
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<p>Where I work (in the same order of magnitude of value), ad-hoc catering like this is handled by the secretary/admin of the organizer, not some dedicated department. I wouldn't be surprised if it was similar.</p>
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<p>Yes, it's a tech that can be used to display in 3d, but not sure that's the best categorization choice overall.<p>You can also make things like holographic <i>lenses</i> [1].<p>And, "display" doesn't seem right. If you recorded a still image, it's a (literal) <i>record</i> of the light field of a scene that lets you view the scene in 3d, like a magnifying glass functioning from all perspectives [2]. You do get the "display" of a 3d scene out of it, when used that way.<p>Fun fact, you can make your own at home with gelatin, some photo chemicals [3], a laser, and a ludicrously stable table. DIY hologram is going to be one of the first things I do when I retire.<p>[1] Used in HUDs, like in fighter jets. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_optical_element" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_optical_element</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMdvBmePm9U" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMdvBmePm9U</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DnjATyPuFFk" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DnjATyPuFFk</a><p>[3] <a href="https://holowiki.org/wiki/Dichromated_Gelatin" rel="nofollow">https://holowiki.org/wiki/Dichromated_Gelatin</a></p>
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<p>>  without completing an environmental impact assessment (EIA).<p>Because they didn't follow the procedure of first completing the EIA, which Google is surely familiar with, with all of their other datacenters/construction (especially ANYTHING in California, which was detrimentally bad until recently [1]).<p>[1] <a href="https://abc7news.com/post/gov-gavin-newsom-signs-new-bills-aimed-fix-californias-housing-crisis/16905121/" rel="nofollow">https://abc7news.com/post/gov-gavin-newsom-signs-new-bills-a...</a></p>
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<p>I saw it on the hacker news front page.</p>
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<p>There's not much more satisfying than looking a a codebase, and mentally soaring through all its concept and files, peering down, feeling clean and happy the whole way. :)<p>Related, I've wasted so much time in my life, typing things that don't matter at all to anyone but myself. I suppose there are worse vices!</p>
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<p>I firmly believe it's because someone getting fired, for poor performance, is a huge deal now.<p>Where I am, exposing someones poor performance is more of an exhibition in the failure of the hiring process and all involved. So, you just keep the under-performers around.</p>
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<p>Nobody doing long interviews is doing it blindly. It's because you're already passed some reasonable level of screening that mostly resembles a regular 45 minute type interview.</p>
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<p>As someone who has dealt with both sides (interviewing and working with those that pass the interview), I really wish a long interview, like this, was standard. 45 minutes is not enough, unless it's easy to fire people.</p>
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