Hacker News: notjtrig

New comment by notjtrig in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

notjtrig — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 21:23:57 +0000

Only 22% of the public voted for Trump.

New comment by notjtrig in "It's later than you think"

notjtrig — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 02:11:09 +0000

Students should pay for the privilege and opportunity provided by the diploma, namely a way to set themselves apart from the plebeians. Prestige is something AGI will never replace.

New comment by notjtrig in "Aboriginal ritual passed down over 12,000 years, cave find shows"

notjtrig — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 15:02:31 +0000

>One ritual involved tying something that belonged to a sick person to the end of a throwing stick smeared in human or kangaroo fat. The stick was thrust into the ground before a small fire was lit underneath.

>"The mulla-mullung would then chant the name of the sick person, and once the stick fell, the charm was complete," a Monash University statement said.

New comment by notjtrig in "My kid sounds like ChatGPT, and soon yours might, too"

notjtrig — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 04:38:25 +0000

Noam Chomsky famously discovered that the building blocks of language are preloaded into the human mind, children use a hypothetical tool called the Language Acquisition Device to quickly learn grammar even with little input. I wonder is this a genetic device or something of a quantum nature?

New comment by notjtrig in "Musk tells advertisers: "Go. Fuck. Yourself.""

notjtrig — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 06:38:31 +0000

I hope this is part of his larger plan to delete Twitter.

New comment by notjtrig in "Ask HN: What do you use to replace incandescent lights?"

notjtrig — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 12:30:30 +0000

I have something like this it’s very nice at the warmest setting but only equal to maybe 25w incandescent. https://www.amazon.com/ONLSITY-Pendant-Lights-Outdoor-Contro... I think the defused cover on these lights make them exceptional source of light.

For regular bulbs I use Energetic Edison style bulb https://www.amazon.com/Equivalent-Filament-Daylight-Non-Dimm...

New comment by notjtrig in "How Stone Walls Became a Signature Landform of New England"

notjtrig — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 12:17:46 +0000

There’s a very good YouTube channel that deals with the history of New England forests with Tom Wessels, a terrestrial ecologist, it’s called NewEnglandForests

New comment by notjtrig in "Apple extends Emergency SOS via satellite for an additional free year"

notjtrig — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 09:13:13 +0000

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/11/apple-extends-emergen...

New comment by notjtrig in "To get off fossil fuels, America is going to need a lot more electricians"

notjtrig — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 20:41:18 +0000

Because of this, a mini split is becoming a very common DIY project, the tool kit goes for $250 on Amazon, from what I understand you'll get a better install doing it yourself because you can purge the lines for the recommend 24 hours.

New comment by notjtrig in "To get off fossil fuels, America is going to need a lot more electricians"

notjtrig — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 20:18:37 +0000

In the US the solar industry waxes and wanes in certain states due to regulations, discounts and how the power companies treat home solar.

States define the ratio of electricians to installers so with the right ratio and availability of work there are plenty of contactors who will hire electricians without expecting any work to be completed.

New comment by notjtrig in "The global fight against HIV is at risk"

notjtrig — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 17:06:55 +0000

There's an estimated 156,000 people in the USA that have HIV and are unaware of their status, 21% of the population believes in witchcraft here. It's not that HIV doesn't pose a public health risk, it's just not nearly as prevelent.

New comment by notjtrig in "Israel's name is conspicuously absent from maps on the Chinese internet"

notjtrig — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 21:50:29 +0000

It's name is however absent from the map.

New comment by notjtrig in "Israel's name is conspicuously absent from maps on the Chinese internet"

notjtrig — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 20:49:15 +0000

And Palestine is missing from Google maps, always has been. A search for State of Palestine on Bing maps renders Palestine, Texas.

New comment by notjtrig in "[dead]"

notjtrig — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 20:01:07 +0000

On Sunday morning, Musk posted a picture of Wikipedia asking for a donation below a snoozing emoji.

“Have you ever wondered why the Wikimedia Foundation wants so much money?” Musk asked in the next tweet. “It certainly isn’t needed to operate Wikipedia. You can literally fit a copy of the entire text on your phone! So, what’s the money for? Inquiring minds want to know…”

New comment by notjtrig in "An antiquated law rules mining in the West"

notjtrig — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 04:45:28 +0000

Did you purchase it outright or have the previous owners murdered?

New comment by notjtrig in "Ask HN: "Ad blockers are not allowed on YouTube" aggresively"

notjtrig — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 23:16:13 +0000

Oh big time favor, time to backup our Gmail accounts the wardens of the internet gulag are getting desperate.

New comment by notjtrig in "Railway time"

notjtrig — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 07:48:04 +0000

At the time the American railroad interests were enslaving tens of thousands of Chinese and perpetuating genocide against the native people and animals, that's technically not co-operation nor was anything involving the English working class and industrial revolution.

I think the word you're looking for is subordination.

New comment by notjtrig in "Running Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 in 298MB of RAM"

notjtrig — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 16:26:48 +0000

125 watt hours for a raspberry pi to generate an image in 10 hours compared to 7 watt hours for a 440W PC to run for 1 minute.

New comment by notjtrig in "Ask HN: 6 months later. How is Bard doing?"

notjtrig — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 08:30:12 +0000

AI generated monetized content via midjourney, text to gif and text to video.

New comment by notjtrig in "Ask HN: Has anyone switched from a professional job to a more manual one?"

notjtrig — Thu, 25 May 2023 03:21:29 +0000

Construction work isn't that hard or back breaking. One guy's operating a machine and one guy is spotting him, you drive a lot, take hour lunches, sleep in the machines. $25 an hour to start. Foreman's are usually busy with the people above them.

I run a homestead as my primary means of surviving, it's similar work, 12 hour days, a fraction of the pay and pretty darn fulfilling.