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New comment by okey in "Qantas Airbus A380 engine failure in 2010 (2023)"

okey — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 01:13:19 +0000

per the article, because the stub pipe counter bore had to be drilled after that end of the pipe was welded in place, so directly measuring pipe wall thickness wasn't practical

LLMorphism: When humans come to see themselves as language models

okey — Sun, 10 May 2026 08:22:12 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.05419

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48082021

Points: 82

# Comments: 58

Parametric Speaker Cabinet Design

okey — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 21:09:35 +0000

Article URL: https://calbryant.uk/blog/design-build-of-some-elegant-fully-parametric-speaker-cabinets/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43246750

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by okey in "Net Neutrality Day of Action: Help Preserve the Open Internet"

okey — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 21:44:00 +0000

Hardwired

New comment by okey in "Rust vs. Go"

okey — Fri, 20 Jan 2017 03:58:15 +0000

As the post you are responding to pointed out, String::from converts from a string slice to a String. You didn't do this.

Your code fails to compile because it attempts to apply + to two string slices, and that is not implemented. @deathanatos also mentioned that.

You might find the Rust book page on Strings helpful: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/strings.html

New comment by okey in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)"

okey — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 02:20:22 +0000

Got any data to support that? (If you do, it makes my point even stronger...)

New comment by okey in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)"

okey — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 03:40:18 +0000

I'm not the original commenter, but according to glassdoor, the average salary for a senior in London is ~£61k, for front end devs ~£40k, and for generic devs ~£42k.

I think SandB0x was suggesting that if you want above average employees you may need to offer above average pay, although I'm aware that's not a literal interpretation of the comment.

Personally, I find the ideas behind Opendesk inspiring and I'd love to move to London... but the significant pay cut I'd have to take to work for you is more than I'm willing to pay. Sadly, ideas do not pay for rent or groceries.

New comment by okey in "America’s Short, Violent Love Affair with Indoor Track Cycling"

okey — Sat, 01 Oct 2016 02:58:09 +0000

> Gripping the bike’s front wheel was the only way for riders to brake

This is not actually true - track bicycles, then and now, do not have a freewheel/freehub mechanism and the rider cannot coast. As a consequence you can use the drivetrain as a braking mechanism by applying back pressure on the pedals.

New comment by okey in "The Fantastic World of Professor Tolkien (1956)"

okey — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 23:30:34 +0000

I think what you complaining about is really that Tolkein wasn't a moral relativist and that shows clearly in his writing.

This is different to the original complaint about a dichotomy - belief that some things are ultimately good and some other things are ultimately evil is not the same as dividing everything into rigid categories of only good or only evil.

Calling it a pilgrim's progress tale is a bit unwarranted, or at least overly reductionist - it's not that simplistic and that's only one aspect of LotR anyway.

A few grey areas off the top of my head: various elven decisions, Denethor, Frodo, Smeagol/Gollum, Saruman's initial study of ringlore. In Tolkien's writing, individuals do clearly good things, clearly bad things, difficult to judge things, and and things that are some combination of the previous three. All this happens within the framework of the very traditional overarching light v. dark theme (which is also the source of the association between evil and 'dark' and 'twisted' characterisations that some like to complain about).

A lot of it boils down to taste.

New comment by okey in "The Fantastic World of Professor Tolkien (1956)"

okey — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 23:02:10 +0000

Exactly. Galadriel, Elrond, and Faramir also have the opportunity to take the One Ring, and choose not to. Sadly Faramir's rejection of it was not portrayed in the movies.

New comment by okey in "The Fantastic World of Professor Tolkien (1956)"

okey — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 03:42:15 +0000

I agree he didn't invent the genre, although he certainly helped popularise and develop it.

"plenty" perhaps oversells the genre pre-Tolkien, and also afaik Jack Vance didn't start writing until well after The Hobbit was published, so I'm not sure he belongs on your list - William Morris would have been a much better example as a direct precursor to both Tolkien and Lewis.

New comment by okey in "The Fantastic World of Professor Tolkien (1956)"

okey — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 03:05:00 +0000

Saruman did what he thought best, initially for noble reasons... and that turned out poorly.

This is part of the seductive power theme in LotR, which in general I consider something of a counterpoint to GGP's complaints about "simplistic morals" and "obvious dichotomy".

New comment by okey in "No, Apple Music is not deleting your music – unless you tell it to"

okey — Fri, 06 May 2016 09:14:58 +0000

What is not addressed is that the article that inspired this post says in its second paragraph:

> they were all dismissed by condescending “gurus” who simply said that we had mislocated our files (I had the free drive space to prove that wasn’t the case) or that we must have accidentally deleted the files ourselves (we hadn’t).

Further, even if it was operator error, "Is this Apple's fault? Sort of." is a pretty bizarre way to lead into "it's 100% Apple's fault that the UX is confusing"(last quote paraphrased).

Splain it to Me

okey — Fri, 08 Jan 2016 01:23:12 +0000

Article URL: http://status451.com/2016/01/06/splain-it-to-me/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10862259

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by okey in "Google Chrome reportedly bypassing Adblock"

okey — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 08:14:18 +0000

Looks like it's just a bug caused by a recent patch. https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=526413#c...

Apple’s content blocking is chemo for the cancer of adtech

okey — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 23:19:38 +0000

Article URL: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2015/08/26/apples-content-blocking-is-chemo-for-the-cancer-of-adtech/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10126580

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

The Code Warriors – Caricatures of Programmers

okey — Tue, 26 May 2015 04:53:21 +0000

Article URL: http://www.daedtech.com/the-code-warriors

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9603013

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by okey in "Lea Verou: “AdBlock is morally equivalent to theft IMO”"

okey — Sun, 22 Feb 2015 22:25:39 +0000

Ah, I wanted to know why viggity agreed with Lea, not for a list of reasons to use ad-block, but you make some good points... although I disagree about the presence of an implicit contract in the first place.

New comment by okey in "Lea Verou: “AdBlock is morally equivalent to theft IMO”"

okey — Sun, 22 Feb 2015 20:18:03 +0000

You agree that when viewing a public site whose main revenue model is ads, you enter an implicit contract to view those ads? If so, why? If not, why do you agree that being selective about what HTTP reqs you make is morally equivalent to theft just because the site owner expects you not to be and hopes to gain money off that?

New comment by okey in "Lea Verou: “AdBlock is morally equivalent to theft IMO”"

okey — Sun, 22 Feb 2015 19:56:23 +0000

I really hope that this view isn't widespread amongst W3C people. "Controlling what HTTP reqs my device sends is morally wrong because the server owner expects to monetise them" is absurd.