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My Country Is Cruel to Anyone Outside of a Car

oliverobscure — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 18:34:07 +0000

Article URL: https://oliverobscure.xyz/posts/my-country-is-cruel-to-anyone-outside-of-a-car/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41862224

Points: 13

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New comment by oliverobscure in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

oliverobscure — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 20:27:37 +0000

Xe, thank you so much for your work. I love reading your blog, it’s calming and makes me laugh. I look up to you as someone who I would like to be in my professional life. Best wishes :)

New comment by oliverobscure in "Track HN: Survival Rate of Show HN Stories"

oliverobscure — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 18:39:20 +0000

Great visualisation. I was quite surprised that the submission dates and times appeared unimodal around an American morning peak.

New comment by oliverobscure in "Show HN: A Latin self study course, Khan Academy-style"

oliverobscure — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 19:16:12 +0000

I have many fond memories of learning Latin with Ecce Romani. Raeda in fossa est, whatever will they do?

New comment by oliverobscure in "How to Criticize Computer Scientists (2001)"

oliverobscure — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 10:03:45 +0000

My degree course is split across my university’s Computer Science and Engineering departments, so I often get to hear both of the discussions you described. I would say that CS supervisors talking to their students are more direct in saying that the ideas that they come with won’t work or that their mathematics is incorrect, whereas engineering professors seemed to be a bit more subtle and guiding where their students falter, as though they perhaps had the exact same ideas when they were younger and want to gently discourage the same mistakes. That’s not to say Engineering professors wouldn’t tell you you’re wrong, it just feels that the knowledge gap between the experienced and inexperienced engineer is larger than that for the computer scientist, and so there is more room for small errors to grow into bigger problems if ignored.

What did the Allies use instead of the Enigma? (2020) [video]

oliverobscure — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 19:03:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJz4ctVKuaI

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26604593

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by oliverobscure in "The best way to exercise self-control is not to exercise it at all"

oliverobscure — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 18:13:54 +0000

I don't think it's "control" so much, just "be aware" of it.

New comment by oliverobscure in "The United Nations of Uniqlo"

oliverobscure — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 13:12:28 +0000

Especially in central London! I went around on a Zone 1 Uniqlo tour with my friend before lockdown and it's surprising in that different outlets offer different clothing.

I also am a fan of the lack of branding - the simplicity helps to complement other pieces, however I do also buy some of their UT Graphic Tees, especially since the designs are so... well, unique.

New comment by oliverobscure in "Cloudflare was down"

oliverobscure — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 21:39:23 +0000

If it impacts enough wallets, things might change. I'm not holding my breath though.

New comment by oliverobscure in "Western Digital's 16TB and 18TB drives: EAMR HDDs enter the retail channel"

oliverobscure — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 15:24:40 +0000

I suppose one could use the current size of the Internet Archive as a yardstick for how much public-facing stuff there is. Of course in general terms this also depends on your definition of 'the internet' - consider databases and other such stores. Huge numbers.

New comment by oliverobscure in "Western Digital's 16TB and 18TB drives: EAMR HDDs enter the retail channel"

oliverobscure — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 15:08:06 +0000

Archivists and people who enjoy large collections of data, who are providing a useful service to preserve internet history.

New comment by oliverobscure in "The pros and cons of self-learning"

oliverobscure — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 09:38:32 +0000

Personally, I find it really difficult to make progress without a rigid curriculum. There’s such a wide range of online content that I feel overwhelmed by the choices I have in what I should learn, which is why I decided to go to university in the end - I trust them to pick out the most relevant topics to my field of study. Although, to be fair, I do occasionally look at online courses so I can fill in some of the gaps not covered in lectures.