<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: otherme123</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=otherme123</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 07:32:51 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=otherme123" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by otherme123 in "EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The message you respond to talks about "food stuff", which is admitedly blurry. You focus on food safety, which is very good in the US. But the EU also regulates heavily food quality and sustainability, and it usually shows IMO.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:39:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48452559</link><dc:creator>otherme123</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48452559</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48452559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by otherme123 in "Why are cells small?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A neuron can be more than 1 meter long in humans, more than 20 meter in a whale.</p>
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<p>The trick is that the egg is a ball with one small cell (the ovum) that happens to have also a huge reservoir of food for the future ostrich. There is a moment when there is only once cell in the egg, just after the fussion of the ovum and the sperm cell.</p>
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<p>> Finally, a good European player doesn't necessarily head to college. They may be playing for a serious club team at 18 or 19.<p>My guess is that less than 5% of european soccer players ever set a foot in College, at least in the biggest Leagues (UK, France, Italy, Spain and Germany). I only know two: Lampard and Iniesta. There might be a few more, but they are oddities.<p>If anything, a good player and good student usually has to make a choice at 18 years old: "am I good enough to bet my future on being a pro player and delay/abandon the College, or do I give up on being pro and focus on studying?"</p>
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<p>I live in a country that was ruled by the military many times in the past, and the US never looked to me under treat of a military coup.<p>In my country, any political problem real or perceived, and part of the population are already asking for the military to attempt a coup and fix things.</p>
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<p>It doesn't sound that conspiratory: someone of the millions of subscribers of Veritasium watches the video and thinks that is good content suited for HN, but instead of linking the video itself (rarely video links raise upvotes here) it links the primary source.<p>But even if the paper was "promoted" (i.e. a link submitted), what is bad about it? People seem to find it interesting, and unless there are upvoting bots involved, posting links is the raison d'être of this site.</p>
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<p>Reminds me of a casual conversation with a 1%, maybe a 0.1%: "we [meaning he and his wife] are not wealthy. All of our friends own a yatch, but we don't".</p>
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<p>OTOH, a celulose factory near me, built in the 1950's, got their permits fast and with little regard to environment. FF three decades, and their entire surroundings are destoyed for everyone else. Trials go nowhere, because they have all authorizations needed (and a lot of political leverage because they are the main employer in the region). Careful fast-tracking business that have zero incentives to avoid externalization of costs.</p>
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<p>Are you a sophist? This thread is about how the US has lost all their political leverage, built for almost a century, since Trump got in power (no longer a trustable ally, losing contracts, etc).<p>You keep mixing up pre- and post-Trump events as if nothing happened, technicalities, "but you said X", and nobody that was trying to debate in good faith does that, only one interested in "winning" the argument but with zero interest in getting somewhere productive.</p>
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<p>El inglés es la lengua franca de la ciencia. Hasta no hace mucho, la lengua franca era el latín, tan recientemente como que Newton (inglés) publicaba en latín. No basta con que los chinos tomen el liderazgo para que el chino se transforme de la noche al día en la lengua franca, hay otras dinámicas trabajando. Lo que hizo que el inglés se convirtiese en la lengua franca de la ciencia fue una explosión en la sociedad científica británica mientras el resto del mundo aportaba muchísimo menos en proporción.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 12:33:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48308026</link><dc:creator>otherme123</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48308026</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48308026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by otherme123 in "Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Point 1: "The Russian Federation., the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine, in accordance with the principles of the CSCE Final Act, to respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine"<p>Point 4 of the Memorandum: "The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America reaffirm their commitment to seek immediate United Nations Security Council action to provide assistance to Ukraine, as a non-nuclear-weapon state party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, if Ukraine should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used."<p>US actions in the UN: <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7435pnle0go" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7435pnle0go</a> "The US has twice sided with Russia in votes at the United Nations to mark the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, highlighting the Trump administration's change of stance on the war.<p>First, the US opposed a European-drafted resolution condemning Moscow's actions and supporting Ukraine's territorial integrity - voting the same way as Russia and countries including North Korea and Belarus at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York.<p>Then the US drafted and voted for a resolution at the UN Security Council which called for an end to the conflict, but contained no criticism of Russia."<p>The US has almost nothing to do (vote in the UN against Russia aggression), and yet did less than that. They can hide behind technicalities, but the truth is that Trump is acting like a Putin asset. For decades there has been a political fight in eastern Europe where the US projected power supporting governments that sympathized with western countries (enter NATO, enter UE, enter western markets, welcome western industries). US was winning the fight without shooting a bullet until Trump.<p>US has no official treaty with Israel (except the 10 year rolling aid), yet we would be shocked if suddenly an US government turn to support Israel neighbors and vote against them in the UN.</p>
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<p>Mi experiencia con Excel con las fórmulas en español no puede ser más decepcionante. Todo lo que sabes del Excel en inglés ahora tienes que añadirle saber cómo se le ocurrió al desarrollador traducir esa función al español. Si buscas algo en la documentación/foros y viene de la versión en inglés no puedes copiar y pegar, sino que antes tienes que traducir las funciones.<p>Igual tiene su público, pero para mí no es ningún punto positivo. Además, aunque en teoría somos muchos castellano-hablantes en el mundo, mi experiencia como traductor de programas al español es bastante decepcionante, con paquetes y programas muy importantes que apenas cuentan con gente que quiera traducir. Algunas librerías, como Django, están más activa y completamente traducidas a sueco (10 millones de hablantes), catalán (7 millones) o incluso irlandés (1 millón) que al español (400 millones). Eso sí, hay cinco versiones activas de español (ES, AR, MX, CO y VE). Los manuales en papel y en la web suelen estar escritos en inglés, apenas te vas a encontrar nada en español. Mi opinión es que no hay especial demanda por contenido técnico en ningún lenguaje que no sea el inglés.</p>
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<p>> Like 6H to 9H. You'll get a much lighter line to erase later. It'll also hold a finer point for longer.<p>With 6H you get lighter line, but only in colour. It can be actually harder to erase, because you naturally tend to push the pencil harder to see it, thus denting the paper and leaving the graphite at the bottom of a groove where the eraser cannot lift it. Those harder leads have great amounts of clay that very easily scratch the paper.<p>I go on the opposite direction, being my favorite lead a 4B: you need very low pressure to leave visible marks, that you can erase very easily with a kneaded eraser.<p>You are right that a 6H will hold the tip for way longer. Only if I don't need to remove the marks I would use the harder leads.</p>
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<p>What do you use to erase pencil? The words "Using an eraser and a light touch" suggest a gum or a vynil eraser. I make a ball with the kneaded eraser and roll it with the palm against the paper.</p>
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<p>I was once downvoted to oblivion in reddit for answering a question with "If you asked google instead of reddit, you will already have the answer". I remember the question being something like "Who is the CEO of Facebook?". The logic of the downvoting was that some people don't trust Google answers, or don't know how to ask so they can't tell in advance if some question is for Google or needs a human.<p>IMO they were right, I changed my approach to those kind of questions, and since that I try to answer like "A quick search in Google says that the CEO is Mark Zuckerberg (link to the search)". In StackOverflow I tried to go "As it says in the <a href='manual.html#section'>manual</a>, the params for that function are A, B and C, blah, blah...", so a mild RTFM. And now I do the same quoting the LLM paragraph that gave me the key info. It is like you say "this is how you can figure it out on your own the next time", and feels less aggressive than "go figure that on your own".</p>
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<p>I have a machine that has been Fedora since twenty-something to current 44, and upgrading yearly is a breeze. Three commands, and just wait for a download and the reboot. The only thing that breaks if you forget that the upgrade needs attention is the system Postgres, until I migrated to Podman images.</p>
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<p>Some years ago, answering "just google it!" was considered rude in some forums. It was asumed that some people didn't have enough googlefu, so googling for them was considered a good help. Also, almost all StackOverflow could be boiled down to a "RTFM" and close the questions.<p>Today there might be people who can't extract enough juice from LLMs, so it is not entirely useless to say "I was able to extract this info from a LLM, because I am good at it and you seem to struggle", instead of throwing "just ask Claude!".</p>
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<p>When I first read this, I thought Fender was after anything S-shaped, like the superstrats that makes Ibanez. Then I went to some of the makers, like LSL, and they are making not just strato-shaped guitars but almost exact copies including the same style brigde-vibrato (when everyone is building with Evertune or Floyd), the same single coil pickups, the same knobs, the same cable socket in the front, same pickguard, same dot fret markers, same neck insertion (when everybody is using better methods for top models). They paint the guitars mimicking Fender colour schemes and even painted as aged Fenders.<p>Solar Guitars has a category called "S", but despite having the general shape of a Strato, the similarities end there. And they are not being threatened.<p>This is not "all cars have 4 wheels". This is "lets make an exact copy of a Ferrari painted in Ferrari red, that even seasoned car enthusiast would have a hard time to tell appart from a Ferrari". That said, trademarking a guitar shape that they forgot to trademark a century ago is a bad move.</p>
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<p>> Ads for chainsaws on a chainsaw<p>Or what Google is doing for years: a wall of ads for "Black & Decker" chainsaws when you specifically search "Husqvarna" or "Stihl", sending the results you want to the sixth or seventh place in the page.</p>
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<p>Nowadays exercising might mean walk at decent pace. People acts like they are asking you to run 90 minutes daily at marathon record pace, when they are actually saying to walk briskly for trips less than a mile, or take the stairs instead of the elevator.<p>Only a few people take benefit from running heavier than 5 km (3 miles) in 30 minutes every other day. The rest of you exercise should come from anything that is not driving or browsing the web.</p>
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