Hacker News: pid_0

New comment by pid_0 in "Why are plants green? To reduce the noise in photosynthesis"

pid_0 — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 00:07:52 +0000

Free radicals will cause cell damage and thus death or cancer

New comment by pid_0 in "2022 NSA Codebreaker Challenge"

pid_0 — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 15:16:19 +0000

No one should help the nsa or participate in anything they do.

New comment by pid_0 in "CircleCI Announces Support for Gitlab"

pid_0 — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 19:22:01 +0000

Who even uses external CIs anymore? GitHub and gitlab ones are great otherwise you have plenty you can deploy yourself.

New comment by pid_0 in "Tesla remotely converts battery pack, cutting 1/3 of range"

pid_0 — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 19:19:31 +0000

The big brands like ford who actually know how to make a car are going to swallow Tesla. Tesla had a jump on them for sure, and sold a cool brand, but their cars have major qc issues, the company is a mess, and I do not trust them long term. Bet on the real auto makers.

New comment by pid_0 in "No evidence for nudging after adjusting for publication bias"

pid_0 — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 16:38:52 +0000

No offense, but the research in social sciences has very little credibility. From the reproduction crisis to the blatant inability to research things that go against what the professors want, it’s just untrustworthy. Academia needs to fix itself.

New comment by pid_0 in "Twitter data breach exposes contact details for 5.4M accounts; on sale for $30k"

pid_0 — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 00:37:14 +0000

It’s actually to reduce trolls, bots, etc. the easier it is to make an account the lower quality most accounts will be.

New comment by pid_0 in "New divorce app to help couples split assets in New York without lawyers"

pid_0 — Sat, 23 Jul 2022 13:26:13 +0000

Well the simple way to get around this is to just not have kids. It’s easy! Just don’t have them and your life will be great. Happily married, 0 kids. 1 vasectomy.

New comment by pid_0 in "ML is not that good at predicting consumers' choices"

pid_0 — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 17:47:48 +0000

Nest is a terrible product. The learning aspect did not work at all and their app always takes forever to refresh. I switched to ecobee and couldn’t be happier. HomeKit and home assistant integration without hassle. Google products are generally quite terrible.

New comment by pid_0 in "EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, approved"

pid_0 — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 13:03:16 +0000

They are. You may be seeing more exploits in general because there is monetary incentive to find them, but iPhone is more secure in general especially when it comes to malware. They also have 5 or more years of support for devices and historically patched very old versions for security issues. Unlike android where 10% of the users are on the latest update, if the carrier even supplies it!

New comment by pid_0 in "The Boxes of Hock Wah Yeo"

pid_0 — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 02:29:13 +0000

New comment by pid_0 in "Beyond Meat signs global supply deals with McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut"

pid_0 — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 02:28:17 +0000

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New comment by pid_0 in "How an Anti-TypeScript “JavaScript developer” like me became a TypeScript fan"

pid_0 — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 18:19:34 +0000

I use type annotations in Python no matter what. It really helps skim the code faster and mentally understand what values I am expecting. Its very useful to know which var is a List[dict] and so on.

I don't like TS because javascript is just a silly language to do anything serious with (besides front end), and its so stringent it takes forever to write quickly.

New comment by pid_0 in "Gab has been hacked and 70GB of data leaked"

pid_0 — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 18:15:06 +0000

You aren't a jerk if you refuse to call someone a made up pronoun. If a she wants to be called a he, fine. If you want to be a benegender xyzbbq xe/xir, no.

New comment by pid_0 in "Gab has been hacked and 70GB of data leaked"

pid_0 — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 18:01:55 +0000

It seems people didn't really understand what I am saying. Calling human rights a political issue makes it seem as if there are two opposing yet equally valid sides... as that is what political means.

Human rights are not political. There is not opposing view to human rights, you just give them to people. Every has the right to respect, equality, etc. Thought that would be pretty obvious.

Making this stuff "political" just devalues the message and progress.

New comment by pid_0 in "Gab has been hacked and 70GB of data leaked"

pid_0 — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 17:58:53 +0000

>Human rights are not political.

I thought that statement would make it clear I am in support for all the stuff you mentioned, guess not

New comment by pid_0 in "Gab has been hacked and 70GB of data leaked"

pid_0 — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 14:37:28 +0000

Free speech absolutionism is stupid. You can limit free speech without actually harming anyone (please don’t mention the slippery slope fallacy)

Some things just DONT need to be said. Racial slurs in the wrong context (attacks), holocaust denials, etc. these things have NO positive outcome. None. Nothing at all in the world will change if you ban these things.

We can have free speech while stopping extremism and getting rid of scum like Gab and parlor is the first step.

It’s not a black or white situation.

New comment by pid_0 in "U.S. asks Google for detailed search data in antitrust case"

pid_0 — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 14:32:42 +0000

But it would be in your interest as it would help both products.

New comment by pid_0 in "OCD Is Not a Joke"

pid_0 — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 14:26:47 +0000

People who say “I’m so ocd” aren’t making a joke though. They think that is what ocd actually is, quirky and cute.

WSB is using the term autist ironically and it’s completely self aware.

New comment by pid_0 in "Are Xiaomi browsers spyware? Yes, they are (2020)"

pid_0 — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 02:27:40 +0000

Are all chinese products spyware? Yes, they are.

Don't use chinese brands for phones, software, etc.

New comment by pid_0 in "How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%"

pid_0 — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 21:05:14 +0000

Very cool analysis. Its unbelievable that this is still unfixed. I don't play GTA anymore mostly because of the load times for every single action.