<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: ranger207</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ranger207</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:06:39 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=ranger207" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ranger207 in "Memory decline after menopause linked to loss of estrogen production in brain"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Re #2, in the mtf trans experience high estrogen and low testosterone are correlated with low libido, with some individuals even temporarily stopping antiandrogen medications in order to get some back</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 16:08:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48337750</link><dc:creator>ranger207</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48337750</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48337750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ranger207 in "A successful Japanese trial of a ramjet engine designed for Mach‑5 aircraft"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Missiles versus aircraft is a fight between very high kinetic energy in the missile, and relatively low kinetic energy in the plane, but with the ability to generate more kinetic energy. Missiles don't have a lot of fuel, so they need to generate a lot of kinetic energy to still be effective by the time they reach the target. Typically a missile will accelerate to its top speed in the first few seconds of flight and coast the rest of the way. At very long ranges, all the energy generated when launched has bled off, so there's two common solutions for long-range missiles to generate more energy: a "dual pulse" motor is basically a second rocket motor that fires later in the course; or a ramjet, which can be throttled up and down and is more fuel efficient than a rocket engine.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 13:46:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48279834</link><dc:creator>ranger207</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48279834</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48279834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ranger207 in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well, only one Waymo got stuck in that flood, while at least two human-driven cars did, so by pure counting metrics they are better lol. But in my experience driving around them Waymos are much much better than most Atlanta drivers, not that that's a high bar</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 23:31:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48230060</link><dc:creator>ranger207</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48230060</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48230060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ranger207 in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I just moved from an apartment right next to where this Waymo got stuck: <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/Atlanta/comments/1tj00sl/flooding_in_midtown_ooof/" rel="nofollow">https://old.reddit.com/r/Atlanta/comments/1tj00sl/flooding_i...</a> and I can say that that particular intersection floods about every time it rains hard. That being said, yesterday's rain was particularly heavy and I hadn't seen that intersection flood that bad since before Waymo started being rolled out here</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 23:29:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48230041</link><dc:creator>ranger207</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48230041</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48230041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ranger207 in "Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My company just finished switching from LastPass to Bitwarden. Just in time for that to become terrible too it looks like lol</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 16:16:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225199</link><dc:creator>ranger207</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225199</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ranger207 in "Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm curious to see how this works out, because sports betting is _not_ in the CFTC's remit, and Kalshi etc's argument that states can't regulate them because they're not technically sports betting is contrary to the spirit of the law</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 20:29:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48199092</link><dc:creator>ranger207</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48199092</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48199092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ranger207 in "Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In a similar vein is <a href="https://rngdle.com/" rel="nofollow">https://rngdle.com/</a> which takes daily games where you post your scores to social media to gloat to its logical conclusion</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 17:10:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48196142</link><dc:creator>ranger207</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48196142</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48196142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ranger207 in "Appearing productive in the workplace"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The idea was to get people to include more substance. Instead of just saying "Washington crossed the Delaware" to get students to include reasons why, impacts, further narrative, etc. IDK if it was effective or not. Probably at least a little; there's only so many ways to rewrite the same thing over and over. I know in my case though I submitted essays below the word count a few times, but since I actually included the content they were looking for I didn't have any problems</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 20:01:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48040995</link><dc:creator>ranger207</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48040995</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48040995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ranger207 in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The controller will work with Steam running in the background</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 17:37:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039055</link><dc:creator>ranger207</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039055</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ranger207 in "Why most product tours get skipped"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, I can read about the parts that I want right now. If I open a video editor to splice two clips together, I don't need to know about input devices. If I want to do that, I can go read the manual for that at that time.<p>Plus, there's no way I'm going to remember whatever the tour tells me by that time anyway. To actually learn the product you need experience to lock in what the manual says</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 00:41:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48030728</link><dc:creator>ranger207</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48030728</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48030728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ranger207 in "The best is over: The fun has been optimized out of the Internet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, it's all about communities, not platforms. What happens is that people find a community they like, then the platform underneath it dies (IRC, MySpace, Digg, etc) and they can't find the same community on a new platform. I've made a lot of friends on Discord, and ionce a year or so when it looks like Discord's about to finally give up we talk about our plans to migrate the community to a different platform. But since the community is the important part, we don't really care about the ills of the platform until it starts to actively hurt the community</p>
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<p>I've had success with other games (haven't tried KSA yet) adding them as a non-Steam game and using Proton like that. But yeah not being on Steam and me having to eg check for updates on my own, remember another login to download on a new computer, etc means that I'm going to stick with KSP 1 for a while at least</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 03:47:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48017835</link><dc:creator>ranger207</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48017835</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48017835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ranger207 in "Artemis II fault tolerance"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What raises the error, and how does the system know that an error has happened? Like, if you have two processors calculating 2+2, and one comes out to 4 and the other to 5, how does the system know which one is correct? Actually, typing it out I think I get it now. It doesn't need to know which one is correct, it just has to redo the calculation if there's ever a disagreement. Then if somehow both processors calculate 2+2=5 simultaneously, the next computer over will disagree and everyone will repeat the calculation, and that's why they have 3 levels of paired redundancy and the chance of 8 simultaneous single-event upsets is low enough for their risk tolerance. Ok, now I get it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 03:55:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983156</link><dc:creator>ranger207</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983156</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ranger207 in "Good developers learn to program. Most courses teach a language"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In one of my classes they had to explicitly ban people from using Python in their psuedocode submissions lol. (Generally this meant things like "no list comprehensions" and similar Python syntax details).</p>
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<p>CS degrees are about computer science, not software engineering. The fact that the best available degree for a software developer is generally a CS degree is a historical accident, but regardless universities unfortunately don't tend to cater towards what CS students are actually getting their degree for</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 03:45:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983113</link><dc:creator>ranger207</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983113</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ranger207 in "Notes on a non-profit indicted for bank fraud"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Patrick tends to describe systems in a vaguely disapproving tone of voice. It may be because he disagrees with the participants in the system (the SPLC in this case), it may be because he disagrees with the system itself and how it's used, or it may even be that he agrees with the system and how participants use the system and is using a somewhat negative tone in order to not appear biased. Regardless, the result is that it's easy to feel defensive if you do support the subject of one of his articles (again, the SPLC in this case), while people who don't like the subjects can point to his generally well reasoned and comprehensive article as evidence the subject isn't all it's cracked up to be. I've seen it happen before here on HN where people will get nitpicky about details of the article and miss the overall point, and I think it's because the negative tone makes people defensive.<p>Regardless, I'd encourage you to think about the actual moral actions presented in this article. Is the system that the SPLC used and extended an inherently bad system (in this case, acting as a source of disallowed organizations for banks)? Furthermore, given the existence of that system, was the SPLC's use of it bad? Are the SPLC's goals good or bad? Were their methods in the timeline taking up the latter half of the article good? Despite the generally negative tone of the article, I think they were a morally acceptable method of achieving their goals. Essentially, the article is describing the SPLC's efforts to use large-scale community organizing and pressuring organizations to accomplish their moral goals. The article's disapproving tone makes this sound like a conspiracy and... it kinda is. But then, can't you describe almost any charity as a conspiracy to accomplish a moral goal? As the article notes, the SPLC has used similar tactics in the past to combat, eg, the KKK, and I doubt many people would imagine that as a conspiracy to target and censure particular law-abiding citizens.<p>In short, despite the article's somewhat negative tone overall, I don't think anything described is actually a negative thing (well, the factual bank fraud is, but not the conspiracy to implement moral goals). The description of the methods they used are essentially a negatively-worded description of just about any sort of charitable organization. You could describe the DNC as a conspiracy to install into power authoritarians who want to curb speech they don't want ("hate speech"), for example, or you could describe it as a grassroots organization to ensure people are fairly represented in government and their wishes (curbing racism) are achieved.</p>
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<p>> The self-checking pairs ensure that if a CPU performs an erroneous calculation due to a radiation event, the error is detected immediately and the system responds.<p>How does a pair determine which of the pair did the calculation correctly?</p>
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<p>Almost all of the music I listen to is instrumental. Like the article says, lyrics distract me from whatever I'm doing, and I rarely listen to music for the sake of listening to music, it's always something I'm going while doing something else. At most I might listen to lyrics while driving, but I'll pause the music if the driving situation gets complicated (like in stop and go traffic where I need to get over 3 lanes)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 15:40:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976057</link><dc:creator>ranger207</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976057</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ranger207 in "Gender reassignment significantly increases psychiatric morbidity"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Finland specifically has problems treating trans kids: <a href="https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/finland-trans-study-kaltiala-bad-science" rel="nofollow">https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/finland-trans-st...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:32:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47826951</link><dc:creator>ranger207</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47826951</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47826951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ranger207 in "Navy to use underwater drones to help clear Iranian mines from Strait of Hormuz"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For minesweepers (and air defense missiles too for that matter) the cost-benefit isn't just "cost of minesweeper over cost of mine", it's "cost of minesweeper over cost of mine plus cost of ships that run into mines". Also, minesweepers have an advantage in terms of concentration: you have to mine an entire area for mines to be fully effective, but you only need to proof one mine-free lane for the minesweepers to get their cargo through. (That being said, the best use of minefields is to canalize targets so they show up in areas you're expecting and are prepared for, which can shift the balance back the other way too.)</p>
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