<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: readenough</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=readenough</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 05:28:16 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=readenough" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by readenough in "How we learned to stop worrying and love campus surveillance"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thank you. His memory is importantly to me and helped frame how I see freedom and civil authority. I still make mistakes on this tiny hand held platform.</p>
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<p>Somehow this reminds me to think of Aaron Schwartz.</p>
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<p>I think Molson Hart should add a panda to their line of stuffed animals.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2025 14:02:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43705719</link><dc:creator>readenough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43705719</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43705719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by readenough in "Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Everyone here seems to have missed the significance of L.J. Rogers in this story.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2024 01:52:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41910408</link><dc:creator>readenough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41910408</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41910408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by readenough in "The quiet art of attention"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For many you are correct. I can confirm, through my own observation, that many, not all, are controlled by fear, and fear of death is one of the most prevalent. Death is universal, but fear of death is not.</p>
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<p>Trying it out might lead to the cap getting accidentally sucked into the wind pipe. Please be careful.
Edit spelling.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2024 14:52:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41626795</link><dc:creator>readenough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41626795</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41626795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by readenough in "Ask HN: If you drive a car, what car is it and why?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>2013 Subaru Outback
Main Reason: All wheel drive
I had a couple bad experiences in the past not being able to get out with only moderately slippery roads.</p>
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<p>In the early 90's I was visiting an industrial plant that had, in one building, a giant dehumidifier that was necessary for their process. My field work took me to the roof of that building. Unrelated to what I was working on, I saw an air conditioner on the roof whose condensate line had become disconnected. Instead of the condensate flowing through a PVC pipe and into a drain at the edge of the building, the condensate was pooling on the roof in a broad shallow pond. Being a good guy, I tapped the PVC pipe back together the get the water flowing like it should have been.<p>The next morning I went back into the dehumidifier building and saw that it was raining inside the building. People were moving around in a very agitated state. In a panic, I ran up the stairs to the roof and kicked apart the PVC pipe that I had joined the day before. Water began to stream out, but I got away from there fast and went back downstairs. A few minutes later, a member of the maintenance crew came in. He looked at the rain and immediately dashed upstairs.<p>He came down a minute later shaking his head. I didn't confess. I only hope that they didn't have enormously expensive damage, but I don't really know. One thing is for sure. I am very cautious about volunteering to help out without first checking with the plant personnel.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2024 13:13:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40562312</link><dc:creator>readenough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40562312</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40562312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by readenough in "Ask HN: What's the best book you've read so far in 2024?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I read The City & the City by China Miéville. If I were to recommend it, it would be because the author's English vocabulary is so much fuller than my own. I had to keep a dictionary handy to get through most of it and I appreciated the challenge.</p>
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<p>My personal view, as an industrial control systems engineer, is that so much of the world's production software requires teams of software professionals to monitor it and keep it working. When these same software professionals look at systems which physically interact with the real world on a real time basis then a different dynamic comes into play.</p>
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<p>I am ten books into the Wings of Fire series by Tui T Sutherland because my grand daughter likes it. My main reason for liking it is that it gives me a glimpse of the type of anxiety that young kids routinely go through. I think the main reason my granddaughter likes it is because of the dragons.</p>
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<p>I think the question should go even deeper. There are so many fundamental axioms that must be accepted on faith alone. The question I usually start with is "Can anyone prove that numbers exist outside of our imagination?" I not talking simply about perception. Even I believe that if I perceive that I am hit with a brick then the brick exists. We have no senses that can detect numbers. When I asked this question to any of the several mathematicians that I know, the answer has always been ~ Yeah, good question ~ and then they move on.</p>
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<p>The anecdote I have is that one of my grand daughter's teeth are worse than my other grand children and grand nieces and nephews. She used RO water more than the others when she was younger, and her dentist reinforced the idea that RO water was unfriendly to early tooth health, apparently due to reduced fluoridation. I'm not suggesting that is worse than forever chemicals.</p>
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<p>We made the offer on our current house without seeing it and I know several others in the same situation.</p>
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<p>You are correct that those two movements are not completely contradictory. First, it must not be assumed that everyone who is pro-choice will always chose abortion. Second, neither the pro-choice nor anti-abortion movements seem to have a large scale plan for the care of children born from unwanted pregnancies. So there are areas that are not contradictory.</p>
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<p>The author brings up some important information that is not always easily noticed. The university should definitely setup a task force to look into the matter and give the author a paid position on the task force.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2022 20:11:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33836201</link><dc:creator>readenough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33836201</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33836201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by readenough in "Arduino unveils the Opta – “Micro PLC” for industrial IoT"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You're right. I should not have judged like that and I apologize. What I should have said is that I have seen a lot of misplaced skepticism in this industry and I never really understood it. There is plenty of room for Arduino to enter this market and develop good products. We'll see what happens.</p>
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<p>I agree. It really helps to read the description and not just the title. I have been in industrial controls since 1980, so I'm I'm not so quick to dismiss the introduction of the next new thing. Ten years ago, when the Raspberry PI was introduced, I didn't expect to see it as the go to thin client for manufacturing floor HMIs. Yet, in some, very large and well funded plants, it is. Am I ready to put the Opta in mission critical control? No. Am I happy to see a more open option for IoT? Yes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2022 14:36:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33561287</link><dc:creator>readenough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33561287</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33561287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by readenough in "Ask HN: How do I find my “purpose”?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>jstarfish did not say that missionary work would benefit the target audience of the missionary, and you did nothing to disabuse what he did say.</p>
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<p>coastal.com redirects to eyebuydirect.com. Is that the same one you are talking about?</p>
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