Hacker News: rngname22

New comment by rngname22 in "Heat exchanger masks for cold weather cycling (2019)"

rngname22 — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 17:36:38 +0000

You might have cold-induced asthma?

New comment by rngname22 in "Research finds Covid variant with 100% mortality in ACE2-transgenic mice"

rngname22 — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 23:20:31 +0000

We have arms control and embargoes to prevent Iran from gaining fissile material but we don't give a fuck when nations that have proven themselves capable of regulating their biomedical research safety pursue reckless gain of function research. Makes total sense.

New comment by rngname22 in "New cancer drug kinder than chemotherapy"

rngname22 — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 19:44:18 +0000

Is there a way to like emit energy in a narrow beam from a bunch of different angles around a central target such that they only overlap in the center/target and the frequencies resonate in that location in such a way to reach a higher frequency past which there is a destructive effect but below which is safe and non-destructive?

/knows nothing about physics

New comment by rngname22 in "Is A.I. The Death of I.P.?"

rngname22 — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 19:45:21 +0000

Really confused to see your comment flagged.

The parent comment basically says "copyright is not a physical good or law, therefore we may disregard it".

As if the same couldn't be said for any verbal agreement, sexual consent, property rights, whatever.

They ought to be arguing why this _particular_ verbal agreement/social contract is not worth enforcing or practicing, rather than dismissing the entire category.

New comment by rngname22 in "Ask HN: 87yr old yoga teacher asked me to manage her website. Where to start?"

rngname22 — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 23:05:18 +0000

Website isn't loading, we are all probably driving up her views way beyond normal. Hope she doesn't have traffic-based pricing.

New comment by rngname22 in "Chicago-area Tesla charging stations lined with dead cars in freezing cold"

rngname22 — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 21:26:10 +0000

why series-type? (from a bit of research, seems these are also called EREV (extended-range electric vehicles, in the context of autos)

simpler engine since you can have an electric engine only and not have an ICE engine with more points of failure/maintenance?

New comment by rngname22 in "Chicago-area Tesla charging stations lined with dead cars in freezing cold"

rngname22 — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 20:54:45 +0000

gasoline has a shelf life of 3 to 6 months. and diesel 12 months in low temps.

might want a battery EV with ability to plug deployable solar module amd/or hydropower module and/or wood burning stove thermoelectric generator.

New comment by rngname22 in "Chicago-area Tesla charging stations lined with dead cars in freezing cold"

rngname22 — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 18:31:00 +0000

This is where a hybrid powertrain / PHEV is superior to EV. In an ideal system you want redundancies, especially redundancies that cover for each other's weaknesses.

New comment by rngname22 in "Ask HN: Why aren't any of my classes taught by my instructors anymore?"

rngname22 — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 22:36:47 +0000

Community colleges are great for knocking out general requirements that are pretty standard across most degrees for cheaper than a full blown university (and then transferring to a state university to do the major requirements) if your goal is just to have a lower cost in getting the fancy bachelor's degree diploma, but as far as quality of instruction I am not at all surprised.

https://www.reddit.com/r/careerguidance/comments/1373dim/com...

https://www.usnews.com/education/community-colleges/articles...

there is a subreddit /r/cscareeradvice which might be useful for you. obv. info sec is not the same as CS, but I ran a quick search for InfoSec in the subreddit and saw there are still posts about it.

New comment by rngname22 in "Navajo Nation request to delay private mission placing human remains on the moon"

rngname22 — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 19:03:43 +0000

I'm aware, and I think that climbing it should be banned.

New comment by rngname22 in "Navajo Nation request to delay private mission placing human remains on the moon"

rngname22 — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 19:02:50 +0000

The parent asked why they cared, I'm not making an argument I'm answering the question.

My answer is that it's distasteful to them and their belief system / worldview. I happen to share the same distaste, though not on any religious grounds.

Who cares about Navajo tastes? Presumably other people who agree with them and would support a ban on vanity projects on the moon or who find it distasteful, like myself.

New comment by rngname22 in "Ask HN: Why aren't any of my classes taught by my instructors anymore?"

rngname22 — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 15:35:38 +0000

The answer is you're going to a shit university (or at least a shit program at your university, maybe they are great at Journalism or something).

New comment by rngname22 in "Navajo Nation request to delay private mission placing human remains on the moon"

rngname22 — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 15:30:34 +0000

It's a matter of taste and an offense to nature. Would you like it if a cryopreserved embalmed 10 foot tall pile of human feces was permanently enshrined atop Everest or on a buoy at the mouth of the Amazon river? If you felt any revulsion or disgust at the idea, that's probably the way the felt at the idea of the relatively untouched 'nature' of the moon beginning to be used as a novelty landfill/dump for rich people to stow their trash (or important human remains).

New comment by rngname22 in "IT employment grew by just 700 jobs in 2023"

rngname22 — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 15:20:30 +0000

What industry?

New comment by rngname22 in "Consumer Reports finds 'widespread' presence of plastics in food"

rngname22 — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 18:27:29 +0000

You need a Plastic Emissions Index for measuring which products are responsible for the broad environmental pollution upstream, with textiles, tires, packing, and other contributors ranked extremely poorly / highly.

And you need a Plastic Ingestion Index for ranking foods and consumables that are more directly ingested as well.

New comment by rngname22 in "The Brain Circuit Behind Male Libido Has Been Identified in Mice"

rngname22 — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 21:07:00 +0000

I for one welcome the coming libido wirehead mods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirehead_(science_fiction)

New comment by rngname22 in "Show HN: Start every terminal session with a vivid reminder of life's value"

rngname22 — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 19:08:41 +0000

Sounds like you should be spending your Sundays on trying to make it so that some future Sundays aren't so bad.

New comment by rngname22 in "Show HN: Ambiphone, no-nonsense ambient music and white noise"

rngname22 — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 19:06:09 +0000

New comment by rngname22 in "How we turned the tide in the roach wars"

rngname22 — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 16:20:57 +0000

So much of the problem of extermination is due to SEO and misinformation, agree or disagree?

If a poorly educated, stressed mom working two jobs googles "cockroaches in kitchen", what percentage of online information she finds is naive, misguided, maliciously lies, etc?

New comment by rngname22 in "Google OAuth is broken (sort of)"

rngname22 — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 18:03:27 +0000

also known in industry as Account Takover