Hacker News: robga

New comment by robga in "Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget"

robga — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 08:58:25 +0000

I'm a UK Kagi user and do not have this issue.

Perhaps it is your IP range? Do you have the same problem on mobile and broadband?

New comment by robga in "Innovative wireless light switch could cut house wiring costs in half"

robga — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 21:16:30 +0000

What sort of force is required to activate them, is touch enough? Do they make noise to click?

New comment by robga in "Ask HN: What ING Domains did you get?"

robga — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 19:23:43 +0000

I have too many domains. I see amus.ing available on the lower side of prices.

New comment by robga in "Remote work could cut the value of office buildings by $800B by 2030"

robga — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 19:09:48 +0000

Remote work to save organisations $800B in office expenses by 2030.

New comment by robga in "Tyrian purple: Ancient pigment that was more valuable than gold"

robga — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 22:54:51 +0000

And out as a book shortly

https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/2023/10/16/fall-of-ci...

New comment by robga in "The Seamless Communication models"

robga — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 17:42:10 +0000

There isn't a lot of good evidence behind this popular conception.

If anything, the evidence is that it isn't true, see https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

Any apparent causality of age of acquisition seems to be a proxy of hours of exposure. It may well be that it is easier for young people to rack up a lot of exposure to a second language, but not much evidence that age plays much of a factor for people of different ages who had the same degree of exposure.

New comment by robga in "Ansel"

robga — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 21:47:59 +0000

It was in Playboy (May 1983)

https://petapixel.com/2022/07/30/ansel-adamss-interview-with...

“There’s no end in sight. Electronic photography will soon be superior to anything we have now. The first advance will be the exploration of existing negatives. I believe the electronic process will enhance them. I could get superior prints from my negatives using electronics.

“Then the time will come when you will be able to make the entire photograph electronically. With the extremely high resolution and enormous control you can get from electronics, the results will be fantastic. I wish I were young again!”

New comment by robga in "Design the UK parking code system"

robga — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 20:40:57 +0000

What user need does encoding area in the number serve? What’s wrong with a random 8-10 digit number?

I can understand the inverse, so that you don’t have similar numbers nearby (as in RingGo).

New comment by robga in "Five women got eye syphilis from the same man–raising questions"

robga — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 16:43:30 +0000

Diseases like this typically internally spread out along the ophthalmic division of the fifth (trigeminal) cranial nerve, having breached the blood-barrier rather than the blood-ocular barrier.

To have it show up in the eye repeatedly may simply indicate it’s travelled back down the nerve.

The pathway is not even rare, so I wonder what is newsworthy here. e.g. 500k Americans live with herpes simplex keratitis (or “eye herpes”) though many don’t realise, and you don’t see that on HN frontpage.

New comment by robga in "I Overheard a Secret Chinese Meeting in Micronesia on Vacation"

robga — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 21:02:02 +0000

- The vlogger and his wife overheard a secret meeting between Chinese government officials and a Micronesian governor discussing help for China in an upcoming war over Taiwan.

- The meeting took place on the island of Kosrae in Micronesia.

- Recently, the president of Micronesia wrote a letter denouncing Chinese interference and recommending supporting Taiwan instead.

- Losing control of Micronesia would weaken US supply routes in Asia and force a bottleneck in supporting bases in countries like South Korea and Japan.

- The Chinese officials tried deflecting the conversation away from the recent anti-China letter.

- Local residents said China had been bribing politicians and threatening leaders who didn't cooperate.

- Other countries like Fiji and the Solomon Islands have been shifting towards China, making Micronesia's alignment more important for the US.

- The vlogger decided to share what he witnessed with Micronesian government contacts, though the outcome of that was unclear.

- The video argues that a "cold war" is happening in the Pacific as spheres of influence are reshaped.

- Micronesia's strategic location and political alignment will impact stability in the region.

New comment by robga in "Claude 2.1"

robga — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 17:32:20 +0000

I applied a few months ago. Last week I received an email:

“We’re pleased to let you know that we’re expanding access to the Claude API.

As the next step in considering your application, we’ll need some further information from you. Please fill out our onboarding form.”

The form seems to be the same form I filled in months before. I’ve not heard back in the 7 days since.

New comment by robga in "The Piccadilly line’s new air conditioned trains"

robga — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 14:01:32 +0000

Living in zone 6 where the underground is overground, it’s more like Jalfrezi at this time of year.

New comment by robga in "RSS can be used to distribute all sorts of information"

robga — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 08:59:40 +0000

It sounds interesting but I use https://hnrss.github.io/

Unless it had most of the features of hnrss.org I would not be able to use it.

A /topic or /category feature on hnrss.org may be nice. They accept some PRs.

New comment by robga in "Ancient Tree Inventory"

robga — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 08:02:55 +0000

It’s a shame to see such important data, much submitted by the public to this charity, somewhat locked away. No API or downloadable dataset but to their credit you can apply for access: “The Ancient Tree Inventory dataset is available upon request. If you would like to access the data please get in touch.” I can imagine all sorts of great visualisation and insight within the data.

New comment by robga in "Ask HN: What work/office purchase transformed your life?"

robga — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 00:06:02 +0000

An ergonomic chair (Hag Capisco). Fixed back/leg pain.

New comment by robga in "Ask HN: What are you reading these days?"

robga — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 10:25:27 +0000

Yes, the vicious lawsuit by chiropractors may have been enough to turn him off publishing. I sometimes hear him as a radio guest. It seems he went on to work on STEM policy and founded a couple of educational math paths. It’s a shame he seems to have discarded his website.

Undergraduate Ambassadors Scheme https://uas.ac.uk/about-uas/

Parallel https://parallel.org.uk/

New comment by robga in "Ask HN: What's the most interesting (non-AI) advancement in tech in 2023?"

robga — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 16:41:51 +0000

This is what iPhones have done for a long time?

Edit: OK, not quite, thanks for the correction.

New comment by robga in "Aircraft seat crushed mobile phone battery, caused a fire on passenger plane"

robga — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 10:56:27 +0000

I thought the point was the post incident phone could have been placed in the bag in case of flare up, rather than require an attendant with an extinguisher?

James Webb shows baby star launching giant jets and shocks

robga — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 07:19:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67243772

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38138861

Points: 3

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New comment by robga in "This is what the year actually looks like (2018)"

robga — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 09:18:08 +0000

I see it as a 3d object ala the Menologium Rusticum Colotianum. This way you get the cycle, the split into 4 quarters, and a sequence view per month. You can see an image at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CIL_VI_2305_-_Menolo...