Hacker News: rootw0rm

New comment by rootw0rm in "Most UI applications are broken real-time applications"

rootw0rm — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 02:47:34 +0000

I've finally learned to love VS Code, but the new UI of Clion is pretty damn decent

New comment by rootw0rm in "Most UI applications are broken real-time applications"

rootw0rm — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 02:39:21 +0000

You're right, Sysinternals Process Monitor will show lots of stuff going on for your example.

New comment by rootw0rm in "All license plates available in America"

rootw0rm — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 02:03:44 +0000

Great, now I need an Alice Cooper license plate. Thanks, Jon

New comment by rootw0rm in "Insect pests and radiation: SIT, inherited sterility, biological control"

rootw0rm — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 05:20:59 +0000

according to this [1], it's difficult to package them up and deliver them without harming them. if it was an easier / more lucrative problem to solve then surely it would be solved.

[1] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.aba6251

New comment by rootw0rm in "George Orwell Complete Works"

rootw0rm — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 05:04:03 +0000

Proof that nobody hates Communists more than fellow Communists. Shit, I learned that from reading Orwell.

New comment by rootw0rm in "Replanting logged forests with diverse seedlings accelerates restoration"

rootw0rm — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 04:10:10 +0000

afaik it helps guard against particularly devastating wildfires, too.

New comment by rootw0rm in "Could Dementia in the National Security Workforce Create a Security Threat?"

rootw0rm — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 03:19:31 +0000

I think it's probably okay to be concerned about both of those things.

New comment by rootw0rm in "Scientists figured out how to write in water"

rootw0rm — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 06:23:24 +0000

They put a whole house on a little tittle.

New comment by rootw0rm in "Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware"

rootw0rm — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 09:49:30 +0000

that's a cool project, will definitely try it out later

New comment by rootw0rm in "The SHA256 for this sentence begins with: one, eight, two, a, seven, c and nine."

rootw0rm — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:06:17 +0000

1.) Pick one of the old abandoned Bitcoin addresses

2.) Start looking for a key match using this technique

3.) Heat death of the universe

4.) Profit!

New comment by rootw0rm in "Every type of plastic used by LEGO (2022)"

rootw0rm — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 22:34:57 +0000

When I start feeling this way it's always my cue to read up on philosophy and religion and briefly reject my nihilistic views.

New comment by rootw0rm in "NaNofuzz: A Usable Tool for Automatic Test Generation [pdf]"

rootw0rm — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 01:47:21 +0000

for Typescript, VS Code extension

github: https://github.com/nanofuzz/nanofuzz

New comment by rootw0rm in "Rockstar is selling cracked game copies on Steam"

rootw0rm — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 19:15:28 +0000

it's the "all rights reversed" license

New comment by rootw0rm in "Get a cable modem, go to jail (1999)"

rootw0rm — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 10:40:53 +0000

hey now, if i don't sleep with the thing, how am i gonna grab it when i'm asleep?

New comment by rootw0rm in "The Gimmicks of Food Labeling"

rootw0rm — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 23:27:42 +0000

Not a very comprehensive list, but Mr. Sheehan's website has some information.

a quote from [1] :

'Food fraud can take place in many forms. A company might substitute one product for another, use additives or enhancements that are not approved or misrepresent the country of origin of the product. Stolen food shipments or intentional contamination of the product is also considered food fraud.

Food fraud is a continuum of deception. At one end of spectrum, there is the deliberate substitution of inferior and potentially harmful ingredients. At the other end is the mislabeling of common products by the largest food companies. The largest food companies will not engage in outright food fraud intentionally by using different ingredients that could be harmful. Instead, they typically would engage in a more subtle deception – all natural claims, no preservatives, healthy, yet containing lots of chemicals, etc.'

[1] https://spencersheehan.com/other-areas/#food

New comment by rootw0rm in "Shining a light on the digital dark age"

rootw0rm — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 00:07:50 +0000

There was some cool, obscure music on the original? mp3.com, bands that never made it beyond that site. Never made it to OiNK or what.cd, etc. either

New comment by rootw0rm in "Changing my relationship with GitHub Copilot"

rootw0rm — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 05:39:46 +0000

to each his own.

i switched from VSCode to CLion (for Rust) the other night and only lasted 5 minutes because i missed how alternating braces change color.

New comment by rootw0rm in "How was the size of Earth first measured? (2015)"

rootw0rm — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 04:09:13 +0000

make enough measurements and you can probably find those "encoded" there, too

New comment by rootw0rm in "NASA Shares First Images from US Pollution-Monitoring Instrument"

rootw0rm — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 23:56:22 +0000

impressive results. i think it would be easier to read at first glance if missing data/clouds were shown in white to light grey

New comment by rootw0rm in "People in a genetic database have segments of DNA in common unexpectedly often"

rootw0rm — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 22:16:38 +0000

give it to enough people and there will likely be that one person who just wants to see the world burn...their answer will be something like "hotdog juice"