<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: sandworm101</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sandworm101</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:24:50 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=sandworm101" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sandworm101 in "Bacteria found in the human intestine capable of improving muscle strength"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Natural or otherwise, one must wonder if there are similar downsides.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:15:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47653440</link><dc:creator>sandworm101</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47653440</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47653440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sandworm101 in "The FAA’s flight restriction for drones is an attempt to criminalize filming ICE"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It isnt about the flying. This is about ICE now being able to take down any drone footage and arrest those who post it. They can also obtain extensive search warrants for uploaders, giving them an investigative path into the lives of ICE protest groups.</p>
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<p>Ya, but eventually they all wind up wearing furs and carrying spears as they storm the gates of some government building. Its all good fun until people start to die. We laugh as soveriegn citizens are yanked from thier cars. Harder to watch are the vids of them pulling guns on police.<p>Conspiracy theorists need to be kept in check. Disengagment is easy but it doesnt help.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:22:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632471</link><dc:creator>sandworm101</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632471</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sandworm101 in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Come on flat-earthers. I know you are out there. Lets hear your crazy rant about how this is a fisheye lens on a weather balloon or a webcam atop the eiffel tower. Why can't we see the poles? And is that an ice wall on poking up in the lower-right quadrant of the disk?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:16:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47631675</link><dc:creator>sandworm101</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47631675</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47631675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sandworm101 in "NHS staff refusing to use FDP over Palantir ethical concerns"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A system whereby millions of people seek services from thousands of potential providers, with a life-or-death need to track which services and products were delivered where and when ... ya.  It is a billion-dollar data problem. But that is the cost for the luxury of being able to walk into any hospital in the country and expect them to know everything about your conditions at a moment's notice.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:13:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47631640</link><dc:creator>sandworm101</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47631640</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47631640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sandworm101 in "A School District Tried to Help Train Waymos to Stop for School Buses"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And school busses go all sorts of places carrying kids to field trips and sporting events. Along with police/fire/ambulances, school busses are just another special type of vehicle that ALL drivers must learn to deal with.  If you cannot act properly around a school bus, you shouldnt be on the road.<p>(Funny story: i was in Ottawa over the winter. There, snow plows, ambulances and fire trucks all use blue flashing lights. I thought i was being pulled over by a giant police truck ... it was a snow plow that really did not appreciate me stopping on the side of the road. Yet another special case vehicle.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:26:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47631008</link><dc:creator>sandworm101</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47631008</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47631008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sandworm101 in "Artemis II Launch Day Updates"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>> Starship making LEO and testing propellant transfer (a humanity first)<p>No. We have to stop listing to AI and twitter idiots trying to upsell stories into "firsts". The first propellant transfer, the first refueling of a spacecraft on orbit, was by the soviets nearly 50 years ago.<p>"Progress 1 was the first of twelve Progress spacecraft used to supply the Salyut 6 space station between 1978 and 1981.[6] Its payload of 2,300 kilograms (5,100 lb) consisted of 1,000 kilograms (2,200 lb) of propellant and oxygen, as well as 1,300 kilograms (2,900 lb) of food, replacement parts, scientific instruments, and other supplies. Whilst Progress 1 was docked, the EO-1 crew, consisting of cosmonauts Yuri Romanenko and Georgi Grechko, was aboard the station. <i>Progress 1 demonstrated the capability to refuel a spacecraft on orbit</i>, critical for long-term station operations.[11] Once the cosmonauts had unloaded the cargo delivered by Progress 1, they loaded refuse onto the freighter for disposal."<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_1" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_1</a><p>If SpaceX wants a first, then it would be the first transfer of <i>cryogenic fuel</i>. But even that could be debated as arguably Shuttle "transferred" cryogenic fuel between the tank and the orbiter during the launch process.  So SpaceX might get the first of (cryogenic + on-orbit).  Any simplification is a denial of what has already been done.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:00:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47614624</link><dc:creator>sandworm101</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47614624</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47614624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sandworm101 in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Proton is a modified version of Wine. If the underlying game is sending a bug/crash report, it may "see" itself as running under windows as that is what wine presents.<p><a href="https://github.com/valvesoftware/proton" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/valvesoftware/proton</a><p>"Proton is a tool for use with the Steam client which allows games which are exclusive to Windows to run on the Linux operating system. It uses Wine to facilitate this."</p>
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<p>And they are also poisonous...<p>In 2004, healthcare professionals warned against overindulgence in Pontefract cake after a 56-year-old woman was admitted to hospital following an overdose. The woman consumed about 200 grams (7.1 oz) daily, leading to <i>dangerously low potassium levels and subsequent muscle failure</i>.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontefract_cake" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontefract_cake</a><p>At that dosage, this "sweet" is one of those things that must be locked away if there are any kids/dogs in the house.</p>
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<p>Question: What percentage of windows gamers are actually Linux gamers who are using wine/proton or some anti-cheat workaround/VM that causes them to be reported as using windows when they are in fact running linux?<p>Using proton, I regularly see crash reports where games want to report that I was running some version of windows, which is a result of how proton implements wine. I never send such reports as they are of little use to developers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:50:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47613771</link><dc:creator>sandworm101</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47613771</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47613771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sandworm101 in "The story of Britain's oldest sweet, the Pontefract Cake (2019)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>An "sweet" made out of rotten roots, which tastes like medicine and is sticky enough to pull out fillings ... sounds like an english recipe to me.</p>
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<p>Which doesnt matter. What maters is whether melville thought it to be true when he wrote the line. The joke/reference would have been understood by readers at the time regardless of whether it was factually true.<p>2010. Archibishop of New Orleans.  Alligator is "fish".  Whether or not the pope has an opinion, such things are not fiction.<p><a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/03/27/175058833/forget-fish-fridays-in-louisiana-gator-is-on-the-lenten-menu" rel="nofollow">https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/03/27/175058833/fo...</a></p>
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<p>Room temperature is totally possible.  Room temperature AND room <i>pressure</i> is another story. Superconductivity acrose a couple nanometers inside a diamond anvil is not very useful even if at "room" temperatures.</p>
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<p>The whale=fish thing is also an old joke about catholics.  Back when one could not eat meat on fridays, all sorts of water-living mamals were declared to be "fish" for purposes of eating.  So a new world protestant author in the 1800s is pointing a critical finger at oldworld religion and science.<p>We have lost knowledge of such nuance, like rewatching MASH or Trek and missing the religious and racial messages that made them so controversial then but banal today.</p>
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<p>It is a test of the spacecraft. They need people onboard to test all the human systems. But yes, if this was a purely scientific flyby and not part of a larger manned program, machines would do it fine.</p>
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<p>KSP irl.  I still dont know how they keep the framerate so high with so many parts.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:39:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47606867</link><dc:creator>sandworm101</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47606867</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47606867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sandworm101 in "30 Years Ago, Robots Learned to Walk Without Falling"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ya, they walk like old people. By keeping thier cog over thier feet they are able to stop at any moment without tipping over. That's how old people with diminished motor neuron function walk. Both play it safe because they know they lack the reaction time to prevent a fall once cog is outside their footprint. It is also how one walks when on very slippery surfaces.</p>
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<p>Given than scoreboards were updated by hand, and could be seen from the plate, one wonders if the reported pitch speed was ever <i>altered</i> to perhaps confuse a batter. The one person in the stadium not able to see the scoreboard is the pitcher, the one person with input on pitch speed.</p>
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<p>And they are all poorly maintained and/or not functioning. If anyone walks in with their own solution, they will be accomidated. (Metaphor approaching) No judge is going to yank away a blind man's walking stick because it isnt the approved walking stick.</p>
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<p>This is a courthouse. Judges still have king-like powers in their rooms. Anyone with a real problem will certainly be able to request and be granted an exemption.<p>That said, get caught misusing such an exemption and you will be hauled in for direct contempt. No big trial. No witnesses. Just the judge ordering you into 30 days custody.</p>
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