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New comment by sarkhan in "Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself"

sarkhan — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:00:05 +0000

Orcas do this already.

I mean there might be a already a civilization that is in the building that will peak 100k years later, and we just don't know about it.

New comment by sarkhan in "Devin: AI Software Engineer"

sarkhan — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 01:48:15 +0000

Perhaps, amateur could engineer a submarine that goes and stays at 10 feet deep? And it does not carry a nuc load?

New comment by sarkhan in "He felt 'creatively dead', then harnessed the power of boredom"

sarkhan — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 19:16:42 +0000

Eeh, at some point, a nepotic Manager will move resources around in a way that an IC (should be manager) will be banging head on the railing with a question why am I not calling the shots.

New comment by sarkhan in "Decline in independent activity as a cause of decline in child mental health"

sarkhan — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 06:49:00 +0000

Well, it comes a lot of from the good stuff that involved parenting does.

In other words, even taking kids to school in a car instead them walking (or at least on the bike, but their own feet still involved, therefore they are themselves 100% in control in going to school) is the support that is not the in the list of "support" but will be in the long run. I should mention, I do recognize the time constraints of current society.

New comment by sarkhan in "It’s time to embrace slow productivity (2022)"

sarkhan — Sat, 20 May 2023 00:44:43 +0000

We don't just work more, we spend rest hours that we are not working think about the work. In short, we never stop working.

New comment by sarkhan in "My friends who cheated in interviews are getting promoted (2022)"

sarkhan — Wed, 10 May 2023 17:22:50 +0000

Let's not forget the "Fake it until you make it". It's driving force of any software related project.

New comment by sarkhan in "Ask HN: Dealing with ADHD Without Medication?"

sarkhan — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 17:47:05 +0000

Picking working strategies and tactics from peers is usual step. Considering this is HN, and a lot here deals with knowledge work, do you not read documentation and apply it? This is the same.

New comment by sarkhan in "Zoom lays off 15% of employees"

sarkhan — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 18:25:07 +0000

How is your wining different than theirs? Genuine question. It's human nature to cope with stress via wining.

New comment by sarkhan in "How to get new ideas"

sarkhan — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 14:27:38 +0000

Burnout from doing same thing over and over.

New comment by sarkhan in "Why Envy Might Be Good for Us"

sarkhan — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 03:08:25 +0000

Your comment reminded me saying:

Hard times create strong men, Strong men create good times, Good times create weak men, Weak men create hard times.

Anxiety makes you consider consequences of your choices and take action based on it. Aggression helps you fight for what you think is important.

New comment by sarkhan in "Things That Happen in Silicon Valley and Also the Soviet Union"

sarkhan — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 18:53:26 +0000

Domestic violence was so absolute norm that there was a saying "Бьёт – значит любит", "he beats, means he loves". Rapes, domestic and not. So many of them. Corruption related crimes. Everywhere. Education, Health, Finance, you name it. There was not a single sector in the country that was not affected by corruption.

Also, don't forget that USSR is not only Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kiev and few other big cities. Rural USSR was very poor, and full of all sorts of crimes. Life in SU was not rosy as they might have tried to describe.

Edit: Formatting.

New comment by sarkhan in "Supernova-propelled white dwarf found zooming through Milky Way at 5 million mph"

sarkhan — Fri, 25 May 2018 22:14:12 +0000

Your script is missing how Bruce managed to escape exploding asteroid.

New comment by sarkhan in "Why we use HTTPS for every .gov website we make"

sarkhan — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 19:57:55 +0000

Try to go to https://www.irs.gov/

Probably not the best way, but earlier this year I spent about an hour on the phone with CC of IRS telling them that irs.gov should be behind HTTPS with proper certs. They mentioned that all the pages with sensitive information are behind HTTPS. Simple documents and forms are not that important I guess. As you can see it's still an issue.

New comment by sarkhan in "Toddlers regulate behavior to avoid making adults angry"

sarkhan — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 08:23:22 +0000

I wonder what kind of supervision, you, me, my parents, your parents had in our/their toddler days?

>I doubt any of this is true, and I worry for the safety of your child.

> When my daughter was a toddler, she didn't want to be alone, she wanted to be, and she still always wants to be with someone. I have never heard of a toddler that wants free time. More like parents want free time and don't get any. Children at that young age need a lot of attention, caring and love, they should not be alone, like ever.

I have same experience with my older one. That does not make me happy not because of I need free time. I can sleep less and have free time. It worries me because of him being afraid of being by himself. BTW, me and my wife did supervise him 24/7 till 3 years.

All in all, I understand being obsessive with supervision in parenting is trend these days and anybody with other view will be considered as dangerous parent. At the end of day, one can create safe environment for kid, hence won't need to be worried every second. But I guess, this is part of evolution in parenting and we have to ride it out.

New comment by sarkhan in "Toddlers regulate behavior to avoid making adults angry"

sarkhan — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 07:49:28 +0000

Not every toddler needs 24/7 supervision. At age of 15-18 months they understand consequences of basic behavior, and once they identify harming things, they avoid them by themselves. My 2 year child does not touch cup with hot tea for 6 months now, and warns us that it is hot. She recognizes spicy and avoids it. And much more similar behavior. I strongly believe that toddlers need not so much supervision and more free time/will. It will help them to become more self-sufficient person in future.

Edit: I'm not saying parent should not spend time with toddler teaching him/her. I'm saying toddler does not need 24/7 supervision. You don't want to grow a person who can't live without supervision.

New comment by sarkhan in "Apple – Privacy – Government Information Requests"

sarkhan — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 05:07:37 +0000

> Now that the police can't go to Apple for your data, we'll start seeing more judges ordering users to unlock their phones to allow them to be searched

Is not that against 5th amendment?