Hacker News: satchlj

Conway's Game of Life with Penrose and Voronoi tilings

satchlj — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:36:17 +0000

Article URL: https://life.au.pe/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47812117

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by satchlj in "DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome"

satchlj — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 09:42:21 +0000

Can you explain the cat thing? Why wouldn't cats who are not fed be forced to kill even more birds?

Is it because they would be focused on more efficient sources of food like mice instead?

New comment by satchlj in "Gemini AI tells the user to die"

satchlj — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 10:40:23 +0000

It’s directed at one individual, not all humans

Dashes and their uses

satchlj — Thu, 02 May 2024 11:54:27 +0000

Article URL: https://idiomdrottning.org/dashes

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40235079

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by satchlj in "Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation"

satchlj — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 01:03:32 +0000

It would be awesome to have a temperature tracker here as well.

New comment by satchlj in "Krazam OS"

satchlj — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 03:18:48 +0000

spent way too long looking for that code in the syllabus

New comment by satchlj in "'Irresponsible' to ignore consciousness across animal world scientists argue"

satchlj — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 14:09:39 +0000

Consciousness is not sentience, and if it's all semantics I don't care but if people are going to make moral arguments using this conflation between the two then I have a problem. As it says in the article, sentience is roughly the ability to feel valenced emotions (good/bad). Consciousness is many things, but importantly the ability to feel qualia, experiencing what feels like the 'blueness' of blue, for example.

It's totally possible that all sorts of life forms are conscious. I just think to focus on sentience and call it consciousness is silly.

New comment by satchlj in "The Web Is Fantastic"

satchlj — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 14:08:40 +0000

I feel that for the indie community, the web is dying thanks to modern browser bloat. We need to move to alternatives.

New comment by satchlj in "History of Alice and Bob (2017)"

satchlj — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 23:09:42 +0000

Disappointing that this website is only served unencrypted...

New comment by satchlj in "Moderna's mRNA cancer vaccine works better than thought"

satchlj — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 21:28:21 +0000

Yes the word 'vaccine' seems misleading to me as well, as people tend to think of vaccinations as ways to prevent contagious illness. I think immune therapy is a much better term.

New comment by satchlj in "Moderna's mRNA cancer vaccine works better than thought"

satchlj — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 21:26:05 +0000

If by "free" you mean that taxpayers payed huge amounts of money then sure...

New comment by satchlj in "Moderna's mRNA cancer vaccine works better than thought"

satchlj — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 21:24:02 +0000

It is intended for people who’ve had high-risk melanomas removed, to prevent cancer from coming back.

New comment by satchlj in "Moderna's mRNA cancer vaccine works better than thought"

satchlj — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 21:23:29 +0000

> The cancer vaccine: Moderna and pharma giant Merck are developing an mRNA-based cancer vaccine, mRNA-4157 (V940), for people who’ve had high-risk melanomas removed.

New comment by satchlj in "Vim Adventures: Learn Vim while playing a game"

satchlj — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 04:07:59 +0000

this is a paid thing but doesn't tell you upfront :(

Why isn't the new year on the winter solstice? (2018)

satchlj — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 03:49:28 +0000

Article URL: https://slj.ma/cal.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38750931

Points: 74

# Comments: 46

New comment by satchlj in "Show HN: Open-source macOS AI copilot using vision and voice"

satchlj — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 15:55:04 +0000

It's not working for me, I get a "Too many requests" http error

New comment by satchlj in "Beeper Cloud Is Working Again"

satchlj — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 21:50:13 +0000

It is indeed working, but I had to ask the Help chat to manually switch me over to the working bridge

New comment by satchlj in "Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access"

satchlj — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 04:27:53 +0000

Beeper Cloud has also been cut off, even though they are running virtual MacOS machines for every Beeper Cloud user... not sure how they managed that

New comment by satchlj in "Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications"

satchlj — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 17:02:56 +0000

The notification is separate from the message. It absolutely is MITM, just for the notifications, which are messages themselves with real content (you have received a message from so-and-so).

New comment by satchlj in "Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications"

satchlj — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 17:00:52 +0000

Notice how SimpleX (https://simplex.chat/) has no push notifications by default because of this issue.