Hacker News: starpilot

New comment by starpilot in "Missing hiker found after man using computer at home pinpoints his location"

starpilot — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 22:25:17 +0000

The hiker texted a photo. Even better, since he had a smartphone, he could text his GPS coordinates from an app like Gaia. Not sure if there's a way to get lat/long from Apple or Google Maps.

New comment by starpilot in "Human taste buds can tell the difference between normal and 'heavy' water"

starpilot — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 19:40:06 +0000

Oddly today there's an obsession with certain bitter substances like caffeine, dark chocolate, and IPA beers.

New comment by starpilot in "Adjustable, low-impact keeb"

starpilot — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 02:07:06 +0000

Keyboard layout doesn't matter for speed. Here's a guy typing 99 wpm with two fingers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mNu8WnFFa0 You switch to Dvorak for comfort, not speed.

Is Scrabble Go a crypto miner?

starpilot — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 16:12:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/scrabble/comments/mjm7tk/scrabble_go_a_coin_miner/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26713674

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by starpilot in "Where have all the kindergartners gone?"

starpilot — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 02:02:11 +0000

Are you having a bad day or something?

New comment by starpilot in "Where have all the kindergartners gone?"

starpilot — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 00:18:43 +0000

Don't preschool and kindergarten teach vital social skills that can affect how you interact with others for the rest of your life?

New comment by starpilot in "Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today?"

starpilot — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 20:09:45 +0000

What's a pendrive?

New comment by starpilot in "Staying awake to treat depression (2018)"

starpilot — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 14:18:14 +0000

Scott's explanation at least makes sense with a causal chain of reasoning. "Self-awareness" is more a philosophical concept that has no psychiatric meaning, sort of like like "fairness" in economics. "It's all placebo here!" sounds lazy and like a cheap shot.

EMDR Helped Me Find Healing in a Most Daunting Year

starpilot — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 02:43:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.vogue.com/article/how-emdr-helped-me-find-healing-in-a-most-daunting-year/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26686496

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by starpilot in "The deck we used to raise our seed funding"

starpilot — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:10:56 +0000

I thought this was going to be about gardening.

New comment by starpilot in "Analyzing word usage in cosmetic product names"

starpilot — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 02:31:59 +0000

I'm guessing you haven't bought much makeup or women's underwear.

New comment by starpilot in "She Came to the US to Study with Only $300 – Now She’s a NASA Director"

starpilot — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 02:29:06 +0000

Colombia

New comment by starpilot in "Ask HN: What is the most complex concept you understand?"

starpilot — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 16:56:22 +0000

Not possible.

New comment by starpilot in "A lost tourist who thought Maine was San Francisco"

starpilot — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 01:29:18 +0000

I went on a date with a Mexican girl who spoke no English. Google translate app worked incredibly well for two-way translation. I mean it was perfect. She had been dependent on it her whole time in the US.

New comment by starpilot in "Emirates’ Tim Clark says Boeing ‘not getting it’ on 737 Max, 787"

starpilot — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 02:47:09 +0000

I want him to build one under my home. As long as he pays me.

New comment by starpilot in "Emirates’ Tim Clark says Boeing ‘not getting it’ on 737 Max, 787"

starpilot — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 21:55:37 +0000

Your email is not in your profile. I will bet.

New comment by starpilot in "What happens when investment firms acquire trailer parks"

starpilot — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 21:28:25 +0000

I read that the world needs both types of economies. The US is a dynamic, freewheeling sort with the most extremes. You can get incredibly rich, but the bottom has no floor. It's easy to amass capital and to pay workers. Or have western Europe, which is a relatively painful climate for businesses. Taxation for extensive social services is stifling, but at least most of the middle people are OK.

New comment by starpilot in "What happens when investment firms acquire trailer parks"

starpilot — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 21:22:52 +0000

A lot of the California ones are pretty decent. I dated a girl who lived in one. I also stayed in an Airbnb that was in one. The owner, who lived there, was a woman with a Stanford degree. They're cheap and reasonable places to live with a lot of stigma. The ones I saw around me growing up in Virginia were... shitty.

New comment by starpilot in "Replaying real life: how the Waymo Driver avoids fatal human crashes"

starpilot — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 04:51:00 +0000

But what about choosing between hitting one doctor versus a group of school kids? /s

New comment by starpilot in "Remembering Allan McDonald, who refused to approve the Challenger launch"

starpilot — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 06:51:33 +0000

For perspective, 17,000 people work for NASA.