Hacker News: suroot

New comment by suroot in "How does AI impact my job as a programmer?"

suroot — Tue, 28 May 2024 14:02:32 +0000

This sounds like a coping strategy with a bit of “trust me bro” sprinkled in. I would hope Rubyists and shitposters don’t form a Venn diagram but here we are.

New comment by suroot in "Possible association between tattoos and lymphoma"

suroot — Mon, 27 May 2024 15:07:30 +0000

That doesn’t sound surprising in light of people setting obtuse goals like reading N books per week/month/year.

New comment by suroot in "Turning psychiatric labels into identities"

suroot — Mon, 27 May 2024 15:03:37 +0000

> complete lack of familiarity with being alone with only ones thoughts for company for any period of time.

Riiiight…

New comment by suroot in "Antarctic Ice Shelf Spawns Iceberg A-83"

suroot — Mon, 27 May 2024 05:16:07 +0000

Please don’t cuss, we are not that kind of a message board. Thank you.

- Person looking forward to more ice shelves breaking off

New comment by suroot in "Cloudflare took down our website"

suroot — Sun, 26 May 2024 13:58:00 +0000

Didn’t they also deplatform stormfront and a few others they didn’t like?

New comment by suroot in "So good, it works on barbed wire (2001)"

suroot — Sat, 25 May 2024 23:57:30 +0000

In light of me prefacing electronics by saying “somewhere down the line,” I don’t see the quality in this comment.

While there are professions where half-way through you kind of have to go back to the early things you thought you knew, and examine them in a more educated light, I’ve yet to see one as egregious as this. Nobody past a certain very early cut off limit benefits from using water analogies, and there is a push in education right now to move past water analogies because too many students enter first year post secondary with, simply put, incorrect ideas, and it has teachers baffled.

New comment by suroot in "So good, it works on barbed wire (2001)"

suroot — Sat, 25 May 2024 20:49:30 +0000

I’ll beat a bit of a dead horse with this one. This is why I’m not a big fan of water/pipe analogies when it comes to the study of electricity, electromagnetism and somewhere down the line electronics. While I understand early pioneers used “fluid” as a kind of hypothesis, I do not think they used them as analogies. I think they were trying to derive what was happening by comparing and seeing if their observations matched their line of thinking. All analogies break down relatively quickly the moment you attempt to work upwards from first principles (as we presently understand them which for all intents and purposes is “good enough” given we got many things to work just fine.)

The reality of the situation is far more impressive and engrossing if we attempt to truly get a handle on what is happening. Only then can we have a clearer idea of the nature of things like impedance and where/why/how the formulas that we use are derived from.

New comment by suroot in "Cannabis use linked to epigenetic changes, study reveals"

suroot — Sat, 25 May 2024 20:26:24 +0000

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New comment by suroot in "Cannabis use linked to epigenetic changes, study reveals"

suroot — Sat, 25 May 2024 20:25:26 +0000

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New comment by suroot in "Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees"

suroot — Thu, 23 May 2024 00:37:32 +0000

Wait til you hear what happened to Michael O’Church.

New comment by suroot in "Ask HN: Hacker News-like forum, specific to game development?"

suroot — Mon, 20 May 2024 21:57:09 +0000

RIP GDNet, what a slow motion train wreck.

New comment by suroot in "The War on Weeds"

suroot — Mon, 20 May 2024 01:31:52 +0000

It’s not intended to.

New comment by suroot in "Spider-Man (Neversoft) Decompilation Project Progress Checkpoint – May 2024"

suroot — Fri, 10 May 2024 21:44:14 +0000

Which decompiler?

New comment by suroot in "Breathwork supports emergence of altered states of consciousness"

suroot — Thu, 09 May 2024 01:44:58 +0000

My buddy goes into schizophrenia episodes every time he goes for a long run. Any ideas?