Hacker News: tagh

New comment by tagh in "Ambulance hits cyclist, rushes him to hospital, then sticks him with $1,800 bill"

tagh — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 02:36:26 +0000

I agree, the system is very badly designed. Cars and bikes don't mix without carefully designed roads that make the lazy/default decision and the safe decision the same thing, because eventual complacency is human nature.

> You could say that jumping out of a plane without a parachute isn't dangerous, it's the ground that's dangerous.

In that metaphor cars are a force of nature. I've also heard "the laws of physics trump the law of man", and "what's more important: being right or being alive". People choose to drive; people choose to cycle; and people choose to walk. When I choose to drive, I have the means to kill someone else and I'm damn well responsible for that risk. After all, the person I hit didn't choose for me to drive.

New comment by tagh in "Australian employees now have the right to ignore work emails, calls after hours"

tagh — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 02:33:54 +0000

I also personally haven't had issues with this in Australia, but have seen it happen to friends who work in legal (many times).

New comment by tagh in "Tsutomu Yamaguchi – A man who survived both atomic bombings (2023)"

tagh — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 02:09:44 +0000

My best guess is an over-zealous response to some content licensing deal.

New comment by tagh in "Growing income inequality is driving public mistrust"

tagh — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 01:41:46 +0000

There's something ironic about charging $75/month for this article.

New comment by tagh in "Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?"

tagh — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 10:07:33 +0000

A simple script that tallies up my cycling mileage based on Garmin activites, and makes me a reminder on my Google calendar when it's time to re-wax my chain.

Scheduling the script to reliably run via Task Scheduler (Windows) was was its own project!

New comment by tagh in "Original Prusa MK4"

tagh — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 01:18:40 +0000

I'm relatively new compared with you, but I've also found my MK3S+ to be super solid and output high quality stuff. I previously had a da Vinci Pro, and my best metaphor is that using the MK3S+ is like writing with a new pencil vs. one full of broken lead.

New comment by tagh in "PyTorch 2.0"

tagh — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 02:14:09 +0000

Each environment can have its own version of python which downloads with everything else (venv would require separate system installs for this).

New comment by tagh in "Ask HN: How do you focus on work for long periods of time?"

tagh — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 06:26:25 +0000

Consider that your distraction-seeking might be avoidance of some (potentially deep-seated) negative emotions associated with working or the task at hand.

New comment by tagh in "Sugar Substitutes Surprise"

tagh — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 02:22:09 +0000

Glucose is also known as dextrose for its dextral (right-handed) chirality. Which means that left-handed glucose should be sinistrose. What a name!

New comment by tagh in "Show HN: Sun Clock: a 24hr clock that shows the position of the sun"

tagh — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 00:14:11 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by tagh in "Show HN: Sun Clock: a 24hr clock that shows the position of the sun"

tagh — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 13:40:43 +0000

Apologies if this is a dumb question, but why does it go anticlockwise?

New comment by tagh in "Qt 6.3"

tagh — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 10:18:52 +0000

The biggest issue for me was that you have to update widgets from the gui thread. Doing it from other threads still works most of the time, but then you sometimes get weird unpredictable crashes.

New comment by tagh in "Killed by Microsoft"

tagh — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 06:04:12 +0000

Let's not forget Sunrise calendar, which Microsoft purchased and supposedly integrated into Outlook. I miss Sunrise calendar so much... I've yet to find an alternative that reads from other calendar services and task managers so well.

New comment by tagh in "The Unreasonable Math of Type 1 Diabetes"

tagh — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 23:52:26 +0000

>The author here points out that New Zealand's medical system doesn't always pay for CGMs, while the Australian system does.

Only for under 21s, and only recently. Once you hit 21, the rug is pulled out from under you.

New comment by tagh in "Code colocation is king"

tagh — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 13:31:35 +0000

Makes perfect sense! This would help lead to low coupling and high cohesion.

New comment by tagh in "Ask HN: Should I publish my research code?"

tagh — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 14:12:30 +0000

Publishing the code does have some selfish benefits too: better chance of people building on your research (and citing it).

New comment by tagh in "A note on recent content takedowns"

tagh — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 14:37:15 +0000

I think you're right. I've double checked their FAQ, which states that you can upload your preprint to Researchgate, but then they only explicitly mention arxiv for swapping the preprint with the accepted manuscript. I guess I'll just have to swap over to arxiv.

For the benefit of those who haven't submitted a manuscript before: the accepted version is just the preprint with improvements from the peer review process - and no "other publisher value-added contributions such as copy-editing, formatting, technical enhancements and (if relevant) pagination". Assuming the associate editor is a volunteer (true for the journal in question), Elsevier's only in-kind contribution at this point is their awful submission system, and the Chief editor's time in accepting the associate editor's decision... although the chief editor might also be a volunteer.

New comment by tagh in "A note on recent content takedowns"

tagh — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 11:58:34 +0000

I'm one of the researchers whose had a paper removed. Confusingly, it was the 'accepted manuscript' version, which Elsevier explicitly states you may share [0]. It's very obviously watermarked too, by their own editorial management system. It's very frustrating that you can do everything right by the publisher and still lose like this.

[0] https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/sharing

*Edit: typo

New comment by tagh in "Mosquito saliva alone has profound effects on the human immune system (2018)"

tagh — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 02:06:25 +0000

Platypodes is more correct than platypi, but I think that English rules apply once a word is a part of the English language (I don't know who decides that). So it should be platypusses.

New comment by tagh in "Which color scale to use when visualizing data"

tagh — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 06:23:27 +0000

Here's a gallery [1] of perceptually uniform colour maps, both lightness-varying and isoluminant (the latter are particularly useful in conjuction with hillshade filters). The maps are present in many libraries / languages.

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[1] https://www.colorcet.com/gallery.html