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New comment by the_fury in "We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility"

the_fury — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:13:13 +0000

> That's just not happening.

And that is a reasonable assumption?

New comment by the_fury in "Ruby on Rails Audit Complete"

the_fury — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 20:04:53 +0000

Absolutely. I enjoy it so much that I wonder "do people actually NOT enjoy writing Ruby?" It's usually the first tool I pull out of the toolbox for DSLs, scripts, spikes, one-offs and the like. A lot of the time, the project will happily stay in Ruby unless there's a good reason to use something else. And then I move it - horses for courses.

I programmed professionally in C, C++, C#, Deplhi, and a few other languages well before I had even heard of Ruby.

Reverse Beacon Network

the_fury — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 02:50:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reversebeacon.net/main.php?rows=10&max_age=10,hours&modes=cw&hide=distance_km

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42083636

Points: 1

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New comment by the_fury in "AM radio law opposed by tech and auto industries is close to passing"

the_fury — Sun, 05 May 2024 16:24:12 +0000

Yes - this is exactly why aircraft use AM.

New comment by the_fury in "How to think about software quality (2022)"

the_fury — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 16:00:33 +0000

If I get a message on linkedin that pertains to a work issue, you had better believe that I'm going to be dealing with it on work time.

New comment by the_fury in "Taking my e-bike as an undercover food delivery rider"

the_fury — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 20:58:10 +0000

A better, better solution would be to stop using the service at all.

New comment by the_fury in "Show HN: Odin – the integration of LLMs with Obsidian note taking"

the_fury — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 17:46:16 +0000

Due to me procrastinating with my notes, I was able to remember that I had touched on this before. According to my Obsidian notes:

"Zeigarnik Effect Directs Our Focus Onto Unfinished Tasks"

New comment by the_fury in "The two healthbar theory of burnout"

the_fury — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 20:14:07 +0000

If it only lasts a couple of hours, then it's not burnout.

New comment by the_fury in "How to drill your own water well"

the_fury — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 16:45:19 +0000

You have to be careful of what you mean by "does it actually work".

Does the dowsing find water hidden in a random spot or is the dowser tapping into subconscious knowledge about the land to find it. The parent is talking about the latter.

Look up "Ideomotor phenomenon" in your source. It's right above the pseudoscience bit.

New comment by the_fury in "How to stay safe and happy on an electric unicycle"

the_fury — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 18:34:18 +0000

Dress for the slide, not for the ride.

Users are almost always right

the_fury — Fri, 26 May 2023 18:11:57 +0000

Article URL: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/UsersAreRight

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36087745

Points: 4

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New comment by the_fury in "Ask HN: If you quit your computer job, which non-computer craft would you pick"

the_fury — Fri, 05 May 2023 16:10:39 +0000

Custom tooled leather accessories. I've been tooling leather (and selling some on and off) for years. It's possible to make a living with it, but it's certainly not easy. With the prevalence of fast fashion, people often get serious sticker shock when they see what a hand made item actuallly costs.

New comment by the_fury in "Ford to drop AM radio in new models, except commercial vehicles"

the_fury — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 20:52:00 +0000

FM frequencies do not propogate in nearly the same way as MW do.

New comment by the_fury in "Ask HN: Small scripts, hacks and automations you're proud of?"

the_fury — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 18:31:27 +0000

I feel much the same way, and for much the same reason. I do, however, have a largish fleet of aliases that I've built up over the years.

The vast majority of them are simple short forms. For example `tf` for `terraform` and `tfp` for `terraform plan`. My brain just naturally thknks of the full command when using the short form and, because of this, I'm not at a loss if I'm logged in somewhere without my aliases.

New comment by the_fury in "Ask HN: Small scripts, hacks and automations you're proud of?"

the_fury — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 18:20:53 +0000

I've just spent the last few minutes playing with the bookmarks snippet. This is both elegant and immediately useful to me. Thanks for sharing!

New comment by the_fury in "Improving Students’ Learning with Effective Learning Techniques"

the_fury — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 18:15:50 +0000

I've practiced highlighting on and off over the years, but it's never been for memorization. I've mainly used it to separate out critical passages to speed up and simplify future reading.

New comment by the_fury in "Ask HN: What do you talk about in 1-on-1s with your managers?"

the_fury — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 19:29:46 +0000

I know almost no one does this, but the absolute best standup meetings I've experienced have meeting of the just workers, by just the workers, to let just the workers know what's going on around them so they can self-direct.

The addition of management always turns it into a status update.

New comment by the_fury in "The Cornell Note Taking System"

the_fury — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 19:01:28 +0000

Note that it's the 10th edition. I'm pretty sure the technique has been around since the 1950s. I certainly remember it from the 90s.

New comment by the_fury in "Tell HN: Vim users, `:x` is like `:wq` but writes only when changes are made"

the_fury — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 18:52:31 +0000

It is, but accidentally hitting capslock instead of shift when hitting the colon is extremely easy to do.

New comment by the_fury in "What if regular exercise is the best cognitive exercise?"

the_fury — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 19:43:00 +0000

I'd agree with that. Unless I'm trying to increase the amount I walk, I usually come in under 5K steps a day. It's not at all hard to add a few tasks to get it up to a more reasonable number, and I do, but if I don't intentionally add those tasks, the baseline is very low indeed.