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New comment by theendisney4 in "CDC data are disappearing"

theendisney4 — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 05:52:09 +0000

One will have a strong tendency to leave the easily challanged out.

New comment by theendisney4 in "CDC data are disappearing"

theendisney4 — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 05:49:38 +0000

I like it, the legal system might be more suitable for putting the "truth" on trial than its current application.

It will cost a bunch of money but we get something out of it.

New comment by theendisney4 in "Phyllis Fong, who was investigating Neuralink, "forcefully removed ""

theendisney4 — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 23:28:20 +0000

You can have entirely seperate governing entities complete with their own taxes and elections. The most interesting part imho is that people not even bother voting if the entity does its job properly.

New comment by theendisney4 in "Do Files want to be Actors?"

theendisney4 — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 06:36:44 +0000

On the other hand, the most interesting discussions to be had are the ones where the opponent disagees with you.

As this is hard for many people i learn to completely ignore any part that is not of interest.

The funniest instance was an infuriated coworker calling me names, ready to fight me. He must have raged on fir 10 whole minutes while i calmly looked at him without expession. After his rage my conclusion was that he was right and calmly told him he was, next shift we will do it the way you've described. If he was wrong i would just say NO.

Made a good friend that day :)

New comment by theendisney4 in "Researchers design wearable tech that can sense glucose levels more accurately"

theendisney4 — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 06:23:23 +0000

There is a whole spectrum from trying to reach ultimate form to trying not to die and everyone in between.

I measure my heart rate one time for fun. It was insanely high at rest. I felt perfect, full of energy but it was completely obvious i needed to introduce rest days. I conviscated the heart rate monitor and everything was back to normal 3 days later.

New comment by theendisney4 in "Do Files want to be Actors?"

theendisney4 — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 05:26:45 +0000

If i had a more interested audience my posts would be more interesting.

New comment by theendisney4 in "Researchers design wearable tech that can sense glucose levels more accurately"

theendisney4 — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 04:26:50 +0000

If it fits in a watch a lot of nondiabetics will also buy it. It can be much cheaper that way.

New comment by theendisney4 in "How my indoor air made me sick and dumb (and how I fixed it)"

theendisney4 — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 04:11:36 +0000

Twice i read something from someone monitoring and adjusting the indoor air that came to the (expensive) conclusion that nothing beats opening all the windows.

I would add that heated clothing is fantastic. You cant heat the house to 30C and if it gets to warm you cant easily lower the temperature.

New comment by theendisney4 in "Yemeni Coffee Shops in Texas"

theendisney4 — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 23:50:21 +0000

I use to live next to a trucker restaurant that opened at 4am. It was a great place to go after a party or a night out.

New comment by theendisney4 in "Ask HN: How to learn marketing and sales as a solo entrepreneur?"

theendisney4 — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 22:32:19 +0000

Its to easy to join and to hard to have dialog or ban users on reddit. It has kind of one single standard while with forums it depends a lot what the topic is. If people are building something together you need to be a productive participant before you can make fart jokes or complaint about your hangover. Accademic forums often had zero tolerance for bullshiting in serious topics. If your reply gives away you didnt read the article you deserve a warning.

New comment by theendisney4 in "Ask HN: How to learn marketing and sales as a solo entrepreneur?"

theendisney4 — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 22:57:20 +0000

You can be as dishonest or helpful as you want. Back when google did organic ranking a lot of communities thrived on forum signatures. If you have thousands of helpful posts others know your level of expertise.

New comment by theendisney4 in "My second year without a job"

theendisney4 — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 06:10:13 +0000

Which part? The hosts often got the better end of the deal.

Today i would much enjoy a monthly elaborate dinner with my girl in exchange for 1x using a bed in a spare room i never use. Renting it out for a day for $ to a stranger is not going to happen but if it did it wouldnt cover the cost for professional cleaning plus a private cook.

I also had friends who never cook and ones who barely clean. I did whole office buildings, vacuuming a livingroom is not going to impress me.

New comment by theendisney4 in "Ask HN: How do you find and consume content online?"

theendisney4 — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 05:52:29 +0000

Its dead now but i one time (by hand) build an opml with feeds from pressreleases from the fortune 500. It seemed stupid but turns out no one is looking to crank out shitty pressreleases just for attention. Something has to be noteworthy to the company which turns out to be boring less than 90% of the time. At the very least 99% talks about something that was very expensive.

New comment by theendisney4 in "My second year without a job"

theendisney4 — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 05:14:35 +0000

I also thought it was funny, because it is if you have enough self confidence.

I had an agenda with 2-3 weeks worth of planning to stay with friends and aquaintances. I would never stay at the same place for more than 1 night. The friends would tollerate it for 2 weeks or 2 months but if i limit the visit to 1 day per week, 2 weeks or a month their patience would never run out. The deal was this: you pay for shopping i clean the kitchen entirely, i Cook an elaborate meal, clean the kitchen again, sleep and leave at 8 am.

The funniest were the ones who chose to abuse the deal and turned their kitchen into a giant mess. They pretty much didnt do anything for 14 days. I vaguely knew them, we didnt get along so well but i was excited to see the mess. This looks very welcomming! I joked. Some also ordered elaborate fancy 3 course meals that took some doing. They would enjoy the elaborate candle light dinner together after a day of hard work while i slaved away in their kitchen. Fucking hilarious.

New comment by theendisney4 in "The square roots of all evil"

theendisney4 — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 02:15:50 +0000

My prediction was that we would create a cpu with a slow and limited opcode set for humans to write on line numbers. Something that is easy to work with with a good static module system with certified sniplets of code. Anything written for it would still run cirkels around higher languages despite slow clock speed. It didnt happen but still could.

New comment by theendisney4 in "The square roots of all evil"

theendisney4 — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 00:01:19 +0000

To understand you would have had to be there. Computers got faster (and then some) in the old days you would write something (or not even bother) then see it took way longer than desirable. You would rewrite and itterate over possible ways to rewrite. Sometimes you would see the light, other times you would try different approches brute force. The point where optimization was nesasary was completely obvious and 99% of modern code never needs the consideration.

If communism takes over the world and be given 30 years half the texts wouldnt make sense as it talks about something to do with capitalism? that doesnt exist.

New comment by theendisney4 in "Romanian court annuls result of presidential election first round"

theendisney4 — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 21:32:55 +0000

Believe it ir not, we've had superior electric vehicles for decades. They are called electric velomobiles and they are amazingly hard to google. You can buy them but they are made in such small quantities that they cost as much as a car.

Here is some random example.

https://www.sinnerbikes.com/en/modellen/comfort/comfort-e/

1990

The electric versions are somewhat lagging behind the human powered velo

https://en.velomobiel.nl/snoek-l/

They are not cars but for transporting yourself from a to b they should do more than fine. Almost no power consumption very little danger als they are to light to do the infamous car crash. They use almost no space on the road and the road lasts much longer.

You also get physical activity which extends life span. Travel normally consumes life span. Under 30 minutes per day you get to the destination in 0 minutes.

New comment by theendisney4 in "Canvas Fingerprinting"

theendisney4 — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 03:07:28 +0000

If we go full CONAPIRACY: With your browsing history and enough data one can find people who are so much like you that they might do things regularly that you dont even know you are capable of. Your friends relatives and coworkers are also profiled by your data.

More realistic: you wont know by what creapy process they chose to show you an advertisement. We cant imagine it.

New comment by theendisney4 in "Apple ripped a valuable hearing loss feature from the AirPods line"

theendisney4 — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 01:33:48 +0000

Im more worried about the question title turning into a statement of fact.

New comment by theendisney4 in "Show HN: Wall-mounted diffusion mirror that turns reflections into paintings"

theendisney4 — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 23:33:11 +0000

Sounds cool! I would like pictures with people in the room doing weird things energetically like stand on their chair. Dancing. Confetti booze strange outfits. Bordering the offensive then deleted after 30 minutes.