Hacker News: timdiggerm

New comment by timdiggerm in "Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated"

timdiggerm — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:59:15 +0000

You know, he's the perfect subject for a kind of Chuck-Norris-joke-esque thing

New comment by timdiggerm in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

timdiggerm — Fri, 08 May 2026 11:56:30 +0000

What a failure of university leadership to allow or even encourage that practice

New comment by timdiggerm in "Southwest Headquarters Tour"

timdiggerm — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:01:11 +0000

> Ask them about the chickens hanging from the bottom.

Maybe you should tell me about the chickens, since I am unlikely to ever get to ask anyone at Southwest HQ.

New comment by timdiggerm in "An amateur historian's favorite books about the Silk Road"

timdiggerm — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:26:59 +0000

This list is just a promo blog post for the author's book

New comment by timdiggerm in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

timdiggerm — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:17:51 +0000

The periodic table in the "Create Everything At Once" collage is not so impressive.

New comment by timdiggerm in "Human Accelerated Region 1"

timdiggerm — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:03:18 +0000

What did you think it was before you read this brief Wikipedia article?

New comment by timdiggerm in "New bill would let New Yorkers hang solar panels from windows"

timdiggerm — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:05:25 +0000

> Our electricity is unmetered and included in our rent. My unit has an individual circuit breaker box, but how would solar power be fed into such a system

I don't understand. These systems just plug into wall outlets. The big difference is that, instead of saving yourself money, you'd be saving your landlady money on the bill.

New comment by timdiggerm in "I went to America's worst national parks so you don't have to"

timdiggerm — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:05:20 +0000

https://www.nps.gov/cong/planyourvisit/trail-information.htm

New comment by timdiggerm in "Emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal now endangered"

timdiggerm — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:26:20 +0000

It's not as though people intentionally made these endangered because they have insufficient love for penguins. We have unintentionally done it because we have insufficient love (care) for them and many, many other things, creatures, people, etc.

New comment by timdiggerm in "Kindle to end store downloads and registering for 1st-5th gen kindles in May"

timdiggerm — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:27:18 +0000

Yeah but HN commenters are not a representative sample of the ebook consumer base

New comment by timdiggerm in "We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code"

timdiggerm — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:45:22 +0000

It's not a shallow dismissal; it's a dismissal for good reason. It's tangential to the topic, but not to HN overall. It's only curmudgeonly if you assume AI-written posts are the inevitable and good future (aka begging the question). I really don't know how it's "sneering", so I won't address that.

New comment by timdiggerm in "We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code"

timdiggerm — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:43:21 +0000

So you're saying Pangram isn't worth much?

New comment by timdiggerm in "I'm Getting a Whiff of Iain Banks' Culture"

timdiggerm — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:38:06 +0000

The key line "I’m getting a similar sense for the recent US foreign interventions and wars. They all seem to work slightly better than they should."

There is no measurement of efficacy here. It feels like these things are working better because the US military is now doing big public things, but that is not necessarily a good change over not-doing-big-public-things.

New comment by timdiggerm in "Gemini 3 Deep Think"

timdiggerm — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:10:53 +0000

Wait where does the idea of consciousness enter this? AGI doesn't need to be conscious.

New comment by timdiggerm in "Is beef tallow making a comeback?"

timdiggerm — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 14:49:04 +0000

It's not a liquid, but it's pretty soft.

New comment by timdiggerm in "Mechanical power generation using Earth's ambient radiation"

timdiggerm — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 13:56:56 +0000

But can he speak Italian lawn games?

New comment by timdiggerm in "The writing is on the wall for handwriting recognition"

timdiggerm — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 15:19:02 +0000

For that to be relevant to this post, they would need to write with secretary hand.

New comment by timdiggerm in "A Spectral-Geometric Proof of the Riemann Hypothesis"

timdiggerm — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 13:46:59 +0000

I look forward, should this prove correct, to the explainers from Quanta, Numberphile, etc.

New comment by timdiggerm in "Laptops with Stickers"

timdiggerm — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:22:53 +0000

The edginess was, at the core of it, what made them fun in the first place

New comment by timdiggerm in "Laptops with Stickers"

timdiggerm — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:22:05 +0000

You're right, you just can't make memories without injecting ink into your skin.