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New comment by timeisapear in "We should be more tired than the model"

timeisapear — Fri, 29 May 2026 12:58:03 +0000

I don’t know about being more tired than the model, but when I’ve had a particularly productive session, I feel more tired (brain fog) than during a coding session. Probably because I’ve replaced brainless typing with the cognitive load of decision-making and weighing plan approaches.

New comment by timeisapear in "Operation: Epic Furious"

timeisapear — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:06:10 +0000

I think we need an official HN response. This is a legitimate video game, which happens to be satire. If we as a community cannot handle this, I don't know if I want to be a part of it anymore, even though I've been here since 2014.

New comment by timeisapear in "There's an Unhinged New Video Game About Trump and the Iran War"

timeisapear — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:03:37 +0000

Play it here: https://epicfurious.com

There's an Unhinged New Video Game About Trump and the Iran War

timeisapear — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:03:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/video-game-trump-iran-war/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48112827

Points: 15

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New comment by timeisapear in "Show HN: I visualized the entire history of Citi Bike in the browser"

timeisapear — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 03:43:46 +0000

Is MapLibre GL a cheaper (free?) open source alternative?

Cool stuff btw. I’m trying to visualize weather model data myself (millions of points) at https://futureradar.net and have been researching client-side techniques like yours.

New comment by timeisapear in "Ask HN: Looking for kids books about famous people"

timeisapear — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 04:09:08 +0000

This was a favorite when I was growing up: "The Value of Believing in Yourself: The Story of Louis Pasteur"

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/196827.The_Value_of_Beli...

New comment by timeisapear in "James Webb Space Telescope Sustained Micrometeoroid Impact to Mirror"

timeisapear — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 20:33:49 +0000

TLDR: We knew micrometeorites would happen, just not one this big so soon. We've corrected four small ones already. We barely got away with correcting this one, because luckily there is a large performance margin built into the image gathering pipeline. We're studying how many more big whoopsies might occur and what effect that might have on the telescope's future.

I wonder if having an impact that was larger than modeled so early on in JWST's mission is a foreboding sign for its lifespan.

New comment by timeisapear in "Bill Gates: Responding to Covid-19 – A Once-in-a-Century Pandemic?"

timeisapear — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 21:46:38 +0000

No, but he is an intelligent person who leads a billion-dollar organization that is, among other things, on the verge of eradicating the historical scourge of polio.

https://www.gatesfoundation.org/theoptimist/articles/Health-...

New comment by timeisapear in "FAA Finds New Risk on 737 Max, Orders Boeing to Make Changes"

timeisapear — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 13:52:35 +0000

I'm not sure I buy the risk/market trade-off. You could replace Boeing with any car manufacturer that still has publicly traded shareholder needs.

New comment by timeisapear in "Ultra Low Latency WebRTC Streaming – Open-Source Media Server"

timeisapear — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 13:56:08 +0000

Fubo? Liked the service during trial but the 4K World Cup stream was flaky.

New comment by timeisapear in "I Was Right About Mark Zuckerberg"

timeisapear — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 16:14:38 +0000

People != the market. Anecdotally Facebook usage among my circles has dropped. Most of that activity has shifted to Instagram which Facebook, Inc. owns but the general stigma attached to it is less.

New comment by timeisapear in "Tesla Model 3 Falls Short of a CR Recommendation"

timeisapear — Mon, 21 May 2018 19:53:44 +0000

Living in a city, I must manually retract side mirrors when parking on small streets and extend them before driving. Often need to readjust the mirrors each time after extending them.

New comment by timeisapear in "NFL Releases Finite Element Helmet Models"

timeisapear — Tue, 15 May 2018 20:37:13 +0000

The model of the helmet for use in concussion studies is only as good as your model for the (more complex) system of human skin, skull, and brain suspended in cerebrospinal fluid.

New comment by timeisapear in "Towards Battery-Free HD Video Streaming [video]"

timeisapear — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 16:46:26 +0000

Worth noting that the pretty HD pictures came from a laptop hooked up to a DAC converter to simulate an analog HD video camera. The true analog camera shown on the page had nowhere near HD color resolution (though it could still recognize faces in a parking lot with 95% accuracy--impressive in itself.)

New comment by timeisapear in "Google, in Post-Obama Era, Aggressively Woos Republicans"

timeisapear — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 22:25:29 +0000

Shocked? It's called lobbying--it's been around for decades.

New comment by timeisapear in "First stage of Falcon 9 has landed on Just Read the Instructions"

timeisapear — Sat, 14 Jan 2017 19:02:55 +0000

The employees on the stream mentioned it was one of the first landings where the feed was clear the whole time. It certainly raised my heart rate watching live as the Falcon 9 hit the X on a pinhead.

New comment by timeisapear in "A Physical Description of Flight, Revisited (2009) [pdf]"

timeisapear — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 16:14:12 +0000

Yes, you're correct. Increase* L/D by decreasing drag.

New comment by timeisapear in "A Physical Description of Flight, Revisited (2009) [pdf]"

timeisapear — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 19:12:27 +0000

I think the easiest explanation to a lay person involves the observation that all surfaces in a moving fluid (e.g. air) produce lift--whether a flat plate, rotating cylinder, or extending your hand outside a car window. Airfoils are merely highly optimized shapes to reduce the (often significant) drag the lift-producing bodies have.

In an airplane, by reducing L/D enough you decrease the necessary power (which indirectly produces its lift) needed to overcome the combined weight of the aircraft (wings/body/powerplant) generated by gravity.

New comment by timeisapear in "As venture capital dries up, tech startups discover frugality"

timeisapear — Tue, 03 May 2016 14:50:21 +0000

Where was this general agreement and skepticism about the industry in the comments for Mims' "tech bubble" article yesterday?

New comment by timeisapear in "Kodak resurrects Super 8"

timeisapear — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 01:45:11 +0000

Or JJ Abrams. Or Christopher Nolan. Two of the most profitable and prolific directors of today.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/behind-screen/help-star-war...