Hacker News: xereeto

New comment by xereeto in "String of recent killings linked to Bay Area 'Zizians'"

xereeto — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 23:34:48 +0000

I think that’s a drastic oversimplification.

New comment by xereeto in "This Video Was Uploaded Through a Fishing Line (Tin Can Phone)"

xereeto — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 23:13:10 +0000

Impressive project and maybe it's just hubris talking but I think he could have made this a whole lot easier on himself if he built a duplex modem program and implemented something like TCP on top of it rather than trying to raw dog 100MB through a string.

This video feels like a triumph of working harder not smarter.

New comment by xereeto in "Lynn Conway has died"

xereeto — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 21:45:45 +0000

little matter called respect

New comment by xereeto in "A new method to reprogram human cells to better mimic embryonic stem cells"

xereeto — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 09:08:06 +0000

To hell with nature! I have never understood this argument even a little bit.

New comment by xereeto in "A new AI app lets users ‘text’ with Jesus"

xereeto — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 13:10:43 +0000

Depeche Mode warned us about this. Someone to hear your prayers, someone who cares...

New comment by xereeto in "We need scientific dissidents"

xereeto — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 08:07:56 +0000

US domestic culture war bullshit is decidedly not global politics.

New comment by xereeto in "We need scientific dissidents"

xereeto — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 08:06:54 +0000

Sure there are. "Is the universe really billions of years old, or did it pop into existence three seconds ago in its current state including all of your memories?" It's impossible to answer this question scientifically because no empirical test could ever possibly be devised.

New comment by xereeto in "Archive.today: on the trail of mysterious guerrilla archivists of the Internet"

xereeto — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 12:03:10 +0000

The way you phrased it definitely made it sound like you were implying it was a bad thing lol

New comment by xereeto in "Storing dead people at -196°C [video]"

xereeto — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 22:20:26 +0000

Science doesn’t say anything about consciousness because there is no known way to study it empirically. That doesn’t mean we should start accepting metaphysical woo though.

New comment by xereeto in "Storing dead people at -196°C [video]"

xereeto — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 22:17:54 +0000

Yes, preserving my own life is worth more to me than passing resources to “future generations”. I’m not having kids anyway.

Death is a natural part of life, but so was smallpox until it wasn’t. Nature fucking sucks and we should bend it to our will.

New comment by xereeto in "Life at the Margin: How I got $25,000 in debt"

xereeto — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 03:03:10 +0000

This blog post takes a lot of words to say “look at how smart I am! there’s no way this could possibly go wrong!”

Maybe it makes me an asshole but I’m rooting for a rates hike or something to give this guy a dose of reality. But I think we all know mummy and daddy would get him out of it.

New comment by xereeto in "A room-temperature superconductor? New developments"

xereeto — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 22:01:46 +0000

The transistor was unequivocally the biggest technological breakthrough since fire

New comment by xereeto in "Icanhazip: A simple IP address tool survived a deluge of users (2021)"

xereeto — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 09:35:01 +0000

You do know headers are transferred whether you look at them or not, right? A request to icanhazip.com results in a response that is 90% completely wasted bandwidth.

New comment by xereeto in "Icanhazip: A simple IP address tool survived a deluge of users (2021)"

xereeto — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 08:19:30 +0000

Not if you use the PROXY protocol

New comment by xereeto in "AI is upending the freelance world"

xereeto — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 06:16:44 +0000

These are all very simple low hanging fruit puns. None of these come close to the human example.

That said, I'm not an idiot - AI will get there and probably soon.

New comment by xereeto in "The FIP-FS “Microsoft” Scan Engine Failed. Can’t Convert “2201010001” to Long"

xereeto — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 20:24:28 +0000

This bug could only have been introduced after 2000, because if it can't fit a number beginning with 22 it certainly can't fit one beginning with 96.