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Hnrobert42

4,854 karma · joined August 19, 2015

I try to be kind, honest, and fair. Sometimes, I can get a bit riled up by comments. I am sorry if I say something rude or snarky.
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Hnrobert42··on Advertise in ChatGPT
Whoa! You don't know where they are from. Given time zones, it's likely they are from Europe
Hnrobert42··on Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat tour of grace cathedral, San Francisco
FWIW, it works great in Firefox focus on an iPhone 16 Pro.
Hnrobert42··on Perforce charges $500 for training training videos.. and it's AI narrated
Having made training videos, doing a voice recording is a huge pain in the ass. So easy to flub and have to edit or re-record. Hard to maintain even pace. I haven't tried AI generated voices, but doing it manually is difficult.
Hnrobert42··on The Computer at the Bottom of a Canal
I console myself that this is why I never got fabulously wealthy. That brilliance is no guarantee of wealth. You need luck, too.

But the truth is, you also need to do the work. I used my conclusion about luck as an excuse to not even try. Not even in some grand way. Just in the grinding everyday way. In the way of, "You know what I should do?! I should ... meh. That'll never work."

Take it from me, kids. If you want to do something great, do it while you are still young enough to believe it's possible.

Hnrobert42··on Funny item co-occurrences in 3.2M Instacart orders
Yes! This is how you do humor. Demand precision. Dissect all the things!
Hnrobert42··on Texas wins court order to suspend domain name for violating age-verification law
No. If a site doesn't want to comply with the state, they can geoblock. That's what pornhub does.
Hnrobert42··on My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded
Zinn & the Art of Road Bike Maintenance, if you are looking for a solid resource.
Hnrobert42··on Data centers have hiked electricity prices on the public by $23B
> Every tech company building out datacenters would pay in a heartbeat to add commensurate power to the grid. The cost is not an objection.

Yeah. I'm going to need a source on this claim.

Hnrobert42··on Why American ambulance rides are so expensive
Do you believe the example given was evil? I believe they are wrong not evil. That's what I mean that I will not be a cynic.
Hnrobert42··on Woman in Brazil enslaved for 55 years by 3 generations of the same family
You mean like how you wrote "anti-White" and "black"? Ignorance and strong opinions is a bad combination.
Hnrobert42··on The fine print that follows you out the door: non-compete clauses are spreading
In all cases where I was presented with an unreasonable non-compete, I either negotiated it away or scratched it out before signing. I know not everyone has that luxury, but if your BATNA is signing, it's worth a shot.
Hnrobert42··on The vintage beauty of Soviet control rooms (2018)
I use Firefox Focus on mobile which blocks ads automatically. This was a cool site, so I thought it only fair to visit it with ads permitted.

My god. I didn't even know autoplaying, unmuted ad videos are a thing.

Hnrobert42··on Why American ambulance rides are so expensive
Do you really not understand the difference between the one you cited and the one to which I was responding?

The one to which I was responding was capricious. The one you cited has reasoning, even if you disagree with it.

And that was the whole point of my comment. That by reducing the other side to a farcical strawman, you diminish your own argument. It just becomes a yelling match.

I would rather debate the person you cited than sit complacently with the cynic to whom I responded.

Hnrobert42··on War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history
Amazing! I just wish there was a way to eliminate the text boxes.
Hnrobert42··on Why American ambulance rides are so expensive
But do they really? Can you point a real, evil villain saying that?
Hnrobert42··on Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera
But if you do a shoulder check, the car will beep for tacking your eyes off the road!

Third base!

Hnrobert42··on Pi squared is nearly 10
Get enough numbers, accept wide error bars, and some of them are going to overlap.
Hnrobert42··on How to ask for help from people who don't know you
In that case, I appreciate your comment here! Not sure it was worth 10 hours, but it was good of you to share.
Hnrobert42··on US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections
Of course Alito and Thomas would have allowed the government unlimited power. I am bit surprised to see Barret in the minority of this one.
Hnrobert42··on The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online
That's what GP is asking, except without the unhelpful sarcasm.
Hnrobert42··on Reducing tick density along recreational trails in Ottawa, Canada
Calls to mind one of my favorite Simpsons moments.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NGv6RASFsY4&t=26s

Hnrobert42··on In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words
While your point is valid, I think you are missing the point of the article.

The point was that someone the author was fond of passed away. The author who likely might be reading these comments. And Krueger did some cool stuff that everyone use without realizing who did it.

Hnrobert42··on Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed
I believe they would all argue that they haven't. They would argue that the current administration is operating within the law towards ends supported, repeatedly, by their constituents.

I disagree with them, but that isn't relevant.

Hnrobert42··on Lithuanian startup launches open-source network to detect Shahed-type drones
Interesting! There are a lot of super loud cars in my urban area. I want to catalog where and when they drive, so I can stand on the side of the street and shake my cane at them.
Hnrobert42··on Lithuanian startup launches open-source network to detect Shahed-type drones
Wow. This may be the most offensively condescending messages I've seen on HN.

And unnecessarily so, to boot. Is the Ukrainian system open source? Can you link to it?

Hnrobert42··on The 2-Year Apartment Rule
Yeah. The last two apartments I've been in have had leaks. I begged the landlord to open up the walls and dry them out. They just painted over it, so I moved out. Sadly, that means two other people now in apartments can never figure out why their place smells musty and they feel a bit congested all the time.
Hnrobert42··on Want your images back? That'll be $5
IANAL.

Article 15 says you have the right to request the data and they must provide it to you.

Article 20 says you have the right to get your photos back in a machine readable format.

Sadly, this only applies to those in the EU. Americans can keep taking it, which makes sense as it's an American company that's giving it. Sigh.

Hnrobert42··on Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness
Ho Lee Shit.
Hnrobert42··on Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless
Nah. I have hosted my domain for 17 years on google and then fastmail. The hosting is harder than private relay, although not too hard.

But I have only had maybe 3 services ever reject my domain, and those were because the domain contains a number.

Hnrobert42··on A 60fps eInk Monitor, the Modos Flow [video]
Oh cool!

I didn't mean the YT wasn't good content. The video fascinated me, and I watched the whole thing.

I meant he is a brilliant engineer doing what brilliant engineers do. He improves things.

I get that the hardware development lifecycle differs from the SDLC. I am out of my depth. But it seems he needs his business partner to say, "Good enough. Ship. Test product market fit. Iterate."

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