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blablabla123··on The Inverse Jim Cramer ETF
Not speculating whether Cramer or acquaintances of his have a stake on the stocks or not. But from what I remember from posts on WSB his advice if you'd follow through a) doesn't give very significant changes and b) rather goes in the negative direction. To me it seems it's hard to separate from noise. Of course this might be explained by stating a free money paradox. (If everyone invested...) But also it seems his advice is actually rather random and just fits an entertainment narrative at best or sales pitch at worst.
blablabla123··on Amazon will require employees return to the office 3 days a week
Lunch is a big one. Working remotely since the pandemic started I haven't ate this healthy in almost a decade. (And I don't need a coffee after lunch to not be sleepy) Also I've seen much higher quality 1:1 meetings.
blablabla123··on An overview of single-purpose Linux distributions
Not sure if that's what you're looking for but there are Kubernetes distros. And yes, this also includes a relatively nice Web UI. But it's probably not easy to setup.
blablabla123··on Ask HN: Do you celebrate failures at work?
At my past job yes, at the current one it's swept under the rug. I even know someone that got fired for doing an error. (edit: and actually most teams seem to struggle with a lot of technical debt)
blablabla123··on Bleach Is Toxic, but Plenty of Americans Are Still Drinking It
According to Wikipedia this is actually already ongoing since 2006.
blablabla123··on Forthcoming OpenSSL Releases 3.0.8, 1.1.1T and 1.0.2zg
So comparing to the last update day it must be medium then :)
blablabla123··on Ask HN: What's with the DIY state of the art long-range Wi-Fi?
Not sure if these numbers are the best to go by. Freifunk surely has the most setups. I might be completely wrong on this but I think most Freifunk installations are isolated, i.e. single-node with e.g. the local DSL as upstream. I wonder which of these have nodes with no cable-bound upstream or at least actually used interconnects with other nodes.
blablabla123··on Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today?
Definitely 1., velocity is kind of predictable, it's cheap and easier when working with more people. I like also more up-to-date stacks but collaboration is more tricky I think
blablabla123··on Magnetic method to clean PFAS contaminated water
Do you have a link for this? In the movie about it which plays around 2000 the corporate lawyer has a hard time finding someone who can say anything meaningful about it. That would be more than half a century later.
blablabla123··on Magnetic method to clean PFAS contaminated water
The comparison with Vitamins seems absurd. But really, what are "very high levels" then in ppm and exposure time?

Also the public's reaction is logical since information has been kept from the public for decades to hinder proper regulation. I think the successful class action lawsuit speaks for itself.

blablabla123··on A candle produces roughly the same amount of energy as a resting human
Not sure, but I remember the comparison with a light bulb. A bit artificial but it puts unintuitive units in perspective
blablabla123··on U.S. trade deficit shrinks 21% to 26-month low as imports tumble
The whole inflation seems transitory after all and might not self-accelerate. Also in the EU things seem to stabilize
blablabla123··on How do I draw a pair of buttocks? (2014)
Yeah the mathematics related SE sites seem to be very rational about mathematical problems
blablabla123··on Japan to invest on nuclear energy in major policy shift
> Literally everything humans build need mining.

Actually one of the newest trend in architecture are large scale buildings made from (fire-proof!) wood

> Chernobyl was looked at by an international panel of scientist and engineers and early death related to it are below 1500. And many of those people live to pretty old age still.

Yeah and 600,000 people worked as liquidators.

I think a lot of those arguments (in fact on both sides) are overly nitpicky and based on niche facts making reasonable discussions next to impossible.

Nuclear seems this simplistic choice where the risk is shifted to somewhere where nobody can see it. Nobody knows about missing Core catchers, failure modes or insurance.

That said, new Nuclear plants are actually more expensive (LCOE) than other Energy forms with the exception of on-demand Gas

blablabla123··on Japan to invest on nuclear energy in major policy shift
Uranium also needs to be mined actually and there are also fatalities.

> Once again 'paid the (nuclear) price', is 1 death. One.

Claiming a really low number of fatalities has almost become a meme for every nuclear catastrophe. I remember reading articles of people claiming really few fatalities related to Chernobyl. But if you've watched the Netflix series, you can easily see that this cannot be further from the truth

By the way, in the same article it's also written that 'Predicted future cancer deaths due to accumulated radiation exposures in the population living near Fukushima have ranged[14] in the academic literature from none[15] to hundreds.[12]' ... 'For long-term displacement, many people (mostly sick and elderly) died at an increased rate ... As of 27 February 2017, the Fukushima prefecture government counted 2,129 "disaster-related deaths" in the prefecture.[21][19][22][23] This value exceeds the number that have died in Fukushima prefecture directly from the earthquake and tsunami.[24]'

blablabla123··on Ask HN: Has anyone here turned around their life in their 40s?
That, I wanted to mention this myself. E.g. adopting kids that are already in school. That'll make their day and also considering today's divorce rates they'd probably be already studying should a divorce ever happen. I know families that adopted kids and everyone did really well (and did not divorce from what I heard anyway)
blablabla123··on Atom was archived today
VSCode might be better feature-wise than Atom but I'd choose Atom any time of the day over VSCode if it was still maintained. Just considering CVEs popping up every now and then. Also I found the UX getting slightly less in the way. Otherwise Sublime is my go to "normal" editor but it's not really free...
blablabla123··on FreeBSD, Linux, and I
Wasn't the Android project criticized for years because they didn't put in the effort for upstreamable changes?

After all the modifications mentioned are probably quite use-case specific. Not sure how much this can be generalized

blablabla123··on FreeBSD, Linux, and I
Generally I agree although in case of the GPL there's a lot to criticize especially about the whole GNU project in my opinion. It's hard to identify with it these days and at the same time seeing how so many projects with less restrictive licenses flourish. Also working at a day job with GPL isn't exactly inspiring
blablabla123··on US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved
For the Fusion the particles need to get close - but not to close. So the particles in the Tokamak get heated up to reach that. Also it's designed to run continuously but the challenge is the magnetic field so the particles won't hit the wall. (And cool down very quickly)

The Inertia based fusion works by providing the heat/energy with lasers, so the fuel would have to be replaced continuously.

blablabla123··on Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable
It provides a lot of improvements actually. Stating the obvious, NAT isn't needed anymore. Also with modern Firewalls rules need to be written only once. At this point I'm just surprised why it's not adopted
blablabla123··on Show HN: Chrome extension to display ChatGPT response besides Google Search
> And I was very conservative with systems like GPT and DALLE-2

Yeah those are impressive but basically toys. Although at the moment it's clearly still a research prototype. For some things it works really well and beats Google by saving dozens of clicks and repeated searches, for others it's just plain wrong.

blablabla123··on Nuclear cheaper than wind, solar as Canada greens its grid: report
True for existing plants maybe depending on local circumstances but the LCOE is for new plants actually really high.
blablabla123··on Exec who cleaned up Enron calls FTX mess 'unprecedented'
> A vocal community has been calling out the blatant scams and corruption for years

And not only that, even people who made fortunes in the financial markets.

> and so the obvious temptations were tempting...

But that is what happened. It's bad for people who've put in money they couldn't afford to lose

blablabla123··on Emergency SOS via satellite
Yeah I was planning to buy no more Apple products but they do something really right with the Watch and the iPhone. If you've ever been in a situation where you need help it turns out it's on the practical side not so easy
blablabla123··on Mathics: A free, open-source alternative to Mathematica
Sure, but that's really strictly hobby. Anything remotely for commercial usage or even open source isn't an option, there the prices are 10x. Also for people just having finished studies even those prices can be a lot. IMHO the Home/Hobby licenses seem to be in a very tiny niche
blablabla123··on Mathics: A free, open-source alternative to Mathematica
Also the actual value of Mathematica or Maple seems to me how good solvers are. E.g. when it comes to Integrals or just solving a non-linear equation. Also most common tasks work good enough. A good/fast UI is also important (like for Maxima, although I miss modern convenience a bit)
blablabla123··on Mathics: A free, open-source alternative to Mathematica
I doubt it, probably also because the price tag is so far away from cheap/for free if you cannot go for any student program in which case the question probably doesn't even pop up
blablabla123··on Climate geoengineering via stratospheric aerosol injection
Obviously they are although I often think many modern conspiracy theories are just an extremely poor attempt of story telling actual problems. Maybe it's not even on purpose but imagining how the theory is told from person to person, with more noise, distortions and embellishments until it gets written down...
blablabla123··on Ask HN: How would you design an alternative Twitter
I would probably try to involve sociologists who specialize in a relevant field. I cannot stop thinking that every sufficiently large social network so far seemed to degenerate into a complete cesspool. Some important bits seem to be missing
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