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bobabob··on I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs
Using grep and xargs is worth a whole blog post now? hmmmmm
bobabob··on Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition
Yes, and that should also take 1 year.
bobabob··on Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition
Why does it say the Chrysalis spends 400 years in inertial age at 0.01c if it accelerates for 1 year at 0.1g? That should bring it to actually ~0.1c and the whole trip would take less than 15 years.
bobabob··on Visualizing Weather Forecasts Through Landscape Imagery
It looks lovely but it's absolutely incomprehensible beyond "maybe it'll rain" and "maybe i'll be sunny". Without the explanation of what the symbols meant I'd never guess.
bobabob··on Astronomers unveil strong magnetic fields spiraling Milky Way's black hole
This image is not from the JWST.
bobabob··on Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its tech-heavy schools
I had perfectly joined up handwriting by that same age. They should've let your son continue to use his perfectly legibly print but that doesn't mean that calligraphy is necessarily unreadable, just that your son was bad at it.
bobabob··on Fungi and bacteria are binging on burned soil
Mushroom picking does not impair future harvests – results of a long-term study in Switzerland [1]

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00063...

bobabob··on Ask HN: Are Any of You Tired from macOS and Want to Go Back to Linux?
Absolutely not. I gave up on Linux UI/UX after I became an adult. I don't have time to go through the nightmare amount of tweaks needed to make anything look good or work the way I want. MacOS might not be perfect but it lets me focus on my work instead of someone else's work.
bobabob··on I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language
This is so retarded, I love it.
bobabob··on Alien Truth
> We'd probably share Occam's razor. There doesn't seem anything specifically human about any of these ideas.

Except the fact that humans are the only species that we know so far to have thought about them?

bobabob··on El Sueño Americano / The American Dream
Try coming here without an H1B working for big tech and let's see how long that dream will last.
bobabob··on After 50 years, Michael Heizer is finally ready to unveil City, his life's work
Looks like a place I'd like ride my dirt bike and that's all I can appreciate about it.
bobabob··on [dead]
That's just someone's youtube channel doing a redirect to a video
bobabob··on Why does anything exist?
Evolution is not a theory, it's a fact, you can see it happening.
bobabob··on Microrobots can brush and floss teeth in a proof-of-concept study
ffs, that's about time. I can brush my teeth just fine, I just hate doing it and I felt like this field had been lacking advances like this for a very very long time.
bobabob··on Vampire Attack Twitter
I fucking love geohot.
bobabob··on Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes
You're just arguing with sellers that's why. There's no downside for buyers.
bobabob··on Ask HN: Beating depression with or without anti-depressants?
lol this thread is cancer.

a bunch of wiki-google-doctors that think they know more than the people who actually studied for at least a decade; get away while you can.

> These drugs are very powerful but have really bad side-effects for most people that take them.

This is bullshit. Antidepressants have mild side-effects for most people who take them. Some people have bad side effects and then they try a different one with a different side-effects profile and that usually helps. The only thing I have on Zoloft are annoying night sweats. Without it I was unable to function and had chronic anxiety and panic attacks.

> Is my utter terror of these drugs warranted or should I just bite the bullet and try them?

You said it yourself. You tried therapy, you tried all sorts of coping mechanisms and nothing helped. So yes, find a psychiatrist and talk to him about taking drugs.

There's absolutely nothing wrong about drugs. Some people need blood pressure medication their whole life; the brain is just another part of you that responds to medication.

It is a fact that the mechanism of almost all of these drugs are not completely understood, but fully understanding the mechanism of a drug is not a requirement for it to be therapeutic. Sometimes you just find that stuff works and then you spend a whole lot of time trying to understand why it does.

bobabob··on Ask HN: When did 7 interviews become “normal”?
Do all that without writing decent code and you still have nothing to show.

> Lack of communication skills is a bug not a feature.

A bug I'm willing to take in exchange of producing high quality code. Besides, we live in 2022 now, we can type. I just said I suck at talking not at communicating. There are multiples forms of communication which don't involve opening your mouth.

bobabob··on Ask HN: When did 7 interviews become “normal”?
> I think it's time we accept that the person we are talking to is who they say they are on their resume.

Yea because we live in a place where everyone is super honest and no one is going to try and take advantage of that to make 500k a year.

IMO, it doesn't work. Talk is cheap.

I wouldn't have a job if I had to talk my way into any company, I'm an introvert, I suck at communicating orally. But I can solve problems and write really good code. You throw problems at me during an interview and I'll solve them. Ultimately your company's code is not going to write itself.

bobabob··on About the security content of iOS 15.4.1 and iPadOS 15.4.1
It's a kernel extension for audio and video decoding. /System/Library/Extensions/AppleAVD.kext/
bobabob··on Air-purifying headphones with active noise cancelling
What the...
bobabob··on USWDS: The United States Web Design System
I call that the @tiangolo/FastAPI pattern of open source software.

After individuals noticed that it's possible to make tons of money through donations/sponsors on Github and providing support for their OSS many just rebrand libraries by sugar coating abstractions on top of it (what FastAPI did to Starlette) and trying to own all parts of the development (by not giving access to anyone on the project for example) so that they own they're seen as the only person able to provide true support for it.

See https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/issues/4263 and https://github.com/tiangolo

bobabob··on A decent team could reverse engineer a version one in a month
This. I don't know why people think that Twitter and other social platforms are public forum. People blocked by Twitter don't lose their freedom of speech. Besides, what most of the people crying about this want is not freedom of speech, it's freedom of repercussions.
bobabob··on Tell HN: There needs to be a “right to speak with a human”
There is no SSN in Brazil.
bobabob··on Show HN: I created a website to monitor the war situation
oops, my bad, fixed!