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ddoolin

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I'm Devin. I work with TRD helping Toyotas win races.
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ddoolin··on Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity
Potentially lots poopies.
ddoolin··on We Must Return to the Office to Use AI in Person
It really does have a very similar feeling.
ddoolin··on IBM Simon (1994): the original smartphone, explained in its own ad [video]
Those Newton commercials are awesome, I love that dark humor.
ddoolin··on Almost no skill required to cook a steak
What I've really gotten out of this is that I'd like to learn how to use a (proper) meat thermometer when I make steaks.
ddoolin··on CipherX applies painless permanent tattoos with dissolving microneedle patches
Are you suggesting that tattoos are uglifying the world or that an innovation like this device is? I am no defender of capitalism but I don't see the connection.
ddoolin··on CipherX applies painless permanent tattoos with dissolving microneedle patches
Just thinking about that makes me a bit queasy.
ddoolin··on CipherX applies painless permanent tattoos with dissolving microneedle patches
In my experience, as others have said, the shoulder is probably the least painful area to get tattooed, to the point where I also wouldn't call it painful. I'm halfway through one right now which runs from my chest/armpit over my shoulder and upper arm, and onto my back, and the shoulder was the only real reprieve. The armpit, chest, arm, and back (in that order) were certainly painful to varying degrees, even if they were tolerable.

I also got one not long ago, a round dial about 3 inches across, on my quads a few inches above my knee that was exceedingly painful, an area where the pain charts seem to suggest is not usually painful.

The most painful for me is when when the outline is done and they go back to do the shading/texturing and the skin is already angry. That's a good time to stop if the tattoo is sufficiently large.

ddoolin··on Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database
I wonder why the say "appears to have had," is that an assumption or was it stated somewhere? Without an offline backup, it would indeed be a very serious problem, more than it already is.
ddoolin··on No Spanish reading crisis?
"Reading books is overrated" -- what an HN take. You've gotta be kidding me.
ddoolin··on Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore
I started learning software in the early 2010s and I read a lot of software books like the ones mentioned in the article. I continued reading them as the years went on, but the last one I bought was probably 4 or 5 years ago. Naturally, I probably don't need books as much as I used to -- I can generally pick up something new and know where to find what I need to find, "learning to learn" and all that. I also think they are better for foundational knowledge; many times the books become outdated very quickly. So if I was gonna attempt to write a database or learn distributed programming theory, I'd probably pick up a book, but if I wanted to learn a specific tool (or most languages) I'd probably stick to the web.
ddoolin··on LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions
Same way they do it now. Cold applying, word of mouth/referrals, networking events, etc. Personally my first industry job in like 2012 originated from a networking mixer that I showed up to after seeing a promotional online. My unpaid internship/mentorship before that was a word of mouth from my mom asking her friend's husband which I suppose might count as a connection.
ddoolin··on Show HN: Flight-Viz – 10K flights on a 3D globe in 3.5MB of Rust+WASM
When you zoom in to the street map level, the planes are practically invisible with their color and thin borders. Pretty neat though, that's a lot to load and keep smooth.
ddoolin··on Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case
Maybe this applies more towards adults, but I don't think the correct answer for kids is only "just have self-control," something kids are notorious for not having. Certainly there's a lot of parental responsibility here but we can simultaneously hold companies responsible for their part too.
ddoolin··on Landmark L.A. jury verdict finds Instagram, YouTube were designed to addict kids
If we want to compare it to alcohol/cigarettes, then kids shouldn't be allowed to use this either.
ddoolin··on Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?
Really ironic given that they pulled the rug on general aviation usage.
ddoolin··on Shall I implement it? No
Same here. I quickly learned that if you merely ask questions about it's understanding or plans, it starts looking for alternatives because my questioning is interpreted as rejection or criticism, rather than just taking the question at face value. So I often (not always) have to caveat questions like that too. It's really been like that since before Claude Code or Codex even rolled around.

It's just strange because that's a very human behavior and although this learns from humans, it isn't, so it would be nice if it just acted more robotic in this sense.

ddoolin··on An Honest Review of Go (2025)
> Yes I can. I even provided an example for exactly that: `[4]any` can hold references to any type.

And now you've lost type checking. `(&'static str, bool, u64, f64)` is not the same as `[4]any`.

> A lot of things are useful, doesn't mean they are used for that useful case most of the time.

I'm sure you have vast insights into what most people do most of the time.

> Go has wrapped and typed errors, covering exactly that.

Sure, "Go has X because it gives you the tools to reimplement it yourself another way" is true of most anything you can think of.

ddoolin··on An Honest Review of Go (2025)
I've only written a handful of production projects in Go so my experience isn't very deep, but I find the syntax to be the ugliest of any PL. The mixed capitalizing based on function privacy, to me, is awful (among other things, i.e. personally I loathe curly brace initialization/definition). I'm sure you get used to it? It doesn't help that it just feels very hacked together, from the wonky generics, the lack of useful types like tuples and enums, the bolted on module system, to the annoying error handling, to say the least.

That said, compile times are great, the concurrency is dead simple, it's performant, and it's still easy to be really productive in it so it's not like I'd never consider it. Many other languages have many of the same issues, anyway.

ddoolin··on I switched from VSCode to Zed
Zed is the only editor I've been using for maybe two months or so. But I find the extensions still sorely lacking and the API not extensive enough yet either. Still, I really love the design as well as how AI was builtin, and some more of the niche differences.
ddoolin··on Greeting Vocalizations in Domestic Cats Are More Frequent with Male Caregivers
Anecdotally, my cats meow at me a lot. But they're my cats (others live in the house and help care for them). I also meow back more than anyone else. In fact, I might be the only one to do so. :)
ddoolin··on [dead]
Anything to avoid stricter gun legislation. This type of incident will be considered an unfortunate but necessary sacrifice despite how dystopian it really is.
ddoolin··on Space Elevator
How do you pay with PayPal if not putting in your credit card or bank details? link is a pretty well-known online wallet and much simpler to use than PayPal.
ddoolin··on New Mexico is first state in US to offer universal child care
It's $16k for a 1-person household. Here's the rest:

$21,150 (2), $26,650 (3), $32,150 (4), $37,650 (5), $43,150 (6), $48,650 (7), $54,150 (8)

Also the median household income in NM is ~$62,000 according to the Census, which is already under the 400% threshold for just a one person household.

https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/federal-poverty-level-fp... https://data.census.gov/profile/New_Mexico?g=040XX00US35

ddoolin··on Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year
Working with one of those right now, on my two-person team, ironically.
ddoolin··on Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year
I am on a team of 2 people with a dedicated manager. That is, the manager does not write code and is not even really technical.

It is awful, send help.

ddoolin··on Show HN: Typed-arrow – compile‑time Arrow schemas for Rust
I had no idea what Arrow is: https://arrow.apache.org or arrow-rs: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs
ddoolin··on Kodak says it might have to cease operations [updated]
My grandpa (father's father) grew up in Rochester and that was the first time I visited New York for a family reunion, way back in the early aughts. Kodak was the major employer in town then; he and practically everyone he knew either worked there, had dealings with them in some form, or knew many others who did. When we went, I had the pleasure of touring the place and hearing plenty of stories from my gramps and our family. Good times.
ddoolin··on Navy demonstrates multi-day solar UAS flight
This was envisioned by the movie Interstellar where the opening scene shows them chasing an old autonomous Indian Air Force drone that had been flying for years, ostensibly after that agency ceased to exist. I'm sure it's been in other media as well but that's what comes to mind here.

Anyway, it should be interesting to see where this goes in the future.

ddoolin··on Positive link between cannabis use and 'Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events'
Whoa, you and the other commenter are the only ones I've ever met who even remotely relate to this though (I've never bothered searching it out on the net). That's actually kind of a relief. For me it also coincided with just higher anxiety in general so I'm not really sure which came first.
ddoolin··on Positive link between cannabis use and 'Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events'
Only sort of related, but I'm almost completely unable to smoke anymore. I used to smoke heavily in my early 20s (33 now). Now if I take more than one hit of anything, I'm liable to have an anxiety/panic attack. I can hardly move and I get these awful chills. The way it's consumed hardly matters; even with edibles, I can only have 1-2mg. I've ceased entirely and I don't regret it at all.

I'm sure there are at least a couple of other causes (genetics, early life diet), but I think it did worsen some hormonal imbalance issues I've had too.

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