HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

defnotarobot

29 karma · joined May 8, 2018

submissionscomments
defnotarobot··on TSA confirms plans to mandate mug shots for domestic air travel
True story, though a fair amount intimate.
defnotarobot··on Phoenix LiveDashboard
I think it's up and running as far away as Flagstaff.
defnotarobot··on People are planting more vegetable gardens
This is the one written in Elixir with Nerves, yeah?
defnotarobot··on Rotary Cellphone
I've seen some grandstreams that'll run a ringer.
defnotarobot··on Show HN: Nullboard – Simple, light, locally-stored to-do lists
Really just came here to see if anyone else had already used this as an opportunity to plug Emacs Org-Mode
defnotarobot··on A small notebook for a system administrator
My mind also immediately went to the Homer.
defnotarobot··on Future JavaScript: what is still missing?
As someome who has spent the last year primarily with Elixir, it is impossible to overstate how nice pipeline |> is.

It is one of the most convenient and readable pieces of syntax, and one of the primary reasons I pause before using javascript instead of Elixir in a given moment.

defnotarobot··on What is Life? by Erwin Schrödinger (1944) [pdf]
I remember finding a first edition of this in my university library during undergrad after reading the likes of Watson/Crick describe it as fundamental in their path. What bowled me over was that each paragraph in that edition - and so very likely the ones they read as well - was marked with a section symbol (§), itself closely resembling a double helix. At the time it felt profound that their conclusion was likely implied by the circumstances of their beginning.
defnotarobot··on How Alexa knows “peanut butter” is one shopping-list item, not two
I had exact same realization.
defnotarobot··on “I Used AI to Clone My Voice and Trick My Mom into Thinking It Was Me”
Is there anything at all like this open source?
defnotarobot··on China Has Withheld Samples of a Dangerous Flu Virus
Does the timing even make sense for attributing the delay to trade tensions? If theyve delayed for more than a year, those tensions were not at their present level a year ago.
defnotarobot··on IPVanish “No-Logging” VPN Led Homeland Security to Comcast User
This presumes that law enforcement always represent the enforcement of ethically correct directives. This is demonstrably not the case, and categorically deferring to them is likely ethically irresponsible.