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moi2388on QR-Swastika-Avoider

Not really. Not having a swastika is not a problem in the slightest. Indians can also perfectly fine create versions which do include them if they’d prefer that.

moi2388on European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS

It can, but we’re quite good at it with all animals and plants..

moi2388on Solving 20 Erdős Problems with 20 Codex Accounts Running in Parallel

How about philosophers?

moi2388on House passes bill to enact year-round Daylight Saving Time across the country

Yes. You advance the clock 1 hour. So 06:00 becomes 07:00, so the run rises 1 hour later.

So getting rid of DST makes it 06:00 instead of 07:00

moi2388on Modern decor may be straining people's brains

> “ It is purposefully exclusionary”

No, neurodivergent and autistic people are just generally affected or annoyed by pretty much anything.

There is no conspiracy here.

moi2388on Faster binary search: from compiled code to mechanical sympathy

“ How do you speed up computational Python code? A common, and useful, starting point is”

A better starting point is: use a better language. Python is terrible and unbearably slow. If you need anything serious or performant, switch to something else.

moi2388on Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests

First off they can’t just fire me, I’m from a civilised country. Secondly, feel free to use whatever work I have done in the past, I still think you won’t be able to do my work in the future.

moi2388on Cargo-nextest: 3x faster than cargo test, per-test isolation, first-class CI

Jesus Christ do we seriously need to limit our speech and get rid of perfectly good analogies for every special little snowflake?

moi2388on Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests

Patents and copyright stifles innovation. Knowledge should be communal and free.

moi2388on Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests

The only good thing to come out of AI.

moi2388on US seeks cheaper hunter-killer drones after Iran destroys $1B worth of Reapers

> And in Russia you saw another huge issue: How to shoot down a drone in your city without missing it and destroying something else?

More drones.

moi2388on The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war

“ In a future peer conflict, the US Army will not be granted a six-month, uncontested build-up phase, nor will it operate under friendly skies.”

Depends how the war starts. Russia? USA somehow attacks? Easily 6 months of buildup in Europe.

China? Again USA somehow attacks? Again buildup in Australia, Japan, Korea.

Also US air power is absolutely supreme. I don’t see how they will be fighting in actually contested skies even only 2 months in.

moi2388on No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026

Yes. Geological activity, movement in the outer core, atmosphere, oceanic currents, melting ice, earthquakes, to name a few.

Earths rotation has been unusually fast lately. So there is not enough drift to warrant a leap second.

moi2388on Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered in-person final; scores fell 50%

Me: How could he not have seen this coming?

Oh.. he’s blind.

moi2388on How to Survive 3 Years in North Korea as a Foreigner

I wonder what would happen if South Korea simply said they weren’t at war anymore. Acknowledge that yes, North Korea considers them at war with us. However, we consider us to be peaceful neighbours.

Whenever North Korea threatens them, simply reply with how sorry you are their brother nation feels this way, and you wish them a peaceful and successful future.

Leave the DMZ intact of course, but just unilaterally declare you are not actually at war and have nothing but brotherly love for them.

moi2388on Study: ultra-black coating could reduce satellite light pollution

Ah right, it reflects in both directions of course. Thanks.

moi2388on Study: ultra-black coating could reduce satellite light pollution

How does this happen? Why would something which reflects light on the outside get hotter than one which absorbs light? This makes no intuitive sense to me.

moi2388on Fines doubled as teens outsmart Australia's world-first social media ban

The entire countries of the Netherlands, Denmark and China, to name a few, disprove your thesis.

moi2388on Show HN: I hated how much my 12-year-old played Roblox, so we built our own FPS

Because lazy people will do lazy things wherever they can?

moi2388on Sick leave: Germany rising but not the worst in Europe

I wonder which spreadsheet manager assumed that if I am sick 1 day per month, I actually am also 1 day less productive.

I am not; the same amount of work gets done. Probably more because I’m not half-sick on the job for 3 days instead.

moi2388on Instead of banning AI, I made a classroom contract with my students

I like how professors are all anti AI but had no problems with group work in which at least one student usually didn’t do anything

moi2388on Instead of banning AI, I made a classroom contract with my students

Yes. For example only when prescribed by your doctor. Or you could undergo the surgery without any pain killers if they are so bad?

moi2388on Show HN: Updated my landing page with Fable (retro pixel style)

Terrible

moi2388on Farmer, marketer at odds over sales of white nectarines

Farmers already have plenty of incentive for hardy and resistant varieties. People already have plenty of incentive for tasty varieties.

You don’t need patents. The single biggest technology driver has been maths. And it doesn’t have patents.

Patents stifle innovation.

moi2388on Why jet engines aren't made in China

Do blimps count?

moi2388on Small Molecules Have More Information per Atom Than Biologics

> I wonder if the author is aware of Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Spectroscopy / Synthesis?

I at the least wasn’t, thanks for the interesting topic I’ll be delving into tonight

moi2388on Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't

Whenever I hear the density problem for internet cables, I think about all the cables in the ocean and how few people actually live on the bottom of it.

moi2388on Solid and Clean Code never felt solid or clean to me

KISS, YAGNI, Program with intent, functional style.

moi2388on How p-hacking built the world's most expensive safety regime

No, an attempt to educate the public on how safe nuclear power actually is. It even has lower radiation levels than coal. It’s insane we aren’t using nuclear power more for baseline.