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ph0rque

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Emails:

andrei.shindyapin with gee-mail

andrew at projects

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Projects:

FineHomePlans.com

AutoMicroFarm.com

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ph0rque··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
https://andrew.shindyapin.com/
ph0rque··on GLP-1 drugs: An economic disruptor? (2024)
Just like YOLO can mean You Only Live Once (so make it count).
ph0rque··on Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1923)
One of my extremely strange hobbies is writing variations of the last verse of this poem.

The posts are lovely, dense and deep,

but I have promises to keep,

and lines (of code) to write before I sleep,

and lines (of code) to write before I sleep.

--

The snacks are lovely; tasty-sweet,

But I have promises to keep,

And hours to fast before I eat,

and hours to fast before I eat.

--

The chasm is lovely, dark and deep.

But you have promises to keep,

And years to live before you sleep!

And years to live before you sleep.

ph0rque··on Sit.

    Looking for something
    else, but you got this haiku.
    Now, was it brutal?
ph0rque··on Textbooks are all you need
All you need hate him!
ph0rque··on James Webb Space Telescope reveals Fomalhaut's disk in detail
Not adulterous per se, but planetivorous perhaps. Just seems wrong to eat your planets...
ph0rque··on James Webb Space Telescope reveals Fomalhaut's disk in detail
"... She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I’ve done nothing wrong.’"
ph0rque··on How can we stop the CO2 that plants store from leaking back into the air?
Cardboard mulching is a great way to minimize the weeds in your garden! It does break down in a few years, but at least some (or most of it) gets sequestered into the ground.
ph0rque··on Team develops see-through aerogel made from wood that better insulates windows
I found the original article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-023-01226-7 They achieved r-values of 5-9 per inch, if I read the graph right.
ph0rque··on Perovskite-Based Thermochromic Windows Reduce Load and CO2 Emission in Buildings
There's a neat overhang calculator that I used to size my window and door overhangs on the south side:

https://www.susdesign.com/overhang/

ph0rque··on Request for Startups: Climate Tech
re: mangrove forests, there's a company I'm following that is working on replanting them as part of a permaculture solution: https://regenerativeresources.co/
ph0rque··on If AI can read, then plain text can be weaponized (2019)
> For instance, consider an AI algorithm that automatically scans emails and blocks spam messages (many popular email providers use AI to filter out spam). A paraphrasing attack would involve rewording a spam email to slip past the AI filter while conveying the same message to the human recipient.

This has been happening already. At some point, I would get email titled something like "(3)_GIFT.CARD_sent_to_{ my@email.address }" and wonder why the spam filter didn't obviously recognize it as spam. But then it started happening less and less often.

ph0rque··on Show HN: I'm building an open-source Amazon
What a coincidence! Last week, I wrote the following:

"Had an idea I’ve been stewing on for a few days now… a decentralized (not tied to any one company) Amazon Prime. As a user, you would pay a yearly fee and get free shipping from all the participating eComs. As a partnering eCom, you get more repeat customers."

I can see this being a product (or a feature) you can offer down the road.

ph0rque··on Ask HN: Did I make a mistake jumping on the homestead bandwagon?
Thought of you when I saw this post :)
ph0rque··on Ask HN: Did I make a mistake jumping on the homestead bandwagon?
It depends on what you are trying to do. Grow all of your food? Go off-grid? Make it your full-time job (i.e. make money from farming)? The more you answer yes to above questions, the harder it will be. Especially the last one: it's very hard to make tech-levels amount of money farming.

I would advise cutting back and building up slowly. Stay on-grid (if possible), buy as much food from the grocery store as needed, keep your job (if possible). Then, if things get easier, slowly ramp up your self-sufficiency.

ph0rque··on Launch HN: Kitchenful (YC S21) – Weekly recipes with integrated shopping
I've been working on something similar as a small project, as well: https://automicrofarm.com/blog/2021/04/more-complete-nutriti...

Would love to chat/exchange thoughts!

ph0rque··on Notes on Web3
> Moreover; Web 1.0 is still right here. It didn't go anywhere. Its as easy as its always been to publish a static site with just HTML.

That's a really, really good point. Web1 has become commoditized and thus invisible. Web2 might follow a similar path.

ph0rque··on In Iceland, well diggers seek to tap a volcano’s magma
It's coming: https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/10/21/215154...
ph0rque··on Don't Make Me Think
I enjoyed the story, but it was a bit underwhelming, to be honest.

I thought that 0HPL would explore the idea that the monsters/demons were in our minds all along, but in the end it turned out to be another story of immoral immortality.

ph0rque··on Why we don't dole out many compliments, but should
Ah, but those environments allow for a super-subtle diss disguised as a compliment. "Nice font selection on that presentation!"
ph0rque··on Ask HN: Anyone here built successful SaaS/startup just for money?
> I abhorre companies who pretend their IT will change humanity

I mean technically they're right, in that their IT might change humanity by 0.000000000000000000002% (if it can be measured at all)...

ph0rque··on No bids for over 70% of Indian coal mines up for auction
I see, thanks for the clarification. Yes, I was thinking of coal solely as a source of energy (heat, specifically) to melt steel.
ph0rque··on No bids for over 70% of Indian coal mines up for auction
Here's an example research article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03605...
ph0rque··on No bids for over 70% of Indian coal mines up for auction
> Do we have a replacement for coal in the steel industry?

Still in R&D admittedly, but micronuclear should do the job well.

ph0rque··on Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments
> I spend most of my time thinking about the problem, how to solve it...

A few years ago, I got a small but painful cut on my fingertip. I thought I would have a hard time on the job as a dev. To my surprise, I realized I spend 90-95% of my time thinking, and only 5-10% of the time typing. It turned out to be almost a non-issue.

ph0rque··on Don't Feed the Thought Leaders
Thanks, for some reason I was thinking RubyMine.
ph0rque··on Why Russians do not smile (2002)
My go to answer is, "can't complain". Vague enough to leave it alone if the question is trivial, but also open-ended enough to expound upon if the other person is genuinely interested in my well-being.
ph0rque··on Launch HN: Moonshot Brands (YC W21) – We buy and grow e-commerce companies
What's your valuation algorithm? 2-5x EBITDA or gross profit?
ph0rque··on Old-growth forest carbon sinks overestimated
Some soil accumulates. Other is washed out to lower areas of elevation. My guess is it's another thing that reaches steady state.
ph0rque··on Launch HN: Remora (YC W21) – Carbon capture for semi trucks
In fact, I wonder if you can use calcium to capture the CO2 in the first place? When you're done, add it to the soil as fertilizer, and voila! You've buried your carbon AND helped plants grow better (capture more carbon)!
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