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thunderrabbit

184 karma · joined May 22, 2012

meet.hn/city/jp-Tokyo

Socials: - github.com/thunderrabbit

Interests: Outdoor Activities, Philosophy

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thunderrabbit··on Why I Voted to Sell .ORG
How does he mention LetsEncrypt and not have http redirect to https on his site?
thunderrabbit··on Show HN: I founded a company and a platform to fund open source developers
Stack Overflow needs a replacement because the community has become hostile to new users.

I wonder if immutable.coffee could allow the asker (or by default) publish the answer transcript as an immutable record. Then the public can upvote it, which becomes a rating system for answers and the experts who gave the answers.

The idea above might tend to only reward the experts who got there first, so that's something to think about.

I want to allow the answers and experts to be rated because eventually someone will try to exploit the honesty of the system and say "yeah just download this .exe and it will fix your problem.."

thunderrabbit··on Storm Area 51: The joke that became a ‘possible humanitarian disaster’
Dead people don't pay taxes?
thunderrabbit··on Storm Area 51: The joke that became a ‘possible humanitarian disaster’
/u/remindme 2 weeks

Aww man, wrong site.

thunderrabbit··on Historical speed of light measurements in southern California (2014)
> Que

Cue

thunderrabbit··on Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second
Ah, I read too quickly and misunderstood their meaning of "bit rate."

> researchers took their final step—multiplying this rate by the bit rate to find out how much information moved per second

Thank you for your explanation, worth a bag of gold!

thunderrabbit··on Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second
The same text, at that. So the text has N bits of information and it was, according to the article, spoken at different speeds per language. So N bits at different speeds per language, exactly the opposite of their claim.
thunderrabbit··on Technician keeps computer made in 1959 still humming along
Speaking of humming along, if you visit that site with https, they refresh to http!

https://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/AJ201907280007.html

thunderrabbit··on On Costliest U.S. Warship Ever, Navy Can’t Get Munitions on Deck
Oops! Wrong industry! /s
thunderrabbit··on Apple Factory Thefts: Secret Tunnels, Hidden Crawl Spaces
Sorry for the convenience.
thunderrabbit··on If Thwaites Glacier collapses, it would change global coastlines forever
when*

will*

FTFY

thunderrabbit··on I made a SFW porn viewer from Reddit subs
I had the same concern. The word "porn" might be blocked, or prejudiced by [Work], making the page not safe for Work.

If possible, drop the the^H^H^H word "porn" from the top page at least.

thunderrabbit··on Exxon knew that fossil fuels were influencing the climate in 1978
This "entertains" me in a perverse way. I knew fossil fuels were harming the environment in 1978, and I was only a kid at the time.

Exhaust stank, looked dirty. Doesn't take much to figure it out.

thunderrabbit··on Swiss Cat Ladders
This is what my dad explained to me and is further the reason he never helped me down from trees. I'm super thankful for this; I love climbing trees. (And have never seen cat bones in them)
thunderrabbit··on Swiss Cat Ladders
For me, the "logic" goes like this: my cat wants to go outside, so I let him outside. (He was neutered, so not going to make any more cats.)

He's an adult (cat) and can make his own decisions.

I won't let my (small) fear of his death imeped his (great) desire to go outside.

Update: he lived a long-for-a-cat happy life and passed peacefully several years ago.

thunderrabbit··on Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside programming?
TL;DR: not making money yet, but enjoying stop motion animation of marble track construction.

Back in the day, my brother and I would use Legos to build tracks for marbles, using roof pieces as ramps. Eventually I started making marble tracks out of popsicle sticks. Over a period of some years, I built a track 2+ feet (70cm) tall with lots of tracks intertwining each other all the way down.

After moving and leaving that old track behind, I made Marble Track 2 over an eight-month period in my free time at work.

I posted the finished track on YouTube[1] and comments fell into 2 categories.

Trolls: U suck, it's garbage, get a gf, etc.

Fans: U rule, it's amazing, make a tutorial, etc.

Me: "Make a tutorial? about how to make a marble track?? hmmmm that gives me an idea!"

So far, I have about 11 minutes[2] worth of (silent) video of little pipe cleaner characters placing wooden pieces onto a stage. They are answering the question "how do you make a marble track?"

The project has its own website[3], which reinforces the story that the characters are building the track.

(fake spoiler) However, it's actually me behind the scenes moving the characters to make the movie in which they build the track!

300+ hours of livestream[4] answer the question "how do you make a stop motion movie which answers the question of how to make a marble track?"

The livestreams are long, dull, often quiet, interspersed with a few ramblings that go through my head.

So, back on track (ahem) for this thread, I believe there are people who'd be interested in this project, and eventually we will figure out how it can be monetized. I am just enjoying the creation process and open to possibilities.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlUqu6QE7bw

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KjsYc4Mb5g&list=PL0osPGt21F...

[3] https://www.marbletrack3.com/

[4] https://www.marbletrack3.com/episode/

thunderrabbit··on Captain Einstein – Experience Relativity in Virtual Reality
A slower speed of light made me sick as well, but this did not. Possible factors:

* On this video I was watching on a tiny screen. * On this video, I cannot control the direction of motion. * The change in speed here is very slow and incremental * This video is relatively^^^ha short

thunderrabbit··on What causes the sound of a dripping tap and how do you stop it?
When I read the title, I thought it was /r/theonion
thunderrabbit··on A rundown of the new Gmail
To me, it violates the principle of email. It's a static thing that cannot be edited, excepted deleted by the recipient.

This new "remotely deletable" thing must be essentially a link to a Google controlled page in the form of an email.

thunderrabbit··on A French King Who Believed He Was Made of Glass
I wonder what beliefs we have about human anatomy that will seem quaint/ignorant in some hundred years.
thunderrabbit··on Investors must understand that blockchain is the future
You lost me at "it's"
thunderrabbit··on Show HN: Six Degrees of Wikipedia
Maybe link all the outside nodes and then tell them to repel each other. If there are only two, it will be weird, but with three or more should work out.?
thunderrabbit··on Who Thought Cat Cafes Were a Good Idea?
> fluff

Thank you for your summary and likely inadvertent cat themed pun. ;-)

thunderrabbit··on The Most Expensive Mile of Subway Track
> that operation took years of planning.

Near the end of the 3.5 hour track change video, it says it was the culmination of 80,000 people working for 8 years.

8年間8万人の集大成

thunderrabbit··on Ask HN: My house might burn down in the next 24 hours. Suggestions?
Turn off your natural gas line at the meter.
thunderrabbit··on Equifax Breach Caused by Lone Employee’s Error, Former CEO Says
Disclosure took two months because one employee forgot to send an email about the incident.

/s

thunderrabbit··on It appears my Google account is slated for deletion
Sounds awesome! Can you link to such an example on ifttt?
thunderrabbit··on Two years after Windows 10: Windows 7 is still threatening a 2020 EOL meltdown
They stopped producing good hardware.
thunderrabbit··on Bill Nye sues Disney claiming it withheld $28M in profits from his show
Why not?
thunderrabbit··on Teamsters convince Congress to block driverless trucks
Hmm.. because the cost of the driver goes to zero, self driving smaller trucks might take over the entire market of trucking.
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