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xfactor973

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xfactor973··on Ask HN: Why don't banks have API tokens like GitHub?
Thanks! I’ll check that out
xfactor973··on Ask HN: How's the job hunt going? (For those laid off)
Pretty badly. I’m getting way more rejections than usual and positions are closing before I can get through the funnel
xfactor973··on GitHub Copilot is generally available
I'd pay for the service if the model was: I'll pay you when it's right and you refund me some amount every time copilot is wrong and I have to delete the entire block. It's good for small boilerplate stuff but that seems to be the limit. The attempts it makes are more complex code are really bad and I have to manually check it very closely to ensure it's right. I like the boilerplate boost but it's not worth $10/month to me.
xfactor973··on Tesla may call warranty repairs goodwill due to lemon laundering
This article is BS. Every repair I’ve had in the past was marked as a warranty repair.
xfactor973··on Grindr and OKCupid Sell Your Data, but Twitter’s MoPub Is the Real Problem
Is there a list of mopub apps so I can delete them?
xfactor973··on How to Invest in Startups
The accreditation rules really bother me. Excluding people based solely on wealth is silly. I think you should be able to take a test to prove you know enough to invest.
xfactor973··on Empress trees absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per acre
i can't figure this out: https://worldtree.info/investment/ this seems far too good to be true. Back of the napkin calculations show they're saying the returns could be 28% a year compounded. That's better than buffet level returns. Surely this is a scam right?
xfactor973··on Scientists have discovered a sea of fresh water under the ocean
Fossil water
xfactor973··on Teenager builds his own Lego prosthetic arms
Wow that is incredible. Nicely done!
xfactor973··on Why Is Storage on Kubernetes So Hard?
I ended up making this: https://github.com/gluster/piragua to make connecting glusterfs to kubes easier/scalable.
xfactor973··on The Curse of the Honeycrisp Apple
http://skillcult.com/ has an amazing set of blog posts and videos about a whole range of obscure and interesting apple varieties. He’s talked about apples that taste like fruit punch, bananas, anise, spice, etc. The range of possible flavors that apples can express is pretty amazing.
xfactor973··on Healthcare.gov confirms hackers stole income, immigration and tax data
Dammit. I wish you could delete accounts. I have tons of accounts and can’t seem to find links or settings to delete any of them to reduce my exposure to this crap.
xfactor973··on Gates Foundation spent $200M funding toilet research
So after reading the NIH study it looks like the compost toilets they tested were the desiccation kind. I don't really think those should be called compost toilets at all. There's some link somewhere that I can't remember off the top of my head ( maybe it's in the humaure handbook) where Jenkins talks about having his compost sent to a local lab to be tested for harmful bacteria for like a decade or something and it always came back fine.
xfactor973··on Gates Foundation spent $200M funding toilet research
That's interesting. I'll have to go through the NIH study in more detail. Thanks for linking that.
xfactor973··on Gates Foundation spent $200M funding toilet research
According to Jenkins that's not true: https://humanurehandbook.com/
xfactor973··on Gates Foundation spent $200M funding toilet research
Lol it’s called a compost toilet Bill. The technology is already here, it costs almost nothing to construct and use and creates a safe fertilizer at the end of the process. The amount of basic knowledge humanity has forgotten just blows my mind.
xfactor973··on Show HN: Meeting Stats – Show your boss how much of your life is in meetings
Tried it out because this looks really useful however it hangs forever. >1hr I let it spin. Not sure exactly what happened.
xfactor973··on Distributed Filesystems for Deep Learning
Gluster/Ceph support NVMe. That matrix isn't right
xfactor973··on Ask HN: What causes do you think are worth donating to?
Found out about this from /r/longevity, a subreddit focused on extending the period of time in which people live healthy: Victor Bjoerk has been running a full month campaign for his birthday, where 100% of the proceedings go to the SENS Research Foundation. This is it: https://www.facebook.com/donate/240535473435753/

SENS is doing a lot of good in the world: https://www.sens.org

xfactor973··on Biology Student Discovers Plastic-Eating Bacteria
This sounds like the Carboniferous period when fungus couldn’t eat lignin and trees were piling up.
xfactor973··on Tesla in autopilot mode crashes into parked Laguna Beach police cruiser
I could be wrong but that looks like an autopilot 1 car which is an older version of the tech that they're not really developing anymore. The newer autopilot 2 and 2.5 is what they're going forward with for now. That also doesn't look like a highway and autopilot isn't designed to handle that yet.
xfactor973··on Ask HN: What can you do today that will be significant in 1000 years?
There’s plenty of food bearing trees that would live that long. Olive, chestnut and monkey puzzle come to mind. Plant a food forest for your ancestors
xfactor973··on Glyphosate found in granola, crackers and oatmeal
For the determined or crazy with a little land there’s always this: https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/small-scale-grain-raisi...
xfactor973··on Is it time to take the Hyperloop seriously? No
This may seem stupid but couldn’t you just reverse the stuck pods back to the station the departed from?
xfactor973··on Dirt Poor: Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious?
This is exactly why I signed up for a CSA ( know your farmer ) and planted a food forest in my back yard. I know exactly what went into it.
xfactor973··on What Does It Mean to Die?
I don’t know if it was so much of a race issue as a terrible hospital issue. My brother had lung surgery at a local hospital in NJ and when he needed it again we went to UPenn. UPenn laughed and said those local guys were medieval butchers. I don’t know much about Oakland hospitals but I can see this happening if they weren’t a great hospital.
xfactor973··on Don’t Tax Options and RSUs Upon Vesting
I don’t quite follow how this is different. When I got rsu’s at my former company they sold a bunch at every vest date to pay for taxes. Isn’t that the same as what they’re talking about here?
xfactor973··on How to Survive a Robot Apocalypse: Just Close the Door
If the robots could somehow experience pain I think that would be a good motivator. It certainly keeps me from doing stupid stuff :-)
xfactor973··on Show HN: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find, written in Rust
Awesome. Sorry I should’ve dug a little deeper before commenting. Nice job on the multithreading also!
xfactor973··on Show HN: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find, written in Rust
For the benchmarks did you clear the page cache inbetween runs? It’s crazy fast and seems a little suspect
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