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gallamine

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I'm a data scientist with a background in electrical engineering. Robots, machine learning, algorithms, DSP, digital comms, etc. E: gallamine at gmail dot com
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gallamine··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
You're monitoring all the available channels and then correlating them together?
gallamine··on Launch HN: Drafted (YC P26) – Models for residential architecture
Why do all the plans on the homepage have hip roofs?
gallamine··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
I'm building a tool that helps small volunteer orgs. manage their property/facility. Something to replace the filing cabinet, text threads and email inboxes that get lost when your volunteer treasurer or retired admin moves on. Specifically building for my wife and I to take care of our house and for our small church who manages a building. The idea is you take a picture of the plumbers invoice, forward the insurance policy, or write down the last time the roof was inspected all in one place. Most CMMS are too heavy for a small org. and having "that one guy" setup a process is too brittle. https://www.myplacekeeper.com/
gallamine··on Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse
this is a circular reasoning fallacy
gallamine··on Show HN: Geo Racers – Race from London to Tokyo on a single bus pass
Hi! I got stuck in London. I walked around to a bunch of train stations at around 10PM on Monday night and there was nothing showing up in the timetables. Same for the next morning. I then walked to Portsmouth and the Portsmouth harbor also showed no boats. The API call was https://geo-racers.com/api/boats?from_id=43128&time=07:02&da... seems odd to me?
gallamine··on Homeschooling hits record numbers
I was homeschooled. I'm doing the same with my children.
gallamine··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
I'm building a site that tracks the price of power tool batteries (currently Milwaukee and Dewalt). It's been an itch I've wanted to scratch for a while so I would know when the battery was a good price vs. the Ah rating. The prices are scraped nearly daily and plotted on a price-per-ah vs. total Ah chart.

https://drillhound.com/batteries

gallamine··on 'Bluey's World': How a Cute Aussie Puppy Became a $2B Juggernaut
All my kids listen to those audiobooks on repeat. Narrated (and sung!) buy the author.
gallamine··on Ask HN: Are you a 40-year old software engineer without a job for > 1 year?
Does your employer call you a part-time worker or are you a consultant for those hours?
gallamine··on Ask HN: My son might be blind – how to best support
North Carolina has a school for the blind that was established back in mid 1800's. I believe they support all ages - https://www.governormorehead.net/
gallamine··on Florida's DeSantis signs law restricting social media for people under 16
It's a state government restricting minors ...
gallamine··on Poverty is linked to poorer brain development but reading can help counteract it
Ive spent hundreds of hours reading aloud to my kids. It's a big investment but I believe it's almost certain you'll stumble upon something that will catch their attention. It's also about family culture - if you establish the habit of reading at a certain time of day (we do it after dinner / before bed) then it's easy to stick with that over turning to other things to fill the time.
gallamine··on How to drill your own water well
> There's water almost everywhere in the ground

In Arizona?

gallamine··on Why the Remote-Work Debate Stays So Heated
Can you elaborate? What is 'it's' that's already happened?
gallamine··on How to spend money on your friends without it looking like bribery
How would you rate the amount of financial disparity between yourself and friends/family?
gallamine··on How to make good small games
I spent hundreds of hours as a kid building small games like this with Klik n Play, then Klick and Create, which turned into The Games Factory and now lives on as Clickteam Fusion! It had a simple image editor and event based programming system that was accessible to a kid and still pretty sophisticated. Huge influence on my later programming career. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickteam
gallamine··on DocuSign to cut workforce by 9% as part of restructuring plan
I'd guess a significant portion are low(er)-wage technical support folks. When the partners at Hamlin-Hamlin-McGill can't remember their Docusign password they need someone to call.
gallamine··on Show HN: Loodio – A Bathroom Privacy Device
I once had a buddy walk up behind me while I was at a urinal and smack the back of my head - one of the most infuriating things ever. Ever since I'm hyper aware of people behind me at the urinal.
gallamine··on CSVCHAIN - NFTs backed by CSV technology
they're in reverse chronological orders so Levine's was just added.
gallamine··on More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done’
Honest question, but don't we still lack the denominator of the ratio:

  (people that have covid and end up in the hospital) / (those who have covid)
?

Instead, we're looking at the ratio:

  (vaccinated people who have covid and go to the hospital) / (unvaccinated people who have covid and go to the hospital)
But, those are different types of information.
gallamine··on Census Bureau’s Survey Shows Significant Increase in Homeschooling Rates
> [it is] essential to a child's development to be part of a social classroom experience

2nd generation homeschooler here. Of the hundreds of home school families I've known over the last 30-ish years I don't know any that don't have their children take classes together in some form or another.

The question is how much do children need to be in a "social classroom experience."

gallamine··on Code Interviews
“He actually did well” - how would he know that? He also wasn’t hired.
gallamine··on China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more than three hours/week
We restrict our kids to 30 min /day of screens. Try telling them it's not worth it. They are absolutely rabid about it.
gallamine··on Hiring Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers
Can we all agree that bland job descriptions are useless or is there some reason they all essentially look identical?
gallamine··on Google to stop selling ads based on your specific web browsing
> One set of complaints comes from Brave Software Inc., maker of a privacy-focused web browser, where Google’s Mr. Temkin was chief product officer until last summer.

> David Temkin, the Google product manager leading the change, said in a blog post Wednesday.

Hey David, if you're on here, how many millions did Google give you to switch?

gallamine··on Almost 40% of U.S. Consumers Trust Online Reviews Less Than They Did 5 Years Ago
A fun anecdote from my wife: 6 years ago she reviewed a nursing bra on Amazon. Gave it five stars. Fast forward to now and she when pulls up her review history that same review (with the exact text!) now appears on a consumer electronics device.
gallamine··on Google’s approach to replacing the cookie is drawing antitrust scrutiny
EFF wrote a rebuttable to the original broad proposal in 2019. It's still makes for interesting reading: "Don't Play in Google's Privacy Sandbox" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/08/dont-play-googles-priv...
gallamine··on Epic Games just bought a North Carolina mall for its new headquarters
If anyone is curious, here is the mall in question: https://goo.gl/maps/pdJPjXz1zbrNmXSn8

I grew up down the road from this place.

gallamine··on Salesforce Deal to Buy Slack Expected to Be Announced Tuesday After Market Close
> When a new person joins a company, they have literally years and years worth of searchable content.

IF your company is paying to preserve it. At my not-very-tiny employer we only pay for something like 1 year of retention. I have no idea if that's a legal or financial decision, but either way it seems like a dumb one.

gallamine··on The futuristic cargo ship made of wood
We are making more from less. In every measurable way we're using less stuff to do more than we ever did. Citation: https://www.econtalk.org/andrew-mcafee-on-more-from-less/
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