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manfre··on Why Are Men More Vulnerable to Depression in Fatherhood?
Spoken like someone that has experienced demeaning comments for being a father. One of the more memorable for me was, "is Dad babysitting today?" Parents don't babysit their own kids...
manfre··on Show HN: DIY 80€ 3D Printer Basement Ventilation
The nozzle will hit that temp, but air temp will be much closer to room temp. A porous and poorly insulated fabric enclosure will probably not add more than 10 C temp increase.
manfre··on CT Scans of New vs. Used SawStop
The feature is equivalent to crumple zones on cars. The car destroys itself to lessen the damage to the operator.
manfre··on /usr/bin/env -S uv run
Simon is an impressive individual, but in this instance, you're praising the messenger and not the source.

> Code from this PR [1] by David Laban.

That leverages the features of uv run with embedding script dependencies [2].

[1] https://github.com/alsuren/sixdofone/pull/8 [2] https://docs.astral.sh/uv/concepts/projects/run/#running-scr...

manfre··on Treating bullying as everyone's problem reduces incidence in primary schools
The lesson learned is that you need the right connections to sidestep problematic situations.
manfre··on Restart of Three Mile Island tests US appetite for nuclear revival
Your comment reads as "other industries have radioactive waste, so it's not a concern here."

The type and volume of waste differs and is very relevant.

manfre··on Relativty: An open-source VR headset for $200
All of our time has a value.
manfre··on Leaving and Waving
> Just seems like a shame to lose a relationship over...

This statement has the same tone when you replace "politics" with adultery or racism.

Political beliefs represent the person and what they value. Some beliefs can't be overlooked and are not compatible with the relationship.

manfre··on Ask HN: My director got fired. His rival is taking his place. What to expect?
It won't help a case of you phrase it as not being as good of a liar. It would come across as you attempting to deceive the employer, but failing.
manfre··on China sanctions US drone maker Skydio
If batteries can't be sourced from China, there is no competition. If they can be, tariffs to balance out the subsidies.
manfre··on Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid
Staying on topic is viewed more positively.
manfre··on Using Rust in non-Rust servers to improve performance
> I've absorbed 10,000+ qps on a couple of cheap tiny VPS instances.

This metric doesn't convey any meaningful information. Performance metrics need context of the type of work completed and server resources used.

manfre··on How long til we're all on Ozempic?
You described a lot of physical activities, but diet controls your weight. It's natural to have more of an appetite with increased activity. It's also normal to increase your weight a bit due to increased muscle mass.
manfre··on Ask HN: My Gmail is under DDoS attack, all my emails delayed, what can I do?
If most of the newsletters are coming from the same sources, contact them instead of Google. If you email their abuse@, use a different email address so you can communicate without the risk of delay or filters.

Mass emailers are more motivated than Google with resolving this type of issue.

manfre··on Harvester pulls 1.5 gallons of drinking water from arid air per day
If water were more scarce, you would adjust your activity to require less water.
manfre··on The Raspberry Pi 5 Is No Match for a Tini-Mini-Micro PC
I'd wager that most people are not using any GPIO on theirs. Typical usage is likely a low power computer they can optionally plug a USB cable into; 3d print controller, home assistant w/dongle, etc.
manfre··on Just Enough Software Architecture (2010)
Sorry you have to work with a toxic manager.
manfre··on Starlink's disruption of the space industry
Not every retailer's primary service is allowing anyone to sell whatever in their stores.

Amazon is more similar to a flea market organizer that sets up their own massive both. They can put their items in front of customers first and decide what to sell based upon what they see people carry away.

manfre··on CFPB Takes Action Against Coding Boot Camp BloomTech and CEO Austen Allred
We should be going after all fraudsters.

Happiness with a degree is unrelated to fraudulent advertising and sketchy/deceptive contacts.

Most universities don't lie so blatantly about services provided to students or graduate job placement percentages.

manfre··on Should you use upper bound version constraints?
This idea would require every package to name squat on the major package versions, just in case.
manfre··on U.S. imposes first-ever national drinking water limits on PFAS
This is more likely to be similar to leaded gasoline. In a few decades we'll start to see the impact they caused after we successfully filter it out.
manfre··on GitHub is down
Already listed as being resolved. A 15 minute outage at 4:30 am EST.
manfre··on Cory Doctorow on Kagi Search
The ability to rank domains up and down is the main reason I feel kagi is worth the price. A few coding sites are raised. Quora, pinterest, and a few other noise sites are blocked. It's like Google from the early 2000s when you could find what you were looking for on the first page.
manfre··on The race to replace Redis
They have engineering resources to maintain a fork, which they've made. https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey
manfre··on Bertie – A minimal, high-assurance implementation of TLS 1.3 written in hacspec
hacspec

> This is the successor of https://github.com/HACS-workshop/hacspec but a predecessor of https://github.com/hacspec/hax. Development in this repository has mostly stopped, see hax instead.

manfre··on How I replaced deadly garage door torsion springs (2002)
Yes, it does.
manfre··on How I replaced deadly garage door torsion springs (2002)
Your 2-1 leverage assumption is wrong. The first 1' is full door weight plus all the friction in the system. The effective weight will decrease as the panels transition to horizontal, but deadlifting 400 lbs is easier than overhead pressing 200 lbs.
manfre··on Ibis, a federated Wikipedia alternative
You'd likely have a much easier time using a file based wiki with rsync.
manfre··on Both pilots of an A320 fell asleep in the cockpit for 28 minutes
> why?

Safety and security. A small boat can be a threat and cause damage to a larger boat if you let it get close enough. Small boats can easily capsize if they get too close to a larger boat.

manfre··on PlanetScale performs layoff and prioritizes profitability
If they're killing it, then it likely wasn't worth the customers who did convert to paying.
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