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mkoryak

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mkoryak··on New upper bound found for the Heilbronn triangle problem
I must not be a laymen then.
mkoryak··on What I have changed my mind about in software development
If you don't have time to write good tests, maybe consider not writing any tests. I've worked for many a startup where we didn't have any tests because we rewrote everything every few months.

And that was ok because everyone was happy to have a lot of shit written fast.

I guess maybe what I'm trying to say is that shitty tests are sometimes worse than no tests.

mkoryak··on The new Polaroid I-2 instant camera
I recently bought a cheap zink camera and some not-so-cheap zink paper.

People said the quality wasn't good but I thought, "how bad can it really be?"

Pretty terrible!

I don't understand how zink can be a thing that people buy, unless they are all people like me who will never buy it again.

mkoryak··on “Make” as a static site generator (2022)
> There are no exotic dependencies, nothing to maintain and you can quickly adapt it to your needs.

Yeah kinda, except that most people making static sites aren't the people who know Make.

mkoryak··on Covid-19 Is Back, but Not Many Want to Return to Masking
I don't trust any of those sites anymore because as covid becomes more normalized people stop testing / reporting their test results.

Most of the countries on that list have 0 new cases. Is that the reality or are they simply not reporting anymore?

mkoryak··on Someone keeps trying to reset my Facebook password
a while ago I was messaged on Facebook by a nice Russian fellow who wanted me to _give_ him my Facebook username and domain name because he owns a dog wash in Moscow called dogself.

He seemed to imply that if I was located in Russia I would not refuse him "for reasons". He didn't really strike me as being connected, but maybe he washes Putin's dog..

Anyway I got a lot of password reset emails too until I set up 2fa with a yubikey.

I really need to remember to put something on dogself.com that will piss off the .ru but I haven't thought of anything good and legal (or at least ethical).

mkoryak··on The curious case of hybrids in watchmaking
For those of you with expensive watches (5000usd+):

Do you wear it every day?

Does it impact your plans ie "I shouldn't wear it today because I might be targeted for a robbery"?

What is the reason you bought an expensive watch when there are plenty not expensive watches that are good at "time"?

Would you consider yourself "well off?"

Thanks :)

mkoryak··on AI real-time human full-body photo generator
I can count a number of things wrong with that image on her right hand. 7 or 8.
mkoryak··on Xiaomi CyberDog 2
19 sensors is more than a real dog!
mkoryak··on Dell fined $6.5M after admitting it made overpriced monitors look discounted
> A Dell spokesperson told Ars Technica today that Dell is also paying customers interest and "taking steps to improve our pricing processes to ensure this sort of error does not happen again."

Sounds like my 9 year old "It was an accident!!"

mkoryak··on Borgbase backups have been unavailable for 3 days
That man was not very wise to begin with. I wonder what else he needs to learn about _in prod_.
mkoryak··on Launch HN: GitStart (YC S19) – Remote junior devs working on production PRs
Your "get started" page is completely broken on my pixel phone.

I can see image on the left, but the form on the right is offscreen and I think you disabled scrolling so there is no way to get to it.

I had to look at this page on the desktop to learn about that form.

mkoryak··on EasyDropzoneJS – open-source JavaScript library for drag&drop files
You shouldn't pollute window with stuff if you don't have to. You created a function called `h` among with a few other things.

Otherwise good job making a thing that has been made many times before

mkoryak··on Will browsers be required by law to stop you from visiting infringing sites?
Is wget and curl next? Seems like a really flawed approach.
mkoryak··on Heat-assisted detection and ranging
For some pictures

https://github.com/FanglinBao/HADAR

and videos

https://purdue0-my.sharepoint.com/personal/baof_purdue_edu/_...

mkoryak··on America’s largest tool company couldn’t make a wrench in America
From your roof?
mkoryak··on B.C. government hit tweet limit amid wildfire evacuations
> Twitter did not respond to Glacier Media's questions.

They probably responded... with a poop emoji.

mkoryak··on DSReality: Turns a DS game into a 3D image that floats above your controller
There is a video link, but that link is not very easy to notice. I missed it when I first saw the readme
mkoryak··on Mars helicopter Ingenuity phones home, breaking 63-day silence
> All communications to and from Ingenuity must be routed through Perseverance. That explains the recent silent spell, which the two mission teams had expected: The rover had disappeared behind a hill from the helicopter's perspective, and it didn't come back into view until June 28.

So if they expected this to happen, then why did they send Ingenuity behind a hill?

mkoryak··on Anime.js – A lightweight JavaScript animation library
Why do your docs use `var` for variable declarations?
mkoryak··on Reddit App – Suspicious high number of recent 5 star, one word reviews
I have deleted all my comments and posts once. The way I did it required a lot of clicks, and I only had <100 things to delete. I couldnt find a better way to do it and neither will the average reddit user who has 1000s of comments.
mkoryak··on Should Adults Be Consuming Breast Milk?
I am no biologist, but I recall the taste being like the aftertaste you get after you drink blood
mkoryak··on Should Adults Be Consuming Breast Milk?
Hard no for me.

I had some breast milk when I had my first kid to see what it tastes like.

It was really really gross. It tasted like it had too much iron. Reminded me of drinking a bloody nose.

No thank you

mkoryak··on Launch HN: Onu (YC W23) – Turn scripts into internal tools in minutes
People who write bash scripts well and people who write nodejs scripts are likely different groups that will want very different things from this service.
mkoryak··on Setris – Tetris with Sand Physics
Too bad there isn't craplet support in chome
mkoryak··on Setris – Tetris with Sand Physics
Name reminds me of a dos game called xtetris. It was also a very different take on the classic gameplay of Tetris.

The sound effects were pretty good, but I can't find a gameplay video.

https://www.squakenet.com/game/x-tetris/

mkoryak··on Updating our inactive account policies
Not even elaborate. Try selling something in FB market place or craigslist. You will get many interested parties who just need to send you a quick verification code for reasons.

What they are really doing is signing up for stuff using your phone number.

If someone ever asked me to send them a 2fa I would send them the wrong one until they get mad and stop asking me to do it.

mkoryak··on Study finds female astronauts more efficient
My wife isn't an astronaut, but she's more efficient than me by a long shot.
mkoryak··on Squad Solar City Car
Now that I'll never get a Tesla, what is a good alternative in the US?
mkoryak··on PornHub blocks users in Utah, cites state’s age verification law
About a month ago I had my groceries delivered from Wholefoods and the deliver driver carded me for some non-alcoholic beer I had purchased. I tried explaining to him that he didn't have to do that, but he wouldn't unload my groceries until I let him scan my ID.
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