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nesadion Why has examine.com disappeared from search results?

Maybe take a cursory look at any of the pages for any food/supplement? It quickly shows the breadth and depth of research that they've gathered. It's the only site I know with this kind of dedication to scientific evidence.

nesadion Why has examine.com disappeared from search results?

This is tragic. Examine.com is probably the best site I know with a focus on determining the science behind any food or supplement one might be interested in. They should be at the top of every Google search.

nesadion Russia Says Small Nuclear Reactor Blew Up in Deadly Accident

Because Russia has been so truthful about, well, anything and everything they do? No, it's about a nuclear weapon they've been developing and the "nuclear reactor" bit is just a ruse to confuse people who haven't generally been paying attention to Russia developing new kinds of delivery systems for their nuclear warheads.

nesadion Social exclusion fuels extremism in young men

> Try being a woman for even a day

Because being a woman is automatically harder than being a man? I'm a man every day. I want to kill myself every day. Whoop-dee-fucking-do. Who wins? Nobody. Everybody is suffering, yet somehow only women get to have people fight to help them.

The response to my comment is telling. Nobody cares about random guy. He should just suck it up and take it like a man.

nesadion Russia Says Small Nuclear Reactor Blew Up in Deadly Accident

I don't really see what Russia or the US has to gain from designing new kinds of nuclear weapons. They already have the capability to wipe out whatever they're aiming at.

nesadion Python Is Eating the World

Funny. I preferentially read HN on my phone which has probably what looks like around a 80 char limit. It makes it really comfortable to read.

nesadion How shrinkflation is playing havoc with economists’ models

A lot of stores in Germany do something else, where they'll use the price per 100g for one brand and price per 1kg for another in order to make it just slightly harder to realize how expensive something is at a glance.

nesadion The Door Problem of Combat Design

> But I think the real problem is this Rambo model of games. In reality, a single assailant against a large number of armed defenders should never be able to attack their way into a base.

On that note, I wish more shooters weren't just Rambo. Some of my favourite battles were ones where it felt like I was part of a larger offensive (I think Call of Duty 1 and 2 did this a lot). Unfortunately, the gaming industry completely ignored that design and went on to make one-man army games instead because of the power fantasy, which I find boring. I want to be part of an army. I want to be part of a war. I want to see dropships fly overhead. Artillery smashing the other side of the ridge. Fellow soldiers being gunned down as we push on an entrenched position.

nesadion How Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun punished the computers of the day [video]

On the other hand, some of the best games I've ever played only came out in the past ten years (Dark Souls, Soma, Tacoma, Outer Wilds, Subnautica, Factorio). I don't feel gaming is worse off now - we have so much variety to choose from. Whatever special interest you have, there's likely something out there for you to play to accommodate your interests.

I do agree though, that we've lost some things (while gaining others). Blizzard is no longer putting out the same kinds of games that put them on the map. A lot of valuable IP's that forged the gaming industry in its early years are forgotten or killed off or have some weird mobile/mobile transaction-ridden game to carry the flame. We'll probably never see another Starcraft. The next Diablo will likely be a huge disappointment. We've lost studios like Westwood or Maxis. We're never getting another Silent Hill. Or another Metal Gear. The list goes on.

And then you have a company like Nintendo that's pretty much doing exactly what they've always been doing, putting out the same kinds of games that made them so beloved (with many improvements and experiments along the way). Or Sony with its laser focus on great single-player experiences without loot boxes and their crazy large number of first-party and second-party studios.

nesadion Tech companies ignore pleas on rail safety

Do US railway crossings not have clear markings and raisable barriers? I find it hard to have sympathy for people who drive across railway crossing without actually looking at the road while driving a dangerous vehicle like a car.

nesadion A mathematician's way of converting miles to kilometers

> that SI is generally used for engineering

Except when it isn't? Are you telling me SI is used in engineering everywhere in the US? I've heard too many stories (especially accidents) to believe that in any way.

nesadion Ask HN: Is Google Secretly Undermining Firefox?

I don't understand why it's okay for such an influential and powerful company to also control how 70% of users accesses the internet. Chrome needs to be spun off from Google.

nesadion We bought a successful app, loaded it with extras and watched it fail

Interesting mini-experiment. I feel like it's missing a step or two between 3 and 99. You might also do this with more than one app with similar activity and beginning sizes, and only measure the change from one increase.

nesadion Apple Is Locking iPhone Batteries to Discourage Repair

Like I said, if they're actively selling a device in a certain place, they should be on the hook for it if the device hasn't been designed to cope with the environment of that place. Not sure what's gained by the second most profitable company in the entire world being able to offload that kind of risk onto consumers.

nesadion I Tried Hiding from Big Tech in a Pile of Privacy Gadgets

I'm not so sure. Seeing how popular and endemic Facebook, Google et al. are, I'd say consumers price privacy way too low for any significant amount of money to be made.

nesadion I Tried Hiding from Big Tech in a Pile of Privacy Gadgets

I'd say these people are out of touch. If sites aren't funded by advertising, that means people need to pay to access. See all the efforts to workaround paywalls because nobody wants to pay every single site that they visit $5 a month, and plenty of people simply couldn't afford paying to access the internet in that way. That's enabled by advertising. But somehow nobody here wants to hear it. Advertising is incredibly important to enable open access to, well, the entire internet. We see with the Linux Journal how well subscription-only services work out - they live by the skin of their teeth for a while until they go under. But somehow we're better off because they didn't use advertising for funding? Now we don't have any LJ at all. I don't see how that's better.

Not that I'm advocating for ads that track and profile you and everything that you do. We should be making an effort to create an infrastructure for ads where they can't track and profile us. That's what Brave is trying to do, and I don't understand why people are against it. Like, how do they expect sites to be financed?

nesadion Advice to my younger self: become allergic to the churn

Do you know any resources on how to use Make in a sensible/sane way?

nesadion Advice to my younger self: become allergic to the churn

> anybody complains about python lacking the type system.

Well, Python does have strong typing. It's just dynamic, not static, and I've seen enough criticism about it to say that it isn't as unimportant as you make it out to be. JavaScript gets a lot of criticism for having dynamic and weak typing. And I think both forms of criticism are valid, though not everybody agrees, which is fine too.

nesadion Apple Is Locking iPhone Batteries to Discourage Repair

If they're legally selling devices in these areas, then yes. I don't see why environment absolves them of any and all responsibility.

nesadion AMD lands Google, Twitter as customers with newest server chip

I'm not sure how buying AMD stock benefits AMD in any meaningful way.

nesadion Tardigrades may now be living on Moon

> The golden rule of exploration is "Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time."

... really? This feels like nothing but unrealistic idealism to me. Wherever we've gone exploring as a species throughout our history, we've left our mark (usually bad). You might dream of a reality where we change nothing at all, but it's just not how things work out in reality. And honestly, leaving a bunch of waste, which is most probably entirely sterilized and cleaner than your kitchen by now, on an uninhabited astral body with no ecosystem or atmosphere, seems a bit less egregious than wiping out local wildlife or cultures.

nesadion Cybersecurity Pros Name Their Price as Hacker Attacks Swell

I'm interested in getting into security. Can you give any insight on what you're looking for in candidates?

nesadion Cybersecurity Pros Name Their Price as Hacker Attacks Swell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics

This is where 'cyber' comes from. It's not "stupid".

nesadion FedEx Ends Ground-Delivery Deal with Amazon

Do these lockers not exist in the US aside from the ones by Amazon? DHL lockers are everywhere in Germany.

nesadion Arend: Theorem Prover Based on Homotopy Type Theory by JetBrains

> I do get that point, but it seems to me that only very advanced programmers are able to work with such languages and systems.

That's because the field is still in an exploratory and research phase. Unless you're in an industry where correctness is the most important criteria or involved in research into this stuff, your average programmer isn't going to be using any of this. It's still too early, but that doesn't mean it's a waste of time.

nesadion Tardigrades may now be living on Moon

They also took a bunch of rocks with them, which had to be accounted for. I have no idea what their exact calculations were like.

nesadion Tardigrades may now be living on Moon

I assume it's mostly a matter of fuel and how the added weight would've required far more of it.

> Were payload restrictions that tight on the return Apollo journeys?

Probably, yes. https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/3/22/18236125/ap...

nesadion Side channel that leaked data from Intel CPUs patched by silent Windows update

It wasn't really until Windows 7 that Windows was to some degree secure as an internet-capable platform. XP was just terrible from a security standpoint until SP2 (2 years after launch), which at least added a decent firewall that was enabled by default.

nesadion Unshaky – Tries to address double key press issue on Apple's butterfly keyboard

I'm not trolling. I just think it's insane he needs a 4 oz lighter laptop because his back hurts which is most likely due to weak core/back muscles. It's such a clear sign of the times that people are more willing to pay 1000+ for a quick fix which numerous other downsides rather than addressing the real issue. Not sure how that's trolling. Are you trolling?

nesadion Unshaky – Tries to address double key press issue on Apple's butterfly keyboard

I like how the modern solution for weak back/core musculature is to buy an expensive laptop that excessively sacrifices repairability and upgradability.