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new_guy··on What is mathematical thinking? (2012)
Does it magically stop being blogspam if we know who that is supposed to be?
new_guy··on Alexandria Search
> but billion dollar company Google will happily recommend it as the most relevant result above a legitimate website?

Because the site most likely is laden with Google Ads, it's in their interest to show you that garbage and not what you're actually looking for.

new_guy··on Midwestern US has lost 57.6T tons of soil due to agricultural practices
“Man – despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments – owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.” — Paul Harvey
new_guy··on Telegram Trilateration: Abusing “People Near Me” and tracking people's location
Man, I read that as 'People of Color' before 'Proof of Concept' and was very confused.
new_guy··on What can this community do to help stop Putin?
Start with self-examination.

Why are you so bothered about Putin invading Ukraine?

Where was the outrage, protesting and flag-waving when Israel is invading Palestine and shooting little kids daily? And America is bombing Yemen, Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan etc on a daily basis?

Don't get me wrong, it's all bad. But the general persons apathy and ignorance and ability to be manipulated by the media is just as bad as any actions Putin is taking.

new_guy··on GE won’t let me use convection roast on my new oven without connecting to WiFi
@dvtm if you're just going to hang your clothes up to dry, then what's the point of having a dryer in the first place?
new_guy··on There’s no need to change passwords if they're robust, unique and not breached
This seems remarkably unintuitive, but the math checks out.

(26+10)⁶ = 2,176,782,336

1,450 minutes a day

2,176,782,336 / (1,450 * 60) = ~25,000 years

new_guy··on Ask HN: Why don't many video hosting companies adopt PeerTube or P2P?
Bitchute doesn't use P2P, but it's a HUGE part of their marketing. Their target demographic is technically illiterate so don't know any different, which really actually is a huge problem in general.

How many people fall for the latest buzzwords (like 'web3') without having the first clue what it is? Even investors aren't immune.

new_guy··on Ask HN: How to proceed with less-than-perfect FOSS projects?
It just shows you're growing in your skills, I think there's very few people can look back at code they wrote even last week and not see where it could be improved.

I'd keep it as a record of your progress and just mark it as a toy project/not ready for production etc.

new_guy··on Russian entrepreneur puts a $1M bounty on Putin's head
Seems slightly suicidal. And $1M doesn't seem all that much for the potential risk to yourself and your family.
new_guy··on [dead]
You can donate directly to them here

https://savelife.in.ua/donate/

https://savelife.in.ua/en/donate/

new_guy··on Ask HN: Just database over the internet as the only backend?
Security? lol

If all your business logic is in the client what's to stop someone just changing it to f*ck you over.

new_guy··on Ask HN: How has internet changed software development?
I think it's made a lot of people overestimate their competence and overvalue their 'skill'.

They think being able to Google/SO something is the same as knowing it. Give them a laptop without internet access and most 'developers' wouldn't even be able to get it setup nevermind write 'hello world' from scratch.

new_guy··on How to block Russian access to your website in 2 minutes
This is a great idea but it unfairly punishes the average citizen that has no more say in what their government does than you or I do.
new_guy··on Ask HN: Is anyone else genuinely scared that this is the start of WW3?
This isn't meant to sound trite but if it weren't for the media would you even know anything was happening?

Notice how all the anti-vaccine mandates protests have disappeared from coverage. This is just the latest news cycle.

If you're not directly affected then just ignore it.

new_guy··on A list of demonstrations planned around the world against the war on Ukraine
Let's all change our profile pictures, join hands and sing kumbaya too.
new_guy··on Explain the first 10 lines of Twitter's source code to me
That seems a pretty basic question for a senior position, it's weird the author says most candidates failed it.
new_guy··on Can you warm yourself with your mind?
Wim Hof is a party trick for children.

Pranayama is a science that's thousands of years old. It's much better to go directly to the source than some bastardised commercialised western version:

http://www.yogebooks.com/english/atkinson/1903sciencebreath....

new_guy··on Ask HN: React Alternatives?
Vue
new_guy··on Neural nets are not “slightly conscious,” and AI PR can do with less hype
'slightly conscious' is just word salad, it doesn't actually mean anything.
new_guy··on Ask HN: Why is HN non-visual?
Getting images for links can be tricky too, you need to make sure they're all https, formatted right (file type and size) then you need to store them as well, plus a ton of sites (especially tech ones) don't have proper markup and have no images available to use, so it's basically too much hassle and HN works fine without it.
new_guy··on Ask HN: How Do You Cope?
You have a yacht sure, but when did you last actually use it?

Your job is killing you, quit. Take time off, this is your only life don't spend it festering in the cafe across the road from your house. Go travel the world, go snort cocaine in Mexico and bang hookers.

new_guy··on Reddit can't build a better search engine
This is a good point I'd never considered before. The better your search, the more people will try to game it, the worse your results will get.
new_guy··on Ask HN: Is it called a launch if you still haven't enabled payment?
Why would you launch a business where people can't pay you?
new_guy··on I love you, Hacker News, but you’re toxic
People need to learn to take personal responsibility and grow as a person instead of blaming 'social media' because they're a self-admitted asshole.
new_guy··on Ask HN: How would you give 8B people a unique identity which wasn't naff?
> Cyclops, if any man of mortal birth Note thine unseemly blindness and inquire The occasion, tell him that Laertes' son, Ulysses, the destroyer of walled towns, Whose home is Ithaca, put out thine eye.

Seems like it's already a solved problem.

new_guy··on US accuses financial website of spreading Russian propaganda
It's really bizarre how desperately the US is pushing for war, the entire world can see through their mindless propaganda. Even the Ukrainian President needed to tell Biden to calm the f*ck down.[0]

No-one is buying the lies anymore.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-president-told-biden...

new_guy··on Horizon: Forbidden West is one of the greatest game sequels of all time
I'm sure it is, and will find out myself on Friday.

I don't understand articles like this, or why people would read them (before release) they're just going to be 100% full of spoilers unintentional or not.

new_guy··on US Air Force drone hovering ukraine
The US is more concerned about this so-called invasion than Ukraine is.
new_guy··on What sparks joy in Hacker News readers' lives? Anyone?
The new Horizon game getting released on Friday!
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