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Timucin commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025) · Posted by u/david927

Timucin · 5 months ago

I am about to release a mental health app to tackle dissociation and daydreaming.

Unlike its competitors, it uses proven research and techniques to measure the issues, as well as the improvements.

Test users and early adapters are very welcome

Timucin commented on Map-vectorizer – Map polygon and feature extractor github.com/nypl-spacetime... · Posted by u/pabs3

amrb · 3 years ago

It's good they put in the heading "Like OCR for maps" Because I had no idea what you'd use this thing for, like why apply a vector to a golang map or something XD

Timucin · 3 years ago

There was a time I had to re-draw the scanned city plans in AutoCad (possibly in R13/14), on a Pentium 3 machine as an high-school student.

Having such tool at that time would have saved myself not only from wasting months, but would also have saved from having carpal tunnels at very young age.

Timucin commented on Rockstar pays $10k to modder who fixed GTA Online loading times gamesindustry.biz/article... · Posted by u/geuis

Timucin · 5 years ago

I wonder how big or small that $10K compared to the game's monthly income. Guess I'd be OK to share the 70% of that with the modder if it'd be up to me (no wonder why I don't get rich huh?).

* 70% was the amount of loading time the modder helped to cut.

Timucin commented on Do It Yurtself imgur.com/t/staff_picks/V... · Posted by u/NaOH

olau · 6 years ago

Is suspect you can search for this, but here's a quick shot - how much living material is inside them? Let's say all the plants weight the same as one human. And they don't need to keep warm. So most likely they're not respirating more than one extra human. And I don't think having three people in a bed is unsafe.

Timucin · 6 years ago

I just had a chance to do a bit research and read about the facts and I believe you're right.

It seems even a small pet, like a hamster, could produce more CO2 than a home full of trees/plants during the night.

Timucin commented on Do It Yurtself imgur.com/t/staff_picks/V... · Posted by u/NaOH

Timucin · 6 years ago

I may have missed but it seems nothing discussed for the amount o plants in the comments.

Is having that many plants around your bed safe? Can they release enough CO2 to effect your sleep quality or is it a myth I remember from my childhood?

Timucin commented on Ethiopia beats its goal and plants over 350M trees in 12 hours insider.com/ethiopia-beat... · Posted by u/elorant

kleton · 6 years ago

See church forests in Ethiopia. These are just lands that were fenced off from grazing, and they look like random oases in the desert. So clearly trees can survive in the general area.

https://www.inverse.com/article/53851-church-forest-ethiopia...

Timucin · 6 years ago

Thanks. They look amazing.

Timucin commented on Ethiopia beats its goal and plants over 350M trees in 12 hours insider.com/ethiopia-beat... · Posted by u/elorant

RobAley · 6 years ago

Not a direct answerto your question, but we can be sure that 100% of trees not planted won't be there in the future.

Timucin · 6 years ago

I agree. Though even if a fraction of the trees survive in a place of harsh conditions, further generations of the same seed can carry the same strength and spread.

That’s something I witnessed myself from my village years.

Timucin commented on Ethiopia beats its goal and plants over 350M trees in 12 hours insider.com/ethiopia-beat... · Posted by u/elorant

Timucin · 6 years ago

Some already pointed out, I am also curious about sustainability and how many trees will survive in future BUT I am incredibly amazed of the number of trees planted in just 12 hours. I might be naive in this thinking but it gives me hope about what we can achieve once we have to.

Timucin commented on Ways to Tweak Slow SQL Queries helenanderson.co.nz/sql-q... · Posted by u/helenanders26

ggm · 6 years ago

Like all things computers, the real answer is, "it depends..."

This is what makes the job exist. If it was algorithmic we'd already have been replaced by EXPLAIN

Timucin · 6 years ago

Each of the ~5000 stored procedures I had to strip out from a client’s large MySQL cluster agrees with this statement.

Timucin commented on A 127-year-old physics riddle regarding the Kelvinangle in boat wakes solved phys.org/news/2019-08-yea... · Posted by u/Errorcod3

davidhyde · 6 years ago

Can someone please explain to me why this is so groundbreaking? If I blow a smoke ring and there is no wind my smoke ring stays circular. If there is wind blowing from the side my smoke ring will become distorted. Likewise if there is a current in water then I expect that current to disturb the propagation of waves moving through the water, not so? The medium in which the wave is propagating is itself moving.

Surely this has not remained a mystery for 127 years.

Timucin · 6 years ago

Real life effect of this is that now people will know how to draw more fuel-efficient routes for ships, tankers etc, so they will consume less fuel which can lead to cheaper logistics, less CO2 release and less negative impact on the environment.

So I think it’s OK to call this groundbreaking :)

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