Zenbit_UX (u/Zenbit_UX)

Zenbit_UX commented on Miles from the ocean, there's diving beneath the streets of Budapest cnn.com/2025/08/18/travel... · Posted by u/thm

nemomarx · 4 days ago

how much safer is normal cave spelunking? I hear about accidents pretty often with that too, or getting into a crevice you can't back out of...

Zenbit_UX · 4 days ago

I’d argue much safer as your upper bound is not an air reservoir strapped to your body, it’s food/water …or in the event that shit really hits the fan, how fast you can secure a wound.

Generally speaking, these are rare events in both sports but one allows much more time for rescues.

Zenbit_UX commented on Miles from the ocean, there's diving beneath the streets of Budapest cnn.com/2025/08/18/travel... · Posted by u/thm

callahad · 4 days ago

I found Florida's caves positively delightful at 21 C; never felt the need to dive dry.

I am envious of the speleothems in Yucatán cenotes. Florida's caves are all phreatic, so you don't get any real decoration beyond scalloping. Still fun to dive, just not much to see aside from water, wet rocks, and a line. And not even that if you blow the viz.

Zenbit_UX · 4 days ago

21c sounds nice but I know Floridas geology leads to some comparatively deep caves. Most Cenotes range between 15ft-65ft but from what I hear about the Florida landscape is 85ft is average and some caves go past 300ft, which isn’t going to be warm anywhere.

Zenbit_UX commented on Miles from the ocean, there's diving beneath the streets of Budapest cnn.com/2025/08/18/travel... · Posted by u/thm

Zenbit_UX · 4 days ago

Cave diver here, the article asserts how rare warm caves are but I think that is a very European mindset.

The Mecca for cave diving is in the Yucatán and surrounding areas and the caves there are exceptionally warm. The surface water can be chilly, coming in around 21c at one of the many cenotes (sinkholes, which are the entry points into the system) as rainwater fills them, but the further into the cave you penetrate you will eventually cross the halocline, at which point deeper = warmer ocean water. It’s quite unintuitive but delightful to warm up after a 2+ hour dive. It’s common for divers to go deeper, pull their wetsuit open a little to fill it with warmer water (24c+) and then rise up back to the planned depth.

Cold cave diving is a very different experience and is usually found in Florida and Europe. Don’t recommend.

Zenbit_UX commented on AccuWeather to discontinue free access to Core Weather API developer.accuweather.com... · Posted by u/TerribleTurnout

Havoc · a month ago

The march towards walled gardens continues.

The internet as we know it (blogs etc) is going to stop existing and this will just turn into an protocol layer communicating between said walled gardens

Bit miffed that the big tech orgs basically killed something that could be organic & community driven. If somehow a path could have been found to maintain and possibly even scale that sort of grassroot internet I think it could have turned into something unimaginably awesome. Big tech actively killed that trajectory

Zenbit_UX · a month ago

Sure Apple, fb and LinkedIn were private gardens before it was cool, but there was still some incentive for some companies to stay public. That is until the AI wars and scrapping the entire internet constantly for training data was the norm.

Zenbit_UX commented on Show HN: Report idling vehicles in NYC (and get a cut of the fines) with AI apps.apple.com/us/app/idl... · Posted by u/rafram

mstaoru · 2 months ago

I lived in China for many many years and this is not a good example. Parking, and driving in general, is chaotic and unregulated. Yes, you have cameras everywhere that detect running on red or taking a wrong lane, but that's about makes it. Speeding, haphazard parking, everything is allowed. Scooters go anywhere. Bikes go anywhere. People go anywhere. Red, green, anything in between, it's a free for all. Like a policeman smoking under "no smoking" signs is totally normal. I'd say, you can get away with mostly anything in China, nobody would care (unless you're non-Chinese, then dutiful neighbors will report your every sneeze).

PS: Yet I do find OP's idea reminding me of China. Having a society that polices itself (just in China it's more about thought, not behavior) is definitely not a thing I would enjoy.

Zenbit_UX · 2 months ago

I’ll never understand how people believe bike and pedestrian “infractions” to be the same as that of motor vehicles.

Members of this “get off my sidewalk!” group often fail to realize this: Did you study to become a pedestrian? Did you go to a bicycle driving school to acquire a permit to operate one? Was an exam at all given in order to use public foot or bike paths?

If the answer is no, then you aren’t held to the same standards as cars, which are heavily regulated and require licenses to operate.

Obeying road signs for bicycle and pedestrians are suggestions, rarely enforced, and the worst case scenario is usually you hurt yourself. Your ability to hurt others has an upper bound that society deems acceptable.

Zenbit_UX commented on Show HN: Report idling vehicles in NYC (and get a cut of the fines) with AI apps.apple.com/us/app/idl... · Posted by u/rafram

Zenbit_UX · 2 months ago

You created a subscription service for power-~~users~~ snitches?

This is wild demonstration of misaligned incentive structures at every level.

Zenbit_UX commented on "Localhost tracking" explained. It could cost Meta €32B zeropartydata.es/p/localh... · Posted by u/donohoe

absurdo · 2 months ago

Some time later on HN front page:

> Why I left FB,GOOG,Whatever

>> Author describes seemingly abhorrently unethical and immoral practices they were completely ignorant of, occurring right in front of them that they were a key participant in.

>> Accepted a massive salary to be ignorant.

>> Shocked as all fuck about ethics and implications.

>> Returned 0 money, cashed out.

>> 100% ethical now.

Zenbit_UX · 2 months ago

A tale as old as time…

Zenbit_UX commented on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA · Posted by u/proberts

Zenbit_UX · 3 months ago

When it comes to Canadians working in the US on a TN, are we allowed to accept promotions (title, comp or both) without going through reapproval of our visa? Are there any nuances here like caps on how high a salary increase could be before needing a reassessment? Maybe increases in equity don’t count?

Also if the reassessment is denied does your original visa still remain valid or are you risking it all for the promotion?

Zenbit_UX commented on $20K Bounty Offered for Optimizing Rust Code in Rav1d AV1 Decoder memorysafety.org/blog/rav... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

4ad · 3 months ago

Code bounties are unethical. I will absolutely die on this hill. You benefit from everyone's work, yet only one (or a select few) maybe get paid (in this case a pitiful amount, considering the required expertise).

Almost universally, people attempting a bounty are in a dire financial situation. You’re just taking advantage of them.

Zenbit_UX · 3 months ago

That’s a pretty strong stance.

I’m sitting at my desk doing 133t code challenges for free right now. The idea of optimizing something that both matters and could result in a payout of any amount sounds appealing given my context.

I think you underestimate the amount of people willing to do things for free or for the sake of knowledge itself.

And before you suggest that must mean I’m in a dire financial situation, I’m not.