hi-v-rocknroll (u/hi-v-rocknroll)

hi-v-rocknroll commented on Cargo Airships Are Happening elidourado.com/p/airship-... · Posted by u/elidourado

fergie · a year ago

Articles about airship dreambuilding have been a mainstay of HN and Reddit since the early days. The tech has always been super inspiring, yet "just around the corner". It would be almost sad to see them actually become a reality.

hi-v-rocknroll · a year ago

Unrealized futurism predating both in magazine form was Popular Mechanics and Popular Science hype of Moller skycars as the original goat, and virtual reality being a close second.

hi-v-rocknroll commented on Cargo Airships Are Happening elidourado.com/p/airship-... · Posted by u/elidourado

hi-v-rocknroll · a year ago

Vaporware hype.

hi-v-rocknroll commented on World conker champion found with steel chestnut, cleared of cheating theguardian.com/sport/202... · Posted by u/notamy

_dain_ · a year ago

Not a myth. I went to school during the twilight of the conker. It absolutely died because risk-averse teachers banned it, to howls of protest from us kids.

hi-v-rocknroll · a year ago

Just another brick in the wall.

hi-v-rocknroll commented on Florida's disaster-proof community withstood yet another hurricane fastcompany.com/91207612/... · Posted by u/geox

hi-v-rocknroll · a year ago

Ideally, only sufficiently sturdy homes should be allowed in risky areas. The absurdity of the current situation is subsidizing risky behaviors of people who choose to live in hazardous areas and socializing the inevitable costs onto everyone else when FEMA and/or insurance step in to rebuild in the same risky locations with the same substandard construction and expecting a different result.

hi-v-rocknroll commented on Routine dental X-rays are not backed by evidence arstechnica.com/health/20... · Posted by u/keithly

s0sa · a year ago

Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face.

hi-v-rocknroll · a year ago

I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids

hi-v-rocknroll commented on Routine dental X-rays are not backed by evidence arstechnica.com/health/20... · Posted by u/keithly

hi-v-rocknroll · a year ago

Procedures make money, and a nonzero fraction of dentists are all about selling more procedures and add-ons that offer negligible value because they want $$$.

hi-v-rocknroll commented on Capture less than you create world.hey.com/dhh/capture... · Posted by u/alexzeitler

jauntywundrkind · a year ago

"Create more value than you capture" was the swan song of Tim O'Reilly over a dozen years ago. https://youtu.be/y0CGT5AH7HE

Really hard for me to believe DHH wasn't aware of this, and quite unimpressed at his minor rephrase being uncredited. Seeing the value of this phrase captured & claimed so is quite against the spirit.

hi-v-rocknroll · a year ago

It goes back much farther than that as it's a practice of successful business people since time began. One much older example of it in written form would Napoleon Hill 1928 "Lesson 9: The habit of doing more for than paid." What it comes down to is cultivating customer goodwill by offering additional value that doesn't cost a lot to encourage more sales via network effects as referrals, and in the modern era, 5-star ratings and shares on social media.

hi-v-rocknroll commented on Tesla Optimus Bots Were Remotely Operated at Cybercab Event bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

quantified · a year ago

Surprising absolutely no one, I hope. Credibility seems difficult to generate for Tesla events. Maybe the secret sauce for Robotaxis is a human driver somewhere watching the cameras. Like driving Uber but from the comfort of home, and it's easy to hit the fridge or bathroom between rides.

hi-v-rocknroll · a year ago

Reminds me of a plot of device of the 90's movie Shooting Fish where they were scamming businesses selling an AGI computer but were actually controlling responses with a human in another room.

hi-v-rocknroll commented on A dictionary of single-letter variable names jackkelly.name/blog/archi... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

hi-v-rocknroll · a year ago

While some people argue for verbose, semantic-meaning variable and function names, I believe taking this to the extreme is counterproductive, especially for internal code that could otherwise be far more terse. Like antipatterns in Java, C++, or Rust, the more stuff there is at a lower density on the screen, the harder it is to follow. For internal bits, single letter variables should be favored.

hi-v-rocknroll commented on The state of GNU/Linux and a case against shared object libraries mitjafelicijan.com/the-ab... · Posted by u/kaladin-jasnah

wmf · a year ago

allow side-by-side installations of multiple version series and multiple configurations

So now every app requires a different library version and you've achieved all the disadvantages of static linking combined with all the disadvantages of dynamic linking.

hi-v-rocknroll · a year ago

No, you're being unreasonable because that's not the goal at all. The goal is to minimize variations while still allowing the possibility of variations that traditional distros like dnf/RPM Fedora/RHEL disallow without jumping through hoops such as renaming/prefixing or alternate toolsets like scl.

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