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hi41 commented on He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, his quest is nearly over washingtonpost.com/lifest... · Posted by u/wallflower

bolasanibk · 12 days ago

It was not one continuous hike. He takes frequent breaks. But travels back to where he last stopped and continues.

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

Still very impressive, but a little less impressive than I first thought.

hi41 · 10 days ago

Does anyone know of he has a wife and kids? Such a trekking lifestyle would be very difficult with a family.

hi41 commented on 30 years ago today "Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript" web.archive.org/web/20070... · Posted by u/donohoe

intrasight · 20 days ago

Seems like just yesterday. It's also about when my daughter was born which also seems like yesterday.

I was doing a whole lot of Netscape plug-in development around then. And traveled to Netscape's and Sun's offices in CA several times.

Exciting era it was.

hi41 · 19 days ago

Nice anecdote. What are you doing now? Are you a developer still or the VP of a company?

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hi41 commented on A laser pointer at 2B FPS [video] youtube.com/watch?v=o4TdH... · Posted by u/thunderbong

estimator7292 · 2 months ago

Tl:dw for how this works:

He scans one line at a time with a mirror into a photomultiplier tube which can detect single photon events. This is captured continually at 2MSample/s (2 billion times per second: 2B FPS) with an oscilloscope and a clever hack.

The laser is actually pulsing at 30KHz, and the oscilloscope capture is synchronized to the laser pulse.

So we consider each 30KHz pulse a single event in a single pixel (even though the mirror is rotating continuously). So he runs the experiment 30,000 times per second, each one recording a single pixel at 2B FPS for a few microseconds. Each pixel-sized video is then tiled into a cohesive image

hi41 · 2 months ago

Can we not find why the strange behavior of a double split experiment occurs using this setup?

hi41 commented on Just Use Curl justuse.org/curl/... · Posted by u/imiric

hi41 · 2 months ago

I am a total newbie to curl. I am so excited to come across this post. Thanks, op! I want to use curl to send json and xml requests instead of using Postman and SoapUI while also using a jks file which stores a certificate for secure connection to API.

(Clarified regarding certificate)

hi41 commented on Just Use Curl justuse.org/curl/... · Posted by u/imiric

deafpolygon · 2 months ago

I've been using curl, like forever. I don't understand the preoccupation for using postman, et. al. -- why pay for something that literally requires a little bit of light RTFM?

hi41 · 2 months ago

I am new to curl. We use secure connection to Visa and Maactercard API. We have the certificate in a jks file.

Is there a way to send the json request that one sends in Postman but in curl while also using the jks file?

Similarly, we use SoapUI to send XML requests. Is there a way to send those XML requests using curl while also using the jks file?

Greatly appreciate your help.

hi41 commented on I used to know how to write in Japanese aethermug.com/posts/i-use... · Posted by u/mrcgnc

hi41 · 4 months ago

>> This is also why I believe that language is a bottleneck for thought

I am not sure I agree with this. We think our thoughts using language. I don’t language is the bottleneck.

hi41 commented on United Airlines grounds flights after system meltdown allchronology.com/2025/08... · Posted by u/rectang

tantalor · 5 months ago

This is not a reliable source. Reeks of AI-generated text and fake author bios.

There are plenty of real sources for this story:

https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/united-airlines-halts-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/business/united-airlines-...

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/united-airlines-flights-res...

hi41 · 5 months ago

Wow. I couldn’t tell. How did you find out that it may be AI generated.

hi41 commented on Google aims to reinvent email with Wave (2009) cbc.ca/news/canada/how-go... · Posted by u/xattt

xnx · 6 months ago

People's minds could not comprehend Wave at the time, and I'm still not sure they can now. Even years later articles classify it was a social network (what?), email killer, or chat app.

I saw it as one of the first live collaboration spaces native to the web, not trying to be a paper document, mailed letter, or phone call.

hi41 · 6 months ago

I was one of those people. Really, I didn’t understand what Wave was trying to do. I tried to use it with my friends but all I saw was nested text boxes. Can you please tell me what it was trying to do?

hi41 commented on Getting Past Procrastination spectrum.ieee.org/getting... · Posted by u/WaitWaitWha

anal_reactor · 7 months ago

The older I get, the more I realize there's no point. I'll never be rich. I'll never have a family. I'll never go to space. I'll never take part in Olympics. Best I can do is beating a video game on medium. So I try to focus on that, instead of spending 80% of my life trying to make myself 20% more productive.

hi41 · 7 months ago

Regarding the family part. Don’t feel terribly bas about not having a family. There is the possibility of a divorce and the resulting court ordered payments that can be far more devastating. It’s simply too hard to keep someone else happy all the time. Frustrations add up, more fights, more insults, more angry words. As humans I don’t think we can ever be happy.

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