homieg33 (u/homieg33)

homieg33 commented on Scientific fraud has become an 'industry,' analysis finds science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/pseudolus

lmm · 23 days ago

It really doesn't matter what the motive is when the effect is the same. Treating it as an individual moral failing isn't going to work when the incentives to fake papers (wilfully or not) are so strong. Any fix that works for 1 is going to work for 2 as well and vice versa.

homieg33 · 23 days ago

You can’t legislate morality.

homieg33 commented on Ask HN: How do I learn practical electronic repair? · Posted by u/juanse

homieg33 · 3 months ago

Just yesterday I fixed a broken wireless N64 controller receiver with the help of ChatGPT. I tried looking for YouTube videos, but didn’t find the exact thing I needed, and since I’m such a newbie I needed a lot of hand holding.

Anyways, I took pictures of the components and described what I was seeing. It walked me through things really well and asked me to do tests and report back. It even told me how to use my specific multimeter after I took a picture of it. I ended up soldering a jumper cable from the console power supply line (not working) to the micro usb power line (working).

It actually works now and really saved me 30 bucks buying a new controller.

homieg33 commented on How the U.S. became a science superpower steveblank.com/2025/04/15... · Posted by u/groseje

SubiculumCode · 4 months ago

Sure, but what has that to do with the administration's attack on funding and independence? As someone whose lost a grant award under the current administration's attack on science, I can tell you with assurance that this is more about political power and revenge than it is about improving scientific rigor. If we continue on this path, we will only get worse at science as a nation.

There are reforms that should be pursued: restructuring grants away from endless and arduous begging for money through the tedious grant process of today towards something more like block grants

homieg33 · 4 months ago

> As someone whose lost a grant award under the current administration's attack on science, I can tell you with assurance that this is more about political power and revenge than it is about improving scientific rigor.

I'm sorry to hear this, but curious what makes you certain of this? Revenge for what? I ask, because I hear this same template over and over with this administration. eg. DOGE isn't about government efficiency its about revenge.

homieg33 commented on Full explaination of Starship Flight 3 failures (SpaceX Official) spacex.com/updates/#fligh... · Posted by u/grecy

tsimionescu · a year ago

So, they blew up a huge rocket to find out that they need better filters for some engines and valves. This really doesn't seem like something that couldn't have been found out on the ground, or handled with better tolerances, without having to waste a huge rocket like this.

I really don't get a sense that this "rapid iteration" approach is a good replacement for better engineering and more care.

homieg33 · a year ago

Do both. Integration hell is inescapable.

homieg33 commented on NPR suspends veteran editor as it grapples with his public criticism npr.org/2024/04/16/124496... · Posted by u/RickJWagner

Loughla · a year ago

>90s were the peak of just about everybody in the country getting along and feeling good about the future.

What? All joking aside, what the Fuck?

Rodney King. LA riots. NAFTA protests. Branch Davidians. Presidential sex scandals. First desert storm. Political correctness. Women's movements. Bosnia et.al. Rwanda. HIV/AIDS epidemic. Ruby Ridge. Wage stagnation. The final death of small town commerce due to Wal-Marts.

And these are just the things I thought of in the last minute. I'm sure there are a ton more issues I'm missing.

The people you talk to are doing what people have done since the beginning of time. They're remembering the past fondly while forgetting the bad.

homieg33 · a year ago

I read this to the tune of we didn’t start the fire. Was nice.

homieg33 commented on Houston Is Going Broke Because of Its Sprawl strongtowns.org/journal/2... · Posted by u/jseliger

homieg33 · a year ago

In my regular smallish suburban city I have a sidewalk stamped from 1922. However, they just redid all the roads, sewer, and certain side walks (bad sections). They are now running municipal fiber tubes throughout the whole sprawling city. As far as I can tell the city is still operated as a self-financing entity and has been since the 1800’s. Is this a facade or just an anomaly?

homieg33 commented on Living Wage Calculator livingwage.mit.edu/... · Posted by u/mitchbob

homieg33 · 2 years ago

I put in my information and I find it really interesting that 2 parents who both work need a combined ~$63 an hour living wage, but a couple where only a single parent working needs only ~$47 an hour. My wife is a stay at home mom and her monetary contribution comes from saving us money (not paying for childcare, not paying for restaurants, etc, etc, etc). Makes me think that in a lot of ways saving money is really tax efficient compared to slogging for more ordinary income.

homieg33 commented on An Introduction to APIs zapier.com/resources/guid... · Posted by u/teleforce

capableweb · 2 years ago

Well, to be fair, libraries and SDKs do have APIs, it's what you mainly interact with when you use them, the defined interface that you programmatically use in your application.

homieg33 · 2 years ago

So like a kind of Application Programming Interface?

homieg33 commented on Blizzard’s bringing its PC games to Steam, starting with Overwatch 2 polygon.com/23799285/bliz... · Posted by u/haunter

duskwuff · 2 years ago

> Its actually interesting in a way that Blizzard singlehandedly created 3 new generes of gaming because of how flexible their WC3 editor was.

Hmm, what three are you thinking of? Tower defense and MOBA come to mind, but I can't think of the third.

(Also, tower defense maps really started with Starcraft -- the game engine limited what developers could do with those maps, but the concept was there.)

homieg33 · 2 years ago

Tree tag :p