missinglugnut (u/missinglugnut)

missinglugnut commented on Cancer is surging, bringing a debate about whether to look for it nytimes.com/2025/12/08/he... · Posted by u/brandonb

poszlem · 10 days ago

That's amazing, and also totally misses the point, but I guess it let's you keep feeling smug, so that's a plus. If you’re aiming for the full "ackchyually guy" meme, mission accomplished. Meanwhile you’re not touching the core of my argument: we’ve already seen what happens when you lecture people to “trust the science” instead of actually engaging with them. They just go vote for someone who will talk to them, and that’s exactly how you end up with a Kennedy in charge.

missinglugnut · 10 days ago

Chill out...the most condescending comment here by far is yours, and the "well ackchually" that sent the thread of the rails is your comparison between cancer cells and needing insulin. If you don't want people to poke holes in an analogy like that don't make it.

missinglugnut commented on Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled? reason.com/2025/12/04/why... · Posted by u/delichon

almosthere · 15 days ago

If it turns out half of all people have something, it's just normal human stuff. Today's ADHD is likely a symptom of tiktoking your brain's serotonin out or some other chemical

missinglugnut · 15 days ago

Nonsense. This is Stanford. The admissions process filtered for highly academically successful students and then 38% of them claimed a disability which impairs their academic performance. It's bullshit of the most obvious kind.

missinglugnut commented on Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: the story of learned avoidance elifesciences.org/article... · Posted by u/nabla9

rolph · a month ago

human gene regulation is dependent on methylation events and acetylation events, as well as conformal events with respect to the strand.

there is no meiotic reset to default.

you should hang with some oncogeneticists for fresh perspective.

missinglugnut · a month ago

And absolutely none of that refutes the claims from Kahn that started this thread.

missinglugnut commented on The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia cnn.com/2025/11/12/busine... · Posted by u/andrewl

echelon · a month ago

A large volume business isn't doing 10k transactions.

missinglugnut · a month ago

The percentage change is the same for everyone. If a consumer pays 10.05 instead of 10.03, they pay 0.2% more.

If a store games prices to charge 0.2% more on a million transactions it's still 0.2% for them. Except the rounding on multi-item purchases isnt predictable so it would probably take a miracle of data engineering and behavioral science to hit 0.1% benefit on average.

Meanwhile stores are using 30% off coupons and buy on get one free to get people in the door, whilst hiding double digit price increases.

Worrying about the two pennies is stupid on either side of the transaction. Don't listen to the professional complainers.

missinglugnut commented on Internet Archive's legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/thinkcontext

TimorousBestie · a month ago

> let IA be what it is

IA is the eccentric, untamed idealism. You can’t have the Wayback Machine without the National Emergency Library and the Great 78 Project.

missinglugnut · a month ago

As the project matures, the risk tolerance should mature too.

Betting your own time and money on the realization of a crazy ideal can be very noble. Betting a resource millions of people are relying on is destructive hubris.

They should take the untamed idealism to a separate legal entity before they ruin all the good they've done.

missinglugnut commented on How OpenAI uses complex and circular deals to fuel its multibillion-dollar rise nytimes.com/interactive/2... · Posted by u/reaperducer

gitremote · 2 months ago

Flat-earthers: The earth is flat.

Round-earthers: The earth is round.

"Reality lies in the middle" argument: The earth is oblong, not a perfect sphere, so both sides were right.

missinglugnut · 2 months ago

If we're gonna be pendantic about fallacies, you're using argument by analogy and it's not in any way comparable to the claims GP made about OpenAI.

missinglugnut commented on Smartphones and being present herman.bearblog.dev/being... · Posted by u/articsputnik

eimrine · 2 months ago

And my point is that your words is about any other recommendation engine. Youtube is very different, there is no better information source to shape oneself what is really good to be interested in. Except of maybe book search websites.

missinglugnut · 2 months ago

The author wants to find content when he is looking for something specific. He does not want his attention grabbed by something he wasn't looking for, no matter how educational it may be.

Multiple people have clearly explained this to you in several comment threads and you're still insisting it makes no sense. At this point the only question is why you don't want to understand.

missinglugnut commented on Solar leads EU electricity generation as renewables hit 54% electrek.co/2025/09/30/so... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo

adev_ · 3 months ago

Not everybody seems to think so when I see the number of downvotes on this post.

Sadly, any criticism on renewables, even constructive, is often straight downvoted without any comments nor justifications on Hackernews.

missinglugnut · 3 months ago

Voting on every site is an emotional response, and bad news + convincing arguments against currently held beliefs produces a strong negative one.

I appreciate that you gave more insight into electricity markets today.

missinglugnut commented on Correctness and composability bugs in the Julia ecosystem (2022) yuri.is/not-julia/... · Posted by u/cs702

postflopclarity · 3 months ago

improving, still not perfect. it was true then, and is even more true now, that a large fraction of "correctness bugs" (maybe even the majority) arise from `OffsetArrays.jl`, so a simple solution besides "avoid Julia" is "avoid that package"

missinglugnut · 3 months ago

It baffles me that they dug this hole in the first place. I have feelings on the zero-indexing vs one-indexing debate, but at the end of the day you can write correct code in either, as long as you know which one you're using.

But Julia fucked it up to where it's not clear what you're using, and library writers don't know which one has been passed! It's insane. They chose style over consistency and correctness and it's caused years of suffering.

missinglugnut commented on How did we all miss the bacteria taking over her body? theguardian.com/world/202... · Posted by u/atombender

missinglugnut · 3 months ago

My dad got bit by a tick, came down with a high fever, but tested negative for Lyme so the doctor wouldn't prescribe antibiotics after two appointments with worsening symptoms.

He was hospitalized when he was too sick to walk and then an infectious disease specialist put him on antibiotics, and he got better in a few days, minus some permanent nerve damage in his face.

It's amazing how confident some doctors can be when they haven't got a fucking clue. The more I read about high false positive rates and non-lyme tick-borne bacteria the more mad I get about what happened.

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