crygin's comments

crygin | 1 year ago | on: Fiber optic drone control beats any RF jammer

You could even power it, too: https://powerlighttech.com/autonomous-vehicles/

crygin | 2 years ago | on: Debris found came from missing Titan sub, says friend of passengers

And now they're dead, and every single person involved in in the execution of that process is a murderer.

crygin | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is building credit card size tracker using U1 spec?

Hrm, what about a thin film supercapacitor that's charged by a piezoelectric component fueled by the regular flexing?

crygin | 3 years ago | on: Is There a Curse of the Fields Medal? [pdf]

That you know of -- it's possible he was secretly married, and his secret wife was sleeping with the likely first winner of a Nobel prize in mathematics.

Unlikely, yes, but the tale is not certainly apocryphal ;)

crygin | 3 years ago | on: How to make fermented hot sauce (2021)

An impulse sealer bar, like you'd use to seal the vacuum bag originally.

crygin | 3 years ago | on: Second-Order Thinking

This is not higher-order thinking (insofar as such exists). The search tree is first-order -- in a sufficiently complex game that the search tree cannot be fully examined, the heuristics necessary to perform at a high level without the need to explore the search tree are the second order. The third order is left as an exercise to the reader.

crygin | 3 years ago | on: Systemd Creator Lands at Microsoft

How long do you think that humans have existed?

crygin | 3 years ago | on: Switzerland’s underground freight project gets start date

> I hear this from time to time but it doesn’t pass the sniff test. If we assume the vehicles are points...

Ah yes, the "sniff test", in which things which are untrue are assumed, which make the interlocutor sufficiently confident to pontificate. "Sniff test", as a concept, doesn't pass itself, rhetorically (-- or maybe it's a "code smell").

crygin | 3 years ago | on: An approximation to determine the source of the WOW! Signal

We have no evidence that we will ever be able to build sufficiently adaptable systems to engage with unfamiliar environments without constant direct human intervention, which is not possible at light-year (or even light-second) ranges.

crygin | 4 years ago | on: American chestnut

And yet, the chestnut is one of the very few commonly eaten botanical nuts (along with the hazelnut and some acorns) -- nearly all other culinary nuts are otherwise (drupes, seeds, legumes, etc).

crygin | 4 years ago | on: The Banality of Genius: Notes on Peter Jackson's Get Back

As the post you're responding to notes, Cecilia is the patron saint of musicians -- the song is about the fleeting nature of inspiration, not a literal description of a interpersonal relationship.

crygin | 4 years ago | on: Google to end support for OnHub routers in 2022

Even if forests are planted, climate change will burn them to the ground regardless. It already is: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/27/wildfires-rage-carb...

crygin | 4 years ago | on: New method shows today’s warming ‘unprecedented’ over past 24,000 years

I doubt that's possible at this point, honestly -- this is our great filter. We had a chance, in the 70s and 80s (when the risk was frankly already fairly well-understood), but perhaps being the evolutionary top dog / intelligence comes with a greedy optimizer that prevents long-term societal thinking.

crygin | 4 years ago | on: New method shows today’s warming ‘unprecedented’ over past 24,000 years

It's a shame you're getting downvoted, because you're probably not wrong. Even if the increase in extreme weather events/drought/heat waves is less impactful on non-tropical regions, we're still going to be dealing with a multi-billion-person climate refugee crisis in the next few decades.

I think we only have to look at society's response to the pandemic, a worldwide crisis with immediate (rather than delayed) effects directly on individuals with honestly simple, straightfoward solutions (mask up, pay people to stay home and industries to maintain capacity, vaccinate everyone), to realize that humanity is not going to be able to tackle climate change as an existential issue. We just slide into an endless resource war while a few billionaires who could have meaningfully changed the course of human history hide out in New Zealand, or try to leave the planet and die.

crygin | 4 years ago | on: ProctorU is dystopian spyware

Huh, sounds like you might have been better off if "[your] emergency room doctor [looked it up] on the internet".

crygin | 4 years ago | on: Village of Lytton, B.C., evacuated as mayor says 'the whole town is on fire'

Read their comment history -- they're a climate change denier. Some people just want to watch the world burn, I guess.

crygin | 4 years ago | on: “There ain't no such thing as a free lunch”

Good ongoing thread here regarding the environmental impact of dams: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27348870

crygin | 4 years ago | on: Europe fell in love with long pepper before black pepper (2016)

I would very much recommend tracking down some cubeb (tailed) pepper if you haven't already tried it -- I feel like it's what I wanted long pepper to be. It's got a wonderfully allspice-y note and is particularly great in a Bloody Mary.

crygin | 4 years ago | on: Just 20 firms behind more than half of single-use plastic waste – study

They break down into microplastics.

crygin | 4 years ago | on: Restaurant menu tricks (2020)

I don't disagree with you in principle, but the TFL menu specifically is kind of... a thing. It's explicitly stylized after an Escoffier-style menu (see e.g. http://ciadigitalcollections.culinary.edu/digital/collection... ), is instantly recognizable in the world of fine dining, and is actually often not given to the diner until after the meal (the menu is not what's getting anyone to eat at TFL -- you're making a reservation months in advance).