konamicode's comments

konamicode | 2 months ago | on: Electronic nose for indoor mold detection and identification

I’ve done that - moved out of a mold infested house into a brand new house and kept some but not all belongings. Can you elaborate on risks? What do I need to watch out for?

konamicode | 5 months ago | on: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

What would be a good strategy to prevent companies from cottoning on to this and gaming the system? They could for example change packaging on production runs for a product that’s undergoing laboratory.love funding campaign.

konamicode | 2 years ago | on: Gut epithelial barrier damage caused by dishwasher detergents and rinse aids

I might be generalising but in some countries (UK) it's common to not rinse soap/washing up liquid off dishes after washing them by hand. Being hypochondriac I was always curious about health aspects of this and feared something similar to what's described in the article.

konamicode | 4 years ago | on: Making life easier for newcomers to the .NET ecosystem

VS's windowing system is better than Rider's. I often use VS with a layout which takes up two full screens (editor on one and Tests Explorer/Solution Explorer/Output Window/Find window etc on the other). I haven't yet found a way to replicate this in Rider.

konamicode | 4 years ago | on: Our plans to improve navigation on Gov.uk

Out of interest - who are the senior leaders you’re referring to?

konamicode | 5 years ago | on: What Is Applied Category Theory? (2018)

If you’re interested in machine learning I can recommend Christopher Olah’s blog: https://colah.github.io/

konamicode | 5 years ago | on: To the moon: defining and detecting cryptocurrency pump-and-dumps (2018)

> Tether is 80% of trading volume lol.

This statement might need a reference to back it up.

konamicode | 5 years ago | on: First person receives Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in UK

N.B. Oxford have since published[0] a peer-reviewed study of phase 3 trial in The Lancet.

[0] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

konamicode | 5 years ago | on: iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro

Same position here. Pro is compelling because I own an old iPad mini that's due an upgrade and I wonder if Pro would provide that for me. But for size I like my current SE gen 1.

konamicode | 5 years ago | on: Robinhood 20yo trader with no income loses 700k on options, takes life

If I am a Robinhood customer who is investing for the long term instead of day trading - should I care?

konamicode | 6 years ago | on: Keeping the coronavirus from infecting healthcare workers

> They just need to be put into boiling water for a few minutes to kill sars-cov-2 at 100%.

I was looking for information on (high) heat killing viruses such as sars-cov-2. Are you able to point to a reliable source on this?

konamicode | 6 years ago | on: Handbook of Covid-19 Prevention and Treatment from Hospital with 0% fatality [pdf]

Do you know if the other countries you mentioned have equivalent documents to the one you linked for Belgium?

konamicode | 6 years ago | on: C# Pattern Matching

Unlike in C# pattern matching in F# is exhaustive. I’m guessing this is what was meant by “better”.

konamicode | 6 years ago | on: Climate models are running red hot, and scientists don’t know why

This is mentioned elsewhere in the comments at least some of the code for climateprediction.net appears to be on GitHub: https://github.com/CPDN-git.

konamicode | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?

“13 Minutes to the Moon” by the BBC World Service.

konamicode | 6 years ago | on: ProjectPSX – A C# coded emulator of the original Playstation

Any chance you have an example of this pattern you can point to? Also, would the use of Span<T> make it possible to do this without unsafe code?

konamicode | 6 years ago | on: Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation

One of the harder things with English pronunciation I found was to be able to correctly vocalise "warm" and "worm", "crap" and "crepe" and similar. Think a resource like this would have helped.

konamicode | 6 years ago | on: Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) on GitHub

> binding system that's full of footguns

Please elaborate?

konamicode | 7 years ago | on: Aroma: Using machine learning for code recommendation

Seealso: IntelliCode for Visual Studio.

konamicode | 7 years ago | on: Programming: Doing it more vs. doing it better

> At the other end of the spectrum are the “cowboys” who are productive by writing sloppy code with bad architecture and are either oblivious of or just ignore the huge pile of technical debt they pass along to the people who get to maintain their code.

Ousterhout uses the term "tactical tornado"s, which I quite like (source: https://twitter.com/johofer/status/1035442341199446017 apologies I don't have a better source handy).