new_guy | 4 years ago | on: What is mathematical thinking? (2012)
Does it magically stop being blogspam if we know who that is supposed to be?
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new_guy | 4 years ago | on: Alexandria Search
> but billion dollar company Google will happily recommend it as the most relevant result above a legitimate website?
Because the site most likely is laden with Google Ads, it's in their interest to show you that garbage and not what you're actually looking for.
new_guy | 4 years ago | on: Midwestern US has lost 57.6T tons of soil due to agricultural practices
“Man – despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments – owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.” — Paul Harvey
new_guy | 4 years ago | on: Telegram Trilateration: Abusing “People Near Me” and tracking people's location
Man, I read that as 'People of Color' before 'Proof of Concept' and was very confused.
new_guy | 4 years ago | on: What can this community do to help stop Putin?
Start with self-examination.
Why are you so bothered about Putin invading Ukraine?
Where was the outrage, protesting and flag-waving when Israel is invading Palestine and shooting little kids daily? And America is bombing Yemen, Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan etc on a daily basis?
Don't get me wrong, it's all bad. But the general persons apathy and ignorance and ability to be manipulated by the media is just as bad as any actions Putin is taking.
new_guy | 4 years ago | on: GE won’t let me use convection roast on my new oven without connecting to WiFi
@dvtm if you're just going to hang your clothes up to dry, then what's the point of having a dryer in the first place?
new_guy | 4 years ago | on: There’s no need to change passwords if they're robust, unique and not breached
This seems remarkably unintuitive, but the math checks out.
(26+10)⁶ = 2,176,782,336
1,450 minutes a day
2,176,782,336 / (1,450 * 60) = ~25,000 years
new_guy | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why don't many video hosting companies adopt PeerTube or P2P?
Bitchute doesn't use P2P, but it's a HUGE part of their marketing. Their target demographic is technically illiterate so don't know any different, which really actually is a huge problem in general.
How many people fall for the latest buzzwords (like 'web3') without having the first clue what it is? Even investors aren't immune.
new_guy | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to proceed with less-than-perfect FOSS projects?
It just shows you're growing in your skills, I think there's very few people can look back at code they wrote even last week and not see where it could be improved.
I'd keep it as a record of your progress and just mark it as a toy project/not ready for production etc.
new_guy | 4 years ago | on: Russian entrepreneur puts a $1M bounty on Putin's head
Seems slightly suicidal. And $1M doesn't seem all that much for the potential risk to yourself and your family.
new_guy | 4 years ago
You can donate directly to them here
new_guy | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Just database over the internet as the only backend?
Security? lol
If all your business logic is in the client what's to stop someone just changing it to f*ck you over.
new_guy | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: How has internet changed software development?
I think it's made a lot of people overestimate their competence and overvalue their 'skill'.
They think being able to Google/SO something is the same as knowing it. Give them a laptop without internet access and most 'developers' wouldn't even be able to get it setup nevermind write 'hello world' from scratch.
new_guy | 4 years ago | on: How to block Russian access to your website in 2 minutes
This is a great idea but it unfairly punishes the average citizen that has no more say in what their government does than you or I do.
new_guy | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is anyone else genuinely scared that this is the start of WW3?
This isn't meant to sound trite but if it weren't for the media would you even know anything was happening?
Notice how all the anti-vaccine mandates protests have disappeared from coverage. This is just the latest news cycle.
If you're not directly affected then just ignore it.
new_guy | 4 years ago | on: A list of demonstrations planned around the world against the war on Ukraine
Let's all change our profile pictures, join hands and sing kumbaya too.
new_guy | 4 years ago | on: Explain the first 10 lines of Twitter's source code to me
That seems a pretty basic question for a senior position, it's weird the author says most candidates failed it.
new_guy | 4 years ago | on: Can you warm yourself with your mind?
Wim Hof is a party trick for children.
Pranayama is a science that's thousands of years old. It's much better to go directly to the source than some bastardised commercialised western version:
http://www.yogebooks.com/english/atkinson/1903sciencebreath....
new_guy | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: React Alternatives?
Vue
new_guy | 4 years ago | on: Neural nets are not “slightly conscious,” and AI PR can do with less hype
'slightly conscious' is just word salad, it doesn't actually mean anything.
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