ricogallo
Re:Mosquitoes Are a Choice
on Monday October 05, 2026 @11:24AM (#49966092)
few people know that mosquitoes are also pollinators for some plants
Re:Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy
on Thursday May 28, 2026 @11:18AM (#48310198)
> We practice kindness between humans because of the law of reciprocity.
Yet, this law is so embedded in us that practicing kindness even towards a rock makes us feel good.
So practice kindness, first and foremost for yourself.
Re:Response to "Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language"
on Monday December 01, 2025 @02:38PM (#46112055)
I feel the same. I think the reason is that GenAI has effectively abstracted away the tooling layer. Not perfectly, and not always efficiently, but in terms of going from requirements → workable outcome, it has removed much of the pain of choosing one developer experience over another.
Re:The trust collapse: Infinite AI content is awful
on Thursday November 06, 2025 @08:39AM (#45835103)
It sounds like the "The City" in "Blame!"
Re:Researchers have found a faster way to do integer linear programming
on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @07:12AM (#39189183)
Would you care to elaborate?
Re:Show HN: EdgeDB Cloud and 4.0 with FTS and Auth
on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @02:34PM (#38102795)
Are there any plans to support stored procedures?
Re:Reconciliation Is a Knapsack Problem
on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @12:47PM (#38001772)
I think they got their math wrong too: the binomial coefficient for (5 1) is 5, not 120.
Re:France experiencing worst drought on record
on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @03:33PM (#32402994)
I find your perspective interesting, but have the feeling that you are not thinking in systems (!). The sensory systems are perceptual systems, but they are subsystems of a larger "cognitive" system, and we cannot be sure that it exhibits the same logarithmic response behavior.
Re:France experiencing worst drought on record
on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @02:49PM (#32402220)
I am thinking more of an automatic ability to see how things are related. Chinese language(s) ↔ Taoism, in the context of a holistic approach to worldview [0]. I know I am exaggerating, but maybe some meditative training could help in this regard?
[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/health/04iht-6sncult.1.10...
Re:France experiencing worst drought on record
on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @10:13AM (#32398252)
I actually wonder if humans lack a crucial adaptive advantage if they do not intuitively understand how systems work. But then it occurs to me that some ancient philosophies and religions emphasised the need to be in tune with the surrounding world.
Re:Tell HN: Collection of the some top HN Posts
on Thursday July 28, 2022 @07:04AM (#32262790)
Tangential to this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31885615
Re:Ask HN: Should I publish my research code?
on Friday January 14, 2022 @10:57AM (#29936018)
Publish the code. At worst no one will look at it, at best you will draw more attention to your work and maybe get some good tips.
Re:Intel ME: The Way of Static Analysis
on Friday October 13, 2017 @07:51AM (#15464795)
That was a really good one :)
Re:Ask HN: Do you still use UML?
on Saturday November 05, 2016 @10:02AM (#12879807)
Care to explain which are those communities you are referring to?
Re:Plasma Mobile – Turns your phone into a fully open hacking device
on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @07:19PM (#12860285)
This. I hate to readjust my usual scrolling habit just because they think their unique scrolling friction is better.
Re:On Being a Black Man
on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @07:00PM (#12090399)
I would love to say that Italy is not a racist country. But it is. Still, your words convey a deeper gap and racial segregation in the US.
I feel sorry you had borne all these wounds to your social identity, but I'm sure one day we will tackle the very roots of inequality and bigotry.
Re:The Hitchhiker's Guide to Modern JavaScript Tooling
on Sunday July 26, 2015 @06:54PM (#9952494)
Please take a look at how I found my peace using GNU make in frontend development: https://gist.github.com/ricogallo/726fcb6e46d5a7405a9f
Re:How Walking in Nature Changes the Brain
on Friday July 24, 2015 @08:41AM (#9941521)
Yes, traditionally you need the 5% of error, or even 1%. Also the partial eta-squared is the ANOVA measure for the size of the effects studied, which happens to be very low too: 9%.
Re:Forcing Wordpress sites to use https even when not directed
on Thursday July 23, 2015 @07:54AM (#9935114)
Indeed, but you can see that a bunch of Wordpress sites are obscure, ancient and insecure by default.
Re:How Walking in Nature Changes the Brain
on Thursday July 23, 2015 @07:50AM (#9935103)
However I'd like to point out this nice dissection of the article, where a lot of serious flaws had been found. For instance: missing significance.
http://neuroconscience.com/2015/06/30/a-walk-in-the-park-inc...
Re:Why people think C++ is complicated?
on Thursday July 02, 2015 @09:20AM (#9818618)
That's the reason Scala doesn't guarantee backwards compatibility for major releases. Of course, there is always someone who complaints about it not being enterprise ready.
Re:The User Is Drunk
on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @11:05PM (#9261028)
I'm almost drunk right now, and I guarantee that I just can't see what's the point of your service
I guess this definition is more precise and broad:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicit_attitude