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I'd like to follow you. Do you capture your ramblings somewhere?
It made me very happy, for some reason, that people are systematically and thoroughly studying a subject as obscure as this (fluid dynamics of peeing in insects). I now question if research is happening on every single ridiculous notion that crosses my mind. I bet a bunch of people are actually interested enough in that computation that a field of study exists for it, that I know nothing of, and couldn't find out about if I tried. What all of actual fuck are people looking into?!
It's more like - we gave it a shot with natural intelligence, and now we are trying to see if what we call artificial intelligence can do better.
Hey - you put in the time. Can you please help the rest of us out and post a TLDR?
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE someone post a TLDR. The dude is pleasant to listen to, but he goes ON and ON and ON about his life story and what not. Please just give us the bullet points.
I built some groundbreaking technology to make it easier to browse torrents on the RARBG website.

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/36751-rarbg

Re:Ask HN: What is your go to idiot-filter question in interviews? on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @09:00PM (#33903139)
I think it is important to remember that you are catching a person on their journey of acquiring and internalizing information. The reservoir of available information is almost limitless - so no one is going to come close to knowing it all. No point in testing for that. We all navigate the world on different trajectories through this network of information - so your milestones may not be the same as theirs. No point in confirming that theirs are the same as yours.

What you want to look for is their ability to process information, ability to internalize it, and their ability to bring it to bear in solving the problems they will be confronted with. You may have to do this with markers that don't necessarily match your own.

The richness of the network of information they have acquired so far is a marker. The nuances of the insights into that information they have acquired is a marker. The organization of this information into readily usable tools is a marker. These are what you should be looking for, rather than some preconceived ideas of what the markers need to be.

It is more straight forward for them to identify regular students (through their student ids or institutions).
Because "free for students" is a marketing ploy to get them using the product in the hope that they will pay for it when they start earning.
Re:Ask HN: What is the most complex topic you understand? on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @01:16PM (#32085731)
Oh you are so wrong.

-- The girlfriend

Re:Ask HN: What is the most complex topic you understand? on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @01:15PM (#32085712)
> Because chaotic configurations have a higher probability of occurring.

That seems like a non-explanation though. Why do chaotic configurations have a higher probability of occurring?

Re:Ask HN: What is the most complex topic you understand? on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @01:13PM (#32085665)
Those are two very different areas. How did you come to learn about each one?
My soup then.
Re:Ask HN: Alternate Email hosting to G Suite on Saturday January 29, 2022 @10:29PM (#30133642)
Having just done this myself I would HIGHLY recommend transferring email using a IMAP based tool. Any POP based tool will not retain any of the folder organization you may have in your Gmail mailbox.

Gmail implements folders via labels, and the only way that I know of how to pass these through to the new mailbox (whether it be Gmail or not) is by using IMAP.

I used:

https://imapsync.lamiral.info/#install

This one is free if you don't need support. There are others.

The email hosting service I settled for is:

https://mxroute.com

Use them only for forwarding, so their cheapest package is OK for me.

Re:Ask HN: Recommendations for an SMTP Sending Service? on Sunday January 23, 2022 @12:06PM (#30047844)
I am trying iRedMail to self host an email server. What do you use?

I've setup SPF, DKIM and DMARC. The PTR record is not possible for me to setup. How did you get around that? Did you get a static IP address?

What else do you think is necessary to make this better?

Sure. Let's agree that it's all deterministic. But answer this. Is the outcome going to be different if you decide to do something different? Deterministic or not - your experience of free will / anguish over choice does not change.

Ask HN: How do you best utilize inexperienced software engineers?

I fully get that a lot of less experienced software engineers are likely extremely smart and capable. So no offense intended.Some of you may agree that some of the more subtle nuances of software architecture, structure and development take some time to get a handle on.Given that, how do you best utilize inexperienced software engineers? How do you control architecture, structure and software...

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> "One of them asked me when was the last time I was personally penetrated, if I liked being penetrated, and how often I got penetrated," Mitchell told Waypoint. "I was furious and felt humiliated so I took the free swag and left."

Took the free swag and left?!

Besides, love means never having to say you're sorry. Like you said, if you let them go, and they say sorry but don't follow it up with action, maybe they were not yours to begin with.

Ask HN: How do you manage up?

I got burnt really badly on a recent gig because I couldn't manage up too well.It turned out that my manager (and up) had very little insight into software concepts and software development process.They seemed happy to see all the architecture and design details we shared with them. But their trust and confidence didn't come from actual comprehension of these. Minute anything went off track a...

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Ask HN: How do you work with a person who thinks they know more than they do?

It can become very hard to converge with such a person. They may argue too much for ideas that are not that good. They may not understand the alternatives too well. Their scope of knowledge may be limited.Trying to converge "politely" can take way too long. And even so, they may end up accepting the alternatives grudgingly.Just in case I sound condescending - I realize that in some contexts I...

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Re:Show HN: Waver – Messaging Through Sound on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @09:00AM (#25762021)
You mean speaking?
goddamnit
I mostly dodder around trying to remember where my pants are, and wondering if it was worth it for whoever named the creat() system call to leave the "e" out.
> We sort of had to collectively admit we were wrong on the premise that you will be happiest if you work on something you personally want to work on the most

What do they say about this? What is it that they found that invalidated this "premise"? I can't seem to find anything in the article.

Re:Ask HN: What is the cheapest way to make a website? on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @11:58AM (#23392469)
If you have a constant-on internet connection, then right on your own machine (WIndows or Linux). Use a dynamic DNS (DDNS) service (with a low TTL) so people can always find you by name even if your IP address changes. After that, learn a bit of PHP or Python and use one of many web application frameworks (Flask or Bottle or Django).

Price $0.

Around $12 annually to buy a domain name if you like (if you are not happy with one that the DDNS service will give you).

When you start getting traffic, you may want to consider AWS, starting at the free tier and going up.

Re:Show HN: Web pages stored entirely in the URL on Sunday June 30, 2019 @09:41AM (#20318144)
Sorry don't get this. The basic premise of REST is to access information stored on the network elsewhere. You are asking people to store information in their bookmarks.

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