Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — Mawr

Mawr

HN member
Joined
Mon, Jun 08, 2015, 5:57 AM UTC
HN karma
1,510
Public activity
973 items

About Mawr

No profile information was provided.

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #49218216

    1. The past is not a predictor of the future. Driving towards a cliff has very positive results right up until a sharply negative one. 2. Energy does not require damaging the envir…

  2. comment
    Comment #49186825

    > It's probably about right to compare the risk profile to motorcycle riding. I'd say it's probably not, many motorcycle riders deliberately choose a motorcycle because it's "fun",…

  3. comment
    Comment #49108281

    Never get married, man...

  4. comment
    Comment #49105507

    Knowledge is irrelevant. Idk why you'd think dust would be a problem too, that's also comparatively trivial. Health and safety is also a good one, lol. It all comes down to robots …

  5. comment
    Comment #49105389

    I'd say it's at least two. Driving a car is fairly straightforward, the problems are all tractable. Can't imagine where I'd even start with automating the work of an electrician. E…

  6. comment
    Comment #49075848

    Yeah, it would have been way better not to have an alarm, and instead make it appear like the car broke down. Could even maybe somehow actually break it programmatically.

  7. comment
    Comment #49075823

    > When he finally provided a passcode, the phone appeared to restart. The defense motion states that "the screen went blank, flashed several times, and the phone appeared to restar…

  8. comment
    Comment #49031347

    > A computer is "flying" the F-16 all the time anyway. It's a statically unstable aircraft. Ugh... I... Are you serious? Sure, in some sense AI is a computer and the fancy state ma…

  9. comment
    Comment #49011207

    5 year olds on balance bikes are endangering pedestrians?

  10. comment
    Comment #48962277

    I use it as a dashcam.

  11. comment
    Comment #48962107

    Creating accurate assembly instructions is surprisingly difficult. To be able to create them, you have to know how to assemble the product, BUT that also means you've been blessed …

  12. comment
    Comment #48961733

    Your statement is so broad that it cannot be true.

  13. comment
    Comment #48961703

    Hahahah. Do you seriously just take random objects deep underwater and expect them to be designed to withstand that sort of an environment? Was the GoPro you bought rated up to tha…

  14. comment
    Comment #48953072

    > and essentially reduce to a launch cost penalty. Are you arguing that all this is technically possible or something? The whole point is that the costs would dwarf the gains. > Yo…

  15. comment
    Comment #48942880

    Idk, is it? https://go.dev/blog/greenteagc > Is it even generational yet? Is there any reason in particular it should be? Or are you just throwing random buzzwords around? Anyways,…

  16. comment
    Comment #48850996

    Hilarious hysterical nonsense. Worst catastrophes? Pick any industrial accident with more than like 10 people killed and you've got nuclear beat. A single plane falls from the sky …

  17. comment
    Comment #48848726

    It's a good thing there's nothing of the sort in TFA then? Quoting: "He moved fast and tried a lot of different stuff, jumping head first into problems that he was not yet equipped…

  18. comment
    Comment #48848567

    Those statements are all consistent with the publicly observable facts like this whole thing going from "I'm experimenting with this" to "this is merged into main now, yolo" within…

  19. comment
    Comment #48833570

    > During communism movement within countries required a written permission slip And what does driving your car require if not a written permission slip?

  20. comment
    Comment #48801029

    You underestimate the difficulty of designing a language by at least an order of magnitude. You've basically arbitrarily focused on a particular flawed design decision of a languag…

  21. comment
    Comment #48801001

    > Zig, Go, and Python If you cherry pick, any position is possible to argue for. What is C and error handling? What is Java and value types? What is C++ and modules?

  22. comment
    Comment #48661087

    Huh, better insulation works great though? The talk of double glazing is funny to me, this was becoming a standard like 20 years ago where I live. Nowadays new construction does tr…

  23. comment
    Comment #48633016

    I don't know man, maybe read the rest of the comment? Are you serious?

  24. comment
    Comment #48592695

    Those are all less safe than nuclear. It's a simple fact, look it up. All the places that can use hydro already do. Oh, and it's pretty damaging to the environment, it turns out. W…

  25. comment
    Comment #48592061

    Apparently the hypothetical future humanoids, somehow ignorant of all prior history, who will, ignoring all warning signs, start eating as much of the waste as fast as possible, th…