Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — bad_alloc

bad_alloc

HN member
Joined
Mon, Dec 28, 2009, 8:49 PM UTC
HN karma
1,447
Public activity
236 items

About bad_alloc

Programmer and roboticist at university.

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #38926104

    For people who don't know them yet: use DDG bangs. For example "!m restaurant [citynmae]" will immediately bring you to Google maps, "!w chemistry" will open Wikipedia etc. Super e…

  2. comment
    Comment #38918909

    How is Airbus doing meanwhile? I didn't hear about any production quality issues in their aircraft.

  3. comment
    Comment #38896322

    Never had a paper rejected for lack of reproducibility though. And as long as I am working for the PhD and not the long term career, it's still better to focus on the short term. I…

  4. comment
    Comment #38894065

    I just handed in my PhD in computer science. Our department teaches "best practices" but adherence to them is hardly possible in research: 1) Requirements change constantly, since.…

  5. comment
    Comment #38893947

    Here's most of Europe, but mostly based on interpolated schedule data: https://travic.app/?z=6&x=1652866.9&y=6336146.8&l=osm_standa... It's also great to see the utter mess that DB…

  6. comment
    Comment #38831334

    I wish there was some standard way to add DC wiring in parallel to AC. Seems like people who want to do this have to roll their own systems for now.

  7. comment
    Comment #38831302

    > if you're working on something collaboratively you need to express intent in your commit messages! 100%! And if somebody cannot communicate the intent, there is a high chance the…

  8. comment
    Comment #38827908

    689Wh/mi is 428Wh/km... that is utterly insane energy use. My Zoe (small car) needs 150Wh/km in winter and I wouldn't get a car above 200 or 250.

  9. comment
    Comment #38740207

    How would you detect and track somebody with a faraday bag?

  10. comment
    Comment #38681260

    This is false. The Nordics use way more heat pumps than the rest of Europe: https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/10/30/do-heat-pumps-work...

  11. comment
    Comment #38626871

    > With the worst of COVID behind us, annual deaths for all causes should be back to pre-pandemic levels — or even lower because of the loss of so many sick and infirm Americans. Si…

  12. comment
    Comment #38506341

    > It's very noticeably in building architecture. My bad take: Modern architecture ugliness comes from architects using CAD with insufficient proficiency to create complex designs. …

  13. comment
    Comment #38475094

    > nuclear is always on When is peak energy demand during the day/month/year? > nuclear can be built anywhere Like Fukushima? How do you handle lack of cooling water during droughts…

  14. comment
    Comment #38472550

    Finally. As a next step, we need mechanisms to prevent the constant rehashing of these attempts to break security. Otherwise, it will get through during a crisis or via fatigue.

  15. comment
    Comment #38463778

    Oddly enough they don't state what the problems are. Meanwhile the ADAC (German car club) find that EVs have similar defect rates in components they share with ICE while having les…

  16. comment
    Comment #38463745

    Mini is BMW

  17. comment
    Comment #38412560

    Renaults unofficial slogan is " tous les jours un bruit nouveau", which means "every day a new noise". ... which is not that wrong with the Zoe. Especially the E-brake has some bar…

  18. comment
    Comment #38398545

    This instantly loses the main selling point: Massive audience. If they manage to get 20% of people to pay (which would be huge) they'd lose hundreds of millions of viewers still.

  19. comment
    Comment #38264385

    > there is no military incentive for this * Precision landing of large amount of troops, anywhere * Ability to lift 250 tons -> precision landing of tanks and artillery, anywhere *…

  20. comment
    Comment #38206363

    > Surging olive oil prices, driven in part by two years of drought in Spain, has meant opportunity for criminals across the Mediterranean. i.e. we are beginning to see the impacts …

  21. comment
    Comment #38203002

    From what I heard it is very exciting for tank crews, but not necessarily in a good way.

  22. comment
    Comment #38193142

    Consumer-grade drones and RC ground vehicles becoming a major part of a war between regular armies.

  23. comment
    Comment #38191011

    > I tell everyone to move to firefox, help them set it up and most are convinced. That already helps significantly. :) > I have nothing to say so don't host A fair point, probably …

  24. comment
    Comment #38190459

    Well, the Commission is elected by the elected governments of the member states. In a similar fashion, many heads of state are voted in by the elected government and not directly. …

  25. comment
    Comment #38189960

    People complain a lot about the internet getting worse and worse. We can fix it, if we put in the effort to rebuild it. * Join fediverse services, e.g. [Lemmy](feddit.de) or Mastod…