Hacker News: AJayWalker

New comment by AJayWalker in "Meta is spending $10B in rural Louisiana to build its largest data center"

AJayWalker — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 19:24:45 +0000

Not that it changes your point that much, but doesn’t MISO have more like a 20-30% Coal mix?[0]

It looks like natural gas is usually the biggest source of electricity.

[0] https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/US-MIDW-MISO/72h/hourly...

New comment by AJayWalker in "Spaced repetition systems have gotten better"

AJayWalker — Mon, 19 May 2025 19:09:17 +0000

Also interested if you have an invite!

New comment by AJayWalker in "What You Get After Running an SSH Honeypot for 30 Days"

AJayWalker — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 15:48:43 +0000

I would say because it’s their job to serve their customers, even if they’re abroad? Especially for a travel insurance company.

New comment by AJayWalker in "OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman"

AJayWalker — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 21:19:34 +0000

Looks like Google is incorrectly showing text from a tweet he replied to? https://twitter.com/sama/status/1717941041721139488

New comment by AJayWalker in "Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API"

AJayWalker — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 19:23:13 +0000

AFAIK yes, but to quote the article (which quotes the maintainer of the MyQ integration, Lash-L [0]), “We are playing a game of cat and mouse with MyQ and right now it looks like the cat is winning”

[0] https://github.com/Lash-L

New comment by AJayWalker in "Goodbye, Twilio"

AJayWalker — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 21:08:00 +0000

I didn’t take ocdtrekkie’s question as attacking. How would you have phrased it to be more constructive?

New comment by AJayWalker in "A critical genetic database is under fire"

AJayWalker — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 19:49:12 +0000

https://archive.is/lQAMk

A critical genetic database is under fire

AJayWalker — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 19:46:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/04/05/a-critical-genetic-database-is-under-fire

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35473403

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

I took a huge pay cut to get away from PowerPoint

AJayWalker — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 15:54:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sofuckingagile.com/blog/i-took-a-huge-pay-cut-so-i-could-get-away-from-powerpoint

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30946212

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by AJayWalker in "Write plain text files"

AJayWalker — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 00:41:47 +0000

This is my experience as well. I admire anyone that goes full .txt but I missed how easily markdown allows me to hierarchically organize my thoughts via headings and sub-headings.

New comment by AJayWalker in "ADHD Accommodations Guide"

AJayWalker — Sat, 25 Dec 2021 02:13:44 +0000

I was lucky to have a teacher refer me to a mental health clinic, where a Licensed Mental Health Counselor was the one to write my prescriptions, rather than a doctor. That may be a good place to start. Otherwise you could bring it up with your primary care provider perhaps.

New comment by AJayWalker in "ADHD Accommodations Guide"

AJayWalker — Sat, 25 Dec 2021 01:49:14 +0000

I was diagnosed with ADHD/ADD relatively late (about 17). Before the diagnoses I’d tried planners, digital reminders, Pomodoro timers… but the only thing that’s consistently worked is medication. It’s hard to overstate just how much Adderall has improved my life and I’m positive I have a much happier life and higher income because of my altered ability to delay gratification and do long, boring tasks without issue. Highly recommend speaking to a doctor if you think you could benefit.

New comment by AJayWalker in "DNA seen through the eyes of a coder"

AJayWalker — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 23:48:03 +0000

Only tangentially related, but I’ve been reading and enjoying Immune by Philipp Dettmer (founder of the YouTube channel Kurzgesagt). Would recommend it to anyone that likes to read about the fascinatingly complex processes the human body uses to keep itself ticking.