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New comment by Cruncharoo in "Find the flattest route between any two points in SF"

Cruncharoo — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 13:33:04 +0000

They are a real segmentation in some places but as you can probably guess that is few and far between. A line on the road is also in the minority with the rest being nothing at all.

New comment by Cruncharoo in "Global bond yields hit 2008 highs, raising stakes for big borrowers"

Cruncharoo — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:47:26 +0000

Not sure, not my domain. My comment was just highlighting that comparing the yields on two sovereign bonds with the same maturity doesn’t necessarily mean one is riskier than the other, there are other factors.

New comment by Cruncharoo in "Global bond yields hit 2008 highs, raising stakes for big borrowers"

Cruncharoo — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:38:03 +0000

Sort of. You also have to consider exchange rate futures, the value of the currency you will be getting paid in may change dramatically.

New comment by Cruncharoo in "AirPods 5"

Cruncharoo — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 21:59:33 +0000

Disagree slightly with audio quality for cars. I recently got a car with "good" speakers and the difference from regular car speakers is striking. Although I'm sure that the curve quickly flattens on spending more to get more quality, going above the base car speaker level has been awesome for me.

New comment by Cruncharoo in "Show HN: I spent 3 years reverse-engineering a 40 yo stock market sim from 1986"

Cruncharoo — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 15:20:23 +0000

My thought is that if you don’t care enough to even write it then why should I care to read it? The answer for me is that I don’t.

New comment by Cruncharoo in "30 Year Anniversary of WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness"

Cruncharoo — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 21:33:01 +0000

Oh no way I didn’t know Hellfire was unofficial. I don’t even remember where I got it back in the day but I still remember the CD..

New comment by Cruncharoo in "Why we can’t quit Excel"

Cruncharoo — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 13:34:24 +0000

Because I actually do love Excel for my uses, and I have about 15 years of muscle memory for all of the keyboard shortcuts.

New comment by Cruncharoo in "Microsoft 365 Copilot's commercial failure"

Cruncharoo — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 01:33:55 +0000

We use it in finance for the reasons above. Microsoft actually just added GPT 5 to Copilot so it’s much better than it used to be. I’ve used it to help write scripts in VBA and it’s really good for my use cases. Before GPT 5 it was worse than useless.

New comment by Cruncharoo in "Cormac McCarthy's personal library"

Cruncharoo — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 13:04:20 +0000

I'd also suggest Siddhartha for this. Having read it at different points of my life makes it uniquely special.

New comment by Cruncharoo in "The movie mistake mystery from "Revenge of the Sith""

Cruncharoo — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 21:05:22 +0000

Oh, I have a similar pet peeve but for watching live sports. Sometimes they’ll cut from the ‘main’ camera angle to a different one mid-action but it will be slightly out of sync and noticeable. For whatever reason this is super noticeable to me and bugs me to no end.

New comment by Cruncharoo in "Advent of Code 2024"

Cruncharoo — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 14:27:40 +0000

I use Excel for the first few as well! I actually find it to be easier than using Python/Javascript, at least early on.

New comment by Cruncharoo in "Electrobun: Cross-platform desktop applications written in TypeScript"

Cruncharoo — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 08:23:24 +0000

You’re gonna need a bigger boat

New comment by Cruncharoo in "Some people with ADHD thrive in periods of stress, new study shows"

Cruncharoo — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 11:26:31 +0000

I agree. For whatever reason if I have 10 things to do or 1 thing to do I make completing them take the same amount of time.

New comment by Cruncharoo in "Htmx, Raku and Pico CSS"

Cruncharoo — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 12:47:08 +0000

No, you're pretty much exactly right. I am not a programmer by trade and when searching around and trying different technologies the first one that really clicked for me was HTMX. For whatever reason, handling all of that logic on the backend felt more natural. I've since started learning React and it's amazing how much 'easier' some of those UI conveniences really are. However, in places where they aren't truly necessary it's hard to beat the convenience and ease of a small Flask/SQLite/HTMX app, for me.

But yeah, if that doesn't really fit your mental model then I don't see a huge reason to give it a try.. other than it IS fun!

New comment by Cruncharoo in "SEC fines 6 major credit rating agencies over failure to keep electronic records"

Cruncharoo — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 01:24:51 +0000

This is part of the larger SEC crackdown on personal device communications. They've already collected billions from banks and other firms:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/08/business/banks-fines-what...

New comment by Cruncharoo in "Our tools shape our selves"

Cruncharoo — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 13:27:56 +0000

My assessment is that your comment derailed it.

New comment by Cruncharoo in "Ask HN: Anybody Using Htmx on the Job?"

Cruncharoo — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 16:53:43 +0000

You don't have to write any JS.

New comment by Cruncharoo in "Citigroup Plans to Cut 20k Jobs"

Cruncharoo — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 17:47:27 +0000

In a number of cases, yes. Whole departments are being slashed/they are exiting certain business lines so no need to pick up the slack there.

New comment by Cruncharoo in "Music-Map – Find Similar Music"

Cruncharoo — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 02:25:32 +0000

Listened to a few Wax Tailor songs, reminds me a lot of Pretty Lights--at least the vibe. Pretty Lights doesn't do as much of the voice samples. Check out Pretty Lights' album Taking Up Your Precious Time, you might dig it.

New comment by Cruncharoo in "Alameda lost tens of millions because of a fat fingering mistake"

Cruncharoo — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 01:17:50 +0000

If he has ace face up and checks and sees a king he is supposed to flip it over, show his blackjack, and take everyone's money. He instead let them play the hand out as if he didn't have the king.