Hacker News: EngCanMan

New comment by EngCanMan in "A Million Falcons Went Missing. Here’s How They Were Found"

EngCanMan — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 14:32:34 +0000

https://archive.is/V29Pq

New comment by EngCanMan in "Harnessing America's heat pump moment"

EngCanMan — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 03:32:34 +0000

Umm, I encourage you to do that math a little closer. A contractor would have to;

Come to your house to quote, and only land 1/4 quotes maybe.

Schedule the workers

Order the equipment.

Get an electrical permit.

Pay for the truck and all the tools.

Insurance for the company and trucks.

Advertising costs

Warranty and callbacks

I can assure you that this is not the get rich quick scheme you may think it is.

New comment by EngCanMan in "Harnessing America's heat pump moment"

EngCanMan — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 03:19:42 +0000

The reality is that this is all solving a problem that people don’t have.

Forced air is a terrible way to heat a building yet thats how most homes are heated, and it is good enough for most people.

If you perfectly size a furnace for the coldest days of the year, it is now oversized for the other 90% of days.

The cheapest way is to install a multi stage heating/cooling system that works on first stage most of the time, and second when it needs to, like having 2 small furnaces. This passes the ‘good enough’ test for the vast majority of homeowners.

New comment by EngCanMan in "Carpenter's AirTags help uncover 'massive' case of stolen tools in Maryland"

EngCanMan — Fri, 31 May 2024 23:40:34 +0000

The most surprising part of that story, when I read it, was that it was from 29 years ago.

New comment by EngCanMan in "General Motors Streetcar Conspiracy"

EngCanMan — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 23:36:06 +0000

Another look from Not Just Bikes:

https://youtu.be/n94-_yE4IeU?si=ncDWw5WDwjdpl9DD

New comment by EngCanMan in "Realtors reach settlement that will change how Americans buy and sell homes"

EngCanMan — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 17:32:23 +0000

The conflict of interest on a buyers real estate agent is crazy:

the person you are entrusting to get you the best value is compensated on the opposite.

New comment by EngCanMan in "Facebook almost acquired Waze, but we ended up with Google"

EngCanMan — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 14:59:51 +0000

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. They could have easily invested their cash in whatever they chose, whereas a stock deal can be limiting.

New comment by EngCanMan in "Addressing the community about changes to our API"

EngCanMan — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 19:41:42 +0000

No, I don't think you did...it would be 4000 API calls per month.

New comment by EngCanMan in "Van Life in Japan"

EngCanMan — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 14:11:40 +0000

"An empty water bottle/adult diaper can become a luxury in the middle of the night to avoid putting on your clothes/shoes and exiting the van in the coldness"

You lost me when adult diapers became a luxury.

New comment by EngCanMan in "The abundance, biomass, and distribution of ants on Earth"

EngCanMan — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 15:05:13 +0000

If I just killed 3, how would I update their census?

New comment by EngCanMan in "Rogers network outage across Canada hits banks, businesses and consumers"

EngCanMan — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 20:59:52 +0000

Still no internet at all? I have a suspicion that you found some…

New comment by EngCanMan in "Ask HN: Is there a simple way to continuously backup your Google account?"

EngCanMan — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:03:14 +0000

I have a synology NAS specifically to backup my google workspace.

New comment by EngCanMan in "Ask HN: Are Gantt Charts Used in Industry"

EngCanMan — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 02:21:52 +0000

All construction projects use them, nobody has found a better way to show dependancies of the many many trades.

New comment by EngCanMan in "Ask HN: How to deal with death of a loved one"

EngCanMan — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 17:27:11 +0000

Sorry for your loss.

Your father would not want you to stop your life. You cannot change the past, only the future. Take the lessons he taught you in his life and his passing to make the future better for you and your loved ones. Slow down, spend time, pay it forward as he did for you.

https://youtu.be/PuPYIfcSz_Y

All the best.

New comment by EngCanMan in "Trudeau announces intention to freeze bank accounts of protestors"

EngCanMan — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 18:48:54 +0000

Right, but you said “the majority of the money is foreign”, now you just reiterated that “51% of the money is local”.

New comment by EngCanMan in "Trudeau announces intention to freeze bank accounts of protestors"

EngCanMan — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 13:56:10 +0000

https://beta.ctvnews.ca/national/canada/2022/2/14/1_5780989....

Says here that 51% came from Canadians. I think 51% constitutes a majority.

New comment by EngCanMan in "Data misreporting during the Covid-19 crisis: The role of political institutions"

EngCanMan — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 12:06:23 +0000

Do you have sources for this? Especially the part about fudging the numbers? Anecdotally I believe this is true, but have not seen the admission.

New comment by EngCanMan in "Ask HN: What was your Covid experience like?"

EngCanMan — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 03:24:31 +0000

My wife (pfizer) and kids (unvaccinated) had it, I never got it, and I kissed them all goodnight every night. All cases confirmed through pcr tests, I did multiple as well. Wife had a stuffy nose, kids had no symptoms.

New comment by EngCanMan in "Fake vaccine cards are everywhere. It’s a public health nightmare"

EngCanMan — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 02:13:55 +0000

Sorry for taking long to respond.

I do not believe the thread is full of liars or propaganda, although there is probably some, but I do believe many many people are ill informed and regurgitating headlines they read.

https://www.publichealthontario.ca/-/media/documents/ncov/ep...

Page 16 shows deaths by vaccination status in the last 60 days.

New comment by EngCanMan in "Fake vaccine cards are everywhere. It’s a public health nightmare"

EngCanMan — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 13:28:52 +0000

Reddit is your source? Cmon…

Ontario Canada breaks down deaths by vaccination status, which is currently close to 50/50 on a daily basis.

Please stop believing anything on Reddit.