<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: Lhiw</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Lhiw</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:37 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Lhiw" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Lhiw in "“Autism is a spectrum” doesn’t mean what you think (2019)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I say to myself I'm a little bit autistic. But I'm not really sure.<p>I fit the profile of person one in the article.<p>The reason I'm wondering / even looking at autism is because the meds for my ADHD just make everything worse even at really small doses and I don't really know what to do.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Dec 2021 15:32:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29684072</link><dc:creator>Lhiw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29684072</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29684072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Lhiw in "Drop-In Replacement for Memcached"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not this again...<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28833202" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28833202</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2021 21:16:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29533702</link><dc:creator>Lhiw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29533702</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29533702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Lhiw in "Italy fines Amazon record $1.3B for abuse of market dominance"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>FBA only exists because market dominance makes FBA style shipping arrangements profitable. Without Amazon's scale and marketplace dominance, that shipping and pricing doesn't work.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2021 09:39:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29495487</link><dc:creator>Lhiw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29495487</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29495487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Lhiw in "I host this blog from my garage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I spent some time with a computer refurber back in the day. He used to buy old computers from mining operations these things were literally filled to the brim with dust and weird shit.<p>Computers are amazingly resilient if you don't need them for much more than office work.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2021 22:39:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29479138</link><dc:creator>Lhiw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29479138</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29479138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Lhiw in "How SQLite Is Tested"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>SQLite is the most underrated database of all time.<p>I know it's popular, but nowhere near to the level it should be.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2021 14:58:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29460458</link><dc:creator>Lhiw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29460458</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29460458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Lhiw in "Apple broke up with me"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Download a monthly statement, itl be a pdf with your address on it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2021 06:58:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29447382</link><dc:creator>Lhiw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29447382</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29447382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Lhiw in "Keep a Log"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I keep a daily log of what I work on, i also drop other info links and notes.<p>This is mostly to facilitate daily updates in lieu of stand ups.<p>Another thing I do along side my todo.txt is log important team changes, team switches, people encounters, side projects and any major project milestones that might be useful to point out in my 6 month reviews.<p>It's really amazing to search back and find links to things you did months ago when search won't pick it up.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2021 11:40:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29440247</link><dc:creator>Lhiw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29440247</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29440247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Lhiw in "Ask HN: Why doesn't anyone create a search engine comparable to 2005 Google?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I dunno if y'all realise this but I'd pay for a search engine that black holes CloudFlare and any other sites that think bots shouldn't read their sites.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2021 01:53:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29425688</link><dc:creator>Lhiw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29425688</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29425688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Lhiw in "Anti-patterns when building container images"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I aim for "small images" because downloading a full install of Ubuntu is rediculous on anything but gigabit fibre.<p>But I don't aim for minimal images. Using alpine and installing what ever you like without worrying about all the bullshit to make caches stay empty still results in images only a few megs, don't need to do much better than that.<p>Though I tend to agree, if you're talking about a compiled language. Static binary and there is little need for anything other than `from scratch`.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2021 13:39:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29415929</link><dc:creator>Lhiw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29415929</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29415929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Lhiw in "This shouldn't have happened: A vulnerability postmortem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unit tests aren't really for bug catching, they're to ensure you haven't changed behavior when you don't expect to.<p>They enable refactoring code in ways not possible without them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2021 20:28:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29408739</link><dc:creator>Lhiw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29408739</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29408739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Lhiw in "Overdue library book returned more than 110 years later"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was using it to determine of I was being unfair in my critique.<p>If nobody else is disliking it maybe my biases are effecting my perception.<p>Not everything is confirmation bias. Some people use social feedback to regulate themselves into not being total weirdos.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2021 23:34:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29398840</link><dc:creator>Lhiw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29398840</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29398840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Lhiw in "Explainer: .DS_Store Files"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>".tar.gz" or how to tell the file was archived by a Linux user.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2021 07:51:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29367029</link><dc:creator>Lhiw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29367029</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29367029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Lhiw in "Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Gore-tex isnt that great these days, there are better options now.<p>It requires dwr to function, as soon as the dwr fails (pretty fast depending on your usage levels) its ability to breath ceases to function, at that point you're wearing a heavy, expensive, water proof coat that doesn't breath so it rains on the inside instead.<p>It's saving grace is that it's durable in heavy brush.<p>For a better alternative take a look at Columbia outdry, it doesn't require dwr so its breathability lasts for the life of the garment instead of requiring retreatments of dwr.<p>Frogg toggs are another option, way less durable but as far as breathable rain proof it doesn't get better.<p>Both outdry and frogg toggs are also way lighter than goretext. Though look around for the outdry they have heavy duty and light versions.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2021 19:10:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29362552</link><dc:creator>Lhiw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29362552</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29362552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Lhiw in "Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hakko 950 soldering iron. It's an analog dial version of an extremely awful digital interface. It's small and compact so takes up little desk space, heats up fast, has incredibly stable heat and adjustments don't require looking at what your hand is doing.<p><a href="https://www.hakko.com/english/products/hakko_fx950.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.hakko.com/english/products/hakko_fx950.html</a><p>There are similar things on the market but nothing that ties it altogether quite so succinctly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2021 10:58:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29359228</link><dc:creator>Lhiw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29359228</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29359228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Lhiw in "Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yea this was a super weird complaint. My browser is open for far more time than my torrent app.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2021 10:51:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29359200</link><dc:creator>Lhiw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29359200</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29359200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Lhiw in "Overengineering can kill a product"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Off the shelf software isn't an instant win. You're signing up for lock-in, a set way of doing something, a boundary you can NEVER cross, and domain and language you will never be able to change. This language will leak into your software and may not be a good fit for the end user you're trying to serve.<p>That's a lot of trade offs to avoid maintaining the subset of features you need from said software in house, being able to leverage internal knowledge, being able to streamline all your environments and tooling to suit your needs instead of catering to the needs of said software.<p>This isn't an argument one way or another, it's just pointing out that there are trade offs you need to make consciously or otherwise.<p>In your position I would be extremely concerned about pushing off the shelf software onto Devs that either lack the clout to be comfortable pushing back or lack the communication skills to clearly articulate all the trade offs really taking place.<p>It's very easy for a boss figure to push through requirements with off the cuff pointed questions. The reports often need to push back with orders of magnitude more research and thoughtfulness than went into the question or suggestion.</p>
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<p>The brain seems to have control over more of the body than we thought.<p>Is there potential treatments that could result from this?<p>I wonder if type one also exhibits this trait?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2021 01:43:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29313719</link><dc:creator>Lhiw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29313719</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29313719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Lhiw in "Ask HN: Those who quit their jobs without anything planned. How did it go?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Would you recommend doing the Camino?<p>My wife and I are thinking about it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2021 13:36:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29306150</link><dc:creator>Lhiw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29306150</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29306150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Lhiw in "Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentient beings under UK law"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As a vegan how do you reconcile the thousands of insects and field animals that get culled during harvesting those lentils?<p>I don't really have a problem with vegetarians but I do struggle to understand the lines they seemingly draw at random.<p>Minimising harm should be a given for all but that doesn't rule out all meat eating that veganism somehow does.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2021 10:39:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29304962</link><dc:creator>Lhiw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29304962</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29304962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Lhiw in "Japanese Dome House"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>... and dirt/mud.</p>
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