<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: NickNameNick</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=NickNameNick</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 04:07:16 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=NickNameNick" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NickNameNick in "Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You don't need electronics for that, just corner-cube reflectors.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 06:21:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45976440</link><dc:creator>NickNameNick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45976440</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45976440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NickNameNick in "Android users can now use conversational editing in Google Photos"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Red Dwarf did it better.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2025 22:35:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45366743</link><dc:creator>NickNameNick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45366743</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45366743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NickNameNick in "Lego price per part over the years"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'd expect 2 small pieces to weigh more than 1 big one.<p>So I'd expect you to see the weight go up faster than the part count.<p>Not sure if that would confound or exagerate the trend.</p>
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<p>Presumably the new ones use an e-sim instead of a physical one.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2024 00:13:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39710595</link><dc:creator>NickNameNick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39710595</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39710595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NickNameNick in "Computer Engineering for Babies (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was particularly impressed by the clear explanations in 'statistical physics for babies'.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2024 00:00:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39035454</link><dc:creator>NickNameNick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39035454</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39035454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NickNameNick in "Fluorite lenses: Corrective capabilities beyond ordinary optical glass"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Isn't that covered in the 7th paragraph?<p>'the red to green wavelengths are dispersed with the same tendencies as glass, but the green to blue wavelengths are dispersed more than glass. Using a convex fluorite lens element alongside a high-dispersion glass concave lens element therefore eliminates residual chromatic aberration'</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2024 23:38:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39020789</link><dc:creator>NickNameNick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39020789</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39020789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NickNameNick in "The future of air defense must be smarter, more affordable, and reusable"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's a minimum size of vehicle you can mount a gun on.
The mount needs to absorb the recoil without breaking or getting pushed around too much.<p>The Swiss have been experimenting with recoilless chain-guns to try and reduce that footprint. Which might be interesting, but recoilless weapons are extremely unpleasant to be near due to the backblast. It still might make sense to mount such a weapon on a remote automated station, and stick it on the roof of any available truck or APC/IFV.<p>The hype around hypersonic missiles is overcooked. Ballistic missiles are faster. The hypersonic's advantage is supposed to be its manoeuvrability, expecting an heavy anti-ship missile to be more agile than an interceptor is just silly.<p>And It'd take way more than 10 missiles to overwhelm a carrier groups air defence. The combat system on an American destroyer can track "100+" targets. The carrier group has several destroyers.<p>In order to overwhelm the systems, you'd be getting close to the point of exhausting their interceptors. So why even bother with the fancy missiles?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 21:37:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38492789</link><dc:creator>NickNameNick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38492789</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38492789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NickNameNick in "Unity Software with a 'company reset' walks away from film VFX and the Wētā Deal"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Looks like the digital trademark will be going back to FX, so unity isn't even keeping that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2023 10:16:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38457632</link><dc:creator>NickNameNick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38457632</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38457632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NickNameNick in "The story of titanium"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Looks like they're just butted rings, so you're relying on the rididity of each ring to resist opening up.<p>Welded or rivited rings would be much more robust. Especially vs piercing weapons, like arrows or fighting knives.<p>But much more expensive.</p>
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<p>New Zealand has a scheme (soon to expire with the change in government) for this.<p>Low efficiency vehicles are taxed on import, and the money raised is returned as rebates on high efficiency vehicles.<p>A Ford Ranger might attract the full fee, a new t Nissan leaf would get the full credit.
A small ICE car attracts a smaller fee. Hybrids are given a smaller credit.<p>The exact amount of credit varied over time as the fees gathered changed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2023 22:35:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38371432</link><dc:creator>NickNameNick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38371432</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38371432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NickNameNick in "Rivian R1T is the first EV to win the longest off-road competition in the US"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There have been attempts<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Body_Control#Magic_Body_Control" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Body_Control#Magic_Body...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2023 10:22:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37983708</link><dc:creator>NickNameNick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37983708</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37983708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NickNameNick in "Rivian R1T is the first EV to win the longest off-road competition in the US"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It doesn't have differentials at all ...<p>Each wheel has it's own motor.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2023 07:58:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37982731</link><dc:creator>NickNameNick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37982731</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37982731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NickNameNick in "Jesus nut"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Load balancer?
Cluster coordinator?
STONITH device</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Oct 2023 23:29:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37876727</link><dc:creator>NickNameNick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37876727</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37876727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NickNameNick in "Java 21 makes me like Java again"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've certainly done that in the past, but not since I changed jobs ... 7 years ago. Probably not for several years before then.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 Sep 2023 22:43:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37539529</link><dc:creator>NickNameNick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37539529</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37539529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NickNameNick in "The Uselessness of Phenylephrine (2022)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>see "A Simple and Convenient Synthesis
of Pseudoephedrine From
N-Methylamphetamine"<p><a href="https://improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume19/v19i3/Pseudoephedrine.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume19/v19i3/Pse...</a></p>
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<p>Standardised names and codes for every disease, injury, condition, diagnostic process or tool, medication and treatment.<p>Standardised workflows for entering diagnoses and treatments. Automated warnings when a treatment might be inappropriate, or drugs might interact.<p>The problem space is enormous.</p>
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<p>This approach can be a little problematic.<p>I'm particular, communications between the airline and tsa aren't all that reliable.<p>See for example:<p><a href="https://youtu.be/l0IwVrC56tc" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://youtu.be/l0IwVrC56tc</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2023 01:07:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36398491</link><dc:creator>NickNameNick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36398491</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36398491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NickNameNick in "Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I always liked how Redmine has a tree of projects, rather than just a list.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2023 00:42:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36133146</link><dc:creator>NickNameNick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36133146</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36133146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NickNameNick in "Is Gmail killing independent email?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Those are country code TLDs</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Apr 2023 01:13:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35749033</link><dc:creator>NickNameNick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35749033</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35749033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NickNameNick in "Displaying My Washing Machine's Remaining Time with Curl, Jq, and Pizauth"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Combo washer/driers exist.
They typically have less capacity than stand-alone units.</p>
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