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New comment by PyWoody in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

PyWoody — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:42:16 +0000

What you're describing sounds like what we call "in current use" in New Hampshire. I know Maine has something similar but I can't remember what they call it.

You don't pay taxes on land in current use, but, if you or whomever you sold the land to, wants to build on it, they have to pay the back taxes first. It's a great for conservation.

New comment by PyWoody in "Making peace with your unlived dreams (2023)"

PyWoody — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 01:00:34 +0000

Beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

New comment by PyWoody in "Several Injured in Boeing 787 Nose-Gear Collapse in Frankfurt"

PyWoody — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:37:07 +0000

Also check out All Birds Are Cats by the same duo.

New comment by PyWoody in "Wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026"

PyWoody — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:42:51 +0000

> They'll be outraged about the environmental damage from mining and manufacturing needed for panels, but ignore the orders of magnitude worse damage from burning fossil fuels.

I always try to point out that, after all of the "environmental damage" done to create the solar panels, the panels will exist for 30 years before they can be recycled into new panels. Whereas, after all of the environmental damage done to produce gas and coal, it will lead to a one time use only energy output that has to be repeated until the end of time.

It makes zero sense environmentally or cost-wise to prefer fossil fuels.

New comment by PyWoody in "How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry"

PyWoody — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:00:48 +0000

Buddy, I hope you have a glove on because you're about to catch these fists!

New comment by PyWoody in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

PyWoody — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:11:58 +0000

  Does Microsoft understand consent?
  
  [ ] Yes
  [ ] Ask again later

New comment by PyWoody in "Adafruit Receives Demand Letter from Fenwick Legal Counsel on Behalf of Flux.ai"

PyWoody — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:45:48 +0000

A few days ago someone on HN commented that a teammate uses Claude to search for text in files on their own computer. Buddy... There's Command-line Tools Can Be 235x Faster Than Your Hadoop Cluster and then there's Command-line Tools Can Be ∞ Faster Than Your AI.

New comment by PyWoody in "A tiny microphone and site to track birds outside your window"

PyWoody — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:36:07 +0000

The Merlin App[0] created by Cornell works wonderfully for tracking bird calls. I like to sit by the river near my apartment and watch in realtime as the app updates while the birds are talking back-and-forth.

If you do start tracking birdcalls, I think you'll be surprised at how many you start hearing that you tuned out before.

[0] https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/

New comment by PyWoody in "I'm "Retiring" from Tech – Chad Whitacre, Head of Open Source, Sentry.io"

PyWoody — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:33:55 +0000

Yes, I just saw that in the other thread. I still stand by it!

New comment by PyWoody in "I'm "Retiring" from Tech – Chad Whitacre, Head of Open Source, Sentry.io"

PyWoody — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:13:45 +0000

In New England weather that could be an hour. Just this week, we've had Spring, Summer, frost warnings, and 75F+ days.

New comment by PyWoody in "Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence"

PyWoody — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:44:24 +0000

> I'm not sure where this false premise started but alot of people believe it.

It being the driving plot behind Double Indemnity probably started it. I always thought it was true until your comment, too.

New comment by PyWoody in "Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)"

PyWoody — Tue, 26 May 2026 01:29:33 +0000

Kant was so famous for taking a daily walk at precisely 3:30 p.m. that the residents of Königsberg could set their clocks by it.

New comment by PyWoody in "Migrating from Go to Rust"

PyWoody — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:34:59 +0000

I wouldn't start a company behind it but tkinter is perfectly fine for basic guis. It has its quirks but who doesn't?

New comment by PyWoody in "Migrating from Go to Rust"

PyWoody — Sun, 24 May 2026 22:25:58 +0000

Python has sqlite3[0], curses (tui) [1], and tkinter[2] in the stdlib.

[0] https://docs.python.org/3/library/sqlite3.html

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/curses.html

[2] https://docs.python.org/3/library/tkinter.html

New comment by PyWoody in "Tell HN: I'm tired of AI-generated answers"

PyWoody — Fri, 22 May 2026 00:35:08 +0000

I've had people relay conversations to Claude irl.

You say something...pause while they look at their phone...they give a response that is out of their depth, etc. The last time it happened I just up and left.

New comment by PyWoody in "Starship's Twelfth Flight Test"

PyWoody — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:20:11 +0000

Interesting. The way I explained it was how it was explained to me by a group of weather forecasters. For instance, here [0], is an explanation from a random weatherman that is in-line with how I was told.

[0] https://www.ktvh.com/news/weather-wise/weather-wise-so-there...

New comment by PyWoody in "Starship's Twelfth Flight Test"

PyWoody — Thu, 21 May 2026 01:11:45 +0000

The percentage isn't the percent of it occurring but the area affected. So 51% of thunderstorms means 51% of that town/county/etc. will experience thunderstorms.

New comment by PyWoody in "Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame"

PyWoody — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:30:21 +0000

Sorry, I can't edit it now but I just meant it as a neat fact and not a comparison.

New comment by PyWoody in "Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video]"

PyWoody — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:14:24 +0000

  This one commercial said, “Forget everything you know about slipcovers.” So I did, and it was a load off of my mind. Then the commercial tried to sell slipcovers, but I didn’t know what they were!
  
  - Mitch Hedburg

New comment by PyWoody in "Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame"

PyWoody — Wed, 20 May 2026 09:59:03 +0000

Maine is 89.46% [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_cover_by_state_and_terr...