Hacker News: WinnieRallycar

New comment by WinnieRallycar in "Ideal OS: Rebooting the Desktop Operating System (2017)"

WinnieRallycar — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 08:18:30 +0000

Sounds like you should make a blog post!

New comment by WinnieRallycar in "I recorded a screen capture of a task. Gemini generated code to replicate it"

WinnieRallycar — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 22:51:13 +0000

Has anybody tried feeding a LLM a bunch of business rules and having it generate a program that meets them?

New comment by WinnieRallycar in "Australia to ban engineered stone"

WinnieRallycar — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 00:47:01 +0000

I’ve been in my house for 27 years, and the laminate is basically perfect still, with absolutely no special treatment. Incredibly impressed.

New comment by WinnieRallycar in "The Unforeseen LSD Overdose of 1972"

WinnieRallycar — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 23:49:58 +0000

The story was mildly entertaining, but the authors style is intolerable. I feel like I received some obscene *psychic* damage reading this.

New comment by WinnieRallycar in "Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99"

WinnieRallycar — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 02:48:01 +0000

Indeed, operating temperature seems to me less of a concern. Considering how difficult it‘s been to produce LK-99 so far, some skepticism on being able to manufacture the material in mass is warranted, I think. Still, exciting! I’m hopeful :)

New comment by WinnieRallycar in "Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99"

WinnieRallycar — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 02:35:16 +0000

My layman understanding is that this paper states the team replicated LK-99, and confirmed that it has a property of a super-conductor - this particular type of magnetic levitation.

New comment by WinnieRallycar in "Life at the Margin: How I got $25,000 in debt"

WinnieRallycar — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 05:48:47 +0000

The concept of borrowing against your investments is new to me, but it reminded me of debt recycling against your home. In principle, I can see the advantage, but like all debt it requires great discipline. With "only" $75k in assets, I agree with you that he'd be wiser to purchase more stocks than fund his lifestyle.

New comment by WinnieRallycar in "Australia is quitting coal in record time thanks to Tesla"

WinnieRallycar — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 11:32:26 +0000

Especially in Australia, where we are also undergoing a housing crisis. Australia's poorest don't own their homes, and renters don't have a say on insulation or solar installation.

New comment by WinnieRallycar in "Programming isn’t coding (2020)"

WinnieRallycar — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 04:02:21 +0000

I wouldn’t say so. In essence, every employee is paid to solve business problems.

New comment by WinnieRallycar in "Very Long-Term Backup (2008)"

WinnieRallycar — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 07:52:12 +0000

This was the first I'd heard of Long Now, but upon reading the article, I had assumed the leading 0 was representative of the infinite continuum of 0's in-front. But all the repetitive 0's had been slimmed down to one, like :: in IPv6

New comment by WinnieRallycar in "TikTok just dropped a new realistic beauty filter"

WinnieRallycar — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 07:37:05 +0000

Funnily enough, saying a music label "dropped" an artist means the opposite.