Hacker News: Wistar

New comment by Wistar in "What is going on with ceiling fans"

Wistar — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 22:59:04 +0000

New comment by Wistar in "US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban"

Wistar — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 14:22:48 +0000

I can’t recall ever seeing the word “thermic” used to refer to internal combustion engine powered vehicles. Cool. [adds it to vocabulary]

New comment by Wistar in "I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband"

Wistar — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 18:51:04 +0000

I checked again with a longer sample—the first eight paragraphs—and, this time, Pangram said 61% human. Hmm. I think your twigging may be more accurate.

New comment by Wistar in "I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband"

Wistar — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 17:27:06 +0000

Hmm. Pangram AI detection says the piece is “100% human written.”

New comment by Wistar in "I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband"

Wistar — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 17:23:49 +0000

Link to transcript and audio of the This Is Water commencement speech:

https://fs.blog/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/

New comment by Wistar in "I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband"

Wistar — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 17:21:30 +0000

When I first moved to Denmark, I marveled at the babies in unattended carriages parked outside the grocery stores.

New comment by Wistar in "Federal judge orders Texas to air condition all prisons by the end of 2029"

Wistar — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:11:15 +0000

Such an appropriate-sounding name he has.

New comment by Wistar in "LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'"

Wistar — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:34:06 +0000

The Shazam app on my wife’s iPhone can identify TV shows and movies very quickly, sometimes nearly instantly. Not sure how it does that.

New comment by Wistar in "The ColorChecker, photography's most important 24 squares, turns 50"

Wistar — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 05:47:38 +0000

Many of them, especially the smaller hard-case versions, have a space to write date of first-use.

New comment by Wistar in "50k Boat Names"

Wistar — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:36:27 +0000

In the 1980s, a Seattle-area Chinese restaurant owner had a sailboat named Won Ton Sloop. (Or so I was told as I never saw the boat myself)

New comment by Wistar in "Japanese court overturns Red RAW video patent"

Wistar — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 02:52:12 +0000

In the past 15 years, I have purchased five Lumix cameras including the new L10 (which I have yet to receive). I like their cameras a lot. The dedication to pursue this battle is another reason I am certain to buy more.

New comment by Wistar in "CSS: The bomb inside your inbox"

Wistar — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:53:03 +0000

Yes, it breaks the back button on iPad/Safari

New comment by Wistar in "Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days"

Wistar — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:03:04 +0000

I have gone down that quote’s rabbit hole before and it looks a lot more apocryphal than Maynard.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/07/22/keynes-change-mind/

New comment by Wistar in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

Wistar — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:57:43 +0000

I once picked up an old copy of Bartlett’s Quotations and found that the prior highlighting owner found it nearly 100% profound.

New comment by Wistar in "Drake Anthony Recreates the Mechanical Bulb First Seen in 1675"

Wistar — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:54:22 +0000

Bogus blog shenanigans aside, Drake Anthony is a treasure.

New comment by Wistar in "GTX 1080s: Testing a Legend"

Wistar — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 17:00:32 +0000

I own four in my office. Daily driven, mostly with photo editing tasks but some Blender, too. Work well for us.

New comment by Wistar in "LG ThinQ Terms of Use"

Wistar — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:16:34 +0000

I have been very lucky with a washer/dryer pair from Samsung that have only needed two minor repairs in 12 years of near-daily use. A heating element for the dryer. A new door seal and, later, a pump for the washer.

My 7 year old LG inverter microwave has been flawless and is the best microwave I have ever used.

My 10 year old pair of LG 4K computer monitors have been great—they still hold a color calibration quite well.

My recently-purchased, and expensive, LG C5 OLED TV has a spectacular picture but is a finicky, ad-ware festooned nightmare. It demands attention to near-daily updates where the updates list contains ads and promotions that I have to scroll through and dismiss to find the actual updates. It is tiring to deal with and especially because the remote control is a ridiculously gimmicky “air remote” where I have to carefully aim it at tiny targets which, even from three feet away, is challenging to do and so unnecessary.

The TV and this story about unauthorized software installations has cured me of interest in new LG offerings.

New comment by Wistar in "U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model"

Wistar — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:24:03 +0000

I used to live in Tam Junction, close to Sausalito. I had lived there at least a year before I discovered the Bay Model and was amazed when I visited it. It is huge.

New comment by Wistar in "Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot"

Wistar — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:59:46 +0000

The site owner, Ian, says he is seeking an alternative to google ads. Seems the site may be struggling financially.

https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/support.htm

New comment by Wistar in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"

Wistar — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:16:12 +0000

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