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New comment by Wohlf in "AI is making us work more"

Wohlf — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 17:33:34 +0000

This is categorically not what happened during the industrial revolution, you're thinking of the second industrial revolution and even then it's a less rosy picture. The first industrial revolution did not lead to rapid growth and in fact led to brutal methods to increase cheap resource extraction like children working in coal mines, expanded slavery in the new world, and brutal colonialism.

New comment by Wohlf in "SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrated exchange in decades"

Wohlf — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 15:11:46 +0000

An exchange having to stop trading and gracefully shut down their systems for a few days doesn't really strike me as a disaster though.

New comment by Wohlf in "YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers"

Wohlf — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 17:32:35 +0000

It isn't automatic for me unless I try to skip a sponsored segment myself, then it will kick in and skip me to the end of that segment with a popup above the scroll bar saying they did so.

New comment by Wohlf in "Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness"

Wohlf — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 15:14:02 +0000

I think Steve Ballmer would be pretty fun to hang out with for a bit. Maybe not a beer but lunch with Bill Gates would be alright, I'd love to pick his brain about his charity work.

New comment by Wohlf in "Intel's retreat is unlike anything it's done before in Oregon"

Wohlf — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 14:20:02 +0000

Spring cleaning was 2022-2023, at this point they're one step from ripping the copper out of the walls.

New comment by Wohlf in "Intel's retreat is unlike anything it's done before in Oregon"

Wohlf — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 14:15:22 +0000

Hillsboro real estate has slowed down and prices have come down a bit but the whole metro is short on housing, and Hillsboro is on the light rail lines.

New comment by Wohlf in "Bald eagles are thriving again after near extinction"

Wohlf — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 16:20:18 +0000

There must be something to it since eagles have been used as symbols for thousands of years alongside the likes of lions and dragons. If anything, media undersells how big and intimidating they are in real life.

New comment by Wohlf in "Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things"

Wohlf — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 16:28:37 +0000

From what I hear Costco is also changing after their new CEO took over and the stock skyrocketed.

New comment by Wohlf in "Fake Nintendo lawyer is scaring YouTubers, and its not clear YouTube can stop it"

Wohlf — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 16:49:52 +0000

Already happened a few times. Japanese streamers have to ask for explicit permission to stream games so they play a lot of western games that allow it, Nintendo didn't allow let's plays for a while, and a game developer didn't like a popular youtuber (pewdiepie I think) and did takedowns of said youtuber playing their game.

New comment by Wohlf in "Xerox to acquire Lexmark"

Wohlf — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:02:23 +0000

They may have expected typists coming over from typewriters to hammer on it for 8 hours a day, or to give them a similar feel to ease the transition and limit complaints.

New comment by Wohlf in "Scientists discover a new hormone that can build strong bones in mice"

Wohlf — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 22:19:43 +0000

If everyone is 6 foot no one is. 7 foot would just become the new baseline.

New comment by Wohlf in "Sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces"

Wohlf — Fri, 10 May 2024 20:48:09 +0000

Low frequencies travel further, in my house high frequency road noise is annoying but tends to come and go quickly but low frequency road noise I can often hear from literally miles away.

New comment by Wohlf in "Patagonia's New Study Finds Fleece Jackets Are a Serious Pollutant (2016)"

Wohlf — Mon, 06 May 2024 18:34:45 +0000

I'd have to dig into the research to figure it out, numbers on synthetic fibers range from 34-50+% but how that's categorized is all over the place.

New comment by Wohlf in "Patagonia's New Study Finds Fleece Jackets Are a Serious Pollutant (2016)"

Wohlf — Mon, 06 May 2024 18:11:53 +0000

Tires aren't 80% of microplastics pollution, that's a misreporting of the study. They're 80% of the category that includes tires, that whole category is only 11% of microplastics.

New comment by Wohlf in "How do you accidentally run for President of Iceland?"

Wohlf — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 23:22:07 +0000

Iceland's population is less than that of Wyoming, and I wouldn't be surprised if the governor of Wyoming was on a normal flight.

New comment by Wohlf in "What can LLMs never do?"

Wohlf — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 04:43:43 +0000

Many experts completly forget what it was like to be a beginner. That's why I've found it's generally best for absolute beginners to learn from an apprentice, and an apprentice to learn from a journeyman, because they still remember what it was like to be at the previous level.

New comment by Wohlf in "Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unmanned fighter jets"

Wohlf — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 15:56:46 +0000

Unmanned fighters are a force multiplier, a single F-35 can coordinate its own squadron of drones (loyal wingman program). More ordnance, more coverage, more capabilities, more flexiblility, and less risk for lower relative costs.

New comment by Wohlf in "An open source initiative to share and compare heat pump performance data"

Wohlf — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 20:04:26 +0000

Speaking of heat pumps and water heat, I installed both a heat pump and hybrid water heater to save on electricity. The water heater doesn't seem to have made much of a difference in my electrical bill, my guess is the problem is peak demand so I should have gotten a much bigger tank than before. Ambient garage temperature may also be an issue but it exhausts outside and the garage is insulated so it generally stays above 55 degrees.

New comment by Wohlf in "Bay Area workers charged for building secret apartments inside train stations"

Wohlf — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 14:30:52 +0000

Well any empty room with a door lock can be a private sex room if you really need one.

New comment by Wohlf in "The U.S. government may finally mandate safer table saws"

Wohlf — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 23:46:29 +0000

A riving knife is a piece of metal behind the blade that prevents wood from pinching the blade and being launched towards the front of the saw.