Hacker News: ZacharyPitts

New comment by ZacharyPitts in "Another burnout post"

ZacharyPitts — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 20:58:51 +0000

Maybe this is reference to the tongue of a shoe? IDK, still odd

New comment by ZacharyPitts in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2023)"

ZacharyPitts — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 18:27:45 +0000

Idealist.org has been a job board for non profits for decades, and you can find volunteer positions there at times.

Once upon a time I even worked at idealist itself when they had grander dreams

New comment by ZacharyPitts in "Oregon finally legalizes pumping your own gas"

ZacharyPitts — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 22:04:35 +0000

I can tell that most of you don't live in Oregon.

When I had a gas car up until two years ago, and I mostly got gas at CostCo. I did live in Virginia for three years. And I would say getting gas at CostCo in Oregon was 80% of the time faster than waiting for Virginians to pump their own gas at CostCo.

I'd rather not pump my own gas, and will miss the service. As will most people I know here.

New comment by ZacharyPitts in "Rivian embraces Tesla's charging standard for EVs"

ZacharyPitts — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 15:26:44 +0000

Same in Oregon. I've had to wait multiple times for a slot to come available while traveling.

New comment by ZacharyPitts in "Apple Vision"

ZacharyPitts — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 17:00:18 +0000

The worst will be blackouts for NBA games for this.

I had NBA TV for one season, but because I live in the Portland area, I can not watch Portland trailblazers games. It was ridiculous, so I did not subscribe this year.

New comment by ZacharyPitts in "Why are so many babies born around 8:00 AM? (2017)"

ZacharyPitts — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 15:42:57 +0000

Also related and shown in the diagrams in the linked article, why are so many babies born on Friday, and less on Saturday? Doctors/nurses want their weekends too, so inducements / c-sections also go up on Fridays.

Says the dad of the child born at 4pm on a Friday...

New comment by ZacharyPitts in "Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far"

ZacharyPitts — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 23:17:54 +0000

There's just no position someone says "only $24 billion" in a sane way

New comment by ZacharyPitts in "Ask HN: Am I the only one who does not want IoT in their solar panel setup?"

ZacharyPitts — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 22:34:49 +0000

BTW, in California the acronym PG&E is for Pacific Gas and Electric

Confusingly when I moved to Oregon years ago, its PGE (without the ampersand) for Portland General Electric.

New comment by ZacharyPitts in "KeePass is the free, open source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager"

ZacharyPitts — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 16:19:52 +0000

Short answer: written in C++ instead of C#

I also have used keepassxc for years now on mac/windows/linux/iphones

New comment by ZacharyPitts in "Removal of Heroku free product plans"

ZacharyPitts — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 20:49:32 +0000

Urgh.

I have an open source hobby endpoint hosted for free on heroku for many years. Used by a bunch of websites / discord bots / desktop applications as a REST backend.

Annoying to have to open a case just to continue operating.

New comment by ZacharyPitts in "Startup is selling tech to make call center workers sound like white Americans"

ZacharyPitts — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 15:25:14 +0000

I really like this (no longer updated) website devoted to north american accents https://www.aschmann.net/AmEng/

New comment by ZacharyPitts in "“It’s time for Apple to fix texting”"

ZacharyPitts — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 22:14:46 +0000

SMS that is not usable from all my other non-phone computers!

For this reason alone, I greatly prefer iMessage/discord/slack/whateverIsNext so I can use it on my phone and my computers.

New comment by ZacharyPitts in "People spend too much time on decisions with equally satisfying outcomes"

ZacharyPitts — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 00:46:32 +0000

Which is why I enjoy buying things at Costco. They usually have one widget of a particular type. And historically for me at least, they seem to be proficient at choosing good widgets. Thus, my only choice is whether I want it or not, not then another choice of which one do I want.

New comment by ZacharyPitts in "Beej updated the classic Linux network programming guide"

ZacharyPitts — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 01:14:45 +0000

Thank you so very much. I used your guides heavily when working on my senior project doing linux networking at the system level many years ago!

New comment by ZacharyPitts in "Oregon expands electric vehicle charging statewide"

ZacharyPitts — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 00:39:53 +0000

I used to feel that way, then I got an electric car with a 250 mile range last year. I really have not felt the desire to ever have a gasoline car since. Hybrids have so many more parts needed, that I feel like they will simply have more problems long term. In an EV, there's not much that will ever need to get replaced due to "wear" other than tires and brakes.

As for charging, this last weekend was the first time I've ever had a problem finding a charger on 300 mile days. Most people I know don't even go on as many long drives as I do, as I enjoy driving for driving sake.

I have zero plans on gasoline ever again.

New comment by ZacharyPitts in "Oregon expands electric vehicle charging statewide"

ZacharyPitts — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 00:09:17 +0000

I live in Oregon, and I went for long drive last weekend. I tried to charge twice at Electrify America charging stations... and both had lines of people waiting!

I will appreciate this.

New comment by ZacharyPitts in "Being Poor-ish Revisited: Reader Questions (2021)"

ZacharyPitts — Sat, 23 Apr 2022 10:24:54 +0000

Colorado/Montanta/etc are just too damn cold in the winter for homeless to survive, so they migrate to other warmer places

New comment by ZacharyPitts in "The Nintendo Switch has now outsold the Wii"

ZacharyPitts — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 03:02:22 +0000

One of my pro controllers also now has drift. It’s pretty disappointing compared to other console controllers …

New comment by ZacharyPitts in "Photography technology has influenced what people consider a good picture"

ZacharyPitts — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 19:01:35 +0000

My most upvoted reddit comment ever was when I posted a "Sacagawea selfie"... by sticking my camera at the end of a statue's arm: https://i.imgur.com/UXRUx8q.jpeg

New comment by ZacharyPitts in "Fry's Electronics is closing all stores"

ZacharyPitts — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 05:24:46 +0000

Frys was always fun to go to... but I can’t believe one of the first popular joke websites on the web not linked, only to be found in web archive... the frys employment application https://web.archive.org/web/20200130175501/http://homepage.s...

Heck I think I first saw this in a newsgroup even, but memories are fuzzy