<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: adhesive_wombat</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=adhesive_wombat</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:39:46 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=adhesive_wombat" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adhesive_wombat in "Starship.rs: minimal, fast prompt for any shell"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I can honestly say that has never once been a problem I have had, and I've had git information in the prompt for over 10 years.<p>Also how is "enter" less convenient than literally any other command that you'd still have to type and run to get up-to-date information in a command line?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2024 12:27:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39141895</link><dc:creator>adhesive_wombat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39141895</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39141895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adhesive_wombat in "The Uncomfortable – a collection of deliberately inconvenient objects"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And in the spirit of the Uncomfortable Ruler, this has the same frustrating design flaw: the scale doesn't start in the corner so you can't butt it up against something and use it like a depth gauge!</p>
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<p>Assuming an architect doesn't have the right kind of workshop needed to make them herself, the capital outlay to tool up any of those objects except the broom and the fork (for which you'd take existing products and modify) would be pretty enormous. The ruler probably would be the easiest - a company that already makes steel rulers could likely make it for a relatively modest set-up cost.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2024 11:45:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39141577</link><dc:creator>adhesive_wombat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39141577</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39141577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adhesive_wombat in "Starship.rs: minimal, fast prompt for any shell"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Git information is extremely useful to me. I notice colleagues who don't have that tend to struggle using git on the command line and use git status nearly every other command (much as I tend to do when I'm remoting into a shell with a plain prompt).<p>Python venvs are useful too if you have a shell for running the program and other shells that just happen to be within that directory.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2024 08:03:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39139954</link><dc:creator>adhesive_wombat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39139954</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39139954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adhesive_wombat in "The Annual Cost of Technical Debt: $1.52T"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Honestly, sounds low. Technical debt is just like real debt: a useful tool to allow you to borrow against the future to get things done today, and an existential threat if not serviced before it gets out of hand. A tool that everyone else is using to the hilt and if you don't you'll be at a severe disadvantage. If it accumulates, it can sometimes be cleared down to a sustainable (and even useful) level through a painful multi-year process where no-one is having fun and you don't get to do many nice things you thing you should be able to.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2024 22:56:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39136594</link><dc:creator>adhesive_wombat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39136594</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39136594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adhesive_wombat in "Sports Illustrated implosion shows the ugly, ongoing collapse of U.S. journalism"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's a funny one too me, because they do some very good journalism that spans many many years on many people up to no good. Frequently, they're the only ones doing anything more investigative than rewriting press releases and newswires and they must have an absolutely enormous library of material on public figures to be able to connect the dots that they do.<p>But when they report on something, it's gone from the public view in a few weeks as the only place you could find it would be your own archive, assuming it goes back that far (and you wish to dedicate the space in your house), or a major library of which there are only a handful in the country that would maintain an indefinite archive.<p>Something more impactful than a report on another suspiciously "bungled" contract by a councillor would be to be able to see the other articles they've done on that person over the decades. Even if there was, say, a year-long delay in putting them in the archive, there's a difference between "Eyes passim" (doubly irritating as there's also no thematic index and hundreds of back issues you'd need to look in) and seeing the older reports in front of you.</p>
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<p>Does that stay true when exercising? At rest, with a tidal volume of 500ml ish, lungs are least 5/6 full of stale air, round down to 3% ish CO2.<p>When exercising, the tidal volumes are far higher (2-3L), and you breathe faster, so the lung air is at least twice as fresh as it was at rest, probably more, since fresh air is functionally 0% CO2, and you're moving maybe 6 times the gas volume in each direction.<p>Does that massive change in volume and diffusion gradient (at least at the start of a breath) means that you might be able to tolerate a higher CO2 level in the inhaled air?</p>
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<p>I believe the 1979 original read "...Therefore a computer must never make a management decision".<p><a href="https://constelisvoss.com/en-gb/pages/a-computer-can-never-be-held-accountable" rel="nofollow">https://constelisvoss.com/en-gb/pages/a-computer-can-never-b...</a></p>
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<p>WiFi backscatter "radar" is another one that is surely going to find uses all along the useful-innocent-seedy-nefarious-malicious spectrum.</p>
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<p>Wayne Gretzky's post-retirement career in semiconductor engineering may not have been expected, but seems to be going well.</p>
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<p>It is. William Boeing's father was German and was called Wilhelm Böing.<p>Source: entered "Böing" into a search engine.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2024 12:42:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39102610</link><dc:creator>adhesive_wombat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39102610</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39102610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adhesive_wombat in "Elevator Expert on How to Move 10k People Up a 118-Floor Skyscraper [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> algorithms governing that were closely-guarded secrets<p>Do many lifts have fancy algorithms in practice? I don't think I've ever had one go backwards to pick up a nearby floor, for example.<p>I suppose optimising where the lift loiters while empty is something I wouldn't really notice happening.</p>
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<p>The Nam-shub of Hockney?</p>
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<p>They're not different codepoints, they're being rendered as mathematical markup by MathJax. This rendering includes using a LaTeX-esque font rather like Computer Modern.<p>Arxiv does this presumably because some papers have mathematical expressions in the titles and abstracts. For example <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04991" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04991</a></p>
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<p>It's not irrelevant to why Eindhoven is how it is today, in the same way that HP is a split-up shadow of what is former influential self, but it's partly why Google <i>now</i> is in Silicon Valley.</p>
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<p>Plenty of things that used to be Philips are still in Eindhoven, like NXP (semiconductors) and Signify (lighting, including Hue). Philips has been a huge part of what made the Eindhoven area a high-tech industry hub, even if much of it is under new ownership structures.</p>
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<p>There's a fairly large advanced hi-tech industry hub in the Netherlands. Philips and ASML are big names, but there are very many more. As they're all fairly near each other on the scale of things (often near Eindhoven, with more "non-physical" tech in Amsterdam), there's some Silicon Valley-style network effects at play.<p>Also French labour laws and norms are probably frightening to union-phobic Big Tech companies.</p>
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<p>Seems completely nuts that you have the "shuck" entire assembled computers for this. Reminds me of the story about the Soviet factory ordering tractors just to remove some component like a single bearing for manufacturing something else.</p>
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<p>> it's far easier to change the workflow than it is to fix the software<p>This is just something software seems to do. There's a mature and fully-fledged industry in modifying entire workflows to fit software which is implicitly viewed as something that simply is the way it is.<p>Jira and SAP are some obvious big ones, almost with their own priesthoods, but at all levels, "capabilities drive requirements, regardless of what the systems engineering textbooks say".<p>And let's not forget that the entire capital-C Content industry is completely subservient to the vagaries of "The Algorithms" that are not just considered ineffable by the supplicants, but were in fact specifically designed to be that way.</p>
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<p>Some BMW 5s can do regenerative braking and use it to charge the "normal" (well it's a big stop-start one these days I would think) battery instead of having the alternator load the engine. So the electrical systems can be running on regenerated power.</p>
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