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New comment by aodin in "Tailscale is pretty useful"

aodin — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 20:07:04 +0000

I have Quantum Fiber in Colorado and enabled IPv6 on the old CenturyLink C4000XG modem following these directions: https://www.centurylink.com/home/help/internet/modems-and-ro...

New comment by aodin in "Torrent of Hate for Health Insurance Industry Follows CEO's Killing"

aodin — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 05:19:56 +0000

I'm a Coloradan who voted for the 2016 universal healthcare (aka ColoradoCare) proposal, but I understand why the majority (79%) voted against it: there was sticker shock at the additional 10% income tax (with caveats, but people saw the 10%) and an inability of proponents to answer basic questions such as "Will I be able to keep my current doctor?", "Will I be able to get an abortion?", and "Will there be additional tax increases?".

New comment by aodin in "Boeing's Starliner proves better at torching cash than reaching orbit"

aodin — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 18:27:15 +0000

That might even be worse: Calypso stranded Odysseus on an island for 7 years

New comment by aodin in "US Justice Department to seek breakup of Live Nation-Ticketmaster"

aodin — Wed, 22 May 2024 23:19:51 +0000

In Live Nation's latest 10-Q filing they listed the operating margin of their ticketing segment at 32%, with a non-GAAP AOI margin of 39%.

[1] https://investors.livenationentertainment.com/sec-filings/al...

New comment by aodin in "IBM to buy HashiCorp in $6.4B deal"

aodin — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 21:27:22 +0000

Although there is significant overlap between the two, I prefer Terraform for resource provisioning and Ansible for resource configuration.

Walmart Bought a Finance App and Reduced Fraud Protections

aodin — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 15:55:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.propublica.org/article/after-walmart-bought-finance-app-one-complaints-soared

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39693033

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by aodin in "Logistic Regression for Image Classification Using OpenCV"

aodin — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 21:24:00 +0000

Pytorch includes a simple neural network example for the MNIST data: https://github.com/pytorch/examples/blob/main/mnist/main.py

It only takes a few minutes to train with default parameters and will have >99% accuracy on the MNIST test set.

President Biden Announces Billions to Deliver World-Class High-Speed Rail

aodin — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 17:08:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/12/08/fact-sheet-president-biden-announces-billions-to-deliver-world-class-high-speed-rail-and-launch-new-passenger-rail-corridors-across-the-country/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38571327

Points: 58

# Comments: 58

New comment by aodin in "WeWork Goes Bankrupt"

aodin — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 04:20:33 +0000

Yes, there are hot desk memberships on their coworking page [1], including single day purchases. They're underneath the giant "get a quote" call to action, however, which is indicative of their priorities.

[1] https://www.regus.com/en-us/coworking

New comment by aodin in "Max is taking 4K away from its legacy ad-free subscribers"

aodin — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 03:49:05 +0000

> "One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue"

Gabe Newell of Valve, Oct 2011

[1] https://www.gamesradar.com/gabe-newell-piracy-issue-service-...

New comment by aodin in "Ken Burns chronicles the sad fate of the American buffalo"

aodin — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 16:38:41 +0000

Denver, Colorado maintains two bison herds descended from the last wild North American bison. There were as few as 18 bison left in Colorado at the beginning of the 1900s. Thankfully, the conservation project has been a success and Denver has been transferring bison to Native American tribes to start additional herds. The herds are just about 30 minutes from downtown if you ever visit.

More info, pictures, and video here: https://www.denvergov.org/Government/Agencies-Departments-Of...

New comment by aodin in "Home Insurance Is So High in This Florida Town, Residents Are Leaving"

aodin — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 13:44:43 +0000

Redfin has a “Flood risk” layer option on their maps.

Interestingly, it show only small parts of Flamingo Park having substantial flood risk, especially compared to the rest of West Palm Beach.

https://www.redfin.com/neighborhood/55857/FL/West-Palm-Beach...

New comment by aodin in "The Average New EV Costs $14,000 Less Than It Did a Year Ago: KBB"

aodin — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 03:26:57 +0000

Cox Automotive (parent of KBB) estimates 35.2 million used [1] and 15.4 million new car sales in the US for 2023 [2]. So, about 30% buy new.

[1] https://www.coxautoinc.com/market-insights/estimated-monthly...

[2] https://www.coxautoinc.com/news/cox-automotive-forecast-augu...

New comment by aodin in "The Average New EV Costs $14,000 Less Than It Did a Year Ago: KBB"

aodin — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 03:20:40 +0000

If you're looking to remove outliers, Kelley Blue Book also tracks the average (likely mean) of new non-luxury vehicle sales, which was $44,626 in September. Non-luxury is about 80% of sales.

Also, concerning the lower end of sales:

"But the news isn’t all good. Only one car sold for an average price under $20,000 last month. The Mitsubishi Mirage’s average transaction price in July was $19,205.

Every other car with a list price under $20,000 sold for over $20,000 on average. It’s not a large group. Automakers increasingly focus on building more expensive cars, trimming affordable models from their lineups. In December 2017, automakers produced 36 models priced at $25,000 or less. Five years later, they built just 10." [1]

[1] https://www.kbb.com/car-news/average-new-car-price-sees-smal...

New comment by aodin in "The Average New EV Costs $14,000 Less Than It Did a Year Ago: KBB"

aodin — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 03:06:32 +0000

The Jeep 4xe models are actually selling below MSRP here in Colorado with "dealer discounts" (separate from any tax incentives) between 3 and 7%. Time for a roadtrip?

New comment by aodin in "Cisco Acquires Splunk"

aodin — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 20:37:08 +0000

They bought 1-day options, so they knew the timing of the announcement.

New comment by aodin in "Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase"

aodin — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 16:32:57 +0000

Porkbun has an excellent price comparison page for .com: https://porkbun.com/tld/com

They're still at $9.73 for both registration and renewal.

New comment by aodin in "eSignature Beta for Google Docs and Google Drive"

aodin — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 19:32:54 +0000

Like Salesforce

New comment by aodin in "Death Valley Just Had the Hottest Midnight on Record"

aodin — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 19:47:58 +0000

> A higher reading of 134F, or 56.6C a century earlier, also in Death Valley, is disputed. It is believed by some modern weather experts to have been erroneous, along with several other searing temperatures recorded that summer.

> According to a 2016 analysis from weather historian Christopher Burt, other temperatures in the region recorded in 1913 do not corroborate the Death Valley reading

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53788018

New comment by aodin in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

aodin — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 19:12:49 +0000

https://aaronoellis.com

I mostly write about Python, Django, and SQL, but occasionally do some basic statistical and GIS work.