Hacker News: astrojams

New comment by astrojams in "Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars"

astrojams — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 02:45:46 +0000

I have a 2022 Porsche 911. It has a lot of physical controls for things in the cabin like climate control, suspension settings, cruise control, dashboard view, and audio. The car also has an auto steer and cruise control option which will accelerate and brake for you while also keeping the car in the lane. It can go from a stop to whatever speed you set it to. It’s great for traffic on the highway. That’s not too shabby for a 2022 non EV car. Current model Mercedes have level 4 driving automation where you can take your eyes off the road. I don’t think Tesla even has this level of driving automation yet.

New comment by astrojams in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"

astrojams — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 01:36:06 +0000

I’m a big fan of Amazon’s leadership principles. One of them is bias for action. I worked at AWS for a few years and I’d be in a meeting and someone would say bias for action and we’d all know what we needed to do.

New comment by astrojams in "Claude Opus 4.5"

astrojams — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 22:04:16 +0000

I find it hilarious that it rick rolled you. I wonder if that is an easter egg of some sort?

New comment by astrojams in "Beaver Drop"

astrojams — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 15:12:42 +0000

I live in Texas. It takes about 8 hours drive to get out of Texas regardless of the direction I go. That's just one state. Texas is the only state that has 8 different climate zones.

New comment by astrojams in "Show HN: Use your familiar Markdown editor to create and publish web pages"

astrojams — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 13:32:49 +0000

The blog didn't work for me. I just got a circle that spins forever.

New comment by astrojams in "How we plan to de-extinct the Dodo bird"

astrojams — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 14:27:52 +0000

Keystone species can be important to the overall environment and other animals. Bring back the right ones and you could improve the environment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_species

New comment by astrojams in "MacBook Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max"

astrojams — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 15:36:03 +0000

I believe that the M1 architecture is such that you don't actually need as much RAM as an older model computer. It is a system on a chip so moving data between RAM and storage is so fast that it can swap between the two without much performance degradation.

New comment by astrojams in "NYC Slice"

astrojams — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 21:50:10 +0000

I grew up in NY and lived in NYC and I still call it a plain slice.

New comment by astrojams in "NYC Slice"

astrojams — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 21:48:43 +0000

As a person who also grew up in NY, the slice was part of my childhood. I'd walk home from middle school and then high school and pass the local pizzeria where I could pick up a slice, Italian ice, and play coin operated video games. Galaga, Donkey Kong, and Pacman. I miss those carefree days where the world was simpler and the pizza tasted better.

New comment by astrojams in "iPad Pro M2"

astrojams — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 16:31:32 +0000

Blink.sh is my favorite ssh app for the iPad.

New comment by astrojams in "Cloudflare announces fourth quarter and fiscal year 2021 financial results"

astrojams — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 22:25:04 +0000

It was their CTO who said that. Their CEO is on paternity leave.

New comment by astrojams in "Cocaine Paraphernalia Ads in the 70s"

astrojams — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 14:29:29 +0000

I would love to live in this world.

New comment by astrojams in "Macaques at Japan reserve get first alpha female in 70-year history"

astrojams — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 17:48:48 +0000

Wow this is fascinating. I'd love to read more about this, do you have any links to articles discussing this behavior?

New comment by astrojams in "HBO Max accidentally sent an integration email test to users"

astrojams — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 02:47:39 +0000

If this was a marketing ploy, it is genius. The amount of play this email is getting is ridiculous. Brilliant move if it was planned.

New comment by astrojams in "Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B"

astrojams — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 21:54:48 +0000

I asked a question on math.stackexchange 8 years ago and that question got really popular and now I'm in the top 34% ranking of folks on the Math site. I don't really know a lot about math but people really like the TREE(3) function.

New comment by astrojams in "The Evolution of Hacker News (2013)"

astrojams — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 17:19:09 +0000

10 years for me. I still check it every day.

New comment by astrojams in "Email from Jeff Bezos to employees"

astrojams — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 21:14:55 +0000

I worked for AWS for a few years under Andy. He's a good pick for CEO of that company.

New comment by astrojams in "AWS Having Trouble Again"

astrojams — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 19:22:24 +0000

AWS usually does a post mortem where they inform what caused the problem and what they will do going forward to prevent it from happening again.

New comment by astrojams in "AWS Having Trouble Again"

astrojams — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 19:13:40 +0000

Here is the aws Dashboard: https://status.aws.amazon.com/

New comment by astrojams in "ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper"

astrojams — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 20:57:09 +0000

Your comment just made me buy it. I didn't realize it was an open device running linux. That sold me. There are probably some marketing lessons to be learned from these comments.