Hacker News: aweiland

New comment by aweiland in "Maryland becomes first state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores"

aweiland — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:17:29 +0000

Please go look up what a Food Desert is.

New comment by aweiland in "Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants"

aweiland — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:13:06 +0000

You can also 3D print them: https://www.printables.com/model/194340-60mm-radial-fan-boot...

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

aweiland — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:00:10 +0000

I see this claim made all over the place in the media, and never made with evidence.

New comment by aweiland in "Tesla Is Recalling Cybertrucks Again"

aweiland — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 18:00:13 +0000

They've refreshed the 3 or Y (I'm not sure which) to look more like the Cybertruck. They look awful.

New comment by aweiland in "Public trust demands open-source voting systems"

aweiland — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 18:09:46 +0000

Correct on the idea maybe, but their implementation schemes are designed to disenfranchise those less likely to vote for them.

New comment by aweiland in "The Army’s Newest Recruits: Tech Execs From Meta, OpenAI and More"

aweiland — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 13:55:57 +0000

Maybe they get to pull a pension too? There's lots of examples of Admirals and Generals who "retire", get their pension payouts, but come back as an "advisor" effectively doubling their pay.

New comment by aweiland in "We fell out of love with Next.js and back in love with Ruby on Rails"

aweiland — Sun, 04 May 2025 01:56:30 +0000

What is 0.1 + 0.2 in JavaScript. I'll give you a hint, it's not 0.3. Is that fine?

New comment by aweiland in "Port of Los Angeles says shipping volume will plummet 35% next week"

aweiland — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 20:58:45 +0000

That video is amazing. Thanks!

New comment by aweiland in "U.S. Economy Contracts at 0.3% Rate in First Quarter"

aweiland — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:25:32 +0000

Did he get this math from Ron Vara?

New comment by aweiland in "Port of Los Angeles says shipping volume will plummet 35% next week"

aweiland — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:20:19 +0000

An on shore competitor to JLCPCB would be amazing. I assume most of the work is automated as well.

New comment by aweiland in "Port of Los Angeles says shipping volume will plummet 35% next week"

aweiland — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:18:00 +0000

They did cancel some primaries in 2019 to protect Trump or at least his feelings.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/06/republicans-cancel...

New comment by aweiland in "Fossil fuels fall below 50% of US electricity for the first month on record"

aweiland — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 16:22:17 +0000

Those are great prices. In the US we are at least double that for an equivalent system. Many solar installers/sellers here are very predatory and have been for a long time. Prices have dropped, but not by enough for it to be worth it for me.

New comment by aweiland in "How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack"

aweiland — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 20:18:34 +0000

The twitter files were well curated by Musk and team to tell a certain story. Is that not the definition of a partisan smear job?

New comment by aweiland in "Abundance isn't going to happen unless politicians are scared of the status quo"

aweiland — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 17:46:37 +0000

Some of that is for good reason. Take for instance in North Carolina; a house built in the mountains in the west will have quite different standards from one built on the Outer Banks.

New comment by aweiland in "U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat"

aweiland — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 19:08:18 +0000

In a bathroom that had a copy machine no less.

New comment by aweiland in "U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat"

aweiland — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 19:05:03 +0000

SecDef and the White House were claiming it was made up. This is double speak from the Speaker.

New comment by aweiland in "Technicalities of Homeworld 2 Backgrounds"

aweiland — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 13:46:44 +0000

The problem with Whisky is they are a major Wine version behind as to not step on Crossover: https://github.com/orgs/Whisky-App/discussions/257#discussio...

Some games like Half Life have sound issues on the older Wine versions.

New comment by aweiland in "Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera (Filmed Feb. 13, 1957) [video]"

aweiland — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 21:52:38 +0000

I wonder when and why they stopped making films like these. I've been enjoying watching Behind the Attraction and The Imagineering Story on Disney+ with my kids. They are full of these old films of Walt going over their ideas and explaining the things they are and have built. It's a shame that stopped.

New comment by aweiland in "Jeff Bezos exerts more control of Washington Post opinion"

aweiland — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:26:07 +0000

You know that the "Twitter Files" were carefully curated to to craft a certain narrative, right?

New comment by aweiland in "Larry Ellison's half-billion-dollar quest to change farming"

aweiland — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 18:12:20 +0000

I'm on the east coast. I have 5 apple and 3 pear trees. I'm lucky to get 5 fruit by the end of summer due to squirrels.