<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: beerandt</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=beerandt</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:14:02 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=beerandt" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beerandt in "U.S. exempts oil industry from protecting Gulf animals, for 'national security'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No- making a fake endangered species to shut down operations that don't actually harm the species (endangered or not)...<p>Is hardly the same as objecting to activities that distress pretty much all animals in the vicinity long term.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:08:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47598183</link><dc:creator>beerandt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47598183</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47598183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beerandt in "U.S. exempts oil industry from protecting Gulf animals, for 'national security'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is more preemptive I suspect- 'they' have been reclassifying different species trying to get a bona-fide Gulf endangered one to use against exploration and production. Especially that one whale subspecies.<p>This kills that on multiple fronts.</p>
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<p>This common sense mindset would invalidate so many 'safety' laws and I'm all for it.<p>Studies make so many invalid assumptions (and usually don't even state them) to force the data / statistics to fit clean a/b or null testing.<p>But to put a dent in the status quo, we really need a greenlight to just dump however many kids in the back again, no matter the number of kids or seatbelts.<p>And before anyone gut reacts to this- ask yourself why doing that with schoolbuses still isn't a problem?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:47:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47580132</link><dc:creator>beerandt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47580132</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47580132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beerandt in "The largest zip tie is nearly 4 feet long and $75"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Most HVAC contractor counters carry packs of longer ones for insulating ductwork (though not as heavy duty as what's pictured).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 03:39:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46881172</link><dc:creator>beerandt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46881172</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46881172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beerandt in "Slate AX: Wi-Fi 6 Gigabit travel router"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yea couldn't install gps, then realized the package manager only had maybe 10% of what most gli.net routers have because of the 'special' chip in this one.<p>Still a great travel router, but had to buy a BerylAX for what I wanted to do with the usb gps.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2025 14:34:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46411349</link><dc:creator>beerandt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46411349</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46411349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beerandt in "I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>3) manufacturers placing energy star improvement quotas over safety in programming the cycles.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 22:07:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45828748</link><dc:creator>beerandt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45828748</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45828748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beerandt in "UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Deadweight or no-weight engine is a relatively negligible problem in terms of the weight-balance envelope.<p>Cut fuel & hydraulic lines near that engine (that affect the other engines/ apus) (or less likely structural or aerodynamic problems) is what's going to shift this from "engine failure" recoverable problem to a global nonrecoverable one.</p>
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<p>>like it wasn't the extension of a European war...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 12:44:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45798434</link><dc:creator>beerandt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45798434</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45798434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beerandt in "How the Mayans were able to accurately predict solar eclipses for centuries"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Was always weird to me how "the French and Indian War" had Indian involvement almost over emphasized to pretend like it wasn't the extension of a European  war...<p>While all the other American conflicts with tons of Indian involvement (both sides, esp civil war) had it downplayed.<p>One of my first realizations of slant put on history.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 05:02:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45796009</link><dc:creator>beerandt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45796009</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45796009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beerandt in "Facts about throwing good parties"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Dixie cup / glassware divide will tell you a lot about the type of party, but not always along the lines you might think.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 01:01:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45794891</link><dc:creator>beerandt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45794891</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45794891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beerandt in "Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Samsung marketplace on the phone used to have this- now it's just 'don't show this again today' button.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 21:31:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45739497</link><dc:creator>beerandt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45739497</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45739497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beerandt in "Circular Financing: Does Nvidia's $110B Bet Echo the Telecom Bubble?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Directional drilling is a game changer and has become accessible in the last decade.<p>You're looking for advancement in carriages unaware of the 'automobile' that made 5g and ftth deployment at scale possible.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2025 14:57:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45473765</link><dc:creator>beerandt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45473765</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45473765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beerandt in "Warming climate–not overgrazing–is biggest threat to rangelands, study suggests"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Overgrazing can be a problem, but undergrazing can be just as big of one.<p>Healthy pasture requires a certain rhythm/ amount of hoof traffic to stay healthy.<p>It's why land restoration in the (US) Midwest/West tends to do much better if it includes a reintroduced (managed) grazing component.<p>And why even wild pasture in Africa typically has a cycle of trample and/or natural burn as part of it's life cycle.<p>This may or may not apply to previously  forested land, depending on what's in-situ, but grazing should be seen just as much as a positive requirement, as overgrazing is seen as a detriment/negative.<p>Now if your <i>goal</i> is reforestation instead of just healthy pasture or other sustainable ecotype, that's different .<p>But don't assume just because land <i>can</i> sustain forest, that forest is the 'natural' ecosystem. See: the US history of pasture vs forest. There's more forest now than there was pre-euro settlement.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2025 16:16:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45451678</link><dc:creator>beerandt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45451678</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45451678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beerandt in "Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Canceled mine after ad-free stopped working on YouTube Kids of all things (on ShieldTV). Was probably a bug, but with practically no customer service options, no real solutions besides cancel.<p>I was also a holdover from a paying Play Music subscriber, and this was shortly after the pita music switchover to youtube, so it was a last straw.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2025 13:05:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45359751</link><dc:creator>beerandt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45359751</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45359751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beerandt in "Doorbell prankster that tormented residents of apartments turns out to be a slug"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Still miss the keyboard on my HTC Tilt2</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 02:35:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45218119</link><dc:creator>beerandt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45218119</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45218119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beerandt in "We Rarely Lose Technology (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And we do pretty much the same with stonework now compared to the ancients.<p>There are a few that know how to do it by hand, but mass production has evolved.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 20:41:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45173685</link><dc:creator>beerandt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45173685</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45173685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beerandt in "We Rarely Lose Technology (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yea this is economics, not tech.<p>We also don't build carriages as well or have an army of craftsman doing it, but it's lost/regressed because there's no economic incentives.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 15:37:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45169651</link><dc:creator>beerandt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45169651</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45169651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beerandt in "We Rarely Lose Technology (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>Fogbank<p>This is a more interesting example- the theory isn't that we lost the tech, but that the new tech was too good, too pure.<p>The incidentals of the old, 'dirty' way of manufacturing it (that we just spent billions and billions to destroy and clean up) apparently (speculation, since classified) added some unknown impurities that affected its performance.<p>And either it needed to be redesigned with the new manufacturing process, or go back to the old process to fit the specs of existing weapons or the weapons would need to be redesigned.<p>We didn't lose the tech, but other 'advances' in both tech and society (not having workers manually handle dangerous stuff) caused an overall regression, not advancement.<p>It's the EPA DC chlorine case all over again, of 'progress and safety' actually increasing danger and causing overall regression.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 15:29:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45169538</link><dc:creator>beerandt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45169538</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45169538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beerandt in "Taco Bell AI Drive-Thru"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The follow up question (not quite mc) was actually what put it in a loop for me-<p>It kept asking 'what kind of drink?' After apparently interpreting engine noise as asking for one.<p>Wouldn't respond to 'none' or any other response I gave, except to repeat the q.</p>
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<p>Only if you're using technical writing in a situation where you shouldn't be.<p>Problem is the state of most English education doesn't even teach enough for people to recognize proper unambiguous technical writing, let alone appreciate it or attempt to compose it.</p>
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