Hacker News: bjustin

New comment by bjustin in "40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal"

bjustin — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:08:10 +0000

I agree that we must stop subsidies for cattle farming.

New comment by bjustin in "MacBook Neo"

bjustin — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:24:37 +0000

Whoever added the pause button on the image carousel on that page, I applaud you.

New comment by bjustin in "Long Range E-Bike (2021)"

bjustin — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:42:25 +0000

There are plenty of long, straight, flat roads around town here, where riding at 28mph would be perfectly safe. People driving feel free to go 30+mph, after all. My e-bike's assist only goes up to 20mph, which I can sustain even without assist on many of those roads. I'd guess 25mph would be about as fast as I could go with assist while still feeling safe on a bike.

New comment by bjustin in "Long Range E-Bike (2021)"

bjustin — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 21:58:08 +0000

I propose a new and improved e-bike classification scheme:

Class A: Bikes that can not go over 10mph via a throttle. And can’t go over 28mph with pedal assist. Or set the pedal assist limit at 20mph if you’re feeling especially conservative.

Class B-Class infinity: These aren’t considered bikes. Class A is the only class of e-bike.

New comment by bjustin in "IRS Tactics Against Meta Open a New Front in the Corporate Tax Fight"

bjustin — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:25:46 +0000

How did we go from "wealth extracted from [Europeans and Europe]" to "wealth extracted from a company"?

New comment by bjustin in "Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode"

bjustin — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:17:06 +0000

Having used Android Studio for work for a few years and used Xcode quite a lot for longer, I find the praise for Android Studio to be puzzling. I would give it "fine" but no way I'd say it is "good". I haven't used it enough compared to Xcode to say if one is better than the other.

New comment by bjustin in "A Vision for WebAssembly Support in Swift"

bjustin — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 21:15:05 +0000

This problem is very real. There is at least an ok way to avoid it getting too bad: make lots of View and ViewModifier structs, with each one having smallish amounts of code. Split them up to the extent that it feels silly.

As an added bonus, this is also the way to get good performance at run time. It helps minimize how many views need to get re-evaluated when something changes.

Framework Laptop 13 gets Core Ultra CPUs, cheaper Ryzens, and higher-res screens

bjustin — Thu, 30 May 2024 17:27:14 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/framework-laptop-13-gets-core-ultra-cpus-cheaper-ryzens-and-higher-res-screens/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40526351

Points: 11

# Comments: 0

New comment by bjustin in "LKML: Zebediah Figura: Kernel interface for Wine synchronization primitives"

bjustin — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 22:36:05 +0000

Non-archive.org link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/1/17/312

LKML: Zebediah Figura: Kernel interface for Wine synchronization primitives

bjustin — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 22:36:05 +0000

Article URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20230605003147/https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/1/17/312

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40046475

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by bjustin in "MuseScore 4.1 is now available"

bjustin — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 23:27:44 +0000

I've used it to make proper sheet music out of tabs people post on Ultimate Guitar. It was a slog to get started, but I suspect that is because of the wide range of symbols etc I needed to use. Once I had a sense for how to find things — after transcribing about a page of music — it was smooth sailing. I'd never written sheet music before using MuseScore 4.

New comment by bjustin in "Car rental throwing away money?"

bjustin — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 03:33:15 +0000

I’ve had this happen as well. Unfortunately I only book — and want to drive — sedans, so I learned I have to make sure to say so to the rental company employee if they say they’re upgrading me for free. Even then, sometimes they have so few sedans that I’m stuck with the “upgrade” SUV.

New comment by bjustin in "Apple brings Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro to iPad"

bjustin — Tue, 09 May 2023 16:28:38 +0000

I am surprised to see these are subscriptions when the Mac versions are one-time purchases. I wonder if they will make the subscriptions work for both these new iPad versions as well as for the Mac versions of the apps.

New comment by bjustin in "The grid isn’t ready for 300M EVs by 2030"

bjustin — Sat, 06 May 2023 18:00:04 +0000

Why would everyone high speed charge? You can get 250 miles in Model 3 at 12 hours of 6.6kW (~22 mi/hour). Even only eight hours would get 170 miles. Eight hours of charging per night is doable for most people, I imagine.

New comment by bjustin in "Apple HomePod 2nd Generation"

bjustin — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 17:12:02 +0000

I’ve used ARC with a stereo pair via my Apple TV for a while now. It sounds amazing. I can even play FPS games on my gaming PC with the audio piped to my HomePods, through the Apple TV via ARC, and there is no noticeable latency.

New comment by bjustin in "Never pay for online dating (2010)"

bjustin — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 21:45:45 +0000

I also found Hinge to have a much higher hit rate of conversations-per-profile-seen, and dates, than the other apps.

New comment by bjustin in "Blocking Kiwifarms"

bjustin — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 22:52:46 +0000

I think Cloudlfare’s choice to block them is fine and CF was probably fine allowing their use of the service before, given the damage to their reputation they apparently considered acceptable.

Historically, you needed money or influence or both to make a “bad” (or in this case, actually bad) message widely available. What we’re seeing with Cloudflare and other companies choosing not to do business with some people is like a correction a bit back toward the past, after an hard swing toward unchecked, potentially widespread reach of speakers who wouldn’t have been heard much before.

New comment by bjustin in "Tesla’s ban on pro-union shirts is illegal and must be rescinded, NLRB rules"

bjustin — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 21:11:02 +0000

To add more details, the legal precedent on this only says government accounts' posts and account pages are their own public-square-type place, not the entire Twitter service. Personal accounts when used for government-like purposes by government officials count too.

Sweeping Children’s Online Safety Bill Is Passed in California

bjustin — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 16:39:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/30/business/california-children-online-safety.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32652362

Points: 9

# Comments: 2

New comment by bjustin in "VLC media player banned in India"

bjustin — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 21:20:36 +0000

This is the way representative democracies work, including the US. Some places have tools such as recall elections that people can use in extreme cases, but usually, it is a matter of voting for someone else next time.