<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: chociej</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=chociej</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:39:25 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=chociej" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chociej in "Owners report rust forming on Tesla Cybertruck"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I can't find anything more than hearsay about this, but I've now encountered the idea several times that Tesla chose or developed an unusual alloy to mitigate oilcanning, a phenomenon where large, flat pieces of sheet metal tend to cup or bow.<p>Here's some anecdata that is probably the most coherent read I can find on the topic of Cybertruck oilcanning: <a href="http://livingstingy.blogspot.com/2023/08/dude-wheres-my-cybertruck.html" rel="nofollow">http://livingstingy.blogspot.com/2023/08/dude-wheres-my-cybe...</a><p>Seems the alloy is probably less rust resistant than more common alloys, and also can't take a clearcoat without losing some valuable properties? More hearsay: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/197sivs/tesla_warns_that_cybertruck_needs_to_be_cleaned/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/197sivs/tesla_...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2024 17:12:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39359983</link><dc:creator>chociej</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39359983</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39359983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chociej in "How to deal with receiving a cease-and-desist letter from Big Tech"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For small, transactional dealings where the amount of work is easy to predict, there may just be a fixed fee for that.<p>For more open-ended work, it is often billed by the hour (time and expense). If the work is non-trivial, they may ask for a retainer, which is a down payment against future hourly work and expenses incurred by the firm.<p>Another common billing model, called contingency, is generally reserved for cases where the firm is optimistic they will be able to receive a significant monetary judgment or settlement, which they will take part of for their time and effort.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2024 17:24:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39192899</link><dc:creator>chociej</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39192899</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39192899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chociej in "A minimum complete tutorial of Linux ext4 file system (2017)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>7z can list and extract from ext4 images. Respectively:<p>$ 7z l <image><p>$ 7z x <image></p>
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<p>Notably, you've chosen 3 luxury ICE models, and luxury cars are another heavier-than-average group.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2023 16:37:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37324693</link><dc:creator>chociej</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37324693</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37324693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chociej in "Why does the USA use 110V and UK use 230-240V? (2014)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's mostly just a misnomer. A 110 V device with a 5% tolerance, for example, would not work on nominal US circuits.</p>
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<p>100-240V 50-60Hz switching supplies are common "worldwide" or "universal" adapters, definitely not an indication of service voltage standard here.</p>
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<p>Sure, but the nominal value is still 120 V.</p>
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<p>Nobody's pointed it out yet, so I'll mention it:<p>US voltage is 120 V (240 V phase to phase), not 110 V. And while 115 V is within service tolerances specified by ANSI C84.1 (114 V to 126 V), that's not the nominal value.</p>
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<p>Those devices for which it works fine are such devices that don't request any I/O space</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Aug 2023 04:01:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37029935</link><dc:creator>chociej</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37029935</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37029935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chociej in "Oregon decriminalized hard drugs – early results aren’t encouraging"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I can't say I agree. The answer to debilitating addiction isn't to make someone feel even worse about it (to the extent they don't already feel terrible). It's to provide meaningful support to get out of addiction and back to the life the person wishes they could have. Shame is fatal to dignity and self-acceptance. It has no place in public health.</p>
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<p>Of course it hasn't reduced addiction. The quote from TFA explains it best: "If you take away the criminal-justice system as a pathway that gets people into treatment, you need to think about what is going to replace it."<p>That doesn't mean that decriminalization is bad, it means you can't ignore public health. Seems uniquely American to assume that just leaving addicted people alone without appropriate healthcare options is going to reduce addiction.</p>
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<p>It also depends heavily on how you define "need". Calculus changed the way I view many, many concepts and phenomena. I think we present things like calculus as dryly as possible, and only to those blessed few who we perceive as able to understand it, and in doing so, we deprive so many people of a useful new way of considering problems. Whether it ends up being critical to their chosen career seems like a really narrow and poor criterion.</p>
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<p>It's a shame that part-of-speech analysis tools aren't more widely available or widely used. That could at least reduce the damage done on "flat" -> "apartment", even when only considering entire words.</p>
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<p>Infill development comes with its own challenges. A coordinated effort to increased density in a city would necessarily be disruptive to a lot of people's housing. That's not to say it shouldn't be done, but it complicates the matter if you care about displacement, right-to-return, etc.</p>
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<p>One approach I've heard of that specifically addresses short-term rentals is to limit the number or density of such units within a city or a particular district.</p>
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<p>Yep, it would not be exceptional to see short-term rental regulations in zoning codes in the US. I'm guessing in some states you'd have legal challenges if you required owner occupancy or even perhaps establishment of residency or domicile, but it's fairly universal in this country that you could write zoning laws dealing with transient occupancy and accessory or primary uses that resemble hotels, guesthouses, B&Bs, etc.</p>
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<p>Zoning actually addresses both construction and land use and often a lot of other things. Where I live, it would be absolutely routine to see something like short-term rental restrictions in the zoning code.<p>By the book, "Zoning is a legislative act dividing a jurisdiction's land into sections and regulating different land uses in each section in accordance with a zoning ordinance" [1]. So in theory, zoning rules deal with any kind of "land use", however the governing body chooses to approach the topic. In practice, you'll of course see zoning district rules that describe some of the more obvious "allowed uses" such as "dwellings, one-family, other than mobile homes" as well as construction/building characteristics like "detached homes", "townhomes", "multi-story buildings", etc. I think that is the kind of thing you're expecting of a zoning code, and it's definitely a big part.<p>But, zoning regulations get quite specific in dealing with uses too, and often these details have little or nothing to do with the buildings or construction. A major example is what kinds of business uses are allowed in a particular zone, for example: "Retail stores selling soft goods, clothing, leather goods, health aids, eye glasses, toys, jewelry, cosmetics, printed materials, glassware, home furnishings..."<p>It goes beyond characterizing the primary use of a parcel or structure. "Accessory" and "prohibited" uses are often even more specific, e.g. "entertainment (piano player, guitarist, small combos, dancing, etc.) in restaurants and movie theaters". You'll also see regulations for things like in-home occupations (hairstylists, massage therapists, etc), gardening, operation of vending machines, storage of construction materials and refuse, butchery and meat processing, etc.<p>Certain "performance" requirements are also sometimes listed, which usually deal with noise, light emission, and other nuisances, but these can get as oddly specific as this: "All surfaces shall be of a dust-free nature."<p>All examples listed are from the zoning code where I live [2].<p>[1] <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/zoning" rel="nofollow">https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/zoning</a>
[2] <a href="https://ecode360.com/28334794" rel="nofollow">https://ecode360.com/28334794</a></p>
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<p>I use it to plan meals and make grocery lists each week. It's very good at that task, and it saves me a lot of monotony.</p>
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<p>I gather I'm the weirdo here, but I really _don't_ want a ducted heat pump, even though my conventionally-built 1950s home is currently full of ductwork for the two forced-air furnaces. I daydream frequently about tearing out all that sheet metal. Is a split system not wildly better somehow?</p>
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<p>I feel that the writing style reinforced the well-thought-out consistency of the system. The information of value was all right there, so I didn't feel worried about getting a bill.</p>
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