Hacker News: chooseaname

New comment by chooseaname in "Tesla Virtual Power Plant"

chooseaname — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 04:23:22 +0000

Make sure you adjust your faucets so they won’t go full hot. Don’t want to scald someone.

New comment by chooseaname in "The afterlife of used hotel soap"

chooseaname — Sun, 24 Apr 2022 16:52:38 +0000

I bring my own because scent is an irritant.

New comment by chooseaname in "Google Pixel 3 (XL) bricking out of nothing"

chooseaname — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 02:13:36 +0000

Have a 4a. Have never heard of this.

New comment by chooseaname in "Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design"

chooseaname — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 18:52:00 +0000

We use our (really mine, but hey...) Mini 5 for reading PDFs, reading ebooks (when I can't find my kindle), a quick terminal session to my server to check stuff, menus at restaurants for take-out, and really just keep it laying around to look stuff up as we need to (recipes, school schedules, etc.). It's pretty handy to just have it easily accessible.

New comment by chooseaname in "Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design"

chooseaname — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 18:47:34 +0000

What else are they going to spend $2.5T on?

New comment by chooseaname in "Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design"

chooseaname — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 18:44:50 +0000

This looks really good, but my mini 5 is still plenty powerful for what I use it for. I do like the TouchID placement and wish they would bring that to iPhones.

New comment by chooseaname in "Job vacancies surge past one million in new record"

chooseaname — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 17:00:09 +0000

> Housing is anything from a third to 50%

This is way too much. We just finished paying off our current house and our payment was around 14% of our net. We are high earners in a low CoL area so the house is really nice, but wasn't very expensive. I can't imagine being "house poor" after this.

New comment by chooseaname in "Job vacancies surge past one million in new record"

chooseaname — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 16:54:03 +0000

> I think wages (in AU, at least) already render many small businesses unviable.

Probably an unviable business no matter the wage. People cannot be depended on to subsidize someone's business by accepting crappy wages.

New comment by chooseaname in "Job vacancies surge past one million in new record"

chooseaname — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 16:49:26 +0000

> Either wages need to rise or house prices need to fall.

Raising wages in not in the best interest of share holders.

New comment by chooseaname in "O.mg Cable"

chooseaname — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 17:26:25 +0000

You may be underestimating how significant $20-$30 is to some people.

Edit: wording.

New comment by chooseaname in "The Psychology of Online Political Hostility"

chooseaname — Sat, 28 Aug 2021 15:07:54 +0000

Politicians don't have anonymity and yet we see plenty of fuckwad politicians.

New comment by chooseaname in "An Open Letter to Airbnb The pitchforks are coming"

chooseaname — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 21:15:52 +0000

We all know minimum wage will only be 18.50/hr by then, though.

New comment by chooseaname in "Hurricane Ida could be close to Cat 4, dump up to 20“ of rain in S.E. Louisiana"

chooseaname — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 17:08:05 +0000

The gulf is HOT right now. And that heat goes pretty deep.

I wonder if we'll see a Michael situation, where Ida just continues to intensify as it closes in on land.

New comment by chooseaname in "Write an SQL query builder in 150 lines of Python"

chooseaname — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 15:57:37 +0000

Exactly. Because nobody should ever use their dev skills to build up their understanding of a tool by recreating some aspect of it.

New comment by chooseaname in "Benefits of Not Using an IDE"

chooseaname — Sat, 21 Aug 2021 16:30:12 +0000

c) choosing a platform that over complicates things and requires tooling that most developers use but never quite understand.

> you’re not being smart, cool or clever by choosing

New comment by chooseaname in "It’s possible to pay $150 in taxes on an income of $150K"

chooseaname — Sun, 13 Jun 2021 20:31:31 +0000

>>150 grand is not a huge family income to support 2 adults and 3 kids

An awful lot of families are doing this on 1/3 of that amount.

New comment by chooseaname in "How U.S. media lost the trust of the public"

chooseaname — Sun, 28 Mar 2021 23:19:15 +0000

It started with the 24 hour news introduced with cable. In order to fill 24 hours, they started adding more fluff and opinion. Then slowly opinion started getting treated like fact. Even broadcast news favors opinion over fact now[0].

[0] Or seems to at least.

New comment by chooseaname in "Learn How to Tie Knots"

chooseaname — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 01:31:55 +0000

Two knots: bowline and trucker’s hitch. You’ll need them one day.

New comment by chooseaname in "Learn How to Tie Knots"

chooseaname — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 01:29:25 +0000

I keep a couple lengths of rope (550) next to my desk. When I’m pondering a challenging problem and I can’t take a walk, I practice knots. I find it to be a very good way to get my head completely off the problem and yet easy to stop so I can start working again.

New comment by chooseaname in "Analysis: Texas power outage leaves officials working political angles"

chooseaname — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 02:03:12 +0000

> Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry says that Texans find massive power outages preferable to having more federal government interference in the state's energy grid. * https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/rick-perry-says-texans-woul...

I bet they don’t. If they did they don’t now.