Hacker News: dandy23

New comment by dandy23 in "I'm done making desktop applications (2009)"

dandy23 — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 06:32:29 +0000

Phones have as robust file system browsers as desktop computers.

It's probably just that the users of phones are not that "robust" and organized to care where the files are.

New comment by dandy23 in "I'm done making desktop applications (2009)"

dandy23 — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 06:29:36 +0000

I partly agree with you, but File System Access API requires Chrome. Other browsers do not support it. And this API does not support checking for file changes on the file system, eg. To reload a changed file like desktop editors do.

New comment by dandy23 in "Volcker's Announcement of Anti-Inflation Measures"

dandy23 — Mon, 06 May 2024 07:14:53 +0000

Maybe model the past, but not predict the future.

New comment by dandy23 in "Volcker's Announcement of Anti-Inflation Measures"

dandy23 — Thu, 02 May 2024 12:43:55 +0000

The relationship between interest and inflation is probably not as simple as people and experts seem to think. It's non-linear, involves hysteresis and also time delays. It's probably not possible to model.

New comment by dandy23 in "Wegovy could be covered for at least 3.6M people under new Medicare rules"

dandy23 — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 20:07:42 +0000

Why is it we can spend 10k/year on our car, but not 10k/year on ourself. We have to ask our government/insurance to pay. Makes no sense.

New comment by dandy23 in "Burn After Wearing"

dandy23 — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 12:17:38 +0000

This is where waste to energy plants should be used. It is a shame the unusable clothes are not burnt directly at the source to create electricity and remote heating. Instead it is shipped to the other end of the world by boat and truck and then burnt in open nature for no good.

New comment by dandy23 in "The man who killed Google Search?"

dandy23 — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 10:48:33 +0000

I have not seen any ossues with results. I have found what I was looking for every time both around tech and general topics.

New comment by dandy23 in "A Beginner's Guide to the ESP8266 (2017)"

dandy23 — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 10:46:36 +0000

The RP2040 doesn't have a good low power sleep mode. It uses several hundred uA in sleep and dormant mode versus the ESP8266 which uses only 20uA in deep sleep.

This makes a huge difference for sensor systems etc. A pico/RP2040 cannot be powered by a battery for very long.

New comment by dandy23 in "A Beginner's Guide to the ESP8266 (2017)"

dandy23 — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 09:47:48 +0000

It uses a lot of power for embedded apps though. Not often you need all that performance either.

New comment by dandy23 in "The man who killed Google Search?"

dandy23 — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 18:42:11 +0000

Kagi is still a good search engine though. Hopefully they continue to improve that part too, even if they do AI stuff.

New comment by dandy23 in "Debugging the Doctor Brain: Who's teaching doctors how to think?"

dandy23 — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 19:33:55 +0000

I think OP is quite right that insurance drives tests and costs up because contrary to what we think it is good for the insurance companies if the doctor bill is high because then people buy more expensive insurances and thus higher revenue for the insurance company.

If the cost would be low there would be no need for an insurance.

New comment by dandy23 in "Debugging the Doctor Brain: Who's teaching doctors how to think?"

dandy23 — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 19:23:55 +0000

The biology doesn't change of course, but the procedures, drugs, medical devices, treatments and overall knowledge and best practices does.

An annual physical is such a small and simple subset of the total medical field so not sure why you bring it up.

New comment by dandy23 in "Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S."

dandy23 — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 18:00:23 +0000

And that's a very annoying condition to drive under. So quite useful.

New comment by dandy23 in "EU data shows PHEVs emit 350% more CO2 than tested values"

dandy23 — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 12:00:49 +0000

Why do people buy them then?

New comment by dandy23 in "Smoking cannabis is now legal in Germany"

dandy23 — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 12:00:53 +0000

What is meant with "legal cannabis"? That the last step somehow is a licensed dealer selling? Or is is guaranteed the whole chain from farmer to point of sales is legal?

New comment by dandy23 in "Smoking cannabis is now legal in Germany"

dandy23 — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 11:52:26 +0000

Producers following the laws can not compete with illegal producers on price. So even if you make consumption legal, the illegal networks will remain and become even bigger as the market expands.

New comment by dandy23 in "Ask HN: Who's getting their job applications rejected?"

dandy23 — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 14:18:57 +0000

This is something I have been wondering about a lot. How can companies pay so much for engineers i Silicon Valley when you get the same level of engineers in Europe for 1/3 the price. And provable 1/6 of you look more to the east or asia.

Sure, there might be some kind of network knowledge going on in Silicon Valley, but now with work from home, that's pretty much fading away.

New comment by dandy23 in "Car is spying on you, leading to higher insurance rates"

dandy23 — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:46:38 +0000

Apply it to healthcare and rethink.

Not saying you are completely wrong, but I think there are other measures to stop bad driving.

The whole point of insurance is also the even out the tops and bottoms. If everyone paid their fair share cost for the insurance there would be no point with insurance. You could as well pay the damage yourself when it comes.

New comment by dandy23 in "In Economics Do We Know What We're Doing? Nobel Prize winner grows disenchanted"

dandy23 — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:35:49 +0000

The problem with economic models is that they remove almost all parameters except a few. But the removed parameters account for like 90% of the outcome.

That's the only way you can create models of something as complex as society. It's way more complex and chaotic than weather and still economists think they can predict months and years into the future.

New comment by dandy23 in "Giant 'sand battery' holds a week's heat for a whole town"

dandy23 — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 13:49:48 +0000

I cannot explain the physics, but a big rock that has basked in the sun is really warm for a long time after sunset. A bucket of water loses its temperature faster.

The higher density of rock probably plays a big role.