Hacker News: ddlutz

New comment by ddlutz in "The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem"

ddlutz — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 05:31:53 +0000

God I have a similar problem with APP3 on flights only. They seem to allow in this deep rumble vibration that my APP2 did not :( Otherwise the APP3 are much better in office, home, etc.

New comment by ddlutz in "Google Fiber is coming to Las Vegas"

ddlutz — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 23:18:17 +0000

I'm surprised Google hasn't forgotten about Google fiber.

New comment by ddlutz in "3D-Printed Dune Chess Set"

ddlutz — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 17:59:42 +0000

I couldn't find it in the article, maybe I missed it, but does anybody have more information on the printer / material used besides just quartz?

New comment by ddlutz in "Vim Racer"

ddlutz — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 18:48:35 +0000

Maybe i'm missing it, but I think this would be much more useful if it showed what the optimal way to navigate per-target was.

New comment by ddlutz in "Carl Weathers has died"

ddlutz — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 23:13:26 +0000

Just saw this episode yesterday! How unfortunate and unexpected his passing is.

New comment by ddlutz in "Construction Time Again: The quality crisis in American building"

ddlutz — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 05:25:20 +0000

For real, having shared walls is such a detriment to mental health having to hear conversations, music, tv, people taking stairs, it's never quiet. Having your own private yard to have bbqs, play with dogs, etc also sounds amazing.

New comment by ddlutz in "A new study looks at how exercise can help alleviate anxiety and depression"

ddlutz — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 05:59:14 +0000

I'm on the unfortunate side of having panic disorder. Some exercise, like weightlifting can trigger panic attacks due to the sudden spike in adrenaline. Steady-state cardio is usually fine.

New comment by ddlutz in "Ozempic drug supresses desire to smoke, drink and more?"

ddlutz — Sat, 20 May 2023 05:52:36 +0000

Why do you think Peter Attia is a charlatan? Out of all these longevity & health influencers he seems most realistic & knowledgeable.

New comment by ddlutz in "Reduced cancer mortality with daily Vitamin D intake"

ddlutz — Tue, 09 May 2023 18:47:36 +0000

Anybody vitamin D deficient even after supplementation? I had mine checked September of last year, it was low even when taking 2000 IU a day, so DR gave me a 50,000 IU pill to take once a week. It's still considered deficient, but not as deficient. I live in Seattle, so not much sun has been out the past 6 months, not sure if that's skewing numbers lower than they are in the summer.

New comment by ddlutz in "Ask HN: Has anyone made the transition from app development to ML/AI work?"

ddlutz — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 22:06:17 +0000

When did you join and how is it going? I had an offer from them ~4 years ago and this was one of the teams that I was in talks with.

New comment by ddlutz in "Learn Vim (2021)"

ddlutz — Sat, 25 Feb 2023 06:57:58 +0000

I don't really "get" using vim as an editor, but I love using vim bindings in vs-code. I've been using vim bindings for maybe a year now? Didn't really keep track of when I started. I definitely consider myself a novice, and maybe am using vim to 10% of it's potential, but the little bit I do use is nice.

On the other hand, I've never considered typing speed or editing speed the bottleneck in programming, it's usually debugging, solving problems, or reading files with 10k+ LOC and multi-hundred line files figuring out what they are doing.

New comment by ddlutz in "Build your own fast, persistent KV store"

ddlutz — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 04:05:33 +0000

Any way to watch the lectures while not a current GT student? I'm an alumni on the OMSCS, but this course was not available before I graduated.

New comment by ddlutz in "HC-tree is an experimental high-concurrency database back end for SQLite"

ddlutz — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 04:57:31 +0000

I guess it really depends on your use case? Something like GMail it probably makes sense to have a database more than 16 TiB.

New comment by ddlutz in "How sugar and fat affect your brain"

ddlutz — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 18:41:13 +0000

From my understanding it's no the dietary cholesterol to worry about, but rather the saturated fat content.

New comment by ddlutz in "Alphabet unit Verily to trim more than 200 jobs"

ddlutz — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 07:09:06 +0000

Interesting, wouldn't first party article be preferred to third party?

New comment by ddlutz in "Sorting with SIMD"

ddlutz — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 08:36:08 +0000

Maybe Google's new "Rune" language will become prevalent https://github.com/google/rune, which supports SoA.

New comment by ddlutz in "How does Windows decide whether your computer has full Internet access?"

ddlutz — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 20:29:05 +0000

I'm surprised "in-home router-level network caching" hasn't become a thing, really. Lets say you have a family of 4, all with iphones that need updating, windows updates, downloading same games from steam, app store, etc. It could be significantly sped up for whole house to download file 1 time instead of 4.

New comment by ddlutz in "Amazon's Jeff Bezos in economy warning: 'Batten down hatches'"

ddlutz — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 01:56:44 +0000

Ally saving account rates are > 2%. You are not "losing money" in that your total account value is going up, but your purchasing power is going down as it's lower than inflation.

New comment by ddlutz in "Apply for student loan debt forgiveness"

ddlutz — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 02:14:11 +0000

I think most people could consider it a one time personal 10k tax deduction.

New comment by ddlutz in "The Next Chapter for Learning on YouTube"

ddlutz — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 20:25:55 +0000

I'm surprised it's taken this long, honestly. Seeing other sites which in some ways just clone Youtubes functionality but are focused on education, where creators can make courses and sell them (Udemy for example), it just makes sense to me.