Hacker News: dkdbejwi383

New comment by dkdbejwi383 in "Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear"

dkdbejwi383 — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 09:11:01 +0000

Surely the real sweet spot is diversity? Solar for when it's sunny (which is more often than many think in lots of parts of the UK, especially SE England), wind (reliable most of the year in other parts of the UK), tidal/wave/hydro, etc.

New comment by dkdbejwi383 in "The new iPad mini"

dkdbejwi383 — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 14:48:43 +0000

I've been hoping for a water and dust resistant tablet for use in the pottery studio for a while (for photographing work in progress, cataloguing glaze ingredients, taking notes, etc), as it's a wet and dirty environment, but the price kills all interest.

New comment by dkdbejwi383 in "New iPad mini"

dkdbejwi383 — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 14:43:16 +0000

You tip for purchases from a shop in Canada? Or is that a joke that's gone over my head?

New comment by dkdbejwi383 in "The new iPad mini"

dkdbejwi383 — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 14:04:24 +0000

Costs as much as the full-size one did until recently.

New comment by dkdbejwi383 in "Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years"

dkdbejwi383 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 14:34:01 +0000

Parties and dates aren't the only ways to socialise. What about sports clubs, art or language classes, board games, a beer or wine tasting club?

New comment by dkdbejwi383 in "The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s"

dkdbejwi383 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:37:40 +0000

> Not only these morons had in mind that electricity demand should decrease (even before AI, it was obvious that demand would go up as we are moving away from fossil fuel with both heating and transportation going electric).

Demand on the national grid probably should; as home solar (yes, even in stereotypically dark and cloudy UK), wind etc becomes more and more viable I think a mix of on-site and grid electricity will be increasingly common.

New comment by dkdbejwi383 in "Postgres isn't slow, your storage is"

dkdbejwi383 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 08:43:05 +0000

There's a balance to be had between a highly specialised custom tool that does exactly what you need now, versus a generalist tool that does what you do today and more but is less optimised for your specific use-case today. That, and standing on the shoulders of giants, knowing why those fences are there, and so on.

New comment by dkdbejwi383 in "The 15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished"

dkdbejwi383 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 10:52:15 +0000

They're linked in the article.

New comment by dkdbejwi383 in "The 15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished"

dkdbejwi383 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:03:19 +0000

Don't yuck someone else's yum

New comment by dkdbejwi383 in "Show HN: Mecum, open source Mac app that lets agents use ANY desktop software"

dkdbejwi383 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:19:37 +0000

That's quite the name

New comment by dkdbejwi383 in "Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout"

dkdbejwi383 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 08:28:56 +0000

Most races I've participated in or spectated at in the last few years you'd see Hoka on at least half the runners' feet.

New comment by dkdbejwi383 in "iTerm 2 Companion App"

dkdbejwi383 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:57:01 +0000

What does it actually do? The page just states "it lets your phone work together with your terminal" but what does that actually mean?

New comment by dkdbejwi383 in "Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives"

dkdbejwi383 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:14:41 +0000

In most places where train travel is an option, you'll probably be a 10-15 min walk from a station, or a 5 minute cycle, or a short connecting trip on a bus or tram. Multi-modal trips and short walks are normal in a lot of places - I know this isn't the case in America because of how American owned mapping apps like Google Maps go out of their way to hide routes with more than a 5 minute walk involved.

New comment by dkdbejwi383 in "Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives"

dkdbejwi383 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:05:57 +0000

What a strange thing to say

New comment by dkdbejwi383 in "Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives"

dkdbejwi383 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:01:11 +0000

Enforcement, too, including the little things that "don't really matter". Letting people get away with minor infringements like parking where it's forbidden, idling with the engine running, close passes etc means the window of what's acceptable driving behaviour shifts.

We should return to the idea that driving is a privilege, not a right.

New comment by dkdbejwi383 in "What will our economic future look like?"

dkdbejwi383 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:23:34 +0000

> Ultimately, what the economy looks like in 2030 depends on many factors, like what AI can do, and how companies and workers choose to adopt it.

So the answer is basically "beats me lol"

New comment by dkdbejwi383 in "I wanna live an NPC life"

dkdbejwi383 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 21:44:26 +0000

It’s funny, because one might argue that a lack of awareness of, or empathy for the fact that other people also have thoughts and autonomy also demonstrates a lack of self-conscious critical thought.

New comment by dkdbejwi383 in "Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private"

dkdbejwi383 — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 11:40:50 +0000

I can't imagine this is at top of mind for many voters, or even in mind at all. People are more concerned with things like the cost of living, immigration and things like local planning law.

New comment by dkdbejwi383 in "Pnpm 12.0"

dkdbejwi383 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 08:13:34 +0000

Markdown is ubiquitous in the kinds of places Hacker News visitors also tend to visit, like GitHub, various ticketing and project management systems like Jira, note takers like Obsidian and Notion (or an approximation of Markdown).

I've used `--` for years in place of an em-dash, which markdown renders as an actual em-dash.

New comment by dkdbejwi383 in "Nebula Sans"

dkdbejwi383 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:27:43 +0000

And then there's the cheesecake from La Viña which stands above all others.