Hacker News: edwardsdl

New comment by edwardsdl in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

edwardsdl — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:00:38 +0000

If you just want a tiny desktop computer, sure. The reason to buy a Pi is for the GPIO and the well-established ecosystem.

New comment by edwardsdl in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16 GB, $350"

edwardsdl — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:43:02 +0000

The linked model has 16x the amount of RAM that $35 model had. You can still get a 1GB model for less than $50.

New comment by edwardsdl in "Croatian freediver held breath for 29 minutes"

edwardsdl — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 03:41:34 +0000

What do you mean by “iterating animal names”?

New comment by edwardsdl in "Ask HN: Why aren’t Americans protesting on a large scale?"

edwardsdl — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 22:50:41 +0000

True, but I think it’s a distinction without a difference. If 30% of folks voted for it and 40% didn’t care enough to show up, it’s still a damning indictment of the American people.

Note: I can’t see the original comment, so hopefully I’m not defending some heinous remark…

New comment by edwardsdl in "Clean Code vs. A Philosophy Of Software Design"

edwardsdl — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 06:03:39 +0000

I’d love for you to expand on this!

New comment by edwardsdl in "Apple says it will add 20k jobs, spend $500B, produce AI servers in US"

edwardsdl — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 19:56:48 +0000

> with the possible exception of Bluetooth

Good thing no one uses that!

New comment by edwardsdl in "Ask HN: Why do you use Apple products?"

edwardsdl — Thu, 09 May 2024 04:43:49 +0000

Yup, it’s exactly this for me. I recently spent about six months with Fedora. It felt good and did everything I needed it to, but it was plagued by connectivity issues with my Bluetooth keyboard and mouse.

I have things to do. Diagnosing driver/chipset compatibility problems doesn’t help me get those things done, so back to macOS I went.

New comment by edwardsdl in "To Lose Weight, Eating Less Is Far More Important Than Exercising More (2015)"

edwardsdl — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 06:49:41 +0000

Just a disclaimer, I’m not an expert in this area.

Yes, a person in 60° water is losing heat energy more quickly than someone in 60° air. This is because water is much more efficient at transferring this energy - something like 24x IIRC.

Determining an equivalent air temperature requires knowing a bunch of additional factors (e.g. humidity). I don’t know of a rule of thumb you could apply other than saying the equivalent air temperature of water below one’s body temperature would be much colder, and the inverse would be true for water temperatures above one’s body temperature.

New comment by edwardsdl in "To Lose Weight, Eating Less Is Far More Important Than Exercising More (2015)"

edwardsdl — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 04:51:34 +0000

Water is a much, much better conductor of heat than air.

New comment by edwardsdl in "PostgreSQL is enough"

edwardsdl — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 05:12:42 +0000

I’ve found that surrounding myself with competent people - or better yet, people far better than me - has lead me to much better paying jobs.

New comment by edwardsdl in "PostgreSQL is enough"

edwardsdl — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 04:06:14 +0000

> The answer was that they are free and therefore we don't trust them.

If you don’t mind a bit of unsolicited advice: run.

New comment by edwardsdl in "ISO 3103: international standard for brewing tea"

edwardsdl — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 00:39:42 +0000

100° for green tea… madness!

New comment by edwardsdl in "SomaFM"

edwardsdl — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 14:02:39 +0000

SomaFM is awesome. I’ve actually got DEF CON radio playing in the background right now!

New comment by edwardsdl in "I never got a response after Google assured me that they'd do a full retro"

edwardsdl — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 22:09:37 +0000

> I’ve tried to switch away from… search

FWIW, I’m absolutely in love with Kagi. I do realize the price makes it a non-starter for many, though.

New comment by edwardsdl in "Elon Musk to advertisers who are trying to 'blackmail' him: 'Go f–- yourself'"

edwardsdl — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 03:55:26 +0000

> If someone’s going to try and blackmail me with advertising? Blackmail me with money? Go fuck yourself.

I don’t see how what advertisers are doing could be construed as blackmail or any other form of extortion. At least to me, this looks like a simple protest - certainly not anything illegal or nefarious.

Maybe there’s more to it that I’m not aware of. If so, he didn’t make a compelling case here.

New comment by edwardsdl in "Why Cities: Skylines 2 performs poorly"

edwardsdl — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 01:45:25 +0000

… and inevitably three weeks later priorities change and it all goes out the window.

New comment by edwardsdl in "Productivity has grown faster in Western Europe than in America"

edwardsdl — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 04:39:30 +0000

For me it’s a question of priorities. My salary makes up nearly 80% of my household income. Maintaining financial stability for my family is far, far more important than going on a crusade that might risk my employment.

New comment by edwardsdl in "All Slack Employees Forced to Spend a Week Getting Salesforce Certifications"

edwardsdl — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 04:51:33 +0000

If your 1:1s are status updates, then you’re doing it wrong.

New comment by edwardsdl in "The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing"

edwardsdl — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 04:13:01 +0000

Tom Scott did a video about this a few years ago.

https://youtu.be/dt22yWYX64w

New comment by edwardsdl in "How to calculate how much water you should drink"

edwardsdl — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 19:01:28 +0000

Or maybe “four to eight” cups. The idea of drinking almost 12 liters of water each day is pretty amusing.