Hacker News: elSidCampeador

New comment by elSidCampeador in "Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?"

elSidCampeador — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:12:24 +0000

I believe NASA / EU provide daily satellite imagery for free (which is of relatively high quality too). I wonder if there's a way to take that data, and training some kind of image recognition model that figures out "movement" or something to the same end? Would be cool to see

New comment by elSidCampeador in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

elSidCampeador — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 19:32:26 +0000

I changed the prompt to 50 feet, and poked gemini a bit when it failed and it gave me

> In my defense, 50 feet is such a short trip that I went straight into "efficiency mode" without checking the logic gate for "does the car have legs?"

interesting

New comment by elSidCampeador in "I hate GitHub Actions with passion"

elSidCampeador — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:10:09 +0000

makefile commands are the way

New comment by elSidCampeador in "Show HN: Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, yours forever"

elSidCampeador — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:02:44 +0000

I wonder if this can be hooked up with the now-dead Apollo app in some way, to get back a slice of time that is forever lost now?

New comment by elSidCampeador in "Why is Zig so cool?"

elSidCampeador — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 13:51:51 +0000

try pixi!

New comment by elSidCampeador in "Why is Zig so cool?"

elSidCampeador — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 02:12:22 +0000

For this sort of stuff I find micromamba / pixi a better way of managing packages, as oppposed to the pip / uv family of tools

New comment by elSidCampeador in "Who needs Git when you have 1M context windows?"

elSidCampeador — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 16:00:01 +0000

same - my eod commits are always titled 'checkpoint commit: ' and push to remote. Then before the MR is made (or turned from draft to final) I squash the checkpoint commits - gives me a psychological feeling of safety more than anything else imo

New comment by elSidCampeador in "Detect Electron apps on Mac that hasn't been updated to fix the system wide lag"

elSidCampeador — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 14:22:12 +0000

It's grown on me, the old launchpad was just a colossal waste of space imo so I find it nice that my app list is now integrated with spotlight

New comment by elSidCampeador in "The history of cataract surgery"

elSidCampeador — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 16:19:39 +0000

I imagine the pace in India was also borne out of necessity - there are just so many more cases to go through there, that the surgeons had no choice but to adapt.

New comment by elSidCampeador in "Detect Electron apps on Mac that hasn't been updated to fix the system wide lag"

elSidCampeador — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 15:23:26 +0000

spotlight in tahoe is pretty good actually

New comment by elSidCampeador in "Someone keeps stealing, flying, fixing and returning this man's 1958 Cessna"

elSidCampeador — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 18:22:01 +0000

Very bizarre. To fly a plane out, won't the pilot of the plane have to speak with ATC? I wonder if letting the ATC (of the municipal airport) be informed that this plane tends to be flown by someone who might not be authorized might help?

New comment by elSidCampeador in "AirPods succeed by not selling you a new pair"

elSidCampeador — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 16:33:04 +0000

I only replace my airpods when i lose them - never due to battery issues etc

New comment by elSidCampeador in "Why Koreans ask what year you were born"

elSidCampeador — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 21:20:33 +0000

*Gladwell - Malcolm Campbell died long ago

New comment by elSidCampeador in "The Diary of Samuel Pepys"

elSidCampeador — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 18:03:23 +0000

This made me seek it out, and my oh my. Link for those interested - https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1665/09/28/

New comment by elSidCampeador in "Betting on the Pope was the original prediction market"

elSidCampeador — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 18:39:57 +0000

For anyone, who, like me, wanted to know about how this story truly ended:

> Pope Theodore II (Latin: Theodorus II; 840 – December 897) was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States for twenty days in December 897. His short reign occurred during a period of partisan strife... His main act as pope was to annul the recent Cadaver Synod, therefore reinstating the acts and ordinations of Pope Formosus, which had themselves been annulled by Pope Stephen VI. He also had the body of Formosus recovered from the river Tiber and reburied with honour.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Theodore_II

New comment by elSidCampeador in "Google's Culture of Fear"

elSidCampeador — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 19:31:04 +0000

Berkshire Hathaway. Not a "true" investment fund but not far off either.

New comment by elSidCampeador in "Apple has not fixed the macOS audio left/right balance bug for nearly 10 years"

elSidCampeador — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 14:15:47 +0000

TIL! So far I'd been thinking that it was maybe an issue with my headphones (Bose QC45, connecting to the MBA M1)

New comment by elSidCampeador in "The Unique History of Japanese Plastic Food Samples"

elSidCampeador — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 14:38:04 +0000

it can be argued that you're sampling the food with your eyes in this case

New comment by elSidCampeador in "My toddler still loves planes, so I upgraded her radar"

elSidCampeador — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 19:54:23 +0000

FYI, discussion on part 1 here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38435908

New comment by elSidCampeador in "Google lays off hundreds working on its voice-activated assistant"

elSidCampeador — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 06:17:21 +0000

I wonder if this will work - buy a couple (even 1 share should do, now that I think of it) shares of apple, write a letter to investor relations saying you're a shareholder, you've found bugs, you've filed them, nothing's been done, this is very disappointing, etc etc

edit: added the stuff within brackets