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New comment by erelong in "Parking Spot Is Free. Should It Be?"

erelong — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:44:10 +0000

Couldn't read article - paywall - but parking costs might be paid for in other ways rather than charging for parking

New comment by erelong in "Everyone Sounds Smart Now, and I Don't Know Who to Trust"

erelong — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:30:02 +0000

You kind of couldn't trust people before either though

This just makes that fact more visible

New comment by erelong in "A jacket that harvests drinking water from the air"

erelong — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:49:26 +0000

I've heard of collecting water with tarps and assume this is like a vest form of that:

https://www.campingsurvival.com/blogs/camping-survival-blogs...

New comment by erelong in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

erelong — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:39:36 +0000

> "no"

Sometimes human effort doesm't have to be complicated though (concise communications)

New comment by erelong in "I stopped tracking my time. Now I can't focus"

erelong — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:26:31 +0000

Experiment and see what works for you

Maybe track half the time and YOLO the rest

New comment by erelong in "A greyscale iPhone setup that works in everyday life"

erelong — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:04:20 +0000

I use perpetual night mode blue light filter, it just feels cozy enough

Grayscale was a functional problem because some pics communicate with color (like colored maps) so it nudged me away

New comment by erelong in "Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]"

erelong — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:02:14 +0000

So let's create moments or days of observance to make people aware of preventative measures taken

New comment by erelong in "Ask HN: How do you get into a flow state when using AI to code?"

erelong — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:18:59 +0000

try more difficult tasks

New comment by erelong in "Organic foods are not healthier or pesticide free"

erelong — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:27:52 +0000

> All y aren't x, therefore z better than y

Some kind of fallacious argument in this form

New comment by erelong in "A Family Project (2022)"

erelong — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:16:46 +0000

Possibly related but the funeral industry could probably use some innovation, typical caskets seem very expensive compared to simpler pine caskets

New comment by erelong in "Doing nothing at work"

erelong — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:20:16 +0000

It sounds like you could have a little "buffer time" where you "do nothing" to prevent burnout when you need that free time for something that pops up and to take adequate breaks to pace yourself cognitively speaking

Otherwise I don't see why you couldn't do lower value tasks with flexibility to abandon them if something higher value comes up

New comment by erelong in "Boomers are hoarding most of America's wealth and power"

erelong — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:45:38 +0000

I think people object more to an alleged disruption of the conditions for generating wealth / power by said generation

New comment by erelong in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

erelong — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 01:21:39 +0000

I was never dismissive, it always seemed pretty cool at each step

Maybe in 2024 I was amazed to see it one shot unique snippets of code

New comment by erelong in "Do the Hardest Thing"

erelong — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:54:18 +0000

"brb gonna go broker world peace"

naw but this kind of mindset ended up burning me out at times; some of us clearly take general ideas like this in different ways than intended perhaps

but I think the actual "trick" here is about finding unfilled niches rather than necessarily doing "the hardest thing"

New comment by erelong in "Ask HN: My competitors have flawed products but I can't get traction"

erelong — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:24:12 +0000

Try different marketing approach

New comment by erelong in "The British university is dying, and it seems that almost nobody cares"

erelong — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:59:56 +0000

the university system(s) as it is can't die soon enough

New comment by erelong in "Programmers will document for Claude, but not for each other"

erelong — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:08:18 +0000

I've always found something like this funny: programmers writing detailed code for a computer to use but not detailed documentation for a human to use for using the code... there were frequently gaps in logic which they'd never allow with code itself

The form was usually something like "do x" where x was composed of "y + z" but how to do y or z wasn't explained

New comment by erelong in "Do we need billionaires?"

erelong — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:28:48 +0000

"The problem isn't that we have billionaires but that the system doesn't make more millionaires and billionaires"

Discuss?

New comment by erelong in "I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling"

erelong — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 02:14:21 +0000

It's really just education - as well as industry - is over-regulated so there's no competition, ergo no cheaper higher quality offerings at a higher quantity

New comment by erelong in "Wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026"

erelong — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:05:22 +0000

I know some people who are adamantly against solar and wind

(personally I like both but I can see some shortcomings - for example I have heard that ai datacenters are using gas at times because of its flexibility)

So what are some of the best talking points to "sell" solar and wind to the unconvinced?

Or will they just adopt it once it's seen everywhere?