<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: erikaww</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=erikaww</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:23:35 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=erikaww" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by erikaww in "Electric vehicle safety via crash test"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Couldn’t this be engineered away? Put half the battery on top and another on the bottom</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2024 03:02:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41795056</link><dc:creator>erikaww</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41795056</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41795056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by erikaww in "What I tell people new to on-call"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think you mean organizational issue not development skill issue. If shit is constantly hitting the fan, that is the orgs fault, not the engineers</p>
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<p>I’d give multiple weeks of time for a city trash can lol</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2024 16:03:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41672218</link><dc:creator>erikaww</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41672218</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41672218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by erikaww in "What commercial flight route needs the most (min poss.) stops from A to B?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In a decade there will be a light rail that is even faster than the shuttle! (Between Everett and SeaTac or the city)</p>
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<p>I could not have picked a worse example</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Sep 2024 00:01:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41613557</link><dc:creator>erikaww</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41613557</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41613557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by erikaww in "Executions of the conceivably innocent are no better than human sacrifice"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sounds like we should fix the right problem then! If my loved ones don’t get justice, then I am taking shit into my own hands.</p>
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<p>.</p>
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<p>You completely missed the nuance that peer countries have up to half an order higher deaths per capita.<p>This is an easily solved problem. More on the nuance: humans are imperfect when driving, so design infrastructure around that.<p>What are you gaining out of this? Like do you also look aside when gun violence is brought up?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Sep 2024 18:47:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41611840</link><dc:creator>erikaww</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41611840</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41611840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by erikaww in "Federal civil rights watchdog sounds alarm over Feds use of facial recognition"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Kind of. Call it what it is. It’s extremely pervasive and has a massive impact on the culture, quality of life and economics in the US.<p>It is a shame because it would be a fixed problem if we held people accountable or fixed land use or designed infrastructure to be safer</p>
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<p>Hmm yeah plane failures are totally as pervasive as traffic violence<p>Calling it propaganda is also crazy. Like you want people to keep dying this way? Great way to show your true colors pal</p>
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<p>You’ve never been in accident or almost hit by a car? You don’t know anyone that has died that way? Really?<p>Infinitesimal? It’s one of the leading causes of death among youth on the order of suicide, homicide and drug overdoses. Calling it infinitesimally small is horribly offensive.<p>It’s a big reason why our life expectancy is lower than peer countries. Again to reiterate, we spend a ton of our GDP just in healthcare to address traffic violence. Modern fire departments mostly address car accidents rather than fires.<p>You clearly don’t know what you are talking about and you are going to hit a sore spot in many Americans</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Sep 2024 16:13:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41610830</link><dc:creator>erikaww</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41610830</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41610830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by erikaww in "Federal civil rights watchdog sounds alarm over Feds use of facial recognition"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think it would be a fantastic idea for the government to surveil road infrastructure. We spend a crap ton of our GDP just on healthcare addressing the negative impact of traffic violence. Not to mention everyone knows someone that has been killed or affected by this. Outright saying the government shouldn’t monitor this is in bad taste.<p>You can argue that the solution is to stop doubling down on our bad investment, bad that is much less feasible than installing a bunch of traffic cameras.<p>Meta: I welcome the dog pile that will ensue.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Sep 2024 01:27:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41606796</link><dc:creator>erikaww</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41606796</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41606796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by erikaww in "Don't defer Close() on writable files (2017)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Funny thing is that there is a near footgun with this go: if you defer and set a non named return in a defer, like cErr, that won’t actually set that variable. Not sure what actually happens in that case but godbolt would tell you. In that case, the error would get swallowed</p>
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<p>All you need is a <mov></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Sep 2024 01:36:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41462055</link><dc:creator>erikaww</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41462055</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41462055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by erikaww in "Americans' love affair with big cars is killing them"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>“Got mine!”</p>
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<p>Car makers would adjust but road freight would fight this tooth and nail</p>
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<p>hand fed a crow hot cheetos right outside the palace of fine arts. good times.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 31 Aug 2024 05:17:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41406714</link><dc:creator>erikaww</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41406714</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41406714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by erikaww in "A road safety plan that will lead to cars communicating with each other"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s crazy these individuals are forgiven.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2024 01:54:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41306043</link><dc:creator>erikaww</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41306043</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41306043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by erikaww in "Waymo to begin testing on San Francisco freeways this week"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Overcoming stigma perhaps? Making it seem bougier</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Aug 2024 02:39:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41231656</link><dc:creator>erikaww</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41231656</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41231656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by erikaww in "AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in data breach"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If AT&T had spent more on security, this would not have happened. I absolutely do not believe individual engineers should be held liable.</p>
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