Hacker News: eskatonic

New comment by eskatonic in "County with 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to 'Conserve Electricity'"

eskatonic — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:36:25 +0000

Hey, paying for blowing up towns is expensive! PG&E's gotta get the money from somewhere! /s

New comment by eskatonic in "I dumped Google for Kagi"

eskatonic — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 21:46:59 +0000

I've been using it for a little over a year now, and I just upgraded to the unlimited search subscription. Totally worth it.

New comment by eskatonic in "The weed-smoking, Labubu-loving, hackathon king of SF"

eskatonic — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 22:46:31 +0000

"Wantrepreneur." Today I embiggened my vocabulary.

New comment by eskatonic in "The Blowtorch Theory: A new model for structure formation in the universe"

eskatonic — Wed, 28 May 2025 22:21:17 +0000

The Xeelee would like a word.

New comment by eskatonic in "A crypto founder faked his death. We found him alive at his dad's house"

eskatonic — Mon, 12 May 2025 13:56:55 +0000

How... how did he think this was going to turn out? You fake your death, then run to mommy & daddy's house, and hope no one finds you? And just keep the cash?

New comment by eskatonic in "Ask HN: What books have been worth your time?"

eskatonic — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 22:17:06 +0000

I feel the same way. "The Tao of Pooh" is a book I come back to a lot.

"The Te of Piglet"... is not.

New comment by eskatonic in "Danes sign petition to buy California from U.S."

eskatonic — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:38:41 +0000

Jeg byder vores danske overherrer velkommen.

New comment by eskatonic in "A marriage proposal spoken in office jargon"

eskatonic — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 18:54:17 +0000

That was physically painful to read.

Brilliant.

New comment by eskatonic in "Waymo does over 150k paid trips and over 1M autonomous miles every week"

eskatonic — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 23:43:00 +0000

There have already been incidents of people getting frisky in the back of the robo-taxi. Cameras be damned, I suppose.

https://sfstandard.com/2023/08/11/san-francisco-robotaxi-cru...

New comment by eskatonic in "Waymo does over 150k paid trips and over 1M autonomous miles every week"

eskatonic — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 23:31:49 +0000

I took my first Waymo trip this past weekend. I will be using it every time from now on.

I try to take an actual taxi (Flywheel) whenever possible, because Uber and Lyft feel... I dunno, exploitative to me. But my last 3-4 cab rides have been annoying and/or terrifying. One cabby stopped in the middle of a busy intersection to check directions. Another cabby got lost the minute I got into the cab, and I had to guide him. Then he kept peppering me with personal questions. Another cabby tried to convert me to Islam...

Waymo was quiet. Obeyed traffic signals. Took a rather tricky backroad to get to my apartment, and navigated it flawlessly. Tried to convert me to the Cylon god.

I'm gonna root for the robots on this one, I'm afraid.

New comment by eskatonic in "Neural network trained on 'Friends' can detect sarcasm 75% of the time"

eskatonic — Mon, 20 May 2024 18:51:08 +0000

Is this why Microsoft named it "Bing?"

New comment by eskatonic in "Woman jailed after RentaHitman.com assassin turned out to be – surprise – FBI"

eskatonic — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 16:30:43 +0000

"If you can't find a hit on the internet, home-made is fine."

New comment by eskatonic in "The Classic Super Star Trek Game"

eskatonic — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 02:37:15 +0000

My Dad worked at Wake Forest University when I was in elementary school. One of my favorite "toys" was an amber-screen terminal in his study, which connected to the HP 3000 mainframe at WFU.

I spent untold hours and hours and hours playing Super Star Trek. I loved it SO MUCH.

The worst was when I was busy blasting Klingons, and someone in the house would pick up the phone in another room and disrupt my modem connection.

This article takes me back!

New comment by eskatonic in "John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity"

eskatonic — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 21:52:17 +0000

"Unity would not be where it is today without the impact of his contributions."

something something damning with faint praise...

New comment by eskatonic in "Learnings of a CEO: Wade Foster, Zapier"

eskatonic — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 21:32:30 +0000

As soon as I see the word "learnings" in the title, I know that whoever wrote the article has nothing of value to say.

New comment by eskatonic in "Ask HN: Non-violent video games with great stories?"

eskatonic — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 20:21:25 +0000

I still listen to the soundtrack on repeat when I'm doing work that requires intense concentration, like coding.

New comment by eskatonic in "The Milton Bradley Big Trak"

eskatonic — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 16:02:57 +0000

The original was grey. ThinkGeek put out a "remake" a few years ago, which was white.

New comment by eskatonic in "Ask HN: How to learn best practices when you have no one to teach you?"

eskatonic — Mon, 18 Mar 2019 19:20:19 +0000

There are a lot of famous books on the subject of best practices: "Code Complete" and "Clean Code" are the first to come to mind, but I'm sure the folks here can recommend others.

New comment by eskatonic in "Ask HN: Chinese spam-calls, anyone know what's going on?"

eskatonic — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 17:33:46 +0000

I got one of those, and let my Chinese coworker listen to it and tell me what it was about. She got the same call, and when she called the number back (which was the Chinese Embassy in San Francisco), they got mad at her.

New comment by eskatonic in "What terrible treatment have you seen in the workplace?"

eskatonic — Sat, 04 Mar 2017 23:55:07 +0000

South of Market, a district in San Francisco with a lot of clubs/nightlife.