Hacker News: feistypharit

New comment by feistypharit in "I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C"

feistypharit — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 09:33:22 +0000

I used to have a bip and loved it. The big thing was battery life and always on screen. It used a reflective LCD screen to do it. No newer amazefits use them.

I’ve since moved to using COROS watches. Not as cheap but really good. Always screen, weeks of battery. Even GPS functions are efficient . Recently did 11 hr hike with GPS and only used about 23% battery.

New comment by feistypharit in "Amazon Rules Out Displaying Tariff Impact After White House Attack"

feistypharit — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 22:26:47 +0000

Ha! I used to watch that all the time as a kid. I imagine it’ll get a lot harder!

New comment by feistypharit in "Commercial jet collides with Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan airport"

feistypharit — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 10:51:09 +0000

Yes, this multiplies the complexity. When you talk to ATC you always need your tail number and airplane model. Why? Because a landing Cessna 150 is moving at 70mph. An incoming jet is moving at 130mph. And the jet can’t just slow down to 70 or it will fall out of the sky. They need to consider aircraft performance in all aspects of planning.

New comment by feistypharit in "Ask HN: How do you prevent the impact of social media on your children?"

feistypharit — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 22:59:33 +0000

We just got Apple Watches for our 11 and 13 year olds. It is a decent middle ground, as up to now we’ve been very limiting of their screen time.

Our district has strict blocks in place at school, but most kids still already have phones. We did it for that reason and so so we don’t introduce phones at the same time they start driving (which is when we figured they’d actually need it)

One thing I wasn’t quite prepared for is kids use huge group chats that result in hundreds of messages a day. Learned how to mute discussions really quick. You can also limit access to groups with parental controls.

Key is talking to your kids regularly and helping them navigate life. Real and digital.

New comment by feistypharit in "A laptop stand made from a single sheet of recycled paper"

feistypharit — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 12:43:47 +0000

The ikea one mentions peeling asparagus. Is that a thing?

New comment by feistypharit in "FCC opens entire 6 GHz band to low power device operations"

feistypharit — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:08:05 +0000

Some of the very first WiFi was 915mhz. Slow, but reached everywhere!

New comment by feistypharit in "In some areas of military strength, China has surpassed America"

feistypharit — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 23:35:58 +0000

I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not, but half of the US thinks WE should have an authoritarian government. We may soon be in a post-democracy world.

New comment by feistypharit in "Ethernet at NANOG 92"

feistypharit — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 23:48:58 +0000

I think a decent number on here.

New comment by feistypharit in "Launch HN: Airhart Aeronautics (YC S22) – A modern personal airplane"

feistypharit — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 01:17:57 +0000

If there’s no rudder controls, how does one do cross wind landings?

New comment by feistypharit in "Frozen embryos are 'children,' Alabama Supreme Court rules"

feistypharit — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 21:47:43 +0000

Wow, so can I claim them as dependents?!

New comment by feistypharit in "Streaming wars are over and Netflix won"

feistypharit — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 00:07:47 +0000

PBS is still $5/mo and has some reasonable stuff. Apps for most platforms. Also nice to support the local college that runs the station.

New comment by feistypharit in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2023)"

feistypharit — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 18:39:51 +0000

Blumira | Full Time | Sr Software Engineer | Remote | https://www.blumira.com/

We’re a small, fully remote, venture-backed startup based in Michigan. We help SMB and mid-market companies detect and respond to security threats by providing accessible solutions for resource-strapped IT and security teams. We ingest millions of logs per day and manage over 5PB of data on our platform.

We're looking for people who can build maintainable systems that scale!

Our stack: Python, Go, k8s, GCP

https://www.blumira.com/careers/?gh_jid=4788160004

New comment by feistypharit in "What frequent fliers do for status"

feistypharit — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 03:08:31 +0000

I’m in the same boat, except instead of driving, I decided to get my private pilots license. being able to hop in a plane whenever you want and not worry about traffic or tsa. I always thought it was super expensive and never knew what good it was to fly into a small airport with no car, however, now that I almost have it, I realize it’s a whole community. It’s not an easy process to get and somewhat high maintenance, but can be quite rewarding.

However, it’s not cheaper than commercial. Expect about 10k for the license. Renting a small plane is about $175/hour. Owning a plane only makes sense if you plan to fly more than 100 hrs a year.

You need to fly at least once a quarter and have faa checkride every 2 years.

The small planes are very weather dependent.

However, the first time you fly solo you really feel amazing!

New comment by feistypharit in "Wisk Aero: Autonomous Urban Air Mobility"

feistypharit — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 12:57:51 +0000

Funny enough, the faa recently released guidance on “vertiports”. This may actually happen…

https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-releases-vertiport-design-s...

New comment by feistypharit in "Ask HN: What service are you using to send marketing emails?"

feistypharit — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 00:28:44 +0000

I’ve had a good experience with email octopus. Converted a client from spreadsheets and big Bcc lists with little problem. I’m not sure how big or how many lists you have.

Https://emailoctopus.com

New comment by feistypharit in "Which housing markets are most exposed to the coming interest-rate storm?"

feistypharit — Wed, 11 May 2022 19:11:50 +0000

Make sure you understand your tax liabilities. Chicago taxes are insane.

New comment by feistypharit in "Ask HN: Migadu? Postale? Mxroute? Or any other mail services using this model?"

feistypharit — Sun, 24 Apr 2022 23:32:44 +0000

I have some domains on migadu, one on mxroute, and one on purely mail. I have my Mai domain on google, and seriously thinking of eventually moving everything to purely mail.

I bought the mxroute lifetime membership, but the storage is kinda low (10g). Also Got bit with the migadu price mess in 2020. The purely mail model of pay for what you use makes sense to me. The developer is responsive and says it’s profitable.

New comment by feistypharit in "Tax the Land"

feistypharit — Sat, 16 Apr 2022 18:03:50 +0000

I like the “land doesn’t disappear” quote. Here in the Great Lakes region the lakes have been up and there are absolutely people paying taxes on land that’s underwater. So sure, it may not disappear, but there are any number of ways for it to become useless. Unless zoning allows building on stilts and letting utilities run there.

That being said, I think we want to do something to avoid becoming a nation of land barons

New comment by feistypharit in "Ask HN: Migrate from G Suite, keep email addresses?"

feistypharit — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 00:05:15 +0000

I host some domains with migadu and have been pleased. For my newer, less used domains anyway.

I also bought a lifetime account in mxroute. It’s also fine, but wonky, as they’ve repurposed other tools to admin it.

However, some of my users have a lot of old email, and the storage options on migadu suck. I don’t want to pay more per month because two accounts need more space.

Lately, I found https://purelymail.com and put a domain with them. They’re neat because it’s usage based billing for storage. The billing model is exactly as I want, however, I think it’s a one man show, so reliability and longevity could be an issue.

Ultimately, I may use cloudflare email routing and migrate people to free gmail accounts. Sadly, the multiple logins (gmail and custom domain) will be confusing.

New comment by feistypharit in "Ask HN: Developers who switched careers, what are you doing now?"

feistypharit — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 22:58:56 +0000

Woohoo! Me too! Now the kids are 8 and 10 and I’m looking to get back into the workforce. It’s amazing how few people respect the work involved being a full time parent.