Hacker News: hansword

New comment by hansword in "SF’s Black Market Thrives Off Retail Theft"

hansword — Sat, 30 Jul 2022 07:57:42 +0000

Did you ask one of your poorer friends before putting words into other peoples mouth?

New comment by hansword in "SF’s Black Market Thrives Off Retail Theft"

hansword — Sat, 30 Jul 2022 07:40:39 +0000

This whole bunch of comments shows that y'all have far too much money for your own good.

New comment by hansword in "SF’s Black Market Thrives Off Retail Theft"

hansword — Sat, 30 Jul 2022 07:34:58 +0000

you don't see why? really? Please ask one of your poorer friends if they see why.

New comment by hansword in "We don't do that here (2017)"

hansword — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 16:21:19 +0000

Your comment made me remember another handy rule:

"if stuff doesn't cut both ways, find out why it doesn't"

New comment by hansword in "The Mattel Spinwelder was the coolest Christmas gift of the 1970s"

hansword — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 16:13:13 +0000

Normal rpm's for a spin welder are <3000.

Datasheet: https://www.sonics.com/site/assets/files/2949/spin-welder.pd...

New comment by hansword in "Helium has revenues of $6.5k/month after $365M investment from A16Z"

hansword — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 16:06:28 +0000

Wut? The prices have risen since? surprisepikachu.png

New comment by hansword in "The Mattel Spinwelder was the coolest Christmas gift of the 1970s"

hansword — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 16:04:34 +0000

> would spin the rivet to about 11,000,343 RPM

I just checked with the datasheet of a current commercial spin welder.[0] The rpm's given on the datasheet are 500 to 2500. I think the author might have slightly exaggerated the capabilities of their 1970s toy for effect.

[0] https://www.sonics.com/site/assets/files/2949/spin-welder.pd...

New comment by hansword in "[dead]"

hansword — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 16:21:04 +0000

Some friends in the US are really non-ironically worried about the country coming apart within the next few years.

New comment by hansword in "Russia to quit International Space Station after 2024"

hansword — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 16:14:04 +0000

Look how often this has been posted already: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=russia+to+quit

New comment by hansword in "Mullvad is now available on Amazon"

hansword — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 16:04:02 +0000

Do you, by chance, write cheap adventure stories for a living?

Cause this sounds like something I read a few months ago. A pretty silly plan.

Banned from Minecraft, NFTworlds says it’ll just make a better game

hansword — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 15:17:10 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/07/blockchain-blocked-from-minecraft-blocks-out-new-block-game-path/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32239536

Points: 3

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New comment by hansword in "Helium has revenues of $6.5k/month after $365M investment from A16Z"

hansword — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 14:27:00 +0000

I care about these things and left crypto over a decade ago.

New comment by hansword in "Saudi Crown Prince unveils plans for $500bn structure to house 9M people"

hansword — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 13:31:52 +0000

You are missing the central point of the Walkie-Talkie and Disney-Concert-Hall controversies. These are Frank-Gehry(-style) buildings, and in those roughly half of all surfaces is a concave and half is a convex mirror. THIS concentration to one point is what turns the summer sun into death rays.

Reflected sun, by definition, has a little less energy than direct sun. So, given the mirror walls are straight, as the designs show, you get (at maximum) 200% of normal desert sun energy, which isn't comfortable, but not a Gehry-style death ray.

New comment by hansword in "Saudi Crown Prince unveils plans for $500bn structure to house 9M people"

hansword — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 13:27:04 +0000

With an express train from the easternmost stop to the westernmost stop, zero in-between stops... possible, but not very practicable.

New comment by hansword in "Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious"

hansword — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 13:23:37 +0000

You are right. And I do understand why he does it. I can see his side.

But I sit on the other side. I hate it and will tell everyone how much I hate it.

--- Edit:

Or, if you prefer, in market terms: Because I am not alone, there is a market for non-clickbaity titles, non-exaggerated thumbs, and there are channels that cater to this market.

New comment by hansword in "Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious"

hansword — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 11:12:58 +0000

There have been many great suggestions, but I am surprised at the lack of:

- Tom7 / Suckerpinch - it feels like hackernews catnip to me

New comment by hansword in "Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious"

hansword — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 11:07:33 +0000

I want to very much second excluding Veritasium. Whenever he talked about something I was knowledgeable in, he made mistakes. This combined with branding himself as 'the element of truth' and the increasing over-clickbaity titles and thumbs made me stop watching him.

It's an entertainment channel, and if you want light science entertainment, and expect to forget everything within a few hours, it's a good channel. If you want a science/learning/education channel, it isn't.

New comment by hansword in "The GNU Name System"

hansword — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 10:59:44 +0000

Think about how the hosts.txt file was originally used before the DNS. It's closer to that (with a lot of extra sophistication and 40+ year learning)

New comment by hansword in "M2 MacBook Air – How to Fix Fast Overheating for $15"

hansword — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 11:07:11 +0000

There is another consideration that people on YouTube ignore, but Apple doesn't.

You don't want the underside of the computer to reach substantially over 40deg for a considerable amount of time. This is because some people put their laptop on their lap and if it is too hot, it starts slowly cooking the leg. This has happened before, and thus nowadays, all new computers make sure the underside doesn't exceed 40deg for longer periods.

So I wouldn't be surprised if the people on YouTube traded performance for on-lap-safety. Apple can't, for obvious reasons.

New comment by hansword in "Consumers Would Pay the Price for Breaking Up Big Tech"

hansword — Sat, 23 Jul 2022 14:50:02 +0000

What is the price?

shut-up-and-take-my-money.jpg

Where do I sign? Can we make it same-day delivery?