Hacker News: hispanic

New comment by hispanic in "Let me pay for Firefox"

hispanic — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 17:08:45 +0000

I willingly pay $5/month for Kagi. I'd willingly pay $5/month for Firefox.

New comment by hispanic in "Roll-Invert-Unroll: An easier way to replace a duvet cover"

hispanic — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 15:52:37 +0000

Here's a video that demonstrates it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fzNuhgY_9A

New comment by hispanic in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

hispanic — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 17:53:56 +0000

https://michaelscepaniak.com

I've been blogging since 2008 (but very inconsistently) about sustainability, software development, diet & exercise, entrepreneurship, travel, finance, and other stuff.

Hopkins study identifies the body odors that attract mosquitoes

hispanic — Mon, 29 May 2023 14:55:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/public-health/hopkins-study-mosquito-body-odor-2SDHDXE43JEMRPCYTXLMOANSFY/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36114600

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Primitive Warfare Among the Natives of Western Alaska [pdf]

hispanic — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 21:33:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.jstor.org/tc/accept?origin=%2Fstable%2Fpdf%2F534751.pdf&is_image=False

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34648005

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Zapping ‘Zombies’ of Aging

hispanic — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 14:44:39 +0000

Article URL: https://digitaledition.baltimoresun.com/infinity/article_share.aspx?guid=fd2dafb5-aacc-4a13-ac88-2d3a85ecb4a2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32713607

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

When are expired drugs truly expired?

hispanic — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 15:12:16 +0000

Article URL: https://digitaledition.baltimoresun.com/infinity/article_share.aspx?guid=b2dee437-bcec-429f-a31d-7c5cacd2e482

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32343970

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Celebrate National Moth Week

hispanic — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 14:09:28 +0000

Article URL: https://marylandgrows.umd.edu/2022/07/24/celebrate-national-moth-week/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32213658

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by hispanic in "My bank will open my closed account to make it overdrawn"

hispanic — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 20:48:37 +0000

I suppose. But, I would think the charge/debit would just be declined.

My bank will open my closed account to make it overdrawn

hispanic — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 20:00:24 +0000

I just saw my (large-ish US-based) bank add the following language to my account agreement:

> After your Account is closed, we may temporarily reopen your Account to resolve a dispute concerning the Account, or to accept a debit or credit to your Account, even if doing so results in your Account becoming overdrawn.

Feels like a fee-grab.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32112132

Points: 2

# Comments: 4

Workers vote to form first Apple store union in the US

hispanic — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 14:33:10 +0000

Article URL: https://digitaledition.baltimoresun.com/infinity/article_share.aspx?guid=c78ee81f-7784-41e9-8989-140eff115758

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31810807

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

A New Plan for the Strong Towns Movement

hispanic — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 19:12:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2022/5/25/announcing-a-new-plan-for-the-strong-towns-movement

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31586603

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by hispanic in "I'm retiring from the engineering profession"

hispanic — Sun, 29 May 2022 17:57:43 +0000

> So, less suburbs and more what? Sprawling, automobile-centric development enforced by exclusionary zoning has been the prevailing land-use model in the US and Canada for so long (starting soon after the close of WWII) that few people alive today know anything different.

Streetcar suburbs (even with the streetcars now long gone) are a model of development that Strong Towns endorses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetcar_suburb

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/8/27/in-praise-of-s...

New comment by hispanic in "Speeding up Prettier locally and on your CI with dprint"

hispanic — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 17:37:35 +0000

For a recent personal project, I wanted to format the generated HTML. My first stab at it used Prettier. But, I was very underwhelmed with the processing speed. I then gave js-beautify[1] a try, which I found to be much, much faster.

[1] https://github.com/beautify-web/js-beautify

New comment by hispanic in "Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?"

hispanic — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 15:59:38 +0000

I recently migrated from Evernote to Joplin. This was a concern for me, as well. However, I got past it. This isn't a case of "lock in". Even if Joplin loses mindshare and stops being actively maintained, I know that I'll always have a version available (even if only locally on my desktop, seeing as how I install it manually) that I can use to export to plain, raw Markdown files. And, with them, I can migrate to Obsidian or whatever comes into vogue.

New comment by hispanic in "Lawmakers Drink Raw Milk to Celebrate Legality, Become Immediately Sick (2016)"

hispanic — Sat, 26 Mar 2022 22:47:06 +0000

I've been drinking raw milk for a little more than a year now. Before then, I had never had a lick of it. In fact, I hadn't drank any milk before that point for years. I haven't experienced any issues. I feel very fortunate that I'm close enough to the Pennsylvania (USA) state line to buy it. I use a lot of it to make fermented milk kefir, which I then add to store-bought heavy cream to make crème fraîche.

Prior to introducing raw milk (and the downstream products) into my diet, I was eating a lot of avocados. But, I wanted to move toward eating more seasonal, local, and ancestral foods. My ancestry is Polish/German. I think this may partly explain why it works well for my system.

When I told a buddy of mine about this change, he asked me why all milk isn't raw. I said "Well, according to the CDC, drinking it will kill you."

New comment by hispanic in "Justice Department Issues Web Accessibility Guidance Under the ADA"

hispanic — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 15:30:14 +0000

In my 20+ years of professional web-based software development, mostly in the commercial space, accessibility was never made a requirement. This spanned more than a half dozen clients/companies and more than a dozen projects/teams. Fast forward to last year when I re-platformed my personal blog [1]. During that effort, I decided to make it accessible. It was my first time every really delving into the a11y space.

Despite the time warranted, I found that effort to be interesting, challenging, and worthwhile. And I think it was/is the right thing to do. This despite my blog getting a low amount of traffic and nobody ever requesting that I make it accessible.

As an online creator, I have the ability and privilege to make my (small) online corner of the world a better place. For me to simply ignore the needs of those who are less able seems wrong.

[1] - https://michaelscepaniak.com/

Ask HN: First TV commercial you remember seeing with a URL?

hispanic — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 17:01:05 +0000

What was the first mainstream TV commercial you remember seeing with a URL? For me, I think it was a commercial for Oracle during a (NFL) Superbowl. I don't remember the year.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30616874

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The Long Long Covid Post

hispanic — Sat, 12 Feb 2022 19:57:05 +0000

Article URL: https://thezvi.substack.com/p/the-long-long-covid-post

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30315751

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by hispanic in "Heart-disease risk soars after Covid, even with a mild case"

hispanic — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 20:45:48 +0000

While the study appears to be based on VA data, I don't see anything about it being based on 60-year-olds.