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New comment by jaegerpicker in "Anything threatening to be a subculture is commodified before it can walk (2014)"

jaegerpicker — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 15:20:09 +0000

Thing is that's overly simple thinking IMO, throwing off the cultural legacy literally means replacing it with something else. Culture has a legacy, what comes before, and it's literally impossible to not have one. So that Mohawk is replacing a "normal" haircut, replacing a "normal" culture. There is nothing ironic about showing your child that it's ok to choose something outside the mainstream normal culture, especially if you have done so. It's the whole point. The Mohawk said and meant "I reject your culture and choose my own", it would be ironic to have chosen that and then teach your kid to be in the mainstream culture.

New comment by jaegerpicker in "Trying to Recreate iOS on the Web"

jaegerpicker — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 16:24:07 +0000

Interesting bug: if you swipe on screen with the mouse button pressed and slide of screen to release the mouse button the on screen swipe action stays attached to the mouse cursor. Only sort of a bug because it's only because it runs in a web page vs on an actual phone. Still would be interested in how to fix that in general.

Overall it looks cool, I'm a native mobile app guy so I'm always skeptical about mobile web. This doesn't change that for me but I can see growth in the web platform for mobile.

New comment by jaegerpicker in "Is AI Progress Hitting a Wall? No"

jaegerpicker — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 17:22:08 +0000

I think it is slowing down, almost undeniably slowing down. Hitting a wall? I don't think that's fair but slowing down for sure. Which follows the tech hype process, an engineer(s) make great progress on a problem, an "idea" guy hypes it to the moon and sells it for as much money as possible by promising the moon, and then the tech "fails" to deliver the moon. Even the tech was never meant to deliver said moon.

New comment by jaegerpicker in "Discovering a New Neolithic World"

jaegerpicker — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 16:54:16 +0000

Funny that you say what on Earth are you comparing us to. It's just that Earth, look at the time it takes for purely biological evolution to take place. Flight is estimated to have first evolved 350 million years ago in insects, then dinosaurs 220 million years ago, then birds, and bats 60 million years ago. From insects to bats is 290 million years. It took us less than 100 to go from basic flight to leaving the planet. On nearly any scale we humans have evolved and adapted on an unprecedented timescale. Hell, humans only evolved 100,000 years ago or so. It's a blink of the eye compared to literally everything else on our planet.

New comment by jaegerpicker in "U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly"

jaegerpicker — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 01:58:44 +0000

Prove this, because I'm pretty certain this is not the case. I helped build a messaging app for iOS (Technically a TeleHeath app that needed to accept MMS/SMS also) and I saw absolutely none of this. That was a few years ago so it's possible it's changed but I'd have to see actual documentation for that. Otherwise I firmly believe this is BS and completely made up.

New comment by jaegerpicker in "PWAs wont replace native iOS apps"

jaegerpicker — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 22:41:43 +0000

I'm a web developer and native app developer but I'm also a user. If I want to use a service and they have a message saying "for the best experience, use " I will never use that service again. There are no apps or services that would cause me to switch. So you can take that stance but you are just hurting your app because you as a developer don't want to learn native apps.

New comment by jaegerpicker in "How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap"

jaegerpicker — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 13:05:07 +0000

Every single thing is political. What you eat? political Religious? political What TV show you watch? political What job you do? political. Welcome to modern America where every single thing is a political us vs them shit show. This is the county we as citizens have let be forced on us.

Simple fact most Red's don't want to associate with Blue's and it's the same on the other side. Sure individuals won't agree but they are a minority. If you don't like the project, then just move on it has NOTHING to do with you.

New comment by jaegerpicker in "Third-party Reddit apps are being crushed by price increases"

jaegerpicker — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 12:41:05 +0000

Except Reddit doesn't have a product if they don't have people reading it. The TERRIBLE UI and user experience means that a percentage of users will only use reddit via 3rd-party apps. Apollo is BY FAR the best client. This isn't capitalism, it's self-harm by stupidity. Reddit's only value is the user eyes and data. Remove the users and Reddit dies a quick death. Maybe they will still pull in users but having less value but charging more to drive away your Users sure seems like a dumb plan capitalism or not.

New comment by jaegerpicker in "Why I Left Rust"

jaegerpicker — Sun, 28 May 2023 15:12:09 +0000

I've been involved with Software Development for over 20 years started with VB6 and some perl/python in 1998. I saw the "informal code of conduct" and it never worked. What really happened: many people were treating terribly and most of it was swept under the rug. CoC were created for valid and good reasons. I'm not defending the Rust community here, it seems childish to me. The past is not what you are trying to claim it was in this post. Look up the MANY Rails conference sexual harassment issues and worse.

We should not whitewash the past because the present isn't what we want.

New comment by jaegerpicker in "Ask HN: React Native for a Startup in 2023?"

jaegerpicker — Sat, 13 May 2023 19:46:29 +0000

It's really difficult to give you a useful answer. Some teams have succeeded and some have failed. It depends on the product, the team, and the user base. I've built and worked on both native mobile apps (swift and kotlin) and cross platform (react native and flutter). Personally I would choice native and have for my projects. That being said I personally hate the JavaScript eco system and language so to me it slows everything down. I'm faster (not twice as fast though) and much better in the native platforms. That doesn't mean your team will be. Who you hire and what the product is will matter more than which tech you use IMO.

New comment by jaegerpicker in "Ask HN: Best language or library for handling data streams from sensors?"

jaegerpicker — Mon, 08 May 2023 14:04:34 +0000

I think we have a slightly different use case as I'm mostly collecting sensor data for ag automation on a homestead scale and I'm a python programmer already but for me python has been impossible to beat so far. The combination of easy of use, the massive ecosystem, and wide spread support/internet resources make it hard to beat IMO.

New comment by jaegerpicker in "Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs"

jaegerpicker — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 15:26:50 +0000

I've started to believe that the aspirations that our culture promotes and pushes are the problem itself. Instead of creativeness Western culture promotes monetary success. Instead of happiness in a family we dream of making a billion dollars in a startup. Instead of dreaming about exploring the galaxy we dream about private space travel and mining. Instead of solving humanities greatest challenges via learning and science we push private businesses profiting from half fixes and pointless changes (carbon credits or slow introduction of electric vehicles without public infrastructure as examples). I'm not against people being rewarded for their work but the reward has become more important than the work itself. This is likely a result of the huge wealth inequality Western culture is dealing with, when someone has dramatically less they are always drawn to those that have more and are willing to do almost anything to get there.

New comment by jaegerpicker in "WikiHouse – Open source, modular, wood based, zero carbon housing"

jaegerpicker — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 20:23:59 +0000

I'm not sure where you are located but in Northern New England this is very untrue. Maine, New Hampsire, and Vermont all have a LARGE number of diy log cabins built. I've stayed in several and I'm in the early planning of building a house (not log cabin, it's a long house with builtin green house/barn sections similar to the long house on the Apple TV show home). There are many places in the US that allow you to DIY your own home, though the majority are very rural which is a MASSIVE benefit IMO.

New comment by jaegerpicker in "SwiftUI for Mac 2022"

jaegerpicker — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 14:43:40 +0000

I have production apps in the store with SwiftUI so it's not a fact at all. These are non-toy apps. UIKit is more mature but it hasn't matter at all in my experience.

New comment by jaegerpicker in "Transporting food generates whopping amounts of carbon dioxide"

jaegerpicker — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 00:10:01 +0000

Yeah, I'd agree with the underground part. Above ground vertical greenhouse's are absolutely viable but I'm not sure underground would make any sense. LED grow lights I'm using on Tower or aeroponics (Plants grown in towers with a gravy mist based irrigation and feeding) are much less than 30-40 watts / square foot, around 10-20 depending on the time of year but that's above ground in a greenhouse situation with Sun light help.

New comment by jaegerpicker in "Transporting food generates whopping amounts of carbon dioxide"

jaegerpicker — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 00:05:44 +0000

WHAT MATH?!?!? Electricity doesn't have any thing to do with it except in very tiny amounts. You need light coverage not heat wattage! There is no math to do! Photosynthesis doesn't work like that. It's a chemical reaction to light wavelengths. I posted numerous papers detailing this. The unit of measure is PPFD Photosynthesis Photon Flux Density, that's the coverage of the number of light wavelengths the plant can absorb. LED's provide plenty of PPFD's, exactly the same as the Sun. So all you need is the correct amount to cover your growing space with a minimum amount.

New comment by jaegerpicker in "Transporting food generates whopping amounts of carbon dioxide"

jaegerpicker — Sun, 03 Jul 2022 22:45:04 +0000

That's actually a good question, I have no experience with underground systems. Most are free standing greenhouses (about 10x more efficient (water and yield) that traditional farming per square foot). Electric is only a major cost for the pumping of water, LED light coverage is very cheap and we don't need to compete with the power of the sun.

New comment by jaegerpicker in "Transporting food generates whopping amounts of carbon dioxide"

jaegerpicker — Sun, 03 Jul 2022 22:35:41 +0000

In what way? Photosynthesis is about light wavelength's and water is easy to be more efficient since the plants are in water instead of soil. There are numerous successful commercial operations already. Also I've posted a ton of detail on the measurements elsewhere in this thread. When people measure efficiency most measure Wattage from the Sun and that's completely irrelevant.

New comment by jaegerpicker in "Transporting food generates whopping amounts of carbon dioxide"

jaegerpicker — Sun, 03 Jul 2022 22:32:31 +0000

IT'S COMPLETELY IRRELEVENT, the efficiency at generating electricity is not what powers photosynthesis. It's a chemical reaction to light wavelengths (ie the absorbing of Red and Blue light) that powers it. More watt's doesn't equal more growth, it equals more heat which allows longer growing seasons. LED's and Sunlight have EXACTLY the same level of photosynthesis, none of the math you did matters at all. For LED's you need to calculate coverage of the area not pure power. If you produce Red or Blue wavelength's that's all that matters, the Sun does that and a hell of a lot more but we don't need the power of the sun or even a tiny faction of it's power for photosynthesis, we need to heat and cool and creat weather which effect plant growth but Watt's is irrelevant.

New comment by jaegerpicker in "Transporting food generates whopping amounts of carbon dioxide"

jaegerpicker — Sun, 03 Jul 2022 22:20:26 +0000

Wrong question to ask, PPFD's is the correct measure. It's not a direct energy comparison. Photosynthesis is a chemical reaction of Chlorophyll reacting to certain but not all light wavelength's (Red and Blue being the major ones) plus the distance from the light source. The amount of watts the the sun generates is NOT what grows plants. LED's can produce the same light wavelength's but much closer and with no obstructions. The question isn't about LED's power generation, it's how much power does it take for an LED to cover an area. Obviously a LED can't compare to pure Solar efficiency on a watt by watt basis but it doesn't need to.