<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: jamie_ca</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jamie_ca</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 04:51:10 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=jamie_ca" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jamie_ca in "Jellyfin 12.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah PlexAmp is amazing. Feels like it's the only music client around these days that has a functional "shuffle by album" option, instead of treating my library as only a collection of individual songs.</p>
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<p>Canada typically elects 5 parties, though the Greens, NDP, and Bloc are typically sub-50 in a 338 seat house.</p>
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<p>>> That your kids' school is going to get shot up.<p>> its really not that likely. A kid in the US is far more likely to die on the way to school than get shot at school, but the former is a fear people have adjusted to.<p>True, it's just _so much_ more likely compared to other countries, to the point of it's not really on the radar day-to-day.<p>Child/teen cause of death stats <a href="https://www.kff.org/mental-health/child-and-teen-firearm-mortality-in-the-u-s-and-peer-countries/" rel="nofollow">https://www.kff.org/mental-health/child-and-teen-firearm-mor...</a> call out Canada as #2 for firearm mortality in general. We've had 29 school shootings (including universities, and including "a gun was discharged in a stairwell") since 2000, with 31 fatalities.<p>USA is 327 with 197 dead since <i>2020</i>. And yes, that's with almost 9x the population, but per capita it's still a wild outlier of a stat.</p>
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<p>Yeah, up 50% over 5 days, back down to the starting line over the next 30 isn't a great outlook to my eye.</p>
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<p>Sure it is.<p><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/surface#dictionary-entry-3" rel="nofollow">https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/surface#dictionar...</a><p>> : to come into public view : show up<p>> letters that have recently surfaced</p>
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<p>I'm sure they're roughly equivalent. Parent is probably actually asking: is there native support for managing multiple checkouts/branches for parallel work (and I would add: with lifecycle hooks for create/teardown so I can have dedicated test databases etc).</p>
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<p>Ignoring the fashion context (to which, no comment), totally agree.<p>I have an Apple Watch SE that I got the battery refurbed after 5 years, 95% of my use is a quick check on my next calendar, setting timers, managing the morning alarm, and tracking medication and exercise. Oh, and constantly putting it into power save mode after I take it off the charger.<p>It's not a cellular model, so the other 5% is basically letting me know my phone has something to tell me. I have in the past tried to put games on it, but purely as a novelty.</p>
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<p>For anyone coming back, the 3.0 release this month changed some APIs (so you'll need to update your scripts) but also added a new Darknet mechanic.</p>
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<p>You're rounding both ways to exaggerate your point. 2024 numbers, Stats Canada (via Wikipedia) has Alberta at 11.9% population, and 15.25% GDP.<p>They (and Sask too) do swing on the higher end in GDP per capita, but it's not a 2:1 by any stretch.</p>
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<p>My understanding is (1) yes. (2) maybe, maybe no, depends on if they're looking up people tagging you in threads? If there's signs you're scrubbing yourself out of politically controversial threads that might become problematic. (4) yes, yes, yes. (5) yes.<p>Assuming they do ask in the first place.</p>
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<p>Oh, yeah 100% I'm putting up scripts for them, the conductor hook is "run the one script" for setup/teardown.<p>The difference is removing friction, having a UI that shows me what's set up, that I don't need to hit the filesystem or git status to check in, that gives me _direct_ access to a shell/etc in that worktree path.</p>
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<p>The worktree create hook is documented <a href="https://zed.dev/docs/tasks?highlight=hook#hooks" rel="nofollow">https://zed.dev/docs/tasks?highlight=hook#hooks</a><p>And then I guess setting up tasks for the cleanup part, but it'd be great to see that get automated too so I don't need to remember it.</p>
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<p>I'm buying into this workflow more the more I use it, but the real gamechanger is (a) parallel threads in worktrees, with (b) enough lifecycle hooks to treat them similarly to spinning up a VM.<p>Specifically for me that means that after I create a worktree I get some local config files copied over and Postgres duplicating my local dev and test databases so I can test in isolation, and then when I close out a worktree it deletes those databases.<p>The best at that that I've found is Conductor, but I can't use it at work because we only have Copilot and they're locked to a Claude/Codex backend. Arbor is close, but it's not under as active development and has a lot of rough edges. Opencode GUI has create hooks but not teardown.<p>If Zed can hook that up _and_ also keep its great editor roots, that'll definitely be a game changer.</p>
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<p>"Shortages within 3 weeks" and "out of fuel in 6 weeks" feel like they can both be true at once.</p>
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<p>I've been extremely happy with Arq <a href="https://www.arqbackup.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.arqbackup.com/</a> for several years as a quiet backup solution, bring your own storage. I've done a few small restores and it's been just fine, and it automatically thins your backups to constrain storage costs.<p>Managing exclusions is something to keep vaguely on top of (I've accidentally had a few VM disk images get backed up when I don't need/want them) but the default exclusions are all very reasonable.</p>
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<p>Maybe I should've worded differently for clarity, the game doesn't go forever:<p>The player first revealing Checkmate ends the game. They win if their opponent's currently-chosen card is also a Checkmate, otherwise the opponent wins.</p>
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<p>Give two players cards, "Check" and "Checkmate".<p>Both players choose a card. Players then in turns reveal their card, and if Check, make another choice. The player first revealing Checkmate wins if their opponent's currently-chosen card is also a Checkmate.</p>
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<p><a href="https://github.com/settings/copilot/features" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/settings/copilot/features</a>, it's near the bottom "Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training"</p>
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<p>Call it a midrange Model 3 (RWD), ~275mi range from full, drive 250mi, 25 mins to 220mi range again?<p>OK that roughly lines up - the Model Y doesn't quite get there (on expected range) and it's apparently 40% of the market, but it's also pretty close.</p>
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<p>> with most EVs, you can drive 500 miles with one 30 minute charge<p>I'm just gonna call bullshit on that one. <a href="https://ev-database.org/cheatsheet/range-electric-car" rel="nofollow">https://ev-database.org/cheatsheet/range-electric-car</a> looks like it's got a bunch of recent vehicles, and pegs average range at 390km or 242mi. The _highest_ range there is 720km or 450mi, and a 300KW charge runs it 10-80% (+500km range, not miles) in a half hour.<p>If you _don't_ have the absolute best range + infrastructure to support the charge at that rate: I've got a 2020 Kia Soul w/ 64kWh battery and lines up with the 390km range rating. Did a road trip last year. My charger caps out at 73kW or so on a DC charge, and a charge at that rate (40%-80%) gave me ~150km in a half hour. 10-80% is ~220-250km and takes an hour.<p>Now, I did the road trip with two kids and a dog, so an hour's potty/walk break every 2-2.5h driving worked out for us, but I don't think that's entirely generalizable. I do also agree that unless we're road-tripping, it's a nonissue. We put a level 2 charger in the garage, and plug in overnight once or twice a week and no range stress at all.</p>
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