Hacker News: jamwil

New comment by jamwil in "Mexican student creates an acoustic fire extinguisher to put out fire in seconds"

jamwil — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 03:57:59 +0000

Found the Argentinian.

New comment by jamwil in "Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns"

jamwil — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 14:39:01 +0000

I am not sure what streaming service you are using but it sounds awful. I have not encountered anything like what you describe on Apple Music.

New comment by jamwil in "The Tariff Cost: analysis of the costs to Americans from new tariffs on Canada"

jamwil — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 03:05:15 +0000

I am not sure if this factors into it but an interesting difference between dairy and eggs and most other types of farms is that those are highly perishable. Grain can be stored and released gradually to even out market gyrations but dairy is just lost if they don’t match supply closely with demand in real time.

New comment by jamwil in "Trade (and Tariffs)"

jamwil — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:58:15 +0000

It’s not logical. He is a malignant narcissist and a sociopath. A very sick man.

New comment by jamwil in "Anthropic tells staff to work from home due to possible security team strike"

jamwil — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 05:41:03 +0000

Health insurance in America is—quite uniquely—the deep end of the pool in the whole capitalism v humanity conundrum. I think a lot of Americans feel that viscerally and the widespread support for Luigi was symbolic of how truly fucked up that country is in general.

New comment by jamwil in "Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory"

jamwil — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 05:53:38 +0000

¡Viva Donkey!

New comment by jamwil in "OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future"

jamwil — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:03:01 +0000

It’s a function of relative scale. If you’re a Fortune 100 CEO there is still a point where you would quarterback a sale, but that would be like… a $10 billion+ contract with the federal government.

New comment by jamwil in "Completing a computer science degree on Coursera"

jamwil — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 04:00:04 +0000

The point of group projects is not to make the best project, it’s to learn to navigate working with other people and all the messiness that entails. Soft skill development and the slackers are a feature not a bug. Doing group projects solo completely defeats the point of the exercise—I’m surprised you got approval from any profs for that.

New comment by jamwil in "Wordgard: In-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror"

jamwil — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:10:17 +0000

Because Meta is a harmful company, for one.

New comment by jamwil in "Internal Combustion Engine (2021)"

jamwil — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:45:31 +0000

I just read this fact in Hail Mary, but it doesn’t fully add up to me. If you fall flat on your back and wind yourself (phrenospasm) that triggers an immediate suffocation response which has nothing to do with CO2 and seemingly everything to do with a lack of oxygen.

New comment by jamwil in "World Cup fans frustrated by 'confusing and expensive' tipping culture in US"

jamwil — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:15:31 +0000

Canada is not a third world hell hole, but our tipping culture is just as bad as the US. Perhaps even worse.

New comment by jamwil in "CBC will no longer air NHL games in 'end of an era' as broadcast deal expires"

jamwil — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:44:46 +0000

The great capitalist rug pull continues.

New comment by jamwil in "DeepSeek Introduces Vision"

jamwil — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:43:05 +0000

What did you do prior to 2023?

New comment by jamwil in "Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism"

jamwil — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:43:32 +0000

I doubt it’s an effective channel for promoting liberalism (or even rationality). In North America at least the folks most engaged on Facebook tend to be media illiterate and reactionary leaning. The smart people left long ago.

New comment by jamwil in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

jamwil — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:23:26 +0000

They were just being jocular.

New comment by jamwil in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

jamwil — Sun, 31 May 2026 14:15:43 +0000

I was talking about this with someone the other day… How many real terrorism threats have been preceded by the terrorist telegraphing their intentions with a phone call beforehand? My prior is that this number is essentially 0 and we should ignore bomb threats as a society.

New comment by jamwil in "Cars collect a startling amount of data about you"

jamwil — Sat, 30 May 2026 02:26:13 +0000

Actually no I can’t recall the last time I tried to ride a bike in the snow. But I know inherently that snow itself would be alright, but snow is almost always accompanied by a layer of ice below, which simply can’t be fine. This is the case in Canada at least.

New comment by jamwil in "Please Use AI"

jamwil — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:44:57 +0000

The author’s point was more nuanced than ‘tool bad’.

New comment by jamwil in "Cars collect a startling amount of data about you"

jamwil — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:22:45 +0000

Without studded tires it’s very difficult to ride a bike on snow or ice.

New comment by jamwil in "Cars collect a startling amount of data about you"

jamwil — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:10:22 +0000

What does it mean to be ‘in intelligence’ in this context?