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New comment by jluxenberg in "Show HN: SF Microclimates"

jluxenberg — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 23:31:25 +0000

Inspired by this, I made a map: https://climate-map--jaredluxenberg1.replit.app/

Kinda neat!

New comment by jluxenberg in "It's 2024 and drought is optional"

jluxenberg — Thu, 16 May 2024 00:09:16 +0000

Huh; so desalinated water costs between $0.001 to $0.008 depending on the cost of the power.

I pay about $0.0136 / gallon so almost 10x the cost of producing.

Seems like (for non-agricultural use) we will be able to afford desalination -- I guess the real issue will be agricultural uses which are predicated on free water.

New comment by jluxenberg in "Stripe's 2023 Annual Letter"

jluxenberg — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 20:09:55 +0000

If any Stripes are here: the link on this page to "2022 annual letter" goes to https://example.com right now.

New comment by jluxenberg in "Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem – Polyfills gone rogue"

jluxenberg — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 20:07:23 +0000

For what it's worth; `eslint-plugin-react` has been around for a long time and seems to support running in very old versions of Node.JS (back to v4[1] apparently! tho I can't find anything documenting that for sure.)

I was surprised to learn that Object.values is only supported in Node >v7, Object.fronEntries was added in v12, etc. So for this project maybe the polyfills are needed.

[1] https://github.com/jsx-eslint/eslint-plugin-react/pull/1038

New comment by jluxenberg in "Eggspensive"

jluxenberg — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 17:42:27 +0000

Tofu scramble might be a little more expensive than egg-based version but 5x seems an exaggerated figure to me.

A 14oz package of tofu is probably the equivalent of 4 eggs and costs $2-3. So maybe 1.5x the cost of egg-based version. (Here's a great basic recipe https://www.budgetbytes.com/vegetable-tofu-scramble/)

Also, if you examine your diet you will probably find that you don't need to replace eggs with tofu 1:1. There are plenty of other ways to get protein (e.g. lentils, nutritional yeast, even whole wheat bread has protein).

New comment by jluxenberg in "Eggspensive"

jluxenberg — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 17:16:26 +0000

My wife and I started a vegan diet 6mo ago and while there was a transition period, it wasn't nearly as difficult as I expected.

If you're feeling the egg prices I'd encourage you to find ways to limit or remove eggs from your diet. It's easier than you think! Egg replacers work wonders in baked goods and a tofu scramble is similar to scrambled eggs.

New comment by jluxenberg in "React Arborist – A full-featured tree component for React"

jluxenberg — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 21:51:20 +0000

This is a great survey of the many ways trees can be used in UX: https://medium.com/@hagan.rivers/interaction-design-for-tree...

My favorite is the Tree Table

New comment by jluxenberg in "Colorado 'solar garden' is a farm under solar panels"

jluxenberg — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 18:41:48 +0000

Storage will be a solved problem once everyone has an electric vehicle with a 65kWh battery sitting in their garage. Power your home overnight from your car, then recharge during the day when the sun comes out.

If you have a large home or need to always have a fully charged car, spend $15k on a home battery.

We need to get out of this mindset that electric utilities will provide unlimited power at a fixed price. With some investment from individual homeowners we can reduce peak to average ratios for utilities and make it much cheaper and possible to use intermittent green energy sources like wind and solar.

DOJ has indicted Verkada hacker Tillie Kottmann

jluxenberg — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 22:46:16 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/evacide/status/1372755502480826368

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26518933

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by jluxenberg in "“Design Patterns” Aren't (2002)"

jluxenberg — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 09:44:50 +0000

The keynote is a great read! Here's a link for anyone else who is interested: https://www.patternlanguage.com/archive/ieee.html

New comment by jluxenberg in "Modern action films fetishize the body even as they desexualize it"

jluxenberg — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 01:23:32 +0000

Site is down now; here's a working link courtesy of the Archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210215153656/https://bloodknif...

New comment by jluxenberg in "Exploring Borland DBase IV for DOS (2020)"

jluxenberg — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 23:35:46 +0000

Airtable (https://airtable.com/) and Coda (https://coda.io/) are two products which might fit the bill.

New comment by jluxenberg in "Female Founder Secrets: Fertility"

jluxenberg — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 20:00:50 +0000

Try this: s/women/people/g

If taking a break to focus on parenting was more acceptable, anyone (man/woman/nonbinary) who wanted to do this would benefit.

Many careers are built around this idea that you spend 5-10 years, with no breaks, in your late 20s and 30s working on something. What if taking a substantial chunk of time off was more common (for anyone)?

Google fires top AI ethics researcher Margaret Mitchell

jluxenberg — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 05:05:02 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/19/google-fires-top-ai-ethics-researcher-margaret-mitchell/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26201748

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by jluxenberg in "The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin Billionaire Arthur Hayes"

jluxenberg — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 01:07:59 +0000

I think the indictment is straightforward: BitMEX provided banking services to US customers without implementing Know Your Customer and other required anti-money-laundering safeguards.

Being a "fintech" product doesn't exempt an operator from the law: KYC is the law on the US.

I'm surprised there haven't been more indictments, since I'm sure other exchanges have operated fast+loose w.r.t. AML and KYC

Free Speech in 2021

jluxenberg — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 22:59:49 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2021/01/19/free-speech-in-2021

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25853075

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jluxenberg in "Raft Visualization"

jluxenberg — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 20:52:59 +0000

`etcd` is probably the canonical off-the-shelf solution. Other implementations are listed here https://raft.github.io/#implementations

New comment by jluxenberg in "Factorio 1.1 is getting close"

jluxenberg — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 19:12:19 +0000

Pro tip: to build in a line before 1.1, click to place a belt and then move the character in a cardinal direction with one of W/S/A/D while holding the mouse button down. You can lay a straight line of any item this way (including e.g. pipe, etc)

New comment by jluxenberg in "Ask HN: Is it me or PWAs are pretty much dead?"

jluxenberg — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 01:38:13 +0000

Web Push on Safari on iOS (works fine on desktop) https://onesignal.com/blog/the-state-of-ios-web-push-in-2020...

Safari on iOS deletes LocalStorage after 7 days of inactivity (https://webkit.org/blog/10218/full-third-party-cookie-blocki...)

New comment by jluxenberg in "Uber and Lyft shutdown in California averted as judge grants emergency stay"

jluxenberg — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 06:34:41 +0000

Huh; I had no idea that the newer Prius models can get 50 mi/gallon or more in city driving. That does change the equation quite a bit, I think.