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New comment by jmhobbs in "I made a chair"

jmhobbs — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 21:44:23 +0000

I built some Leopold benches a few years ago, great bench and nearly as simple to build as this chair. Maybe simpler as there is no cutouts or narrowing like OP.

https://store.extension.iastate.edu/product/Woodworking-for-...

New comment by jmhobbs in "Show HN: Scooter – Interactive find and replace in the terminal"

jmhobbs — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 19:50:24 +0000

Very cool! I currently use `sad` for this, if you're already an fzf user you should check it out.

https://github.com/ms-jpq/sad

New comment by jmhobbs in "Ask HN: What's the most creative 'useless' program you've ever written?"

jmhobbs — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 03:05:25 +0000

I wrote a script to monitor the process monitor God [1]. which I called Margaret [2], playing off the famous Judy Blume book, "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret". [3]. Silly, but I enjoyed the low effort joke.

1. http://godrb.com/

2. https://github.com/jmhobbs/Margaret

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Are_You_There_God%3F_It%27s_Me....

Building an Offline Backup for Authy

jmhobbs — Mon, 15 May 2023 14:23:25 +0000

Article URL: https://velvetcache.org/2023/05/12/the-authy-backup-system/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35948632

Points: 10

# Comments: 0

New comment by jmhobbs in "Ask HN: Concise, pragmatic baby manual for first-time dad?"

jmhobbs — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 17:34:37 +0000

As a father of three, all of these things are great.

Keeping a change of clothes and a couple diapers in the car is another thing to recommend, you will eventually forget the diaper bag, or forget to reload it. Having last ditch emergency supplies is a lifesaver.

I'd add a NoseFrida as another product, those bulb type snot suckers have poor control, and get disgusting on the inside. It's a bit weird the first time, but it works a treat.

New comment by jmhobbs in "Honey consumption improves blood sugar and cholesterol levels, study suggests"

jmhobbs — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 16:30:31 +0000

The domestic honey bee is honestly doing fine these days, varroa is better understood and controlled (for now) in captive populations.

New comment by jmhobbs in "Honey consumption improves blood sugar and cholesterol levels, study suggests"

jmhobbs — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 16:27:18 +0000

The argument is that non-native honey bees (if you live in the US) put pressure on the native pollinators competing for the same food sources. It makes sense logically, since commercial producers will have huge bee yards and do migratory beekeeping to follow the pollination contracts and the honey flows. I have not, however, ever seen a study on it. I've also never really gone looking.

New comment by jmhobbs in "Honey consumption improves blood sugar and cholesterol levels, study suggests"

jmhobbs — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 16:22:32 +0000

Even among 100% real honey, the ratios of sucrose, glucose and fructose vary wildly. At the extremes tupelo honey is very high fructose, and thus is famous for not crystallizing easily. On the other hand, canola/rapeseed swings so far the other way that it can crystalize in the comb before harvesting.

New comment by jmhobbs in "Compostable fungi-based replacement for styrofoam"

jmhobbs — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 21:14:06 +0000

Does it if you're not fruiting them though? I make 5lb hardwood sawdust bags with about a quart, quart and a half of water, and that's all that is needed for the mycelium to colonize the whole thing. I suppose at scale a liter for a 12"x6"x6" block is perhaps a bit much lot.

New comment by jmhobbs in "Solar-powered robotic beekeeping"

jmhobbs — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 21:28:39 +0000

I'd be surprised to find any commercial keepers using polystyrene. Migratory bee keeping is rough on equipment, and at scale I think woodenware still makes the most sense. I'm not in that community, but everything I see in Bee Culture and online looks like polystyrene is firmly in the hobbyist realm.

New comment by jmhobbs in "Solar-powered robotic beekeeping"

jmhobbs — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 21:19:13 +0000

That sounded dodgy to me but it does look like it's got some legitimacy: https://scientificbeekeeping.com/a-test-of-thermal-treatment...

I mostly use oxalic acid, but if heat treating becomes viable I'd welcome it on the hobbyist scale.

New comment by jmhobbs in "Solar-powered robotic beekeeping"

jmhobbs — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 21:12:52 +0000

Honey bees are the easiest to manage really. Some other bees are raised for pollination, but honey bees have a long history of management and semi-domestication. We already know how to raise and manage big colonies for migratory pollination.

New comment by jmhobbs in "A terminal multiplexer with full gesture support built on WebRTC"

jmhobbs — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 20:58:50 +0000

I don't have any useful opinion here, but the demo video uses my terminal-parrot[0], so it's clearly a great tool.

edit: On closer inspection of the video at 1080p it actually uses parrot.live[1], so it's an OK tool ;)

[0] https://github.com/jmhobbs/terminal-parrot [1] https://github.com/hugomd/parrot.live

How to automate UI tests with GitHub Actions

jmhobbs — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 15:21:49 +0000

Article URL: https://storybook.js.org/blog/how-to-automate-ui-tests-with-github-actions/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28552967

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jmhobbs in "What is a resilient chicken?"

jmhobbs — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 22:31:45 +0000

I ran cornish cross meat birds twice, 20 birds each time, and by butchering at ~8 weeks the roos didn't get around real well anymore, given the weight to leg ratio.

Those were pasture raised, with restricted supplemental feed, and just the ordinary breeds you can get at Tractor Supply. I wouldn't be shocked if you let a "real" production hybrid go past butchering age and feed them grains the whole time, you'd probably get some birds unable to move under their own weight.

After two rounds, I gave up on them and now run less aggressive weight gainers that forage better, like freedom rangers.

Obviously just anecdotal, but don't dismiss it outright.

New comment by jmhobbs in "Linux VS open source UNIX"

jmhobbs — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 16:02:25 +0000

edit I missed the "custom" part of your comment. I don't remember that ever being a thing, but I never got particularly detailed with moving the levers around before.

It's in a collapsed section titled "Choose where your money goes" which is beneath the price selection tools now.

[1] https://pasteboard.co/IF9gtLR.png

New comment by jmhobbs in "Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?"

jmhobbs — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 15:36:41 +0000

I used mine to build an egg incubator this year, http://www.velvetcache.org/2018/03/04/chicken-cam-incubator-...

New comment by jmhobbs in "Most 'meat' in 2040 will not come from dead animals"

jmhobbs — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 15:54:12 +0000

While a laudable environmental goal, I just don't see that much industrial farming shut down in just 20 years.

New comment by jmhobbs in "Coolest Things I Learned in 2018"

jmhobbs — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 17:09:38 +0000

Honestly, I'm not even sure. After watching the nvidia youtube video, I retract the statement. This is pretty amazing.

New comment by jmhobbs in "Coolest Things I Learned in 2018"

jmhobbs — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 16:30:05 +0000

I'd love to see a source on that one, it's hard to believe otherwise.

edit: I reverse image searched one of the faces and found this, https://bgr.com/2018/12/18/nvidia-ai-fake-faces-look-100-per...

It's not generating them from whole cloth, but it's still very impressive.