Hacker News: joeconway

New comment by joeconway in "“Design me a highly resilient database”"

joeconway — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 02:26:51 +0000

Having worked with Nik in the past, yes he is a great person and one of the best. Any company missing out on him is genuinely foolish

New comment by joeconway in "Google Workspace CLI"

joeconway — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 01:44:28 +0000

> Disclaimer

> This is not an officially supported Google product.

New comment by joeconway in "Waymo robotaxis are now giving rides on freeways in LA, SF and Phoenix"

joeconway — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 06:04:08 +0000

I also had someone do this while their Tesla was in self driving mode. When I insisted he turn it off, he said “it’s not about you bro”.

New comment by joeconway in "I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode"

joeconway — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 17:02:15 +0000

For anyone like me that’s never heard of Lagree before https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lagree-buddy-wrist-metronome/i...

New comment by joeconway in "Tesla Faces US Auto Safety Investigation over Door Handles"

joeconway — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 20:32:11 +0000

Now try doing that while the car is on fire with burning children inside

https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/witness-of-triple-fatal-...

New comment by joeconway in "Apple has not destroyed Steve Jobs' vision for iPad"

joeconway — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 14:50:36 +0000

It has essentially always been possible to split the iPad keyboard or have it be iPhone sized and floating. Both are a good experience

New comment by joeconway in "It's the end of observability as we know it (and I feel fine)"

joeconway — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 05:20:26 +0000

She is not the author

New comment by joeconway in "We're Raising Kids to Prefer AI over People–and No One's Noticing"

joeconway — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 15:58:29 +0000

Excellent recommendation. Watching the videos of his 2yo’s progress is wonderful. I will be trying this, thank you.

New comment by joeconway in "I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses"

joeconway — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 19:09:33 +0000

using a mechanical keyboard on a plane is truly unhinged

New comment by joeconway in "They're Close to My Body: A Hagiography of Nine Inch Nails and Robin Finck (2020)"

joeconway — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 22:13:28 +0000

I’ll take any opportunity I can to recommend this podcast, and this episode specifically. If this article resonates with you then it is absolutely worth the listen.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/60-songs-that-explain-...

New comment by joeconway in "Discworld Rules"

joeconway — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 16:35:43 +0000

“As an extended allegory for society and technology it absolutely sucks and is also ludicrously wrong-headed”

> As for any inner meaning or ‘message’, it has in the intention of the author none. It is neither allegorical nor topical

Tolkien himself in the foreword to fellowship

This person needs to cool it with the pseudo intellectualism and let people enjoy things

New comment by joeconway in "America stopped caring how poor kids do in school"

joeconway — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 19:45:31 +0000

Maybe put even a few minutes of cursory research into any of those claims

New comment by joeconway in "Reddit Will Introduce Paywalls in 2025"

joeconway — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 19:31:37 +0000

Joking aside, Diggnation has returned and Kevin Rose has said a few times he wants to buy back Digg.com

New comment by joeconway in "Ollama-Swift"

joeconway — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 04:50:05 +0000

NSHipster played such a pivotal role in me becoming the engineer I am today. It’s heartwarming and hugely nostalgic to see a mattt post

New comment by joeconway in "A eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)"

joeconway — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 18:05:00 +0000

in my experience its more like: 0-5% - Sunny; 5-60% - Partly Cloudy; 60-100% - Cloudy;

I've not seen other descriptors, and to view it changing over time its just on the timeline as a sun, sun+cloud & cloud emoji's

It's not useful other than as a binary 'is it cloudy' which in Bay Area weather it is a meaningful difference between 30% and 60% coverage

New comment by joeconway in "A eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)"

joeconway — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 16:01:18 +0000

% cloud cover by hour

New comment by joeconway in "He created Oculus headsets as a teenager, now he makes AI weapons for Ukraine"

joeconway — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 18:30:03 +0000

This guys PR team has been obviously working overtime in the last few months to make him the new musk. I’m taking note of all the organizations being paid to exhaustingly fawn over the cool new kid of death technology

New comment by joeconway in "Simple idea cuts cargo ship emissions by 17.3% in first trials"

joeconway — Wed, 22 May 2024 21:59:46 +0000

They make and deploy their own weather monitoring buoys for weather prediction

New comment by joeconway in "Simple idea cuts cargo ship emissions by 17.3% in first trials"

joeconway — Wed, 22 May 2024 17:44:07 +0000

Ocean carriers already optimize and it’s odd to have the article suggest they don’t. The company Sofar Ocean (https://www.sofarocean.com/products/wayfinder) does it in a particularly interesting way and actually has people using it, rather than a theoretical analysis of a small number of voyages

New comment by joeconway in "What's New in Neovim 0.10"

joeconway — Thu, 16 May 2024 15:55:03 +0000

This isn’t neovim specific but this was one of the more delightful and impactful discoveries https://shapeshed.com/vim-netrw/

Configuring netrw right and having my vimrc load a side pane with it on load, combined with configuring my tab key to cycle between windows... Perfect.