Hacker News: kerridge0

New comment by kerridge0 in "New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag"

kerridge0 — Sun, 03 May 2026 22:45:47 +0000

mainly because it's worth a lot of money...

New comment by kerridge0 in "Tesla: Failure of the FSD's degradation detection system [pdf]"

kerridge0 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:34:42 +0000

The recent one was should I drive my car to the car wash if it's only 300 feet from my house although it wasn't a slam dunk.

New comment by kerridge0 in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

kerridge0 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:50:52 +0000

I believe that that's the stuff you buy in the shop, the non-refillable containers. If you buy a proper refillable balloon gas cylinder it's the higher grade stuff. Source: bought the shop stuff, got disappointed, bought the cylinder, happy.

New comment by kerridge0 in "In 1985 Maxell built a bunch of life-size robots for its bad floppy ad"

kerridge0 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 12:03:59 +0000

And we had good skeletons - in 1985, Aardman Animations created this advert for VHS cassettes https://youtu.be/ffa1E9k3H4k

New comment by kerridge0 in "Kiki – Accountability monster for people who are easily distracted"

kerridge0 — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 23:28:41 +0000

Focusme for windows has been around a long time.

New comment by kerridge0 in "Ultraconserved words point to deep language ancestry across Eurasia (2013)"

kerridge0 — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 22:57:23 +0000

Thanet?

New comment by kerridge0 in "Why is Excalidraw so good?"

kerridge0 — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 15:31:36 +0000

Like a dog chasing it's tail. Or bundling them together like a dogpile.

How to edit writing by a robot: a step-by-step guide

kerridge0 — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 18:27:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/commentisfree/2020/sep/11/artificial-intelligence-robot-writing-gpt-3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24445786

Points: 3

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New comment by kerridge0 in "Our data centers now work harder when the sun shines and wind blows"

kerridge0 — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 21:09:57 +0000

Octopus energy in the UK with the beta agile tariff is based on 30 minute pricing and prices have been so low at times such as yesterday that the price per unit has been negative, for example on Sunday and Monday I was paid 4.2 pence per unit to take electricity off the network.

New comment by kerridge0 in "Ask HN: Is there a platform for sharing ideas that people want to “give away”?"

kerridge0 — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 17:19:10 +0000

used to be one called the global ideas bank but went away presumably due to lack of funding. Founded by Nicholas Albery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Albery

New comment by kerridge0 in "How to Buy Drugs"

kerridge0 — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 23:01:09 +0000

No because of the increased risk of death means you might get a worse reputation if people OD.

New comment by kerridge0 in "BMW CEO to quit after carmaker loses early lead in electrics"

kerridge0 — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 22:05:08 +0000

It's not an abomination it has some flaws which don't affect me, others that make me compromise a bit (drive more slowly, stop more often), but some reasons I chose it other than it being the only affordable electric car available that met all my requirements, was because of the bmw quality and attention to detail which are also hallmarks of the brand.

New comment by kerridge0 in "Open-Source Controller for the IKEA Bekant Standing Desk"

kerridge0 — Mon, 28 Jan 2019 21:56:54 +0000

Mine also does not wobble in the slightest.

New comment by kerridge0 in "ESP 8266 Wi-Fi Repeater with Mesh Networking"

kerridge0 — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 12:00:55 +0000

You can pick up three sim cards prepaid with 12gb data for about £23 on occasional sales which last 12 months if you don't use the data.

New comment by kerridge0 in "Show HN: Open Paperless – Scan, index, and archive paper documents"

kerridge0 — Sat, 23 Dec 2017 08:53:28 +0000

Mayan isn't hosted on GitHub so that may explain the difference in popularity.

New comment by kerridge0 in "Carbon3D – 3D Printing via Continuous Liquid Interface Production"

kerridge0 — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:37:43 +0000

Well here you only need a small tank relative to the finished print, also, you don't move the laser head, but only the parts of the item that has already been printed. Everything else stays still, meaning reduced vibration which seems to mean a really steady quality of print.

New comment by kerridge0 in "Roundabouts: The widening gyre (2013)"

kerridge0 — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 16:51:56 +0000

Not really, there were no people crossing or waiting to cross... I went back to check and I missed it because it was a very wide road, there was a middle traffic light 'abovehead' which is how I missed it. I do actually agonise over these types of issues, and genuinely believe that at that moment I was not a danger to the public! Had it been a light at a junction it would have been much more dangerous, and also very difficult to miss. Also, having done some research afterwards, it appears that the Swindon police force were under a quota system so were actually targeting motorists, and therefore would exercise no discretion at all after seeing this occur.

New comment by kerridge0 in "Roundabouts: The widening gyre (2013)"

kerridge0 — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:32:49 +0000

Haha, same here. (edit: not planning on visiting Swindon again after the first visit which involved some trouble with the 'magic' roundabout)

I was in turn: confused (as I wasn't expecting it), amused (as I had recently read a Wikipedia article about it), distracted (as I tried to explain it to my partner), shocked (when I got stopped by a policeman having inadvertently driven through a pedestrian traffic light), and angry (when I got 3 points on my license). I tried to explain that I had been distracted by the roundabout but to no avail.

New comment by kerridge0 in "Show HN: My Personal Hacker News Reader"

kerridge0 — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 17:50:27 +0000

I'm not talking about an information leak I'm talking about a potential denial of liking attack ☺

New comment by kerridge0 in "Show HN: My Personal Hacker News Reader"

kerridge0 — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 16:07:59 +0000

It looks to me that the url that calls queries_read_records.like_article() only requires a logged in user and a record id in order to set a read record as liked? Are you saying that is not possible to guess the id because it's not a sequential number by default in mongodb?