Hacker News: nickpeterson

New comment by nickpeterson in "Neo Emacs – Emacs from the Future"

nickpeterson — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 20:21:40 +0000

That's why I use a belt and suspenders to pick them up.

New comment by nickpeterson in "Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls"

nickpeterson — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 23:22:49 +0000

Thank you for this, it’s basically what I’m leaning towards.

New comment by nickpeterson in "Global shortage has led to motor oil rationing at Costco"

nickpeterson — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 23:15:28 +0000

I wonder how long a full synthetic could run in an engine that, for whatever reason, doesn’t push oil hard. 20k miles?

New comment by nickpeterson in "Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls"

nickpeterson — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:02:07 +0000

Honestly I wish there was a good way to burn wood in an insert to heat the water that goes through my radiators, to offset an electric system. We tend to get a lot of weeks in the 20 or 30’s where a decent air to water system might do fine, but it would be amazing to burn wood for a few days when it sits at 0.

New comment by nickpeterson in "Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls"

nickpeterson — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:58:23 +0000

A friend of mine just got a generac generator, fully installed it was 17k. Pretty steep, not to mention the gas bill with any significant outage will be huge.

New comment by nickpeterson in "Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls"

nickpeterson — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:56:28 +0000

I appreciate the argument, but I can’t make my own natural gas. I was considering all electric with a backup wood burner insert in my chimney. I’ll probably end up with vehicle2home as a backup and solar panels, maybe not in that order. Natural gas is extremely good at generating heat, and I completely understand why people prefer it.

New comment by nickpeterson in "Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls"

nickpeterson — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 15:21:14 +0000

I take your point, but what you’re describing would have to cost thousands just in putting in underfloor pipes. It will never make financial sense to do it? Or am I misinterpreting your suggestion?

New comment by nickpeterson in "Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls"

nickpeterson — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:40:19 +0000

I live in Ohio in a 100 year old home with cast iron radiators and a natural gas boiler and a gas water heater. I’d love to move to electric but it feels like my only real option for keeping the cast iron is something like the Daikin Altherma 3 H HT. Does anyone more knowledgeable of this part of the industry know of any reasonable alternatives for electrifying old houses but keeping the radiators?

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

nickpeterson — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:06:13 +0000

I think we’re on course to be in really rough shape by 2028. I hope it’s rough enough to spark genuine change in our politics.

New comment by nickpeterson in "Kubernetes on Oxide: How customer needs shaped our integrations"

nickpeterson — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:54:06 +0000

I’d really love to know a ballpark price on a minimal install without wasting anyone’s time, have you guys ever discussed real numbers on the podcast? I listen occasionally but definitely haven’t heard every episode.

New comment by nickpeterson in "Choose DuckDB rather than SQLite"

nickpeterson — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:36:10 +0000

Do you think venture capital firms are made of money?

New comment by nickpeterson in "AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt"

nickpeterson — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 23:36:23 +0000

the letter but not the spirit, like Amish workers using batteries

New comment by nickpeterson in "A bug which affected only left handed users"

nickpeterson — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:29:50 +0000

Another 13 mini user chiming in. I’m 6’3, and think it’s ridiculous how big phones are. It reminds me of the automobile and tv industry though, where you’re sort of forced into buying something obnoxious if you want to get the better features.

New comment by nickpeterson in "The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth"

nickpeterson — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 15:09:48 +0000

It feels like something anthropic or OpenAI would pounce on for marketing clout

New comment by nickpeterson in "60% Fable cost cut by converting code to images and having the model OCR it"

nickpeterson — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 20:09:46 +0000

a pictures worth a thousand tokens

New comment by nickpeterson in "CarPlay Is Additive"

nickpeterson — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:42:44 +0000

Is the mechanism through which CarPlay/Android Auto works locked down? Could a third party make a competing app for iOS or android that would connect to cars and run on the screen? Or perhaps a special piece of hardware to hook in to older cars?

New comment by nickpeterson in "Gun Mistakes in Fiction Writing: Handgun Edition"

nickpeterson — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:27:04 +0000

Michael Mann movies tend to get this right, Heat and collateral have really decent gun sounds. Turns out they are very loud.

Edit: just noticed you mentioned heat already, I need more coffee…

New comment by nickpeterson in "Claude-real-video － any LLM can watch a video"

nickpeterson — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 01:13:35 +0000

I’m currently punishing Fable by making it watch the entire series of 7th Heaven.

New comment by nickpeterson in "Postgres transactions are a distributed systems superpower"

nickpeterson — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 01:11:26 +0000

Only a Sith deals in absolutes

New comment by nickpeterson in "Ray Tracer in SQL"

nickpeterson — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 21:26:32 +0000

SQL in SQL has never occurred to me.