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New comment by pettazz in "Reality Check"

pettazz — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 18:56:24 +0000

what

New comment by pettazz in "Some Thoughts on Jekyll"

pettazz — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 18:08:32 +0000

I also just wrote about leaving GitHub Pages for different reasons <https://pettazz.com/goodbye-gh-pages/>. Sticking with Jekyll for now though because I'm too lazy to rebuild my horribly cobbled together 10 year old theme

New comment by pettazz in "Upside-Down-Ternet (2007)"

pettazz — Tue, 10 May 2022 23:16:31 +0000

This is some real nostalgia. I spent all April Fools' Day probably every year in college trying to figure out how to make this work on my DD-WRT'd wireless router until finally getting it.

It also inspired my own method of dealing with Plex server login sharing https://pettazz.com/how-to-really-piss-people-off-with-plex/ in 2015 which also probably doesn't work at all anymore.

New comment by pettazz in "Show HN: Thumbnail.ai – Just paste a blog post link and get a thumbnail"

pettazz — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 23:35:26 +0000

That's not the generator, it's supposed to be the site's favicon

New comment by pettazz in "Raft Visualization"

pettazz — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 21:54:47 +0000

I don't have any particular use for this right now but the visualization is so good that I actually followed along and get what it's about. Pretty obvious to say but it's super cool and I wish more projects had this kind of quick intro/overview.

New comment by pettazz in "California imposing sweeping rollback of reopening plans amid case surges"

pettazz — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 20:42:28 +0000

The reason for case counts staying relatively low in those places has a lot less to do with "herd immunity" and a lot more to do with still being careful. Even though a huge number of people were infected, it was still a very small amount of the population overall, not anywhere near enough to affect the transmission rate with no restrictions.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/07/herd-immunity-questioned-aft...

In MA we're not even close to entirely reopened yet, but as we continue step by step the transmission rate is ticking back up unfortunately: https://rt.live/us/MA

New comment by pettazz in "Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for future Macs"

pettazz — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 19:48:32 +0000

But have you actually used a Catalyst app on mac? They're terrible ports as it is right now.

New comment by pettazz in "Uber is laying off 3,700, as rides plummet due to Covid-19"

pettazz — Wed, 06 May 2020 16:12:53 +0000

Pretty sure all that'll really happen if you stop tipping is that some poor delivery driver gets screwed. Just stop using the apps, order from the restaurant directly, tip your delivery people.

New comment by pettazz in "Covid-19 update and guidance to limit spread"

pettazz — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 20:35:39 +0000

They're talking about "for general disaster preparedness" in this comment. The OP specifically mentions not worrying about water in the case of COVID specifically.

New comment by pettazz in "The Cruise Origin"

pettazz — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 05:46:42 +0000

Just an example number but yeah

New comment by pettazz in "The Cruise Origin"

pettazz — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 03:33:40 +0000

> The only reason busses are the size they are is the labor cost

They're big because they fit 50 people inside a single vehicle instead of 50 different cars.

New comment by pettazz in "Newspaper subscription experiment"

pettazz — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 20:14:07 +0000

Okay, this is a good look into the payment systems of all three, but I feel like judging them solely by that and not by the content of the actual paper is probably not the right metric to use here.

New comment by pettazz in "Show HN: Picky Pint – Scan beer lists with a photo"

pettazz — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 19:27:51 +0000

BA doesn't provide an API, and they regularly go after scraper-style "API" implementations that pop up. http://www.beeradvocate.com/contact/

Also, +1 for Untappd integration. That would be amazing.

New comment by pettazz in "The Uncle Who Works for Nintendo"

pettazz — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 18:34:52 +0000

How do you get any of the last 3?

New comment by pettazz in "Daskeyboard 4 Professional"

pettazz — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 20:03:55 +0000

Look at the third slide in the carousel at the top.

New comment by pettazz in "How currying leads to elegant, readable code"

pettazz — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 15:17:56 +0000

Currying is the process of turning a function that expects multiple parameters into one that, when supplied fewer parameters, returns a new function that awaits the remaining ones.

I think this, along with the whole article, is the best explanation of currying I've seen on the whole damn internet.

New comment by pettazz in "Jamaican Bobsledders Ride Dogecoin Into Olympics"

pettazz — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 23:39:40 +0000

Huh. Didn't know they had that option. But either way, along with #3 in the top level comment, Multipool also holds a massive share of the total network: http://i.imgur.com/n9xaRQo.png, and if a lot of that is profit-hoppers, when they change coins, that will leave Dogehouse with even more share.

New comment by pettazz in "Jamaican Bobsledders Ride Dogecoin Into Olympics"

pettazz — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 23:28:18 +0000

There's a huge directory of everything from Pools to Exchanges maintained here: http://www.doktorrf.com/dogecoin/index.html

New comment by pettazz in "Jamaican Bobsledders Ride Dogecoin Into Olympics"

pettazz — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 23:26:15 +0000

Multipool also has a huge share of the network hashing power, but is designed to hop between whatever happens to be the most profitable coin. So for someone looking to get into DOGE for fun, it's not the way to go.

Is Quantopian The Next Bloomberg?

pettazz — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 16:18:27 +0000

Article URL: http://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2013/10/04/is-quantopian-the-next-bloomberg/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6496241

Points: 25

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