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New comment by phalangion in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

phalangion — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:42:56 +0000

hhtps://www.schuetzler.net - currently down because my home router died, but hopefully back up tomorrow

New comment by phalangion in "There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout"

phalangion — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 23:13:36 +0000

Adguard Home and others can be configured to complete your DNS requests over HTTPS (using, for example, https://dns.cloudflare.com/dns-query).

New comment by phalangion in "Is Postgres read heavy or write heavy?"

phalangion — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 23:03:53 +0000

Did you read the article? It’s about how to tell if your database is read or write heavy.

Figuring out where AI fits

phalangion — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 16:53:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.schuetzler.net/blog/figuring-out-where-ai-fits/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45415975

Points: 1

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New comment by phalangion in "Google can now read your WhatsApp messages"

phalangion — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 18:04:00 +0000

That works for software, but not as well for services like YouTube

New comment by phalangion in "The Friendship Recession: The lost art of connecting"

phalangion — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 14:17:32 +0000

It really is exactly this. My default mindset is "everybody's busy with their own lives, so they probably don't have time so I won't even try to invite them to X." Change your assumptions a little bit to instead assume people want to do things. If they say no, so be it. But I've found that people want to be invited out to do more things than they are, so send the invites.

I started swimming with a community team two years ago, and about 4 months in I invited them to also lift weights with me. Now there are about 8 of us that are together 5 mornings per week. Took a chance and invited them on a trip, and now 5 of us are going on a week long trip together.

Find a group of people doing something you like. If it's a tech meetup, community organization, hobby group, whatever. What it is doesn't matter. What matters is that you find people with whom you share _an_ interest. Then take a chance there and say "hey, want to meet up for lunch next week?" Or just say "hey, I'm going to see X next weekend, want to come?"

New comment by phalangion in "The Friendship Recession: The lost art of connecting"

phalangion — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 12:38:38 +0000

> I think some people just have to be the inviters or relationships fall apart.

As annoying as it is, this is definitely true. I've only recently become an inviter, and it's made all the difference. It helps to recognize that not everybody is an inviter/organizer.

New comment by phalangion in "AI coding and the peanut butter and jelly problem"

phalangion — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 23:03:50 +0000

This video shows the peanut butter and jelly problem in action: https://youtu.be/cDA3_5982h8?si=xIQpzNTvhRcGY4Nb

New comment by phalangion in "Bikes in the age of tariffs"

phalangion — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 01:17:22 +0000

Or the inflation worries with 8% inflation

New comment by phalangion in "1,156 Questions Censored by DeepSeek"

phalangion — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 22:29:02 +0000

People complained about censorship within ChatGPT pretty quickly after it was released. The difference is that now people know to look for it, so the evaluations are happening both more quickly and more systematically.

New comment by phalangion in "Effect of a giant meteorite impact on Paleoarchean environment and life"

phalangion — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 02:39:16 +0000

Except the article explains in fairly easy to understand terms how the study came to this theory, and the original paper is linked from that article. The question here gives the impression that the asker read only the headline.

New comment by phalangion in "Valve says Steam users don't own a thing, GOG says its games can't be taken away"

phalangion — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 20:17:25 +0000

I’d guess money has a lot (everything) to do with it. The Linux gamers market is not big enough to be worth the investment.

New comment by phalangion in "Install Docmost – open-source Notion Clone"

phalangion — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 13:32:53 +0000

I think your use of "thin client" here is literally redefining a thin client to be the opposite. The thick client software of MS Word does all the things locally, which is part of what makes it responsive.

New comment by phalangion in "Puerto Rico files $1B suit against fossil fuel companies"

phalangion — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 15:37:32 +0000

One of the roles government can play is to take the negative externalities of an activity (e.g., pollution) and internalize it so that those costs are paid by those who are profiting. The way to do that is to create taxes, fee structures, etc. so that those making money on activities contribute to the overall societal cost.

New comment by phalangion in "Losing my son"

phalangion — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 13:09:07 +0000

It was a cardiac arrest during surgery. Likely nothing preventable or predictable. Just tragic

New comment by phalangion in "Fired comedian ordered to get day job back after jokes ruled 'simply funny'"

phalangion — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 20:40:34 +0000

Because you must be a natural-born citizen of the US.

New comment by phalangion in "Ozempic could change the economy as we know it"

phalangion — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 20:21:17 +0000

I think there are a lot of theories about why people eat too much, and all of them apply to some people. I have been eating "healthier" for months, including about 5x as much vegetables as I had been previously into my eating, cutting back (but not eliminating) desserts. I still found that I did not lose weight because I was eating too much. I don't believe it was because I was not getting adequate nutrition - I just wanted food.

New comment by phalangion in "Parents are teaming up to delay their children's first cell phone"

phalangion — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 15:15:16 +0000

I love how every time a parent posts that they use a phone so they know where their kids are, it turns into the same argument about "surveillance." I have kids who are <10 years old, and a phone or watch that lets me know where they are makes me much more comfortable allowing them to roam our neighborhood. I can always get in touch with them and call them home from whoever's home they are playing in.

And then the argument becomes "when I was young, we didn't have phones, and we still found our way home." Which to me feels a bit like "I never wore a bike helmet, and I was fine." Not entirely the same argument, but along the same lines. Sometimes new technology helps us do things better than it was done in the past. Back in the day, we couldn't keep touch with our spouses throughout the day at work or especially while traveling. Now we can, and in my opinion, that's largely an improvement over what we had in the past.

Sure, some parents use it poorly to track and interrogate their kids about their location 24/7. But just because I track my kids does not mean I am spying on them or "getting them used to a surveillance state" like some arguments I have seen here.

New comment by phalangion in "YouTube is cracking down on consumers' favorite loophole"

phalangion — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 19:21:27 +0000

Hit me for the first time this morning

New comment by phalangion in "Teaching with AI"

phalangion — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 21:29:51 +0000

I suspect it’s not being addressed well because it’s one of the fundamental challenges of school in the first place. For many, assessment and grades are the end goal, and any learning that happens is secondary.