Hacker News: pleb_nz

New comment by pleb_nz in "Ask HN: A friend has brain cancer: any bio hacks that worked?"

pleb_nz — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 06:36:53 +0000

This is interesting stuff. Though but my field.

https://youtu.be/KjdAtauO2cA?si=QGOQW8Ed165CZHL6

New comment by pleb_nz in "Ford CEO on why it's so difficult for legacy car companies to get software right"

pleb_nz — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 17:55:17 +0000

F*ked on race day

New comment by pleb_nz in "Swiss watchmakers put employees on state-funded leave as luxury demand disappear"

pleb_nz — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 03:47:09 +0000

Garmin are fairy popular in my circles and area.

New comment by pleb_nz in "Study shows that tacking the “AI” label on products may drive people away"

pleb_nz — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 08:13:08 +0000

I prefer apps and desktop apps when they are available. They feel and work nicer mostly than web based. But we live more and more in a browser world and there is less and less choice and I understand I must move with the times.

New comment by pleb_nz in "Kepler's 400-year-old sunspot sketches helped solve a modern mystery"

pleb_nz — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 03:41:49 +0000

That’s putting a lot of eggs in one basket on an assumption. I would say let’s keep it in different formats.

Better to be safe than sorry.

New comment by pleb_nz in "Kepler's 400-year-old sunspot sketches helped solve a modern mystery"

pleb_nz — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 03:21:52 +0000

You’re assuming straight line civilisation. That we’ll always be as we are or more advanced technologically speaking. But civilisation isn’t straight line and one day who knows. Physical records will still be accessible even when digital no longer are.

New comment by pleb_nz in "Kepler's 400-year-old sunspot sketches helped solve a modern mystery"

pleb_nz — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 21:49:47 +0000

But are digital records really more resilient to catastrophic societal and global changes? Physical records don’t need anything to exist and be read and only time and simple resources to duplicate compared with digital.

New comment by pleb_nz in "Safer roundabouts are replacing traffic signals (2023)"

pleb_nz — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 20:08:16 +0000

Roundabout’s are only suitable for intersections where traffic on each route is roughly equal. In NZ I can’t recall seeing roundabouts built where the routes are not roughly equal in size and volume. In saying that, mistakes happen and things change and there are roundabouts that suffer this sometimes.

New comment by pleb_nz in "Canada demands 5% of revenue from Netflix, Spotify, and other streamers"

pleb_nz — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 08:30:55 +0000

Not very often companies will absorb the costs IME. Sometimes though it’s delayed or through some other side effect.

New comment by pleb_nz in "What We're Working on in Firefox"

pleb_nz — Thu, 30 May 2024 21:21:03 +0000

Firefox does have profiles and has had for as long as I’ve needed them. For some reason they’ve always been hidden away and needed different args on start to change the profile being started, or the use of an extension to allow profile switching. I don’t use them anymore but from what I remember they worked well and were very isolated. Hopefully they’re using the current implementation and just making it more user friendly?

New comment by pleb_nz in "Insects and other animals have consciousness"

pleb_nz — Sat, 04 May 2024 08:36:49 +0000

Let’s not forget the other kingdoms. We’ll have to be pretty convincing with convince the fungi to stop eating everything they can get their tentacles on

New comment by pleb_nz in "Spotify moves lyrics behind a paywall"

pleb_nz — Thu, 02 May 2024 19:17:46 +0000

It’s still a good option, maybe not the best. No ads on youtube in and off its self is worth it. Especially when you have kids and you don't want them blasted with every ad under the sun every few minutes.

New comment by pleb_nz in "Ask HN: What rabbit hole(s) did you dive into recently?"

pleb_nz — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 00:20:41 +0000

Everything. Everything I look at or touch I soon realise it’s way bigger and deeper than I thought. You could choose nearly any topic and turn the study of it into a phd if you really want.

New comment by pleb_nz in "Postman Has Acquired Orbit"

pleb_nz — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 10:42:20 +0000

Is there a good alternative to postman. I recently tried Bruno and liked it but it was lacking in so many little ways I had to revert to postman. And not for the first time either, I’ve tried other solutions. Postman seems so heavy and annoying now but everything else seems lacking somewhere

New comment by pleb_nz in "California rains resurrect a long-dead lake in dry Death Valley"

pleb_nz — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 18:08:25 +0000

Indeed a single quote is. But it 3500m being close to 11000ft feels very coincidental.

New comment by pleb_nz in "Plastic Found Inside More Than 50% of Plaques from Clogged Arteries"

pleb_nz — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:15:51 +0000

I've seen these videos on YouTube. If it's real why is nothing getting said. I'm a little confsed on whether to believe it. Would appreciate some reliable and factual source/report on this.

New comment by pleb_nz in "Plastic Found Inside More Than 50% of Plaques from Clogged Arteries"

pleb_nz — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:12:58 +0000

It's won't be contained to any one generation. This is multi generational both now and in the future.

New comment by pleb_nz in "PG&E claims no connection between rate increases and $2.2B jump in earnings"

pleb_nz — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 12:11:32 +0000

I don't think they said profit is the problem. They said it being expected increased profits year on year is the problem.

New comment by pleb_nz in "California rains resurrect a long-dead lake in dry Death Valley"

pleb_nz — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 11:54:56 +0000

Maybe they were using earth measurements? 3500 metered is getting pretty close to 11000 imperial feet.

New comment by pleb_nz in "Wear OS "Hybrid" design has two OSes, two CPUs, "100 hour" battery life"

pleb_nz — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 08:53:17 +0000

Happy with my up to 31 days amoled watch.