<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: pstrateman</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pstrateman</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 01:28:44 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=pstrateman" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pstrateman in "BYD builds fastest car"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is it a production car if they have made one and have sold zero?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2025 19:25:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45484425</link><dc:creator>pstrateman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45484425</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45484425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pstrateman in "Humans have caused 1.5 °C of long-term global warming according to new estimates"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's not the high income countries choice.<p>If you reduce your consumption the cost of oil will fall towards the cost of production and middle/low income countries would consume it.<p>The only way someone in a high income country can prevent this is to buy oil and permanently bury it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 Nov 2024 20:45:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42167074</link><dc:creator>pstrateman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42167074</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42167074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pstrateman in "Humans have caused 1.5 °C of long-term global warming according to new estimates"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you truly believe that then the options for what happens are universally bad.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 Nov 2024 20:07:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42166727</link><dc:creator>pstrateman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42166727</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42166727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pstrateman in "Humans have caused 1.5 °C of long-term global warming according to new estimates"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The simple reality is that humanity is unable to reduce greenhouse gas emissions without an alternative that is superior.<p>For every ton of CO2 that the west has reduced in the past decade China has produced three tons of CO2.[1]<p>We need another breakthrough on the scale of the Haber process.<p>[1] <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/co2?country=OWID_WRL~High-income+countries~Low-income+countries~Lower-middle-income+countries~Upper-middle-income+countries~CHN&hideControls=false&Gas+or+Warming=CO%E2%82%82&Accounting=Territorial&Fuel+or+Land+Use+Change=All+fossil+emissions&Count=Per+country">https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/co2?country=OWID_WRL~Hi...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 Nov 2024 19:52:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42166593</link><dc:creator>pstrateman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42166593</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42166593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pstrateman in "A hot day, a fan provides little benefit when the temperature exceeds 35°C"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The "feels like" temperature weather reports use is an approximation of wet bulb.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2024 01:11:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42111957</link><dc:creator>pstrateman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42111957</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42111957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pstrateman in "A hot day, a fan provides little benefit when the temperature exceeds 35°C"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Have they not heard of wet bulb temperature?<p>The chart in this wiki article is really good at showing the various effects.<p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychrometrics" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychrometrics</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2024 17:13:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42108707</link><dc:creator>pstrateman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42108707</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42108707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pstrateman in "Segmenting Credit Card Customers with K-Means: A Fun Dive into Clustering"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm gonna say his analysis of the groups is just wild guessing.<p>> Mostly married with low credit limits and high utilization rates. These customers may benefit from tools and programs to manage their credit usage.<p>> Mostly single women with low c redit limits and high utilization rates. Offering credit management tools and financial literacy programs could be valuable for this group.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 09 Nov 2024 17:02:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42095466</link><dc:creator>pstrateman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42095466</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42095466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pstrateman in "Colorado scrambles to change voting-system passwords after accidental leak"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wide scale fraud isn't necessary when elections are decided by 10k votes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 Nov 2024 03:22:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42030948</link><dc:creator>pstrateman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42030948</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42030948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pstrateman in "Broadwell's EDRAM: VCache Before VCache Was Cool"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I believe the high cache skus were Mac exclusive.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2024 18:54:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42020317</link><dc:creator>pstrateman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42020317</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42020317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pstrateman in "Who is the skeleton buried by a secret society under this Baltimore bar?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>the dissection triggered a hunger response in people<p>this is supposedly from the formaldehyde</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2024 22:18:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41990011</link><dc:creator>pstrateman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41990011</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41990011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pstrateman in "Simone Giertz talks about invention"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How does this article not mention anywhere that she had brain cancer?<p>That's almost certainly the answer to the headline.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2024 23:59:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41920021</link><dc:creator>pstrateman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41920021</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41920021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pstrateman in "AI Medical Imagery Model Offers Fast, Cost-Efficient Expert Analysis"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Two thirds of the title is true.<p>That's pretty good.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Oct 2024 06:32:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41893371</link><dc:creator>pstrateman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41893371</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41893371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pstrateman in "Web Browser Engineering (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Most of the things you think of as static video files (say youtube) are actually video segments operating more or less exactly the way live streams work.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Oct 2024 19:14:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41852079</link><dc:creator>pstrateman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41852079</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41852079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pstrateman in "Web Browser Engineering (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> As an aside, video decoding is offloaded onto hardware, so it's not as battery intensive as it used to be.<p>This is technically but not usefully true with most videos on the web today.<p>The video decode itself is accelerated, but each frame passes through JavaScript to be composited.<p>The only time video is fully hardware decoded is when it's a simple video element to a static video file.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Oct 2024 13:56:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41848643</link><dc:creator>pstrateman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41848643</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41848643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pstrateman in "Is population density the reason Americans can't discuss politics?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think this guy misses something pretty significant.<p>Many Americans have professional business relationships with people whom they vehemently oppose politically.<p>Politics is simply bad for business.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2024 23:43:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41804710</link><dc:creator>pstrateman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41804710</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41804710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pstrateman in "Money Buys Happiness, Even If You're Already Rich"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How would anybody else know?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2024 17:41:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41743704</link><dc:creator>pstrateman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41743704</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41743704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pstrateman in "Solving climate change by abusing thermodynamic scaling laws"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Reducing production is simply impossible.<p>There's billions of people on earth who are desperately poor compared to even the poorest American.<p>There is absolutely no chance those people just accept their position as ultra poor.<p>If individuals want to reduce their CO2 output the only viable strategy is to buy and permanently store fossil fuels.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2024 16:01:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41688246</link><dc:creator>pstrateman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41688246</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41688246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pstrateman in "Solving climate change by abusing thermodynamic scaling laws"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Simple math unfortunately.<p>To offset global human CO2 production you'd need to biochar all plant matter several times a year.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2024 14:33:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41687696</link><dc:creator>pstrateman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41687696</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41687696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pstrateman in "Britain buys semiconductor factory for defence purposes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's much more effective at extremely high frequencies used in compact radars, like the kind used on fighter jets.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium_arsenide#GaAs_advantages" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium_arsenide#GaAs_advantag...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2024 01:04:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41684019</link><dc:creator>pstrateman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41684019</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41684019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pstrateman in "Agitating homemade PCBs with ease"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The YouTube video acknowledges the over engineering in the title.</p>
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