Hacker News: pyfon

New comment by pyfon in "A study of lightning fatalities inside buildings while using smartphones [pdf] (2024)"

pyfon — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 01:13:22 +0000

Gift link still paywalls :?

New comment by pyfon in "Making a smart bike dumb so it works again"

pyfon — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 23:14:19 +0000

And not all renting out is rent seeking! On occasion in cities with decreasing home prices, the landlord is subsidising the tenant. That is rare though!

New comment by pyfon in "Making a smart bike dumb so it works again"

pyfon — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 23:10:06 +0000

Do a Dell. Sell the laptop. Sell support. This is a win win for customer and business.

New comment by pyfon in "Coding as Craft: Going Back to the Old Gym"

pyfon — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 13:25:50 +0000

Yes I do for estimation. If I can calculate requests per minute in my head I saved time.

Also in your analogy the calculator is the compiler :). AI would be someone telling you the numbers to use and you just trust em.

New comment by pyfon in "Coding as Craft: Going Back to the Old Gym"

pyfon — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 13:24:45 +0000

This sort if makes me want to learn Lisp. Maybe if every line packs a lot of punch and you need fewer of them, you can do things AI can't do yet. I think AI would struggle with Lisp since in Lisp, you engineer a language for the task. AI tends to be good on languages it is trained on. For now!

New comment by pyfon in "AI assisted search-based research works now"

pyfon — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 11:27:48 +0000

I am on holiday now and want something similar. Get me from A to B but with a memorable heuristic that I can use if I leave at any time. E.g. "if you catch a 134 or 175 bus to Kings station then get the metro 3 stops to Cental station.". Even better if you add some landmarks.

This may exclude some clever routes that shave off 3 minutes if you do the correct parkour... but it means I can now put my phone down and enjoy the journey without tracking it like a hawk.

New comment by pyfon in "Attacking My Landlord's Boiler"

pyfon — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 09:35:37 +0000

Furry cartoons are catching on.

New comment by pyfon in "The 'freaky and unpleasant' world when video games leak into the physical realm"

pyfon — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 09:19:51 +0000

Had to remember not to drive after playing GTA back in the day!

New comment by pyfon in "Show HN: Look Busy – Realistic-Looking Fake Calendar Events"

pyfon — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 01:47:08 +0000

Just means he gets a DM "when are you free to..."

New comment by pyfon in "Show HN: I built a tool that texts you if your server goes down"

pyfon — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 01:42:46 +0000

Oof! I'd rather be half way through fixing the problem while the customer first discovers it.

Unless you have 1 customer who lives in the same time zone or something.

I'd understand not wanring to be being woken up from a page for a small operation though.

New comment by pyfon in "Show HN: I built a tool that texts you if your server goes down"

pyfon — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 01:40:06 +0000

It is crazy you need a seperate service for this :(. Why doesn't the original service treat no data as an alert as well as have a 99.999 slo?

New comment by pyfon in "Reworking 30 lines of Linux code could cut power use by up to 30 percent"

pyfon — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 01:16:54 +0000

I'd suggest a submission title change to "...cut networking software power use..."

Not so sexy. But as a force multiplier that's still a lot of carbon probably.

New comment by pyfon in "Is 1 Prime, and Does It Matter?"

pyfon — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 00:57:08 +0000

What does primarily look like with the addition operation instead of multiply? 1,2,4,8,...? Or indeed just 1 alone lol! (Yes 1 is there because zero is the additive identity)

New comment by pyfon in "Is 1 Prime, and Does It Matter?"

pyfon — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 00:54:28 +0000

That is the first time I thought of 1 as being the product of []

Thay is enough justification for me of 1 not being prime. It has a factorisation!

New comment by pyfon in "Astronomers confirm the existence of a lone black hole"

pyfon — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 22:57:12 +0000

More like it eats the dust that brushes pass the front door, but neighbours are safe.

New comment by pyfon in "Astronomers confirm the existence of a lone black hole"

pyfon — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 22:48:33 +0000

Yet they detected a lone black hole in the article. Maybe detection isn't guaranteed though?

New comment by pyfon in "Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii"

pyfon — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 21:11:03 +0000

Looks like a design interview round

New comment by pyfon in "Regex Isn't Hard (2023)"

pyfon — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 12:16:48 +0000

Not sure what you are asking?

New comment by pyfon in "Ask HN: Do FAANG corps have an internal Cursor?"

pyfon — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 12:16:03 +0000

Us too.

New comment by pyfon in "Ask HN: How to get my development passion/productivity back?"

pyfon — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 12:14:29 +0000

Because you are human? We weren't meant to work 8 hrs a day from 9-5 based on a clock.

If you are making money don't worry about it I'd say.

Keep a good nest egg savings etc. Enjoy it. You deserve it and more time for your child is a great thing.