Hacker News: sWW26

New comment by sWW26 in "Why F#?"

sWW26 — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 09:01:14 +0000

and the C# is missing the `async Task` boilerplate

New comment by sWW26 in "Buy payphones and retire"

sWW26 — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 12:25:07 +0000

How did the soda get from Costco to the machines, how was the cash collected? Might be low effort but don't think you can call it passive revenue.

New comment by sWW26 in "I found a 1-click exploit in South Korea's biggest mobile chat app"

sWW26 — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 22:21:28 +0000

I think your talking about a different app, KakaoMap, which you're right isn't totally localised. KakaoTalk is though.

New comment by sWW26 in "Kids with chattier parents are more talkative, may have bigger vocabulary"

sWW26 — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 09:32:28 +0000

If you're referring to the 1.71m = 5.6 feet. It's technically correct but confusing, 5.6' != 5'6".

New comment by sWW26 in "The UK’s tortured attempt to remake the internet"

sWW26 — Thu, 04 May 2023 22:47:24 +0000

They do count them and they do report them.

See "Rejected ballot papers" https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/who-we-are-and-what-w...

New comment by sWW26 in "Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data"

sWW26 — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 08:36:22 +0000

He can't just choose to pay the $1bn to get out of it. It's basically a fine he'd have to pay if he is unable to complete the deal due to his financing falling through or a couple of other extremely unlikely things.

New comment by sWW26 in "Blockchain Is Dangerous Nonsense"

sWW26 — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 14:16:14 +0000

How does it give you privacy when all your transactions are visible to all on chain?

New comment by sWW26 in "South Africa is running out of Marmite"

sWW26 — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 15:54:29 +0000

A slice of toast with peanut butter and Marmite has been my standard breakfast for the last few years.

New comment by sWW26 in "Diving into BoardGameGeek"

sWW26 — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 17:19:56 +0000

I built a recommendation engine[0] using the BoardGameGeek data with the methods described in Significance[1].

I've also extended it[2] relatively recently to have a tweakable ranking system which my father explains here[3]

[0] https://trythesegames.com/ [1] https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1740-9713.... [2] https://trythesegames.com/rankings [3] https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2728398/flexible-boardgame-...

New comment by sWW26 in "About the Urgency of Building Web3"

sWW26 — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 17:05:05 +0000

What happens when someone's private key is lost/stolen?

New comment by sWW26 in "Elevated Error Rates at Reddit"

sWW26 — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 21:24:33 +0000

old.reddit.com still works fine

New comment by sWW26 in "50% – 75% of cases of Covid-19 are asymptomatic"

sWW26 — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 12:01:42 +0000

Where did you get the information that they've blocked people traveling from anywhere with Covid. You can still turn up now from Europe and be let in, they just ask you to install an app and report your health status daily.

New comment by sWW26 in "Space: The Integrated Team Environment"

sWW26 — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 22:11:05 +0000

That's weird because I get your ideal update flow in the apps of theirs I use (Rider, Webstorm & Datagrip) i.e. a notification that there is a new update with an update now button that downloads and installs the update. Maybe it's a platform specific thing, I'm on Windows.