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New comment by sjclemmy in "Show HN: Lean bulk, cut, body recomp. Calculate maintenance calories"

sjclemmy — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 07:33:42 +0000

I like this, I’ve been tracking with MyFitnessPal. Would be great if I could import historical calories to see how it performs. Also note that tracking calories is hard - often it’s an estimate so quite hard to vary by the small amounts above and below the threshold needed for continued weight loss. Also losing weight is hard!

New comment by sjclemmy in "Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy"

sjclemmy — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:41:41 +0000

Worth mentioning Gene Wolfe’s superb Latro books (https://www.goodreads.com/series/49453-latro)

I think the premise for the books is that the story is found on ancient papyrus.

New comment by sjclemmy in "The Falkirk Wheel"

sjclemmy — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 13:18:00 +0000

Which reminds me of a weekend I took a few years ago where we drove to Edinburgh from Manchester on day 1 then up to Arisaig on day 2 to camp on the beach - then back to Edinburgh for a wedding on day 3 and then back to Arisaig the next day to continue the long weekend. Then full day drive back to Manchester.

New comment by sjclemmy in "Trillions spent and big software projects are still failing"

sjclemmy — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 21:15:14 +0000

The uk government development service as you call it is not a service. It’s more of a declaration of process that is adhered to across diverse departments and organisations that make up the government. It’s usually small teams that are responsible for exploring what a service is or needs and then implementing it. They are able to deliver decent services because they start small, design and user test iteratively and only when there is a really good understanding of what’s being delivered do they scale out. The technology is the easy bit.

New comment by sjclemmy in "Show HN: I made an esoteric programming language that's read like a spellbook"

sjclemmy — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 13:36:17 +0000

And now imagine the future where code is embedded in the world all around. No one knows it’s there, except… the magicians! They’re the only ones who managed to RTFM before it was lost in the mists of time…

New comment by sjclemmy in "The Sagrada Família takes its final shape"

sjclemmy — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 18:16:05 +0000

I have visited 2x - Once recently and it was very impressive. But I also climbed the towers in a thunder storm in 1990. Which was a terrifying experience. The stairs had about 50cm of stone balustrade on the inside which was not enough to feel safe. I was on my hands and knees by the very top. It was either real or vertigo but I swear I could feel the tower sway as the lightening and thunder crashed all around. A most treasured experience

New comment by sjclemmy in "Delta Engineered a Pricing System That Sorts You by Economic Value"

sjclemmy — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 20:27:52 +0000

Sounds like consumers need AI identities to help them get the best deals from this kind of thing.

New comment by sjclemmy in "Why Northern England is poor"

sjclemmy — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 18:56:49 +0000

I have never heard it referred to as North England. Northern England or the North of England yes. As a reluctant “northerner” it dunt sarnd reet.

New comment by sjclemmy in "Caloric Reflex Test"

sjclemmy — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 14:18:32 +0000

Just found out about this by looking into why I get dizzy when I swim crawl in the sea! The body is truly a complicated and wonderful thing.

from this page: https://www.outdoorswimcoach.com/post/i-m-so-dizzy#:~:text=B....

Caloric Reflex Test

sjclemmy — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 14:17:02 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caloric_reflex_test

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37223046

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by sjclemmy in "Forced rhubarb, a vegetable deprived of sunlight, is having a renaissance (2019)"

sjclemmy — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 18:54:37 +0000

Slightly tangential but along the same lines. Worth a read, BlackBerry Wine by Joanne Harris. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackberry_Wine

Lessons from 25 Years of Coding

sjclemmy — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 06:45:32 +0000

Article URL: https://swizec.com/blog/25-lessons-from-25-years-of-coding/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28997182

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by sjclemmy in "Ask HN: Solo-preneurs, how do you DevOps to save time?"

sjclemmy — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 13:34:05 +0000

Totally agree with this. I do big corp work and the problem space is totally different from what is needed for a single developer.

New comment by sjclemmy in "A bug's life: Millimeter-tall mountains on neutron stars"

sjclemmy — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 16:58:16 +0000

I’m currently reading Flux. Brilliantly bonkers.

New comment by sjclemmy in "I am an object of internet ridicule, ask me anything (2013)"

sjclemmy — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 21:07:28 +0000

That chimes with my experience. Back in 2009 my (then) 9 year old son made a few stop frame lego movies and we posted them on YouTube. Some of the comments were really mean. I remember being surprised by the response but found it quite amusing. We still joke about our favourite comment: “You’re an embarrassment to the stop motion community”

New comment by sjclemmy in "Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B"

sjclemmy — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 18:28:09 +0000

Fun fact and one of my dinner party anecdotes; I have the accepted answer for one of Ross Ulbricht’s (Silk Road’s Dread Pirate Roberts) SO questions that got him busted.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9563675/destroying-a-spe...

New comment by sjclemmy in "My failed music career"

sjclemmy — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 10:09:43 +0000

I’m a competent amateur guitarist and I feel your pain. Learning pieces so they are good enough to perform takes so much practice and I too get sick of them before I can play them adequately!

Zscaler Datacenter Issue

sjclemmy — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 14:55:26 +0000

Article URL: Https://trust.zscaler.com/posts/5101

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22593247

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by sjclemmy in "Dominic Cummings calls for 'weirdos and misfits' for No 10 jobs"

sjclemmy — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 11:38:52 +0000

So does Dominic Cummings read HN?

New comment by sjclemmy in "Dark Matter Developers: The Unseen 99% (2012)"

sjclemmy — Sat, 03 Aug 2019 19:15:44 +0000

I don’t think it’s about ability or interest. It’s about presence. There’s loads of developers out there with a range of skills. I work with devs who are great who you’ve never heard of and others who aren’t so great who you’ve never heard of. I’d consider myself in the 99%. I aspire to market myself but I’ve got lots of interests and I’m quite a private person so I find marketing myself in conflict with that aspect of my personality. But get me one to one and I’ll happily talk about my latest interest (which by the way is Directed Graphs).