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New comment by squidgyhead in "Asus Bike Booster"

squidgyhead — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 04:20:08 +0000

A follow-me tandem (which couples a kids bike to your bike) is a much better solution than giving a 9yo a poorly controlled motor.

New comment by squidgyhead in "Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly"

squidgyhead — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:33:33 +0000

I have the opposite experience. With the HP docking station, we were unable to drive a 4k monitor using windows. On linux thisnjust worked.

New comment by squidgyhead in "British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time"

squidgyhead — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 03:57:37 +0000

Going outside for lunch is a great idea.

New comment by squidgyhead in "Sizing chaos"

squidgyhead — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 23:54:29 +0000

Here's an article from 2002 talking about how we could just have data-based sizing:

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/15/magazine/the-year-in-idea...

New comment by squidgyhead in "Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?"

squidgyhead — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 05:36:55 +0000

I am cleaning up some pointer arithmetic stuff for multi-dimensional C style arrays. I managed to replace the code with a std::inner_product minus a std::accumulate (to accomodate for the fact that the upper array bound is exclusive, ie one-past-the-end).

New comment by squidgyhead in "An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform"

squidgyhead — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 04:56:29 +0000

What is the bioinformatic application? Could you point me towards some programs that use this?

New comment by squidgyhead in "LAPD helicopter tracker with real-time operating costs"

squidgyhead — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 02:40:57 +0000

Because they have so many car chases on the news. So people get the idea that car chases are a solution that people use to get out of trouble.

Seems like a vicious cycle, fed by the terrible news media.

New comment by squidgyhead in "AMD continues to chip away at Intel's x86 market share"

squidgyhead — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 03:58:36 +0000

That is really more of a switch from CUDA to HIP; for most HPC applications, cpu speed isn't the question any more.

New comment by squidgyhead in "Why should I care what color the bikeshed is? (1999)"

squidgyhead — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 04:17:38 +0000

I write code and also cycle. I built a bike shed in my back yard. It has become quite difficult to search for advice on how to actually build a bike shed.

New comment by squidgyhead in "Trump pardons convicted Binance founder"

squidgyhead — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 02:21:16 +0000

Or just not have pardons at all.

New comment by squidgyhead in "More and more people are tuning the news out: 'Now I don't have that anxiety"

squidgyhead — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 14:10:05 +0000

For those complaining about the news sites being sensationalist, why not just read Reuters? You will miss out on local news, but it's pretty reliable for international news.

New comment by squidgyhead in "Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year"

squidgyhead — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 01:56:40 +0000

Speed enforcement has been extensively studied, and there are a lot of publicly available articles on the subject. The results are basically universally in favour of speed enforcement reducing motor vehicle collisions, reducing injury and cost.

New comment by squidgyhead in "How to Catch a Wily Poacher in a Sting: A Thermal Robotic Deer"

squidgyhead — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 01:43:50 +0000

I am not familiar with poaching issues in the USA, but in Canada, one isn't allowed to hunt too close to roads; doing otherwise is poaching. It seems reasonable to not discharge firearms next to public roads, so stopping poachers who do so is a great use case here.

New comment by squidgyhead in "First-in-Nation Bill Requiring Cars to Warn Speeding Drivers Goes to CA Governor"

squidgyhead — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 23:49:00 +0000

Differences in speed matter, but so does absolute speed.

"Inappropriate speed is responsible for 20 to 30% of all fatal road crashes." from https://www.itf-oecd.org/speed-crash-risk

Also, due to kinetic energy increasing with speed, collisions are worse, in addition to being more likely.

New comment by squidgyhead in "Run CUDA, unmodified, on AMD GPUs"

squidgyhead — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 00:13:04 +0000

Here is the support list:

https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/install-on-linux/en/lates...

New comment by squidgyhead in "Home insurers are dropping customers based on aerial images"

squidgyhead — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 03:33:32 +0000

In terms of sheer game-theoretic value, sure, perfect knowledge will reduce value gaps. However, the thing with having your house insured is that you will have somewhere to live if you have a house fire. The +/- for the insurer might be close, but going from having a house to having no house is a bigger deal than going from one house to a twice-as-expensive house.

New comment by squidgyhead in "A town employee lowered the fluoride in water for years (2022)"

squidgyhead — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 02:20:30 +0000

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_by_countr...

It seems that one or two European countries ban fluoridation; however few practice it. But "Europe banned this" is simply false. Moreover, it seems that there is fluoridation of salt instead (eg in Switzerland).

New comment by squidgyhead in "The end of Google Podcasts is in June if you're not in the US"

squidgyhead — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 14:11:34 +0000

Does it work with android auto?

New comment by squidgyhead in "Heat exchanger masks for cold weather cycling (2019)"

squidgyhead — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 15:10:07 +0000

Thankfully, I have been able to keept the car in the garage and ride at -30. Passed a lot of cars needing a boost though.

New comment by squidgyhead in "Heat exchanger masks for cold weather cycling (2019)"

squidgyhead — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 14:54:43 +0000

I used the 3m filter mask biking in the wildfire smoke a while ago. There is a blowout hole, which makes it much easier to get stale air out. The sport-specifc one from MEC made it hard to get fresh air when biking up hill.

I used the air warmer mask during this last cold snap. It made it so much more comfortable! Last year I was fine biking in the cold snap, except for one time biking up a hill. Actually breathing hard, I got a lot more cold air in my lungs, and ended up with a cough for a week. Wanted to avoid that this year.