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New comment by swasheck in "FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review"

swasheck — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:28:58 +0000

This comment seems detached from the basis of the article. If anything you’re describing the standard MAHA RFKj acolyte

New comment by swasheck in "FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review"

swasheck — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:27:02 +0000

For me, so many things he said were not rooted in any form of science or verifiable fact so it was always hard to fully accept and endorse his platform. He has always been a snake oil salesperson trading on his surname.

New comment by swasheck in "I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall"

swasheck — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:23:07 +0000

Likely because of legacy homeowners who bought their $2m home 50 years ago for $25k and are now retired. They don’t have the income to pay those taxes even though their non-liquid net worth is way high

New comment by swasheck in "Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?"

swasheck — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:39:13 +0000

It’s very frustrating to see the people who claim that competition only helps the customer so regulation is bad suddenly beg for regulation in order to keep themselves competitive

Aurora PostgreSQL now supports direct query of Apache Iceberg and Parquet data

swasheck — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 19:40:37 +0000

Article URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-aurora-postgresql-now-supports-direct-querying-of-apache-iceberg-and-parquet-data-in-your-data-lake/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49913313

Points: 2

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New comment by swasheck in "Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South Park to South America"

swasheck — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 23:15:43 +0000

Warrant’s “Ode to Tipper Gore” is something of a classic

New comment by swasheck in "Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat"

swasheck — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 20:23:12 +0000

i am currently hiking through switzerland (in cossonay this evening) and have been struck by how wet the forest ground is compared to my home (colorado, usa). locals have told me that’s very recent because of the storms that came through a few days ago.

the mittelland seems dry but since i’m walking through farmland, mostly, everything around me looks green, while i walk on dusty paths.

today was very hot.

New comment by swasheck in "CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela"

swasheck — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:11:56 +0000

maybe. i use it every other year though and otherwise simply don’t. i never said that it wasn’t super cheap, i just said it wasn’t cost-effective for my usage profile.

New comment by swasheck in "CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela"

swasheck — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 20:50:24 +0000

after about 6 years of using OSMAnd, i’m pivoting to CoMaps for a hike through switzerland that i’m leaving for tonight. i don’t actually need all of the features of OSMAnd and just downloading maps costs a subscription now. id pay outright for it but i just can’t justify a subscription for how infrequently i use it

New comment by swasheck in "Dolly Parton has died"

swasheck — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:34:39 +0000

the unifying power of dolly actually forced him to transcend even that. apparently he had nothing but nice things to say about her (and nothing about himself) on truth.

New comment by swasheck in "Ox Alpha"

swasheck — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 01:58:34 +0000

the u.s. is friends with then now. haven’t you heard?

New comment by swasheck in "A Preview of DuckDB v2.0"

swasheck — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:57:53 +0000

which statistical functions do you want? i’m curious because i love duckdb and use it for a variety of projects but always want to learn more about how to use tools better.

New comment by swasheck in "Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2"

swasheck — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:50:08 +0000

honestly, this is an unhelpful comment. but thank you for your thoughts - wish I had considered such a simple solution

New comment by swasheck in "Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2"

swasheck — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:48:46 +0000

condescending comments really aren’t helpful. while i feel no compulsion to explain myself to you, I will say that most of my bookshelves are stocked with books, and I tend to leave notebooks in random places and forget about them until I need one. then I just open a new one and start writing some more. So I have fragments of thoughts scattered across multiple notebooks. I was hoping this could be a new way to navigate and manage that in my mind.

New comment by swasheck in "Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2"

swasheck — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 13:22:36 +0000

i’ll address this as if it was a genuine question.

my handwriting is awful, not to mention that my physical notebook management is awful. i’ve considered a supernote nomad as a way to streamline some of those issues. theyre just so expensive that i cant really justify a $500 experiment.

New comment by swasheck in "AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot"

swasheck — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:14:26 +0000

there’s space for both perspectives.

they are not “leaders” in the purest sense - they don’t demonstrate characteristics of leading, but rather characteristics of people who strive for power and influence.

yet i also get that, in spite of the deficit of true leadership skills, they still guide the group into a specific direction for better or worse.

New comment by swasheck in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

swasheck — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:58:13 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs

the theory is not without flaws but it seems relevant to the topic and conversation

New comment by swasheck in "Ancient Rome's version of Google Maps: how long to reach the beach"

swasheck — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:35:14 +0000

i’ve walked the via francigena and the italian section has quite a few sections of ancient roman road. they’re admittedly not contiguous, and are worn more extensively now, so i don’t get the same overall experience of treading on the stones for kilometers as they would have.

i target 35km/day with a 40L pack and finish my segments within 6-7 hours. asphalt, dirt and grass, and hiking trails (rocks, roots, dirt, etc) are the most standard surfaces and, to be honest, they’re all exhausting in their own rights so a change in surface is always welcome.

i can’t imagine marching most of this with near double body weight and then having to make camp.

New comment by swasheck in "The startup's Postgres survival guide"

swasheck — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:27:15 +0000

you’re going to pay the cost regardless. one approach absorbs the cost up front, and the other defers it, with interest

New comment by swasheck in "My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded"

swasheck — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:19:48 +0000

catastrophic converter is such a hilarious autocorrect.