Hacker News: teagoat

New comment by teagoat in "Is a movie prop the ultimate laptop bag?"

teagoat — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 21:24:20 +0000

Some of scottevest's can apparently fit a laptop in the pocket: https://www.reddit.com/r/onebag/comments/6w2p0o/scottevest_o...

New comment by teagoat in "Do not download the app, use the website"

teagoat — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:56:49 +0000

You can get push notifications to your phone from a website through the browser, even when that website isn't still open.

But presumably developers have more control over app notification look & feel vs browser notifications?

New comment by teagoat in "Wyze pays $255k of tariffs on $167k of floodlights"

teagoat — Thu, 01 May 2025 09:22:47 +0000

Are you suggesting moving operations to the US with this comment? It's the US adding all the uncertainty and instability to this environment. Having your operation based in the US makes this worse. You still have tariffs being applied to most of the components you need to assemble your product. You're now subject to more laws and rules changing overnight without the ability to plan ahead for them. If you're a company selling this product worldwide, you now have 100% of your operations subject to uncertainty vs. say 30% that was destined for the US market to begin with.

New comment by teagoat in "The brain's waste clearing lymphatic system shown in people for first time"

teagoat — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 19:23:42 +0000

Is increased glymphatic clearance good or bad?

New comment by teagoat in "Show HN: I wrote a symmetry game with a daily puzzle"

teagoat — Fri, 31 May 2024 21:26:36 +0000

I've been playing daily and really enjoying. I take it the play store version is now gone? I would gladly pay a few dollars for a curated list of puzzles.

New comment by teagoat in "23andMe says user data stolen in credential stuffing attack"

teagoat — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 23:49:22 +0000

you could just ask folks to mail it in (and pay for the privilege)

New comment by teagoat in "Study finds billions of nanoplastics released when microwaving containers"

teagoat — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 13:00:25 +0000

I use a plate.

New comment by teagoat in "Charger outages leave northern Ontario EV drivers stranded"

teagoat — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 16:18:10 +0000

You keep a credit card on file in your Tesla account. The supercharger recognizes your car and it automatically charges your card.

New comment by teagoat in "SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas"

teagoat — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 15:55:43 +0000

huh - TIL: https://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-com3.htm

TL;DR: Compleat and Complete were originally different spellings for the same word. In UK, compleat is still just an archaic spelling. In USA, compleat is used as an adjective to refer specifically to having all the necessary elements or skills.

New comment by teagoat in "27 years ago, Hoover offered free international flights with any £100 purchase"

teagoat — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 23:00:21 +0000

https://www.reddit.com/r/StupidFood/comments/yavk2n/banana_s...

New comment by teagoat in "Europe: How to Become Poor Peasants Again"

teagoat — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 15:04:01 +0000

To sum up the article, they claim:

  * Somebody (probably America) sabotaged the Nordstream 2 gas pipeline.
  * That's related to the war in Ukraine because? wars are always about resources?
  * The EU doesn't have any options to replace the gas that needs to come from Russia.
  * That's going to drive all EU citizens back to an agrarian lifestyle.
  * And also, the EU is too weak of an institution to defend its citizens.

It reeks of conspiracy theory to me. EU citizens should hate the US for driving them into poverty and should embrace Russia invading their neighbor.

One of the first results that comes up for me when I search "Nordstream 2" is the Brooking institute discussing similar conspiracy theories spreading among podcasters in the US, parroting the Kremlin: https://www.brookings.edu/techstream/u-s-podcasters-spread-k...

New comment by teagoat in "Show HN: I built a simulator for personal finance"

teagoat — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 00:51:14 +0000

I would hope so. I don't think that place of birth, or ability to get a visa should determine salary.

However, personal experience and friendship group makes me think that US tech salaries have only accelerated over the last couple of years. I went looking for some data to back up the idea to tech salaries have accelerated, but https://spectrum.ieee.org/engineer-salary was the best I found, and was less dramatic than I expected.

New comment by teagoat in "Show HN: I built a simulator for personal finance"

teagoat — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 00:38:35 +0000

Personal Capital actively prompt to try to set up a meeting pretty much every time you log in. They're hoping that you'll sign up for some active management stuff, or do they have a robo-investing option (I can't remember.)

At a certain net-worth, they'll start calling you on a regular basis trying to get you to do the same.

It's all pretty annoying. Perhaps do that, and after a 6 months of so of calls and prompts, then offer to stop calling / prompting for $10 a month.

New comment by teagoat in "Elon has decided not to join our board"

teagoat — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 07:16:33 +0000

Would he be allowed? Is he a "natural born citizen"?

New comment by teagoat in "Debian decides to allow secret votes"

teagoat — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 11:55:37 +0000

What does postal voting have to do with that? they could also force you to film yourself at a polling station...

New comment by teagoat in "FalsiScan: Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned"

teagoat — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 17:13:34 +0000

I do the same. I just have one saved. No one has ever complained, even when it's blatantly obvious that I didn't sign it by hand.

I figure even if they do complain, it doesn't matter. Its not like I don't have permission to do what I want with my own signature. The worst might be that they come back and say "sign it properly please" and then I have to go through the effort of printing it out and scanning it back in.

New comment by teagoat in "How to design a house to last 1000 years"

teagoat — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 05:52:27 +0000

"... And then it burnt down" was probably the funniest thing I heard touring the "thousand" year old castles in Japan. Being completely levelled by a fire seemed to happen about once every 200 years.

New comment by teagoat in "Identical twins are not so identical, study suggests"

teagoat — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 04:46:38 +0000

Source?

New comment by teagoat in "Travelex being held to ransom by hackers"

teagoat — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 19:40:52 +0000

I've found that typically the easiest and very close to the cheapest way to get foreign cash is to simply withdraw it from an ATM in the destination country. Always make sure that they're charging your bank in the local currency to avoid poor exchange rates. You'll usually pay a couple bucks at the ATM and a couple more at your bank (unless you use somebody like Charles Schwab), but even with a $5 surcharge, the market rate used usually beats out the rate you can get at a money changer or from your bank before you travel.

New comment by teagoat in "The Biggest and Weirdest Commits in Linux Kernel Git History (2017)"

teagoat — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 16:06:35 +0000

From previous reading of Linus rants, it sounds like they're pretty particular about keeping source code and git history clean. Why didn't they go back and reverse the new root created by the README.md repo?