Hacker News: trial3

New comment by trial3 in "Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time"

trial3 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:07:44 +0000

that’s true, i was considering only the perspective of the major city i live in rather than networks with lower ratepayer densities where the economics are probably totally different

i do think “fully consumed or gated to never backfeed balcony solar at scale” is all i’m referring to, which i naively hope is a smaller regulatory change than backfeeding

New comment by trial3 in "Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time"

trial3 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:15:31 +0000

i think it’s kind of the opposite: balcony solar is good for power companies in the same way that them asking you to turn off your lights is good for power companies: if each customer is using less overall power they can serve more customers with existing infra.

that obviously depends on time of use and the sun etc, but balcony solar in the USA can’t come fast enough. my electricity in NYC is almost $.40/kWh, a limited secondary source is still huge

it makes a lot of sense to me as someone who has casually researched as a way to make the load of an A/C vanish from the perspective of my utility, but i can’t see regulations catching up nationwide soon.

any real microinverters can detect the grid being down and shut off to prevent zapping people working on power lines, but the complexities of split-phase power (you can consume on one leg but backfeed on the other leg rather than consume what you generate, which is bad for billing etc) and risks of intra-circuit overload will all freak out americans.

we put outlets absolutely everywhere because of how scared we are of extension cords, there’s an education and “am i going to start an electrical file” consumer sentiment obstacle to widespread adoption in the US

New comment by trial3 in "Spherical Voronoi Diagram"

trial3 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:46:52 +0000

i’m amused by Triangle New York

New comment by trial3 in "Trump signs downsized AI order after weeks of reversals"

trial3 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:59:29 +0000

yeah, in the way that knives are “just metal”

you’re being so reductive you’ve made any discussion about it completely useless

New comment by trial3 in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

trial3 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:01:07 +0000

you’re making their point, you just don’t know it yet

New comment by trial3 in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

trial3 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:44:42 +0000

perhaps one important detail is that cassette tape guys and Lucasfilm aren’t/weren’t demanding a complete and total restructuring of the economy and society

New comment by trial3 in "You Do Not, in Fact, Have to Hand It to Them"

trial3 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 14:19:51 +0000

i can’t believe i’m seeing an “yet you participate in society. curious!” reply in the wild

we both know there is an obvious difference between “using Ghost to share a hypertext article” tech and “the metaverse and palantir” Tech

New comment by trial3 in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

trial3 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:36:41 +0000

the comment is 30 words long and refers to an eye condition that 1/3 of all people on earth have. will two other people ever look at your laptop lol

New comment by trial3 in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

trial3 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 01:32:05 +0000

lmao you're coming in pretty hot, stephen. it is actually possible that from time to time you may encounter comments written on the internet that do not perfectly reference every aspect of your lived experience

New comment by trial3 in "Why I don't think AGI is imminent"

trial3 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 01:26:42 +0000

i think the minivan analogy is flawed, and that AGI is moving from "bob driving a minivan" to "bob literally becoming the thing that is formula one"

New comment by trial3 in "Pink noise reduces REM sleep and may harm sleep quality"

trial3 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 01:22:44 +0000

study aside, pink noise is awful imo - it's perfect if you're calibrating a PA system and need specific power spectral density properties, but bad for my brain. if sleeping somewhere without a fan or whatever i use brown noise, it's closer to a lower rumbling.

New comment by trial3 in "Best Gas Masks"

trial3 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 03:52:17 +0000

> mainstream opinion piece

my job here is done, but i’m here if you need any more help

New comment by trial3 in "Best Gas Masks"

trial3 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 23:02:29 +0000

these are exciting new goalposts you’ve decided on! i, too, think that any article that is different from how i would’ve written it is a listicle.

if you’ll indulge me, i’m excited to hear how you have “categorically” decided the author’s intentions

one nit: surely you, of all hacker news commenters, have the extraordinary media literacy to know that the journos themselves do not add the affiliate links or pocket the affiliate link search arbitrage

New comment by trial3 in "Best Gas Masks"

trial3 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:50:03 +0000

this article has 19 paragraphs of text in just the main article body, making three recommendations.

it’s pretty rich to both decry media literacy issues in sibling comments while completely elastically using the word “listicle”

New comment by trial3 in "Buttered Crumpet, a custom typeface for Wallace and Gromit"

trial3 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:50:05 +0000

yeah, in the same way we all revisit our studio ghibli family photos from time to time

New comment by trial3 in "Qwen3-Max-Thinking"

trial3 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:41:30 +0000

endlessly amusing to see people attempt paradox of tolerance gotchas decade after decade after decade. did you mean to post this on slashdot

New comment by trial3 in "PBS News Hour West to go dark after ASU discontinues contract"

trial3 — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 03:37:11 +0000

what are the revised priorities? what revised the priorities? maybe consider doing just the teensiest bit of journalism of your own

New comment by trial3 in "LLM from scratch, part 28 – training a base model from scratch on an RTX 3090"

trial3 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 13:23:59 +0000

> These things are now more important than ever

oh definitely. i agree here. can't wait to read the rest of the sentence, probably saying something meaningful about the creative benefits of unstructured writing, or the importance of relying on your own thoughts and language and unique voice in the era of LLMs

> as they can literally help fine-tune agents to help assist you using your personal style.

New comment by trial3 in "It’s been a very hard year"

trial3 — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 01:48:31 +0000

yes [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No

New comment by trial3 in "It’s been a very hard year"

trial3 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 16:21:31 +0000

> but if you are 'right' and out of business nobody will know. Is that any better than 'wrong' and still in business?

yes [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raytheon