Hacker News: unzadunza

New comment by unzadunza in "Does every question mark deserve a Betteridge?"

unzadunza — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:48:25 +0000

Betteridge's Law is dead, long live Betteridge's Law

New comment by unzadunza in "Teardown: The BMW / Harman IDC23H Infotainment Unit (B423)"

unzadunza — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:55:59 +0000

The word 'Infotainment' makes me want to barf.

New comment by unzadunza in "PennyLane is an open-source quantum software platform for quantum"

unzadunza — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:03:44 +0000

There beneath the blue suburban skies...

New comment by unzadunza in "I built a ceiling projection mapping of the planes flying over my house"

unzadunza — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:26:31 +0000

It's a planeatarium

New comment by unzadunza in "Mug Shots: A Small Town Noir (2014)"

unzadunza — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:54:51 +0000

I enjoyed that. I have no mug shots (yet) and I suppose that reduces the odds that anyone might write about me in 100 years.

New comment by unzadunza in "I went to America's worst national parks so you don't have to"

unzadunza — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:29:25 +0000

I also did one of the hikes to the CO river in the 90s with 3 friends when we were in college. We got off to a late start so jogged down a good deal of the way (dumb). We carried a 1 gallon water jug each (not even close to enough). We had no extra clothing (dumb). Two of us (me being one) made it out that day. The other two didn't. A group of smart hikers with water filters and iodine tablets found them belly up on the path in the direct sunlight. I'm certain they would have died if the hikers didn't give them tablets, water and emergency blankets. Man we were dumb.

New comment by unzadunza in "Bird brains (2023)"

unzadunza — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:29:41 +0000

Chickens are not dumb, check out:

https://thehumaneleague.org/article/are-chickens-smart https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5306232/

New comment by unzadunza in "Bird brains (2023)"

unzadunza — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:04:56 +0000

Isn't that what humans do too? We mimic noises we've heard before and we associate meaning to the noises. Parrots can do that. Our quaker parrot would bite you, then say 'not supposed to bite'. He clearly associated some kind of meaning to that phrase.

New comment by unzadunza in "Why the global elite gave up on spelling and grammar"

unzadunza — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:37:39 +0000

Or Pueblo, Salida and Buena Vista CO

New comment by unzadunza in "ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair"

unzadunza — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 12:14:33 +0000

I canceled my espn/disney+ account. I hope lots of people are doing that too.

New comment by unzadunza in "Harvey Mudd Miniature Machine"

unzadunza — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 23:57:01 +0000

Haha, fine! I messed it up 2x.

New comment by unzadunza in "Harvey Mudd Miniature Machine"

unzadunza — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 22:07:14 +0000

Dammit, I messed it all up. I meant Harry Mudd from Star Trek, as most correctly guessed.

New comment by unzadunza in "Harvey Mudd Miniature Machine"

unzadunza — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 19:36:14 +0000

I got all excited until I realized Harvey Mudd isn't Henry Mudd. This project would have had a lot more cred, in my book, if it were the latter.

New comment by unzadunza in "Vibe Debugging: Enterprises' Up and Coming Nightmare"

unzadunza — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 16:18:18 +0000

> 81% of developers agreed that AI increases their productivity

I've had a few AI generated PRs come my way and the code-review process is, shall we say, not fun. It takes me a lot more time to review these PRs, there is way more back-and-forth between me and the 'developer', and it takes much more time to get the PR merged. That's not saying anything about the increased difficulty in modifying this code in the future.

I have a feeling these claims of being more productive don't account for the entire development cycle.

New comment by unzadunza in "ZEUS – A new two-petawatt laser facility at the University of Michigan"

unzadunza — Thu, 22 May 2025 00:08:55 +0000

Go green

New comment by unzadunza in "Universe expected to decay in 10⁷⁸ years, much sooner than previously thought"

unzadunza — Mon, 12 May 2025 18:16:33 +0000

According to The End of Everything (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52767659-the-end-of-ever...) decay is only one of the ways it all ends. Unfortunately most (all?) the other ways happen way earlier.

New comment by unzadunza in "Kmart lied to me, so I hacked their lamp [video]"

unzadunza — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 11:55:31 +0000

Shoot, I was expecting to see a hacked blue light special.

New comment by unzadunza in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"

unzadunza — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 12:29:23 +0000

A German equatorial telescope mount. Right now I'm learning to make gears. After building the hardware I'd like to write the firmware/software for tracking stars and planets. This will be a long term project for sure.

New comment by unzadunza in "Do you want to be doing this when you're 50?"

unzadunza — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 13:46:41 +0000

Yes, I do and I am and I still love doing it.

New comment by unzadunza in "Pink Floyd's 'The Wall': A Complete Analysis"

unzadunza — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 00:53:10 +0000

When I was 14 or so I took a long bus ride downtown to buy The Wall on vinyl. The ride back home was torture, gazing at that beautiful art work and not being able to listen.