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New comment by utexaspunk in "'Lukewarm' and 'lukecool' (2021)"

utexaspunk — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 22:58:32 +0000

I'd say it's kind of like room temperature. Lukewarm may be a little above room temp. The antonym would be any other temperature

New comment by utexaspunk in "E3 Is Officially Dead"

utexaspunk — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 16:12:02 +0000

It's sort of like the PC User Groups that were more or less rendered redundant by the internet. I remember going to the HAL-PC (Houston Area League of PC Users) monthly general meetings as a kid and there could easily be over a thousand people there when they'd do things like having Microsoft and Lotus come and present their latest versions of Excel/123 in a "shootout". There were great door prizes, too. The internet came and there just wasn't a need for that anymore. It's kind of a shame, though, just because it felt like a real community thing.

New comment by utexaspunk in "Scrollbars are becoming a problem"

utexaspunk — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 15:04:57 +0000

Knobs on a mouse UI suck

New comment by utexaspunk in "Show HN: Learn piano without sheet music"

utexaspunk — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 20:03:02 +0000

I mean, I can sing or whistle any song I can think of -surely thousands of tunes- without thinking about what I need to do with my lips. That same mechanism that connected tune in head to lips and mouth can also connect tune in head to fingers on piano with enough effort.

New comment by utexaspunk in "When your classmates threaten you with felony charges"

utexaspunk — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 20:50:41 +0000

What about just trying the doorknob to see if it's locked. Is that illegal?

New comment by utexaspunk in "The Tetris Effect"

utexaspunk — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 15:19:26 +0000

Loved me some Frac!

New comment by utexaspunk in "Why do Ivy League students self-sabotage?"

utexaspunk — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 05:57:38 +0000

It is a common thing among those who grow up being praised for their intelligence. If one comes to base their self-worth on their intelligence and believe it is a static quality they were born with, struggling and/or failing could demonstrate that perhaps they weren't as smart as people gave them credit for and thus decrease their inherent self-worth. They quit things if they don't immediately excel at them or just adopt the "slacker" role and put in minimal effort, brushing off their failures as merely the result of not really caring about whatever it was they were attempting. "Eh, I could have been good at [x], but it bored me" or whatever

New comment by utexaspunk in "Benchmarking Cheap SSDs for Fun, No Profit"

utexaspunk — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 13:58:48 +0000

No read performance? Other than being solid state, that's the real advantage of SSDs, especially non-sequential ones. I typically use an SSD for the OS and applications, and then use a regular hard drive for the actual content that I work with which needs better write performance. It may take (very) slightly longer to install the applications to the SSD, but they start up faster.

New comment by utexaspunk in "Amazon employees push CEO Andy Jassy to drop return-to-office mandate"

utexaspunk — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 22:28:00 +0000

Maintaining the value of commercial real estate?

New comment by utexaspunk in "Amazon employees push CEO Andy Jassy to drop return-to-office mandate"

utexaspunk — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 22:26:03 +0000

My company mandated everyone back in the office but everyone still meets via Teams, even when we have offices next door to each other. Making people come is just dumb. Imagine the environmental benefits, traffic reduction and inflation hedge that would result from outlawing return-to-office mandates for jobs that can be performed remotely. Of course, that will never happen because commercial real estate would tank.

New comment by utexaspunk in "Crossrail gets cross"

utexaspunk — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 14:07:16 +0000

IDK, all the NBs are a bit distracting

New comment by utexaspunk in "My dad's resume and skills from 1980"

utexaspunk — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 18:29:43 +0000

SQL is pretty darn perfect for its purpose. As long as databases exist, SQL will exist. It is also super easy and intuitive to learn- I taught myself and it has been my bread and butter for the ~17 years since .

New comment by utexaspunk in "Cooling the tube – Engineering heat out of the Underground (2017)"

utexaspunk — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 13:46:20 +0000

Why not just use air pressure for the whole thing? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach_Pneumatic_Transit

New comment by utexaspunk in "Odyssey Game System (2021)"

utexaspunk — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 15:11:42 +0000

Played way too much Pickaxe Pete as a kid. I can still hear that sound when he goes through the doors to another level. K.C. Munchkin was pretty cool, too- even had a level editor!

New comment by utexaspunk in "Logitech MX Mechanical Keyboard"

utexaspunk — Tue, 24 May 2022 13:43:08 +0000

"What's that? I couldn't hear you over my keyboard clacking!"

New comment by utexaspunk in "Ask HN: Single-person creations that have stood the test of time?"

utexaspunk — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 17:31:40 +0000

The Sistine Chapel?

New comment by utexaspunk in "Review of the evidence of sentience in molluscs and crustaceans [pdf]"

utexaspunk — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 16:42:30 +0000

I just wanted to add salient to sentience and sapience ;)

New comment by utexaspunk in "Review of the evidence of sentience in molluscs and crustaceans [pdf]"

utexaspunk — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 14:18:33 +0000

I'm not sure that's salient to this conversation

New comment by utexaspunk in "Ordering movie credits with graph theory"

utexaspunk — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 21:09:06 +0000

I think the primary goal here is to create an exercise for exploring different graph theory concepts, not to actually be useful. You're thinking too much :)

New comment by utexaspunk in "Bird populations declining fast across North America"

utexaspunk — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 19:40:33 +0000

Sadly, the most profitable use for the CO2 might be piping it to an aging oil field and using it for a [CO2 flood](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_flooding) to recover more oil. So even when you're doing good you're still doing bad. :\