Hacker News: veggieburrito

New comment by veggieburrito in "Hobbyists who collect barf bags"

veggieburrito — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 23:02:13 +0000

Great article to come across on a friday afternoon, the first paragraph is a great hook and had me laughing too.

Was waiting at a drive through coffee recently with the dog in the front seat. She needed to vomit right as I was about to pull up to the window. Just happened to find a small paper bag from lunch, or something, and was able to get everything cleanly in the bag! A dog snout fits more cleanly into a bag than human I think, but have never needed to use one myself.

New comment by veggieburrito in "Vice website is shutting down"

veggieburrito — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 04:26:32 +0000

Honest, technical, humorous; Good comment!

New comment by veggieburrito in "Aim, fire, scan: the 80/20 of executing on big projects"

veggieburrito — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 20:13:54 +0000

Am in between house rentals at the moment and the general concept of “commitment agreements” is one that’s been on my mind. Particularly the desire to pay 6 or X months up front for a place - maybe it exists in the commercial space but haven’t seen it for general residential agreements.

Some cool points made in this article thanks for sharing. It’s a bit broad and formulaic to be directly actionable in my opinion but that can be seen as good/bad depending on the reader

New comment by veggieburrito in "In 2023 Organic Maps got its first million users"

veggieburrito — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 04:01:34 +0000

Weird and random to see the hotspring marked on the map. Have been there many times but it was all word of mouth

New comment by veggieburrito in "San Francisco’s rent prices have never returned to pre-2020 levels"

veggieburrito — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 03:45:11 +0000

The Bay Area is large and the Greater Bay is massive if you take into account people commute in from Sac, Santa Rosa, and Santa Cruz to name a few.

New comment by veggieburrito in "TikTok Brings War Home to Your Child"

veggieburrito — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 22:47:44 +0000

It can be something relevant to seek out but wouldn't use the word desirable at all. It may improve judgement but hopefully serves better to improve humility and gratitude.

New comment by veggieburrito in "The pork industry’s forced cannibalism"

veggieburrito — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 20:40:26 +0000

It’d be interesting to read more about the psychology of “when people decide to stop eating meat”. Conversely, I’ve talked with individuals who were raised culturally vegetarian who started eating meat as an adult.

Interesting topics all around.

New comment by veggieburrito in "Big Tech as the New Big Tobacco"

veggieburrito — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 02:14:36 +0000

Yeah the non specificity irks me as a lifelong builder and engineer. I mean, welding and the cotton gin are tech if you want to frame it that way.

New comment by veggieburrito in "Momofuku Ando invented instant ramen (2016)"

veggieburrito — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 05:56:41 +0000

Contrary to the sibling comment I think it’s the salt. There was also the guy who ate the ramen in styrofoam bowl for years and had a lump of styrofoam in his stomach.

Personally I just buy dry ramen noodles and make my own sauce or use curry, give a bit more control over salt etc

New comment by veggieburrito in "Vantem constructs modular, factory-built homes using ceramics"

veggieburrito — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 05:26:30 +0000

This is cool but I don’t really like how their material is under a trade secret. I’m sure it’s good under their testing but there are tangible differences between things like lumber/metal/composite grades. What would it mean for something like code compliance/liability etc

New comment by veggieburrito in "Backend of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10"

veggieburrito — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 16:16:26 +0000

More guarantees like how? Genuinely curious. I’ve been working with Nest.js lately and it’s good but rails is still more plug and play in my opinion.

New comment by veggieburrito in "Carmakers don’t need ‘EV divisions,’ the whole company should go electric now"

veggieburrito — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 18:42:47 +0000

I agree the used vehicle market is robust but the rest of your comment communicates extreme negativity. Will leave it at that.

New comment by veggieburrito in "Carmakers don’t need ‘EV divisions,’ the whole company should go electric now"

veggieburrito — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 18:40:19 +0000

This is such an understated point, especially on HN! EVs can be great for certain use cases and individuals but, as as renter, do not fit my situation at all.

New comment by veggieburrito in "Ask HN: Engineers where do you find jobs?"

veggieburrito — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 18:32:20 +0000

In theory: apply online or through recruiter connection

In practice: referrals from people I know

New comment by veggieburrito in "The interesting engineering behind your Car Window [video]"

veggieburrito — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 18:28:10 +0000

This was super cool thanks for the post. It's interesting how the pulley system is the improved method while this is the 'old' system for a lot of residential windows - but does work very smoothly. Have had a rope snap before with the window up before and shatter the pane.

New comment by veggieburrito in "California strikes deal with engine makers on zero-emissions trucking by 2036"

veggieburrito — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 17:49:30 +0000

For sure companies and people will take the path of least resistance; companies will always prioritize the bottom-line. It seems most consumers are tipped toward EVs because of the incentives and things like carpool lane waivers.

EVs are a tremendous improvement in regards to emissions but in my opinion a step backwards in terms of functionality (hear me out on this one!). ICE are one of the greatest inventions of our species and the energy density of liquid fuels is so much greater than in a battery - with this comes field portability and long-term usage of trucks/heavy-equipment etc. Certainly EVs have other advantages such as torque bands, fewer moving parts, etc.

In short I agree with your points

New comment by veggieburrito in "Backend of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10"

veggieburrito — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 00:41:11 +0000

Respectfully disagree about not starting new Ruby projects now - can we still be friends? It works and is easy to get started for simple stuff, same with PHP for some folks or Django etc.

New comment by veggieburrito in "Grumpy Locals Are Sabotaging Cruise and Waymo Robotaxis with Traffic Cones"

veggieburrito — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 00:35:23 +0000

does seattle even still offer bike rentals for this? for some reason feel like i only see scooters around... in the middle of the sidewalk or in some bush

New comment by veggieburrito in "OceanGate CEO Told Videographer to Sleep on the Titan Sub After the Battery Died"

veggieburrito — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 13:24:04 +0000

Don’t have a source handy but have read the tethering is possible but required more specialized and expensive ships. When the tethers /are/ used I found it interesting the whole reel is welded onto the ship’s deck

New comment by veggieburrito in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

veggieburrito — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 17:08:44 +0000

My personal website isn’t something I’m proud of from a design or code perspective and most others are usually much better. But if it ain’t broke…

Currently working on uploading and mixing/mastering other guitar ditties

https://www.lifeonthereg.com

Edit: always finding bugs when viewing it too haha oh well