Hacker News: wbc

New comment by wbc in "Architecture Patterns with Python"

wbc — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 17:21:57 +0000

may I ask how you're mocking Celery to test?

the two main methods I've seen are to run tasks eagerly, or test the underlying function and avoid test Celery .delay/etc at all

New comment by wbc in "To Delay Death, Lift Weights (2017)"

wbc — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 19:32:39 +0000

I think falling is the prime example. All 4 of my grandparents were relatively healthy, no heart issues, mild elevated blood sugar not even pre-diabetic. Once they reached 70s/80s, all of them eventually fell while walking around, became wheelchair-bound or hospitalized and died after.

I wish we had good population metrics on this.

New comment by wbc in "What to do if your car is submerged in water"

wbc — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 18:05:49 +0000

o wow TIL, thanks for explaining that. Scary stuff to think about

New comment by wbc in "What to do if your car is submerged in water"

wbc — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 15:36:33 +0000

Anyone know how feasible enough to require modern (powered-everything) cars have at least 1 window that has backup manual rolling for this scenario? or is it just too rare for the increased complexity?

New comment by wbc in "Chronic stress spreads cancer"

wbc — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 16:26:43 +0000

my understanding from the article is that they're working specifically w/ breast cancer, so probably easier w/ females

New comment by wbc in "California to require firms to reveal carbon emissions in first law of its kind"

wbc — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 18:48:08 +0000

Anyone work in emissions reporting have more insight into this? Scope 3 especially seems tough

New comment by wbc in "Median Household Income After Taxes Fell 8.8% in 2022"

wbc — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 01:00:23 +0000

well clearly the solution is www.houseguarantee.lol

Ask HN: Dev experience buying an existing website?

wbc — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 01:57:40 +0000

Anyone have experience buying an existing site from something like flippa and building it out from the developer side?

I heard most of these are scams, but was wondering if there's good methods for finding a site worth spending dev time.

Mental model (knowing very little) about the process is like house flippers that take existing run-down houses, renovating and re-selling for a markup.

Except I'm fine w/ just building the site for long term.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34769300

Points: 2

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New comment by wbc in "Who pays for your rewards? Redistribution in the credit card market [pdf]"

wbc — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 20:03:00 +0000

This whole thing is just so regressive. Every time I use my 2% back card, I know some less privileged folks paying cash gets shafted.

I wish everyone would use just debit cards over ccs, faster than trying to count out coins, less fees.

New comment by wbc in "FTX Owes Money to More Than a Million People, Court Filing Suggests"

wbc — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 00:06:07 +0000

sure it is! it all went to fiat@, it's marked clearly in the excel spreadsheet and everything

New comment by wbc in "Video gaming may be associated with better cognitive performance in children"

wbc — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 02:06:54 +0000

way to figure out the efficient market hypothesis and why it could be wrong at such a young age!

New comment by wbc in "Chess is just poker now"

wbc — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 17:49:00 +0000

This happens across many competitive games, where you can raise your Elo/MMR by playing gimmicky stuff instead of working on fundamentals. E.g. ling rush in Starcraft, 1-tricking in League, etc etc.

Sure you can score based on flexibility, but the people who work hard on staying competitive knows at heart all ratings are just an approximation anyways. Just work on fundamentals, get good, and don't sweat the numbers. Not a problem worth fixing imo.

New comment by wbc in "Ask HN: How did you start higher education after 40?"

wbc — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 13:12:14 +0000

Can you talk more about the transition? Did you start over w/ bachelors in biology? Are you taking classes online/on the side?

I'm in a very similar situation as you and want to jump into grad school, but it looks like that's not possible w/o undergraduate degree.

New comment by wbc in "Argentina's currency exchange black markets"

wbc — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 23:22:47 +0000

Good news! Mendoza province now accepts crypto for taxes:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/argentina-s-mendoza-province-...

New comment by wbc in "Almost half of cancer deaths are caused by smoking, alcohol, or obesity"

wbc — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 18:11:01 +0000

Anyone know of promising cancer startups? Was listening to a podcast that mentioned pancreatic cancer mortality rates and it's basically a death sentence (stage 1 85%+, later 95%+)

I don't drink or smoke but would love to avoid cancers. Wife was working at a great one but it basically shutdown cause clinical trials are so expensive.

New comment by wbc in "A new vertical farm will grow 3M pounds of mycelium a year for fungi-based bacon"

wbc — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 18:00:10 +0000

Has anyone tried this? How close is the taste to real/meat bacon?

New comment by wbc in "Crop Report: USA spring wheat production up over 50%, record high for soybeans"

wbc — Sat, 13 Aug 2022 03:11:24 +0000

Yeah but how's gourd production doing?

New comment by wbc in "The effects of sleep debt"

wbc — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 02:55:06 +0000

can't you just drink decaf?

Buy GameStop, Fight Injustice. Just Don’t Sell

wbc — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 19:43:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/29/business/gamestop-stock.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30129685

Points: 4

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New RCE found for Dark Souls 3

wbc — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 16:30:51 +0000

There's a multiplayer mode (invasions?) that lets other players join your game. This RCE exploit can happen then.

Elden Ring, from the same devs, also has this vuln: https://old.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/s9wai2/it_is_now_possible_for_dark_souls_3_invaders_to/

Apparently, there was an old exploit: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-34170

This one is new and not "official" yet.

Already happened on twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1271478221?t=1h20m10s

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30038065

Points: 12

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