Hacker News: wbrasky

New comment by wbrasky in "Ask HN: Have you been laid off?"

wbrasky — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 23:07:29 +0000

I was in the process of a job search while working at a foundering startup back in December. Interview processes were paused over the holidays and scheduled to resume in early January. Jan. 2, first day back at the old job, I was laid off. Had my final interview at another startup the following week and got an offer. Started end of January. We're all WFH for at least 2 weeks, and it's beginning to look like much longer than that. We've got connections to the retail sector, so I do wonder about that, but we have seen at least a short-term uptick in activity, presumably due to hoarding. Fingers crossed we all make it through this.

New comment by wbrasky in "Plaid Launches in France, Spain, and Ireland"

wbrasky — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 17:28:44 +0000

I read that as "Paid lunches"

New comment by wbrasky in "Endurance Running Hypothesis"

wbrasky — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 16:57:39 +0000

The Lykov Family have been well-covered. VICE had a decent piece covering the sole remaining member: Agafia. Their speech did somewhat devolve, and children born out in the taiga had developed their own cooing pidgin that they spoke to each other, IIRC.

New comment by wbrasky in "On Building My Own Artificial Pancreas"

wbrasky — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 15:43:20 +0000

Insulin pumps (and their cannula; not a "needle") are installed 24/7. They can be "suspended" and the insulin delivery hose unhooked, but they are generally there, and active, at all times. Likewise, a CGM (continuous glucose monitor) will provide, as the name says, continuous monitoring. Both use adhesives to keep them attached and generally remain so, even while sleeping.

Hypoglycemia also may not lead to "waking". After all, a diabetic coma may result from low blood glucose, depending on how quickly it crashes.

Source: my girlfriend is Type 1.

New comment by wbrasky in "No Climate Event in 2,000 Years Compares to What’s Happening Now"

wbrasky — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 20:48:09 +0000

> The tendency to seed cloud formation is well documented

New comment by wbrasky in "China ready to hit back at U.S. with rare earths"

wbrasky — Wed, 29 May 2019 18:01:43 +0000

"termidity"

What exactly does that mean?

New comment by wbrasky in "Lost Dog (2005)"

wbrasky — Tue, 28 May 2019 18:20:15 +0000

WTF did I just read?

New comment by wbrasky in "We Can Do Better Than SQL"

wbrasky — Thu, 09 May 2019 19:57:33 +0000

You're right, it's far far worse now.

New comment by wbrasky in "Apollo 15 postage stamp incident"

wbrasky — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 21:50:46 +0000

why has the title been changed from "covers" (which is what they were) to "stamp" which is a less specific form of what they were? Why are we not just using the article title?

New comment by wbrasky in "Winter War"

wbrasky — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 19:12:18 +0000

probably because that was such a needlessly snarky reply.

New comment by wbrasky in "Doomed Jets Lacked 2 Safety Features That Boeing Sold as Extras"

wbrasky — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:42:51 +0000

Welcome to capitalism.

New comment by wbrasky in "5-MeO-DMT Associated with Improvements in Depression, Anxiety"

wbrasky — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 15:46:08 +0000

Why on earth would someone use an expensive, patent-encumbered drug when there's regular Ketamine that can do the same thing?

New comment by wbrasky in "I lost my domain and everything that goes with it"

wbrasky — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 22:00:52 +0000

I mean, it's a minor quibble, but ripoff would make sense. Usury does not, in any way. It's simply a misuse of usury.

New comment by wbrasky in "I lost my domain and everything that goes with it"

wbrasky — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 21:55:16 +0000

> But from €9.6 to €185 is an increase of 1827% or 19.27 times more. To me that's usury.

I don't think that word means what you think it means.

New comment by wbrasky in "JavaScript Getter-Setter Pyramid"

wbrasky — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 16:03:15 +0000

naming anonymous functions can provide some clarity in stack traces however

New comment by wbrasky in "“Diagram of All Space and Time” by Carl Sagan (1960s?)"

wbrasky — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 20:41:07 +0000

Ann is Carl's widow. McFarlane has championed his work and was big driver (and I believe financier) of the new Cosmos.

New comment by wbrasky in "Violence Escalates as France Scrambles to Respond to ‘Yellow Vest’ Protesters"

wbrasky — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 19:43:12 +0000

citation needed

New comment by wbrasky in "Build a do-it-yourself home air purifier for about $25"

wbrasky — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 23:55:07 +0000

instead of a raspberry pi and all that entails, might I suggest a simple outlet timer

New comment by wbrasky in "Why almost everyone was wrong about Tesla’s cash flow situation"

wbrasky — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 14:40:12 +0000

I am equally baffled by people's love of throwing money at cars. When I needed a "new" car two years ago, I asked my mechanic what sort of car they would want from a reliability/value standpoint. I was told Subarus or Toyotas not later than about 2007 were very nice. I spent 3 months watching used listings and wound up with a very low mileage 2006 Rav4 (for ~$10k) and it has been wonderful.

New comment by wbrasky in "MKS: Mechanical Keyboard Simulator – Bogdan's Blog"

wbrasky — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 17:45:28 +0000

"The sound is a form of feedback. On modern laptop keyboards there is so little feedback that every bit counts. The sound is like a reassurance. It’s your computer telling you, yes, you did indeed hit that key."

Oh, feedback like say...

* a character appearing on the screen?

-or-

* the action you were attempting to effect happening

I have a few twee coworkers who insist on using these obnoxious things. Worse even than the physical keyboards, and their arguably beneficial tactile feedback, this is exclusively the worst attribute of these. Why would anyone who isn't basically cos-playing on a computer want this trash?