Hacker News: wetmore

New comment by wetmore in "'I found your dad': The mystery of a missing climber"

wetmore — Sun, 04 May 2025 02:42:44 +0000

The latter are generally called alpinists.

New comment by wetmore in "Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood"

wetmore — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 21:10:23 +0000

This still happens in my experience, I've picked up keys from friends and Airbnb hosts via a local business in the past few years.

New comment by wetmore in "The Five-Week Solo Startup"

wetmore — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 21:08:35 +0000

Are you sure? I've read a lot of this person's stuff over the years. A lot of it is quite earnest and in line with the message of this post.

New comment by wetmore in "Mathematics of the daily word game Waffle"

wetmore — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 19:45:42 +0000

Google even and odd permutations to learn more :)

New comment by wetmore in "I am rich and have no idea what to do"

wetmore — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 18:41:27 +0000

>Notice it’s never free climbing the nose in a day, which would require 5-7 years of dedicated training.

Would take way more than that for the average person. You can count the number of people who have done that as of now on one hand.

New comment by wetmore in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

wetmore — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 15:12:45 +0000

I don't know if you saw the "Kamela is for the/them" ads, but they stoke a much more general fear and hatred of trans people than the issues you are referring to. Those issues are picked because they are most popular amongst a broad swathe of the electorate, but they are couched in a deeper hate and distrust.

New comment by wetmore in "Diagram as Code"

wetmore — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 21:38:10 +0000

It's an embedded DSL or "eDSL", see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-specific_language#Exter...

New comment by wetmore in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)"

wetmore — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 19:39:39 +0000

My body is also something I constantly work on yet I can't help but read this in Patrick Bateman's voice.

New comment by wetmore in "The Death of the Minivan"

wetmore — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 00:23:24 +0000

Yeah but it's easier to own two pairs of shoes than it is to own two cars.

New comment by wetmore in "Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate"

wetmore — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 21:58:36 +0000

Condemnation from a lot of those names is a strong positive signal imo.

New comment by wetmore in "Why I failed in $1,7k monthly revenue in my first SaaS?"

wetmore — Wed, 22 May 2024 20:36:26 +0000

So you built a tool to make spamming people easier?

New comment by wetmore in "A Man Who Raced to Tell the World That Mount Everest Had Been Climbed"

wetmore — Thu, 09 May 2024 15:56:51 +0000

I'd bet a substantial amount that nobody is learning that Everest exists from this article.

I agree that the current state of Everest is an embarrassment. But that doesn't change the fact that it's the tallest mountain in the world, and the efforts (both successful and failed) to be the first to summit were audacious and inspiring to many people. Stories like the one in the OP should not be suppressed just because decades later the mountain has turned into a pile of shit.

New comment by wetmore in "Show HN: Wanderer – an open-source trail database"

wetmore — Tue, 07 May 2024 19:10:05 +0000

This looks very cool and could be useful to me. I've been uploading my tracks to caltopo. Could you say a few words about what this offers over that?

New comment by wetmore in "Devin: AI Software Engineer"

wetmore — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 18:16:20 +0000

I don't get your pessimism, after we are replaced we can all work at the glue factory :)

New comment by wetmore in "Boeing whistleblower found dead in US"

wetmore — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 01:53:43 +0000

And that's why no murders are ever committed, because the possibility of jail time or capital punishment dissuades anyone who would consider committing murder.

New comment by wetmore in "S3 is files, but not a filesystem"

wetmore — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 00:17:05 +0000

You're right technically, it's an abuse of notation that isn't uncommon. My physics profs would do it in college.

New comment by wetmore in "Show HN: Piping logs, visualizing in a web app – just suffix "| npx logscreen""

wetmore — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 19:11:41 +0000

What's better? I ask out of ignorance, but personally I think Datadog is amazing for viewing logs.

New comment by wetmore in "Ace of Aces: Why you should do maths as a game designer"

wetmore — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 05:41:08 +0000

In a similar vein, I remember that when I was learning to program, I would look at applications like Word and get overwhelmed with the idea that you would need to implement everything from scratch.

New comment by wetmore in "A Single Small Map Is Enough for a Lifetime"

wetmore — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 22:10:55 +0000

Check this out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34168284

New comment by wetmore in "Do Elephants Have Souls?"

wetmore — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 18:52:37 +0000

How does that line imply animals have no soul?