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New comment by wigglewoggle in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

wigglewoggle — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:20:20 +0000

I'm at large company and pretty much everyone has settled on opus or sonnet 4.6. We would absolutely not allow something like OpenClaw on our network so your point kinda fits here where, if capacity is constrained, then by setting focus away from OpenClaw you're essentially prioritising the enterprise clients. Just spitballing of course

New comment by wigglewoggle in "“Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server"

wigglewoggle — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:58:48 +0000

I gotta say though, I'm actually not sure which VMware (well Broadcom I suppose) products I use anymore. I'm pretty sure they took the Aria name off something else they called Aria for a little while. So Aria is no longer Aria but they still have Aria but it's what used to be called XYZ

New comment by wigglewoggle in "Show HN: GeneGuessr – a daily biology web puzzle"

wigglewoggle — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 08:01:50 +0000

I went straight to cd-4 and was crushed to find out I didn't get it in one guess

New comment by wigglewoggle in "Rivian's TM-B electric bike"

wigglewoggle — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 21:27:03 +0000

Nice

I have a big commute and in the (Canadian) winter my old 750Wh was sometimes not up to the task. So I went wildly over the top and built a huge cap battery. I never need to worry now

New comment by wigglewoggle in "Rivian's TM-B electric bike"

wigglewoggle — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 20:54:49 +0000

What kind of capacity from your LFP battery? Is it diy built? I did one in the spring 16S with 25Ah cells and it's been amazing since. Only problem is it's a bit too big to fit anywhere I'd like it to. I have to mount it on a rear rack

New comment by wigglewoggle in "Turn any bicycle electric"

wigglewoggle — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 21:32:03 +0000

Unusual for ebikes to use lifepo as they are much larger and heavier than standard lithium ion. Especially in cylindrical formats that are needed to make bike friendly battery shapes.

New comment by wigglewoggle in "Turn any bicycle electric"

wigglewoggle — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 21:29:16 +0000

Agree, they each have benefits. I broke a chain with my mid drive in winter and really wished I had the redundancy of a hub motor. Also, many many bikes cannot easily fit a mid drive retrofit though I think the diy community isn't as large these days given the variety of ebikes available

New comment by wigglewoggle in "Turn any bicycle electric"

wigglewoggle — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 21:25:13 +0000

Regen braking is a thing for ebikes. I can't speak to OEM ebikes, but check out grin at ebikes.ca. They offer all the parts.

There are some cool features too like setting a speed limit after which Regen activates, so coasting down a hill will recharge you and add resistance to keep you at a safe speed.

The caveat is it doesn't make sense on mid drives because they freewheel when coasting

New comment by wigglewoggle in "How I replaced deadly garage door torsion springs (2002)"

wigglewoggle — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 01:01:36 +0000

It's interesting whenever this comes up on Reddit and there are a hundred comments parroting how dangerous this is, but on closer inspection you can see the comments cannot discriminate between important details - eg. talking about how dangerous extension springs are, having no clue that they are different than torsion springs. Always fun to see how many people will pretend they have knowledge on a subject they have no experience in.

New comment by wigglewoggle in "Fasting-mimicking diet causes markers indicating reduced age and disease risk"

wigglewoggle — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 06:21:29 +0000

I played around with intermittent fasting in the early stages of covid lockdown because I was gaining weight being inside all the time.

I would frequently be in ketosis before breaking fast per the urine strips - despite not intentionally limiting carbs at all.

It was an interesting experiment but after having a kid I found it tough to keep the routine. I was in amazing shape for a little while though

New comment by wigglewoggle in "My rude-ass car"

wigglewoggle — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 02:52:53 +0000

Chains usually have no service interval, so at the outset they seem cheaper and more reliable. But the unfortunate reality is they still fail, or something related to keeping them on fails, you just live in a false sense of security for a few 10's of thousands of km more

New comment by wigglewoggle in "My rude-ass car"

wigglewoggle — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 02:51:00 +0000

I share your disdain for drums. Only issue is every four wheel disc vehicle I own still has a drum for the parking brake. Except these days they're electronic and need a scan tool to release them and get the rotor off!

New comment by wigglewoggle in "Waymo Layoffs"

wigglewoggle — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 22:10:23 +0000

That's talking about rounds earlier in the year. TFA mentions the numbers for this one are unclear.

New comment by wigglewoggle in "Waymo Layoffs"

wigglewoggle — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 04:40:04 +0000

Not enough numbers to trigger disclosure laws?

Previous round was dozens?

So we're talking 15 employees?

New comment by wigglewoggle in "Newly released footage of a 1986 Titanic dive reveals the ship's interior"

wigglewoggle — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 03:47:55 +0000

I really enjoyed this book, perhaps it would be of interest:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9530.Shadow_Divers

Though Ive spent a lot of time diving in my life so your mileage may vary :)

New comment by wigglewoggle in "Smith Chart"

wigglewoggle — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 20:47:10 +0000

This brings back memories of the microwave lab in school which held the donated network analyzers ($$$) and was behind a keycard door within another lab that was behind its own keycard door.

Still amazed that someone was able to come up with this tool

New comment by wigglewoggle in "FaceApp raises concern about how photos are being used to create aging effect"

wigglewoggle — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 23:31:09 +0000

Would be nice if Android permissions allowed a three way choice: 1. Allow access to photos 2. No access to photos 3. Isolated Photo Storage

Where option (3) and option (1) appear transparent to the application requesting the permission