Hacker News: wwqrd

New comment by wwqrd in "Making peace with your unlived dreams (2023)"

wwqrd — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:02:37 +0000

The inverse was true for me, at 40 I realised a lot of doors are now closed or closing.

New comment by wwqrd in "How Britain built some of the world’s safest roads"

wwqrd — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 10:42:03 +0000

per capita is a bit weird, maybe people in the UK don't drive as much.

New comment by wwqrd in "Orbit by Mozilla"

wwqrd — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 09:28:18 +0000

How long till it gets added to https://killedbymozilla.com/?

New comment by wwqrd in "LED Industrial Piercing"

wwqrd — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 12:55:34 +0000

This guy is really churning out awesome projects right now (or at least the videos for them).

I got his satellite clock kit for the office and love it!

New comment by wwqrd in "Code Is Not Technical Debt"

wwqrd — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 14:33:01 +0000

Maybe it's a scale thing. If you are sologeneer working on your own project, with a singular vision, making tools to make your life simpler is a no-brainer.

If you are implementing a feature for stakeholders on a large piece enterprise software, you don't necessarily have knowledge or understanding of helper tools from earlier work, so that's extra overhead to understand anything non-standard. Then when the stakeholders change direction (as they often do), any assumptions in your code may need to be upheld while implementing the next feature.

Edit: This is also why it's nice to use widely adopted libraries and frameworks for any helper code. That way a new starter has a chance of understanding what's going on.

New comment by wwqrd in "Math has changed the shape of gerrymandering"

wwqrd — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 10:50:56 +0000

For this to work I think the assumption is that the benefit of gerrymandering is less than the "anyone who doesn't like the in power guys" effect. e.g. % of disgruntled swing voters.

New comment by wwqrd in "Why the conventional wisdom on how to grow muscles is wrong"

wwqrd — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 15:42:19 +0000

TLDR; More volume per session/week = more growth?

So really it becomes a balance of maximising volume against sustainable recovery.

New comment by wwqrd in "San Francisco is getting cold feet about self-driving car tests"

wwqrd — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 11:08:27 +0000

> People rarely stop in the middle of a road

How rarely? How does it compare to self driving cars per km driven?

New comment by wwqrd in "San Francisco is getting cold feet about self-driving car tests"

wwqrd — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 11:06:59 +0000

Totally agree. If human drivers make more mistakes per km than autopilot then what sense does it make to stop self-driving cars?

New comment by wwqrd in "Heat exchanger header with fractal geometry"

wwqrd — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 20:20:36 +0000

Maybe? I think the problem is does a small entity like a person or a start up have the resources to make that fight with a big entity? Even if it’s a really obvious and winnable case?

New comment by wwqrd in "Heat exchanger header with fractal geometry"

wwqrd — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 21:23:22 +0000

Good example of when obvious patents harm innovation.

New comment by wwqrd in "Sesame allergen labeling law has unintended effect: sesame in more foods"

wwqrd — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 14:24:34 +0000

How do you compare non identical twins to the general population? Aren’t twins, even non identical likely to share the same diet, the same environmental factors and maybe even the same viruses etc - all could be contributing factors?

New comment by wwqrd in "France bans short haul domestic flights in favour of train travel"

wwqrd — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 13:42:51 +0000

They switched for coal.

New comment by wwqrd in "How a med student made the best AI writing assistant and got acquired by Jasper"

wwqrd — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 19:01:53 +0000

Something about the way that was written brought this amusing thought to mind: what if this hype-man blog post about shortly had been created with shortly.

New comment by wwqrd in "Patagonia founder gives away the company"

wwqrd — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 23:49:14 +0000

Could the same argument not be levelled at the original incorporation?

New comment by wwqrd in "Ask HN: Is having a personal blog/brand worth it for you?"

wwqrd — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 13:05:15 +0000

I think these answers are going to suffer a lot from survivorship bias.

New comment by wwqrd in "Company sends remote worker photo of herself, fires her for going to kitchen"

wwqrd — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 22:53:55 +0000

Am I misreading this? They work for a Fintech and their computer locks when they are away from their computer? Sounds like a misunderstood (or badly implemented?) security measure.

New comment by wwqrd in "UK Ends Subsidies for Electric Cars"

wwqrd — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 14:38:39 +0000

Plenty of vehicles can be driven on the road without paying road tax is the thing. So why would you call it road tax?

New comment by wwqrd in "Computer-1 mini-ITX Chassis"

wwqrd — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 16:29:59 +0000

Think the perferated panel is the top, and the rear intake is completely exposed.

New comment by wwqrd in "Gravitricity – Fast, long-life energy storage"

wwqrd — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 08:58:52 +0000

I think the salient point is this:

> All obvious places already have them

That is, we’re already practically at max capacity for hydro.