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New comment by yourpalkeith in "Choose your status game wisely"

yourpalkeith — Sun, 03 Apr 2022 01:32:19 +0000

I found this discussion of “the status game” and its variants to be really interesting and wanted to pass it along to those who find there way here:

https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/who-wants-to-play-the-...

New comment by yourpalkeith in "Type I and Type II Errors: The Inevitable Errors in Optimization Experiments"

yourpalkeith — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 18:57:02 +0000

Thank you for this! May it be shared far and wide until we can stop using these silly codewords.

New comment by yourpalkeith in "Ask HN: What can I do with extra electricity?"

yourpalkeith — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 04:11:33 +0000

Thanks for the reply - makes perfect sense in your case.

New comment by yourpalkeith in "Ask HN: What can I do with extra electricity?"

yourpalkeith — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 14:15:06 +0000

Assuming the panels are connected to the grid, then the power will be consumed by neighbors - not wasted.

EDIT: I see it was right there in the first line of the post that the plan is to unplug from the grid. I would reconsider this decision. If you stay connected, you can share your excess capacity - if not then you use it or lose it. Why put yourself in that position?

New comment by yourpalkeith in "Ask HN: What can I do with extra electricity?"

yourpalkeith — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 13:45:10 +0000

Please don’t increase your energy consumption just because you are generating an excess. As a world, we need to lower our energy use (as I’m sure you are well aware). I’d urge you to consider those extra watts as a much needed contribution to the cause.

New comment by yourpalkeith in "Dependency Drift: A Metric for Software Aging"

yourpalkeith — Sun, 02 Feb 2020 19:04:26 +0000

A variant of this idea that would be more useful to me personally would be some measure of how actively maintained my dependencies are. It would be nice to know if my long-lived project depends on something that has been abandoned.

Details might be tricky, given that some very useful packages simply don't need frequent updates.

Intentionally insulting exceptions for Python

yourpalkeith — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 05:20:47 +0000

Article URL: https://pypi.org/project/insult-error/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18306954

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by yourpalkeith in "Ultimate Hacking Keyboard"

yourpalkeith — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 22:07:28 +0000

The idea that pouring time into customizing your keyboard just so will boost productivity is madness. Is typing speed really the bottleneck for anyone?

That said - beautiful keyboard.

New comment by yourpalkeith in "Tell HN: Using Gmail? You will be force logged into Chrome"

yourpalkeith — Sun, 09 Sep 2018 13:10:59 +0000

Why would you want so many tabs open in the first place? Is this really a common way to use a browser?

New comment by yourpalkeith in "Parasol Navigation: Optimizing Walking Routes to Keep You in the Sun or Shade"

yourpalkeith — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 15:37:10 +0000

This is a quick write-up of my project as an Insight Data Science Fellow, which was a navigation app that adjusts routes to keep you in the shade (or sun).

Parasol Navigation: Optimizing Walking Routes to Keep You in the Sun or Shade

yourpalkeith — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 15:35:53 +0000

Article URL: http://www.allnans.com/jekyll/update/2018/08/07/introducing-parasol.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17716778

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by yourpalkeith in "Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?"

yourpalkeith — Sat, 05 May 2018 00:10:08 +0000

I suggest you look into the Software Carpentry foundation - they are making a great effort to improve scientific programming through short workshops: https://software-carpentry.org/