Hacker News: zander312

New comment by zander312 in "Ask HN: Has anyone started over outside of tech?"

zander312 — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 16:46:06 +0000

This is my dream. I love to sail / fish. But do you have a family? wife? I fear that this kind of thing will be impossible if I settle down, have kids etc.

New comment by zander312 in "Some insects I found inside dried Turkish figs from Trader Joe’s"

zander312 — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 05:51:06 +0000

Oh holy shit I eat a lot of that same Trader Joe’s fig brand. I am horrified…

New comment by zander312 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2023)"

zander312 — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 02:35:29 +0000

Great website. Love the workout generator. Good luck.

New comment by zander312 in "Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong?"

zander312 — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 14:33:49 +0000

For the past 15 years or so, every night before bedtime I would proclaim “Time to hit the shack!” or “I’m going to hit the shack”.

In reality it is a “sack” that you hit, not a “shack”.

New comment by zander312 in "Commercial 3D printers emit traces of toxic fumes, study finds (2019)"

zander312 — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:48:21 +0000

I use Prusament PLA and definitely notice a smell. I usually open a window in the room where my Prusa sits.

New comment by zander312 in "What to do when you’ve ruined your life"

zander312 — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 18:02:12 +0000

It absolutely gets better.

I took a heroic shroom dose and had a life alteringly bad experience. It left me a shell of my former self dealing with crippling anxiety and worse for years.

It got better with time, therapy, and focusing on health and wellness.

Professional help can really be a major catalyst for healing.

I have now fully recovered, feel better than ever and have a great life.

People must realize there is always light at the end of the tunnel.

New comment by zander312 in "‘My power’s low’: NASA’s Insight Mars lander prepares to sign off"

zander312 — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 15:17:51 +0000

Woah that is so cool. What did the bytes do? Was it code for the lander?

New comment by zander312 in "Soil in Midwestern US is eroding 10 to 1k times faster than it forms"

zander312 — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 04:44:40 +0000

We have known for years that erosion is far greater from tilled soil than from ungrazed or wildlife grazed rough native pastures. The evidence comes from many erosion plots around the world where you mark off a plot of maybe 20 yards by 20 yards and put a V shaped funnel arrangement at the lower end and weigh what you catch washed out over say a year.

But there are lots of other questions. We don’t have much data on rates of soil formation from underlying rock and moisture. And the problem is that actually many of the world’s best soils are the product of erosion. Often, when fields get eroded, the soil just moves downhill to another location. The Nile delta in Egypt and the Ganges plains in India are excellent soils that came from erosion in other places over millions of years.

They are right that zero till usually somewhat reduces erosion. But this technology is under threat because people claim that the herbicide Roundup used before direct seeding causes cancer. ( The evidence for that is very shaky. A large US study of about 40,000 professional Roundup applicators contracted by farmers, who must have had a high level of contact with it, had no higher cancer rates including lymphoma than the average.) Also, farmers, who use a lot themselves, are probably the healthiest demographic in the world.

It’s a complex story.

New comment by zander312 in "A text adventure game on TypeScript's type system"

zander312 — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 21:52:52 +0000

wtf! I had no idea this existed!

New comment by zander312 in "Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B"

zander312 — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 17:58:23 +0000

Adobe is a nasty, predatory company. They charged me like $200 just for the ability to cancel my Adobe subscription. Caught me with some fine print.

Will never touch Figma now.

New comment by zander312 in "Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B"

zander312 — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 13:31:00 +0000

Adobe is a disgusting company. I remember they charged me $150 just to be able to cancel my fucking accidental subscription to their awful creative cloud.

R.I.P Figma

New comment by zander312 in "Queen Elizabeth II has died"

zander312 — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 18:15:26 +0000

God save the Queen.

New comment by zander312 in "So you have decided to start a free software consultancy"

zander312 — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 23:20:32 +0000

What are some real world examples of FOSS consulting contracts?

New comment by zander312 in "Diagram as Code"

zander312 — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 17:01:43 +0000

Love the idea, definitely will use.

But wondering why it's using ">>". I'm not great with Python. How does this ">>" thing work and why does it make sense to associate elements with ">>".

New comment by zander312 in "Ask HN: How do I stop being used?"

zander312 — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 17:16:57 +0000

I’m confused is this an open source project you are maintaining?

If so, companies asking for help is a wonderful way to start milking some $$$.

New comment by zander312 in "Poll: How are you doing currently?"

zander312 — Fri, 27 May 2022 17:06:01 +0000

I'm at the beach, and i'm goin fishin. Doing very good.

New comment by zander312 in "Mechanical Watch"

zander312 — Wed, 04 May 2022 17:11:10 +0000

Stunning visuals and interactivity!

New comment by zander312 in "Show HN: Redditle.com – For those of us who add 'Reddit' to every Google search"

zander312 — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 19:11:22 +0000

hug of death for me

New comment by zander312 in "Alexandria Search"

zander312 — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 19:34:13 +0000

getting a 502...

New comment by zander312 in "Poll: Where do you live?"

zander312 — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 22:39:44 +0000

this is fricking awesome!! thanks!!