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pwason··on What do we do about all the people who can’t charge an EV at home?
EV price should include a battery/charging station. Obviously.
pwason··on Unique sword casts new light on Viking voyages across the North Sea
But, is it magic?
pwason··on Ask HN: Why are property limits so fuzzy in North American suburbs?
A few people in my neighborhood have fences/walls. Most are those incredibly ugly white plastic things. I know where my corner markers are. I try not to put stuff beyond my boundary, but it generally doesn't really make a difference as three sides of my property is wooded/wild, and I'm probably the only person to go in there. The town "owns" 10' on either side of the road in front, so I try not to put much there except for my mailbox and a couple of small flower patches. Note: Kids do not recognize boundaries. They will ride their bikes on my driveway, across my yard, wherever they feel like it. Smart people, those kids.
pwason··on Ask HN: How do you deal with managers/customers questioning your estimates?
Have them give an estimate, and see who is closer at the end of the project. Three strikes, they stop complaining.
pwason··on What seem'd corporal melted as breath into the wind
uhuh.
pwason··on Which Programming Languages Use the Least Electricity?
It would be interesting to see where REBOL falls on this spectrum.
pwason··on LDAP Admin – a free Windows LDAP client and administration tool
uh, yeah, sure.
pwason··on Ask HN: Do you use the browser address bar to search?
Sometimes, but usually have a separate search field.
pwason··on Amazon Astro, Household Robot for Home Monitoring
Cameras mounted at ankle height? What could go wrong?
pwason··on You’ll Always Miss Being in the Basement (2015)
The best times were back in the early '90s when we were just five guys coding and playing music and smoking bongs and playing Quake after hours and maybe getting paid this month. By the dotcom implosion and 9/11, we had an award winning retail product, the first single-shopping cart online mall, 70+ employees, and we'd moved from the old house through several iterations of office spaces. But a bunch of yahoos from Montreal had bought us, and brought everything crashing down. The old days are calling.
pwason··on Someone leaked classified Chinese tank schematics to win an online argument
Because software engineers write the software that the doctors use to keep you alive.
pwason··on Show HN: More Effective Fly Swatter
Less air moved, less warning for the fly.
pwason··on I want two laptops in one body
duct tape
pwason··on [dead]
Too late.
pwason··on Elon Musk says he would ‘reverse the permanent ban’ of Donald Trump on Twitter
Trump should be allowed on twitter only if he can only interact with an army of sycophantic bots. No real people should be able to follow him or read his spewings. COVFEFE!
pwason··on Hedonism is overrated – to make the best of life there must be pain
J.G. Bennett: It is impossible to achieve the aim without suffering.
pwason··on Ask HN: What have you been playing lately?
Games: LotRO, Urban Dead, Pardus, Flare

Music: Random mixes from my ~10000 song library. Or my guitar.

pwason··on 'Exocomets' Orbit a Familiar Star
The fact that we can distinguish between objects 3-14km in size at a distance of 64ly is a remarkable tribute to the power of science.

Unlike the leaked Supreme Court draft.

pwason··on Hubble Telescope captures image of merging galaxies forming an ‘Angel’ in space
Or a sperm cell with two tails. You on Darwin's side? Or Isaiah's?
pwason··on I Want to Remember Everything
No, you don't. Take it from me.
pwason··on Innate immune suppression by SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccinations
Fake anti-vaxxer "science".
pwason··on [dead]
New to this planet?
pwason··on How to design an good toaster with lessons from the 1940's [video]
frilliant.
pwason··on How can I get my boyfriend to stop digging his tunnel?
All serious safety concerns. Also: Something that happens more often than we hear about is tunnelers breaking into an open space which collapses some of the floor they're standing on, causing them to fall and get seriously injured, or die. Is he tying himself to something? Does he have ground-penetrating radar?
pwason··on Ask HN: MacBooks seems to be the only viable option these days
I've bought hundreds of Dell desktops, laptops, servers, etc., over the last 15 years. Rarely have I had any issues.
pwason··on A New City, Built Upon Data, Takes Shape in South Korea
Too bad they built it on a (intrinsically more valuable) wetlands which will be underwater in a few decades. Oops.
pwason··on Cyberattack on Russia’s Civil Aviation Authority servers: no more data or backup
Stories like this do not need a leading graphic, especially when the chosen graphic has nothing at all to do with the content of the story. It's a waste of time, energy, and page real estate.
pwason··on Ask HN: What are your favorite playlists while coding?
I stream Nectarine Demoscene Radio, either through a browser or Alexa. "Alexa, play Nectarine Demoscene Radio" is in fact the only command I've ever given Alexa, other than "Alexa, off.".
pwason··on Ask HN: What is everyone going to use when Alexa is retired?
Assuming you use Alexa in the first place, which most people don't.
pwason··on Only 0.3% of the world population are programmers
The Good / Bad / Ugly quotients would be good to know.
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