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wampwampwhat··on Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production
just compare the landing pages for taobao or baidu to the western equivalent. UX for the asian market has wildly different expectations and best practices
wampwampwhat··on AI lab offers free plumbing and HVAC repairs across three cities to train robots
no theyre not. the founder has clearly never worked a day in maintenance-trades and doesn't understand the problem space at all. new construction residential plumbing is so cheap that there is no edge to having a robot do it, and emergency plumbing triage in finished homes is a game discovering exactly how wrong the usually non-existent schematics are.
wampwampwhat··on Colorado River plummets as lakes Powell and Mead drop to record lows
university of utah has several studies on the matter. a substantial percentage of the snowpack sublimates during a heatwave, never has a chance to melt. Of the remaining snowmelt, it has to saturate the ground before any can flow to an adjacent stream to feed the water table, and the bone dry soil around here can absorb a significant amount of water.
wampwampwhat··on Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks
That's a monthly mortgage payment for anyone who bought a starter house in a tier2/3 city prior to ~2024
wampwampwhat··on I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it
your argument sounds very similar to how ar15 larpers claim they need a forced reset trigger and a bump stock on their short barrel 'truck gun' otherwise they won't survive a SHTF scenario... like what world are you living in?
wampwampwhat··on All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes
do you have a key for the color meanings?
wampwampwhat··on Meta acquires Moltbook
facebook was lagging on the bot:human user ratio and they needed to scale the left side of the equation to really improve their je ne sais quoi
wampwampwhat··on Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info
I'm going to repeat this verbatim in my next technical interview. I still have nightmares about an old peugeot px10
wampwampwhat··on The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence
i'm 36, self-employed. silver plans in my state are ~800/month next year, with 8k deductible, no out of network coverage at all, with no in-network providers out of my state, so god forbid I get injured while traveling to visit my in-laws. the marketplace is a joke and health insurance in this country is pointless.
wampwampwhat··on Cartographers have been hiding illustrations inside Switzerland’s maps (2020)
I believe jokes inserted into code that dont impact user experience negatively are called easter eggs, not bugs
wampwampwhat··on Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads
https://shop.app is their federated retail platform
wampwampwhat··on The Ford Executive Who Kept Score of Colleagues' Verbal Flubs
any chance someone here works at ford and is willing to share the full spreadsheet? I need some inspiration
wampwampwhat··on The Japanese word ikigai refers to a passion that gives joy to life (2022)
not to be confused with ikijime: The secret to tasty fish
wampwampwhat··on Vape-o-nomics: Why Everything is Addictive Now [video]
I would honestly love to pay $2-$5 for a weekend license to Canva or Illustrator. Once in a blue moon I need to hammer a logo or an event flyer or a random SVG and then I won't touch the tool again for 3 months.
wampwampwhat··on Drones are the new drug mules
I believe that already happens every September in North Nevada...
wampwampwhat··on Are cooking videos making us better cooks?
The Food Lab, by J Kenji Lopez-Alt should be on the shelf of any HN reader who likes to cook. dives deep into the 'why' behind each recipe, includes a lot of A/B testing results (e.g. differences roasting russet potatoes vs gold vs red)
wampwampwhat··on Amazon starts flagging frequently returned products that you maybe shouldn’t buy
Its aggressively simple to solve. Sell Bezos yacht. pay people.
wampwampwhat··on Home Depot is introducing power tools that won’t work if they’re stolen
Home Depot could solve this problem really easily by having more than two people working in a store at a given time.. It's a pretty simple solution. Every single person I know has stolen something small (like a box of screws) from home depot in the last few years because they got tired of trying to find someone to check out with and said fuck it and walked out. Theres other examples of that same forced to steal because theres no way to pay in this thread, and all over the internet. HD has incompetent top down leadership. Fire your C Suite.
wampwampwhat··on On Depression and Founders
I'm almost certain this thread is just a transcription of a Joe Rogan podcast
wampwampwhat··on Burnout from an Organizational Perspective
The article being discussed here makes no mention of software development at all, and clearly defines exactly what burnout is and how it differs from depression, anxiety, and compassion fatigue. Give it a read, it could prove to be insightful
wampwampwhat··on Toyota launches groundbreaking 10-year warranty (in UK)
I have no evidence to support this, but I'd theorize that some of it has to do with enthusiast owners (porsche) keeping up with recommended maintenance intervals, while budget owners (vw) and ignorant owners (audi) skip maintenance, causing nightmares down the line.
wampwampwhat··on Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years?
any of the Breville machines will allow you to use pre-ground beans. They're all 'semi-auto' machines, where you fill the portafilter with grounds and then install it into the group head for extraction. Automatic machines like the Delonghis or Juras you see in a lot of small offices don't allow for precise control over the grind fineness or volume. Though, I wouldn't recommend anyone use pre-ground beans if they're getting into espresso. The off-gassing accelerates exponentially as soon as the whole bean is crushed, and within 30 minutes or so of grinding many of the subtle aromatics and flavors that make good coffee 'good' have disappeared.
wampwampwhat··on Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years?
I see someone has tried to buy a used Tacoma in the last decade.
wampwampwhat··on Money and Investing (1996)
Take this terrible opinion to 4chan. Article is from 96. nothing to do with him being president, everything to do with him being a clown. The only (mis)treatment he's ever received is being treated too kindly.
wampwampwhat··on Learn Big-O and stop hacking your way through algorithms
is this an appropriate place to ask if triplebyte ever plans on staffing more interviewers? I'm tired of getting marketing emails telling me to schedule my interview when there hasn't been availability for coming up on 9 months now. Might make more sense to hire interviewers, rather than blog writers.
wampwampwhat··on RxBar co-founder Peter Rahal on life after becoming a millionaire
I believe Land-O-Lakes, Plugra, and Kerrygold have all been making keto bars for decades. They just need to rebrand a bit
wampwampwhat··on Comcast starts throttling mobile video, will charge extra for HD streams
They say we can't tell the difference in quality of 420p, yet they sell us 4k displays.. I can't with this logic.