Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — papa-whisky

papa-whisky

HN member
Joined
Sat, Apr 01, 2017, 2:44 AM UTC
HN karma
554
Public activity
52 items

About papa-whisky

No profile information was provided.

Recent public activity

  1. comment
  2. comment
    Comment #47658914

    I've really been enjoying this series of Mozart concertos on Alpha, highlighting young(er) performers: https://outhere-music.com/en/collections/next-generation-moz...

  3. comment
    Comment #47471689

    Well it's very possible to blast music from a bike too https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLANhJNOIis5SrYZkIbN4MDJia...

  4. comment
    Comment #46547992

    We used to call those 'desktops'...

  5. comment
    Comment #42361448

    My wife and I found this super helpful for introducing foods: https://solidstarts.com/ (no affiliation)

  6. comment
    Comment #42361263

    I think the name just means that it sits in-between JSON and ES5 (i.e., it's a superset of JSON and subset of ES5). edit: well as this comment thread indicates, the name is pretty …

  7. comment
    Comment #41679369

    Tweedy Pubs on YouTube has many videos detailing historic pubs in London, worth a watch if you found TFA interesting: https://youtube.com/@tweedypubs (No affiliation, I just enjoy …

  8. comment
    Comment #41254124

    https://jam.dev/utilities/ gives more useful info than the git repo.

  9. comment
    Comment #41114532

    The same thing happened to me, unfortunately.

  10. comment
    Comment #41077001

    Give me convenience or give me death...

  11. comment
    Comment #41064324

    There is a company trying to make this happen (no affiliation): https://enhanced.org/

  12. comment
    Comment #40825882

    The essay that the book takes its title from is particularly relevant to this discussion and freely available online: https://www.esquire.com/sports/a5151/the-string-theory-david..…

  13. comment
    Comment #39508947

    It's a joke. Every time there's a thread on HN about nuclear power someone inevitably comments something like the above about solar.

  14. comment
    Comment #39350248

    Related: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/19/nobel-la...

  15. story
  16. comment
    Comment #38311881

    There are tons of options for carrying kids on a bike. Made even easier when you add electric assist.

  17. comment
    Comment #38287971

    I've read that payment processors don't like dealing with porn companies because of the very high rate of chargebacks they attract, not because the processors are Puritans...

  18. comment
    Comment #38043148

    As the sibling comments have pointed out, power-to-weight is the main reason, but it doesn't make diesel engines completely unfeasible for light aircraft. Diamond Aircraft have had…

  19. comment
    Comment #37488692

    I wonder if they'd go any faster if the rules allowed overhead cams! Even though these cars have disastrous efficiency and need to be completely rebuilt after every run and have ba…

  20. comment
    Comment #37488628

    I don't think it's a "trick", it's purely for safety reasons. The distance change was made following a fatal crash.

  21. comment
    Comment #37332249

    I'm curious what you're expecting to be returned here. How can there be "quality" results when the information you're searching for doesn't exist?

  22. comment
    Comment #37030713

    https://www.google.com/maps/place/Murder+Cove/@57.0310912,-1... edit: also this one made me chuckle https://www.google.com/maps/place/Tim+Hortons/@82.4982691,-6...

  23. comment
    Comment #36888989

    Tangentially related: https://www.messynessychic.com/2019/04/26/the-lost-floating-...

  24. comment
    Comment #36424037

    Hmmmm, the article conveniently fails to mention the extremely large helping hand Ferrari received from the ACO's "balance of performance" changes [1]. It was really nice to see so…

  25. comment
    Comment #35460621

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Cronulla_riots