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shric··on Electricity Prices by Country
I went on vacation for two weeks last month and unplugged everything except the fridge and one HP Microserver N54L and the apartment averaged a little over 4 kWh per day (~120 per month, ~1440 per year)

However, when we are not on vacation the average is around 10 kWh per day.

Edit: We don't use electricity for heating or cooling (Sydney, Australia) as it's included with the apartment at a flat rate of 10 AUD (6.61 USD) per month

shric··on Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me?
I've never seen a 70 inch monitor either, but usually text looks a lot better on a monitor and of course many monitors offer much higher refresh rates.

Ads aren't the only reason why a 42" 4K TV is generally much cheaper than a 32" 4K monitor

shric··on Kelly ‘Aloria’ Lum has died
> As far as I know two of those people are from the country with the best healthcare system in the world

Which country are you referring to here?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1290168/health-index-of-...

shric··on Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers after earlier cuts
> The SDE role at (FAANG)

I don't think you're generalising to all FAANG, just whichever one you work at.

That said, this has not been my experience at all at another FAANG which doesn't use the TLA "SDE".

shric··on Flight attendants want to ban lap-babies
Just speculating... airplane seatbelts don't restrain the torso of the adult, so any strong forward motion could potentially injure or kill the baby restrained in such a manner?
shric··on Google says hackers could silently own your phone until Samsung fixes its modems
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35107601
shric··on Curl 25 Years Online Celebration
curl works best with peer though :p
shric··on Carp lang: statically typed Lisp, no GC
Why does a hello world need SDL?
shric··on Asteroid lost 1M kilograms after collision with DART spacecraft
Isn't 1 megagram a tonne? A ton is a slightly larger non-SI unit.
shric··on Asteroid lost 1M kilograms after collision with DART spacecraft
It's also a peculiarity of kilograms. The kilogram rather than the gram is the SI base unit for mass.

Thus it's normal to use e.g. 1e6 kg rather than 1e9 g.

shric··on What is Chess? What to think and for how long
And don't forget to study end games too. I don't think you need a strong grasp of opening theory until you reach around 2000 (lichess).
shric··on Computing e to 116,000 Places with a Personal Computer (1981)
There is an ad-free PDF version here

https://downloads.reactivemicro.com/Users/Grant_Stockley/App...

shric··on Does Google need a new CEO?
Giving detail that you probably already know in case it's useful for others.

When you have "showdead" enabled in the settings you can see all the "dead" posts.

A dead post is one that has been marked such that it only appears if you have the above setting enabled and prohibits replies to it. This is usually because it's deemed too off topic or otherwise obnoxious to have value.

The post in question was probably marked dead and because it wasn't particularly offtopic or obnoxious then a shadowban is a reasonable assumption. This could be further verified by noticing that that person's comments are almost all dead. This suggests either they're shadowbanned or are remarkably consistent at producing offtopic/obnoxious posts without getting shadowbanned.

shric··on Capitalism and convenience are making us lonely
I don't think the article, despite the title, is suggesting we look for an alternative to capitalism and make everything slower or less convenient. It's just observing a consequence without passing judgement and then saying that now more deliberate effort needs to be made to make human connections.
shric··on Ask HN: Share Your YouTube Channel
https://youtube.com/@shric_

I made a couple of double pendulum videos in 2021 and then walked away. For the first year they got less than 100 views then one suddenly picked up and was getting 10,000 views per day for a few days so I uploaded a few more.

The interest has slowly died down again (500-1000 views per day and decreasing) but I'm now motivated to create more content when I have time.

shric··on OpenAI Status: Multiple engines are down
It might be the fact that you spammed identical posts at least 3 times in these comments
shric··on Google to reduce workforce by 12k
Do you have an example of a successful company that puts people above profits?
shric··on What is Mittens? A chess nightmare behind an innocent kitty bot
I'm not sure what the hype is about. It's another chess bot that's not as good as the best. There are so many of these already. Is it because it has a cute name and avatar?
shric··on And Just Like That, America Becomes More Rural
It might indeed be just you
shric··on Plover: free, open-source stenography engine
I believe all of the results from the first page of GP's search are about this except the ones that mention "browser fileshare".
shric··on Safe deposit boxes aren’t safe (2019)
You don't need to particularly safeguard the credentials to get to your encrypted blob, they can be in a gmail email you sent to your friends and/or family. They can't read the content but they can give you a copy.

How do you remember where your safe deposit box is after four months in hospital recovering from a cerebral trauma?

There's no perfect solution.

shric··on Safe deposit boxes aren’t safe (2019)
Store them in the cloud (or multiple clouds if you wish) encrypted with an extremely strong passphrase that you definitely won't forget?
shric··on Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
I don't mind them visually non-matching, but different materials/thickness, etc. is annoying
shric··on Please write a breaking news article about a leaf falling from a tree
Indeed. If you want it to fail then ask it to list famous people in 1976.

Nothing special about 1976 in particular, but that was the first one I tried.

It lists 10 people who weren't born in 1976.

If you ask when a particular individual was born, in some cases it will continue with the lie and in others it will answer the correct date of birth.

Sometimes if you rephrase the question it will get it right. For example it listed Mark Zuckerberg as being born in 1976 but if I asked when the CEO of Facebook was born, it mentions Mark Zuckerberg and lists the correct year.

If you then ask it to fix the list, it will either list new people (all wrong in my experience) or make a shorter list with the person whose mistake was uncovered omitted.

shric··on My Youtube earnings
> Wow how’s you get such a huge jump in views?

I honestly have no idea, but I doubt it reached "the front page of YouTube" like the sibling post suggested or it would have millions.

Somehow it must've got suggested to a few people and maybe it had a high engagement rate (likes and comments?) which was somehow taken positively. I'm purely guessing though.

It really isn't an impressive video though it does have a 99% like ratio. I'm a bit embarrassed to self promote here so I'll email you based on your HN profile site contact page.

shric··on My Youtube earnings
This is fantastic information and very sobering for those of us with smaller channels. I had 10-50 views per month until two weeks ago and I got 200k views suddenly thanks to the algorithm, but it's already peaked so I expect I can't make more than a few dollars per month. See what happens though!
shric··on Ask HN: What is your new year's resolution?
I released a double pendulum video in August 2021 and after a year it got about 100 views. It was almost my only video. About 2 weeks ago the YouTube algorithm somehow decided to pick it up and it has of the order of 100,000 views.

So 2023 I want to make an actual effort to create some content and see if a decent amount of people view it.

shric··on More developers use Linux than Mac, according to 2022 StackOverflow survey
I know you're comparing "out of the box", but I don't think that's fair as developers spend ages customising everything anyway (dotfiles, etc.) and there are plenty of things macOS can do "out of the box" that most Linux distributions can't.

If I haven't quoted one of your items, it means I agree with it, but...

> No screen edge tiling, spend more time managing application windows

Yes, but you can install Hammerspoon or similar.

> Inconsistent keyboard shortcuts, cmd and ctrl are used interchangeably for no reason (Biggest issue). Why do I need to do Ctrl+Tab to switch tabs but Cmd+T to create tabs? Why is History not Cmd/Ctrl+H in browsers? I need to memorize more shortcuts on MacOS for no reason, when it could very well just do it all with a single modifier key.

Control-T (and many control-foo combinations) is already used in terminals. It's a standard emacs binding to transpose characters.

> Maximizing an app takes you to a totally new desktop

Agree, this is horrible, so I use Hammerspoon.

> Ctrl + Alt +T doesn't open terminal, it's like oxygen to me.

You can set any bindings like this up with Hammerspoon.

> Can't set VSCode to open with Ctrl + Alt + C.

You can set any bindings like this up with Hammerspoon.

> Can't set custom global shortcuts at all, even windows can to some extent

You can, with Hammerspoon.

> Ctrl + C to cancel a command in terminal but Cmd + C to copy text in terminal. Ok, then why Cmd + T to open a new tab in terminal instead of ctrl?

This was addressed above. Likewise it would be really annoying if Ctrl + C was to copy text in a terminal instead of being interrupt.

> The shell startup time is too much on MacOS. I have to wait for a second for the shell to load before I start typing my commands. On Linux, pressing Ctrl+Alt+T and writing commands right away feels so good!

I don't have this problem, not sure why you do. I can open a terminal instantly and start writing instantly.

As for why I use macOS, I actually use it only on my laptops (personal and work) because I find non-mac laptops ergonomically dreadful in comparison (e.g. trackpad, etc.). I know this is subjective and I'm sure plenty of people feel the opposite. I use Linux (with i3) on my desktop.

shric··on What ChatGPT can't do
I asked it to list famous people born in 1976, it listed 10 famous people (mostly actors) and zero of them were born in 1976.

When I asked it if it was sure, it gave dates of birth for each celebrity, all in 1976, all incorrect.

I then asked it when a specific celebrity was born and it gave the correct (non 1976) birthdate.

I then asked it to fix its list. It then gave the same list with that celebrity removed, apologizing for being incorrect. I repeated this for each celebrity until it gave an empty list.

shric··on Read this post ‘unless’ you’re not a Ruby developer
I'm mildly surprised the article doesn't mention that Perl, one of the languages that influenced Ruby, also has unless.
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