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Squeeeez commented on Building ultra cheap energy storage for solar PV   austinvernon.substack.com... · Posted by u/theptip
Squeeeez · 11 hours ago
As my grandma used to say, regarding speaking a foreign language: "enough to get you beat up, not enough to get them to stop"
Squeeeez · 11 hours ago
Why the downvotes?

Conversation instead of anonymous bashing would be appreciated.

Unless you have no good arguments, so I dare you, random aggressive strangers, I triple dare you!

Squeeeez commented on Building ultra cheap energy storage for solar PV   austinvernon.substack.com... · Posted by u/theptip
jacquesm · 11 hours ago
Please do not give that guy more exposure than he already has, his advice is going to get someone killed one of these days. He knows just enough to be dangerous.
Squeeeez · 11 hours ago
As my grandma used to say, regarding speaking a foreign language: "enough to get you beat up, not enough to get them to stop"
Squeeeez commented on Fourth, fifth, and sixth derivatives of position   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fou... · Posted by u/thunderbong
ano-ther · a day ago
Learnt something. As one of the linked articles says: "The higher derivatives of motion are rarely discussed in the teaching of classical mechanics of rigid bodies; nevertheless, we experience the effect not only of acceleration, but also of jerk and snap." [1]

Now I understand jerk as when you get pressed into your seat when starting a car. But how would I notice snap or even crackle?

[1] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0143-0807/37/6/06...

Squeeeez · a day ago
Yes, the change from not being pressed into your seat to being pressed into your seat is jerk. Basically the difference between two acceleration "levels".

Snap is how abrupt those changes between accelerations are. If you accelerate a bit, and then suddenly the light turns orange and you floor it, and the turbo kicks in, and your passengers go "woaaaaaah going to need a barf baaaaag" for example, it was probably not very smooth.

Sometimes instead of linear accelerations, those concepts can be easier to understand as changes in angular motions. You're on a curve of a certain radius, and suddenly the radius changes. The change is the jerk. How sudden the change happens is the snap.

Squeeeez commented on The AI Job Title Decoder Ring   dbreunig.com/2025/08/21/a... · Posted by u/dbreunig
jimbobimbo · 3 days ago
"Forward Deployed Engineer" is a bodyshop with LLM.
Squeeeez · 3 days ago
Weell, you probably don't want to serve "Backwards Deployed Engineers" to your clients
Squeeeez commented on Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts   petapixel.com/2025/08/20/... · Posted by u/mikece
drstewart · 4 days ago
This is why I don't understand people who support mandatory online / one-click subscription cancellation. Support jobs and require people to call-in to a human to cancel. That's a human-centred system that contributes to jobs.
Squeeeez · 3 days ago
For English, press one...

There are - currently - three-hUndred-and--fifty-seven -- people - inthequeue. Please wait

Squeeeez commented on When you're asking AI chatbots for answers, they're data-mining you   theregister.com/2025/08/1... · Posted by u/rntn
em3rgent0rdr · 7 days ago
Download stuff in bulk (for instance the entire wikipedia torrent) and then peruse it on you own computer.
Squeeeez · 7 days ago
If you are not using an OS which has something like windows recall enabled, or that weird stardict with online lookup with automatic lookup on select which came up recently.

I wonder how far back this has been going on. Did ICQ, IRC server hosters, BBSes do similar things?

Squeeeez commented on Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification"    · Posted by u/nextdns
ltbarcly3 · 7 days ago
Presenting government ID to random entities is literally what government ID's exist for. Paranoia about this is silly.

Additionally, intentionally aiding someone (especially a minor) in circumventing the law is very likely to not be legal, especially when legality is largely determined by a jury, and especially^2 when the facts of the case against you are the most egregious that the government can find, especially^3 when you are profiting from it. It will be something like a 12yo using your service to access something absolutely shocking, and you or someone else will be forced to read a detailed text description of it in front of a jury. This doesn't even begin to address civil liability.

I'm not saying what you are doing is 'wrong', I'm saying you should talk to a lawyer who specializes in this sort of thing before you are forced to.

Squeeeez · 7 days ago
> Paranoia about this is silly.

Having had to deal with some clients with slightly sensitive data, I wish. Photocopies and printed screenshots lying around in the open, CC data copy-pasted manually to other fields or to generic excel sheets because otherwise "it disappears and we can't book late fees" etc. Not even only the "random third-party" companies vetted and specialised in ID verification, but then they get a new support contract down the road, and a fourth- or fifth-party agent who had the cheapest offer now has remote admin access to those desktops.

Probability is low, true. But all it takes is one compromised access.

We all choose our battles probably.

Squeeeez commented on Study: Teens 12+ see OnlyFans as an appealing alternative to traditional work   psypost.org/teens-as-youn... · Posted by u/gnabgib
Squeeeez · 15 days ago
Maybe... Someone should teach kids about the pareto principle early on. Or is it about morality?

One might argue that a stone mason or a miner has less left of his body after 40 years of work.

Office work is slightly kinder to the body, although even here one reads worrying studies.

But when you're 12, nothing of that matters really.

Squeeeez commented on Did California's fast food minimum wage reduce employment?   nber.org/papers/w34033... · Posted by u/lxm
vondur · 15 days ago
It's still a net loss of jobs. I'm certain the future will involve increasing automation to further reduce headcount. A McDonald's recently opened near me with no seating, and orders can only be placed through the app or at the drive thru. I spoke with the owner who mentioned two main reasons for this setup: first, ongoing issues with the local homeless population and second, a desire to minimize staffing. Fewer employees are needed when there's no dining area to clean or counter to staff. I’m pretty sure this is the direction things are headed in California.
Squeeeez · 15 days ago
Where do people eat then? Coming from someone completely foreign to such a culture.
Squeeeez commented on Ask HN: Why is Gmail so incompetent at basic search?    · Posted by u/sn9
ComplexSystems · a month ago
This has got to be one of the most loaded question I have ever seen on here. Could you perhaps be clearer with what you want to ask? It sounds like you are insinuating that the guy is a bad person in some vague, nondescript way.
Squeeeez · a month ago
To answer your question: I am insinuating nothing. There is a certain vibe to his comments which struck me from having noticed it in certain people, and the effects it has on their relationships with others. From his answer, I gather that he doesn't care. So, that's it for the free remote psychoanalysis by HN comments.

u/Squeeeez

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