jtwaleson

A friend of mine is an opthalmic surgeon. He does complex corneal transplants and cataract surgery etc. He had 12 years of training before he could so his first surgery. Once he invited me to observe …

Ultimately yes, but in healthcare, demand is fixed (to a large extent) and supply is tightly controlled as the education takes super long and hospitals only have limited residencies available.

I like to put ugly hacks in a file ugly_hack_xyz.py and then import that. Code comments are easier to ignore afterwards.

Indeed, just me being stupid for realizing it so late. Coming from Java and Python 2 I never really understood async/await properly and when I started to grasp it, it took me weeks to realize I c…

For a company that had a giant 30 minute wizard in the web interface, I wrote a wizard engine in VueJS that works similarly. It's served hundreds of thousands of users since 2019 and went through…

If you're comfortable designing PCBs I would definitely take that route and base it on the components I've used. Mine has a couple of irritations (not able to charge when off, voltage droppi…

Very nice job! Last month I also adapted a rotary phone but I replaced the insides with a Bluetooth chip (and some more). Now I can use it as a headset for my smartphone or laptop. While you had to le…

The amount of people for whom this is a "just" kind of task is very very low. I don't think "just" should be in that sentence ;)

The sewage system won't be happy with wet wipes. Caused huge problems in some areas as it doesn't break down.

You hold it relatively close to the area that needs cleaning. Adjust the pressure as needed using the control on the handle. Then use TP (just to dry), in my experience this is optional in warmer clim…

Oh and as this leaves me with ~ $500 of budget I'll include my active tip soldering iron (Aixun T3A T245, holy crap it's hot in 3 seconds), function generator (UNI-T UTG962E), a bunch of ESP…

My parents in law lived in the middle east for a long time, and we all got used to bidets over there. I've had a "mini shower head" version next to my toilet for the last 15 years or so…

Under $1000: an oscilloscope, 4 channel 100MHz for about 500 EUR. I've been wanting to learn more about electronics but I learn best by doing and getting a feedback loop. What didn't work wa…

I'm currently a freelancer (Fractional CTO) at 4 different companies. Having browser profiles made my life bearable again. Each profile has the Google/MS/Slack/Teams tabs for that …

Exactly. The ones that made me chuckle had a clear outline of the current province. Didn't keep notes so don't have any examples unfortunately.

I live in the Netherlands, which has a province reclaimed from the sea in the 20th century. You'd be surprised how many documentaries of "Europe during the ice ages" etc show this provi…

That wasn't really the point of the article? The linked original blog post goes into that, but the point of this article was more about better representations and better abstractions in general, …

I would be very interested, potentially for future commercial purposes.

The hub and spoke model comes to mind. HN would not work if each person would speak their own language.

This is an English speaking forum. At least provide an English summary. Very few people will be able to read a swath of German text.

If something increases productivity 1% and costs $20 it's already easily worth it for most professional software developers.

Couldn’t you “just” create a nullable distance column and update anything that’s null and reachable by Bacon and set it to 1. Then update anyone still null and reachable by 1 to 2, etc. Then you have …

I think the screen could be a bit bigger like the 13 mini, so smaller bezels. I’ve always used android until 2021 when my phone died and the only replacements I could find were HUGE. So then I picked …

I’m still using the first gen SE and love the small form factor. It’s getting slow as websites get bloated but otherwise still works fine including NFC for payments. If the next gen SE is small like t…

For people adding insightful critique on the PEP on HN (I saw some on this thread already), please ensure your opinion is represented in the PEP thread itself too.

You are speaking as if these are well-defined and mutually exclusive categories.

My 2019 Philips android tv got incredibly slow after years of updates. I didn’t notice it because it was so incremental but after some years the chromecast functionality started failing consistently. …