Hacker News: BobAliceInATree

New comment by BobAliceInATree in "Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was Unconstitutional"

BobAliceInATree — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:52:00 +0000

I was pulled over for having out of state plates in middle america because they thought I had drugs just because I had California plates. They did a drug sniffing dog (before this was ruled unconstitutional). Cop was absolutely convinced I had drugs and so disappointed I didn’t.

What you’re not accounting for is all the people they pulled over that didn’t have drugs and you never heard about.

New comment by BobAliceInATree in "Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout"

BobAliceInATree — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:50:33 +0000

Allbirds didn't really "pivot" into an AI datacenter. They sold off their shoe business at firesale to another company, which will still make & sell the shoes.

Then the name and public listing remaining was basically a shell, and basically SPACed into the AI datacenter company with more funding.

New comment by BobAliceInATree in "Matt Mullenweg tells Automattic staff in Slack he's back in control after ouster"

BobAliceInATree — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:10:18 +0000

Changing jobs can be rough or maybe even impossible in this job market. I'm sure there are many there that are not aligned with Matt, but just need the steady paycheck. Same was true after Elon took over twitter.

New comment by BobAliceInATree in "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"

BobAliceInATree — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:47:50 +0000

> Firefighters who deal with forest fires, police, governments, rescue services (here in Spain) are all posting their updates on X - because, like the users, they have no choice, because no alternative exists.

Government agencies have communicated to their citizens long before twitter has existed. There's a myriad of ways they can use today: websites (with or without RSS), email newsletters, text updates, other social networks (bluesky, threads, etc).

Choosing to give critical updates only on Twitter is definitely a choice and they are deliberately ignoring a very large segment of their population that doesn't have a twitter account.

New comment by BobAliceInATree in "Premier league bans gambling sponsors"

BobAliceInATree — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 15:59:09 +0000

Norway banned alcohol advertisements in 1975. Companies similarly tried to get around by advertising by using water bottles, or merchandise, so they the law was amended in 1997 to ban those, which seems to have been successful.

New comment by BobAliceInATree in "A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer"

BobAliceInATree — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:09:41 +0000

> I reported the repo to GitHub and the recruiter to LinkedIn. So far nothing has changed and the code is still up.

Oh, Microsoft.

New comment by BobAliceInATree in "EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products"

BobAliceInATree — Thu, 28 May 2026 22:00:35 +0000

This is why we have UL listings in USA and Canada. So you don’t have to rely on “common sense” which is notoriously unreliable.

New comment by BobAliceInATree in "Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection"

BobAliceInATree — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:52:03 +0000

The problem with consignment is that the consignor wants the maximum price but the consignee wants a quick sale because 10% of a few bucks more means very little and they have to hold the inventory.

New comment by BobAliceInATree in "Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date”"

BobAliceInATree — Sun, 24 May 2026 21:50:50 +0000

Stanford had shares in Google because they had the rights to the PageRank algorithm.

They sold their shares in 2005

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-dec-02-fi-calbr...

New comment by BobAliceInATree in "Greek Alphabet Cards"

BobAliceInATree — Sat, 16 May 2026 17:23:47 +0000

No it's not. It's about teaching letter forms to kids.

New comment by BobAliceInATree in "America will come to regret its war on taxes"

BobAliceInATree — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 18:52:47 +0000

Your not speaking on behalf of the majority if Americans.

New comment by BobAliceInATree in "SpaceX Is Basically a Huge Meme Stock"

BobAliceInATree — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:27:33 +0000

There's a reason why he's trying to reserve 30% of the IPO for retail investors.

New comment by BobAliceInATree in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

BobAliceInATree — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:36:45 +0000

Apple sells a 3-pin extension cable

US Version: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/mw2n3ll/a/power-adapter-e...

New comment by BobAliceInATree in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

BobAliceInATree — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:35:04 +0000

Apple sells a 3-pin extension cable

US Version: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/mw2n3ll/a/power-adapter-e...

New comment by BobAliceInATree in "EFF is leaving X"

BobAliceInATree — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:38:41 +0000

Elon, the guy that will ban anyone on X at the drop of a hat, opposes censorship?

Comical.

> It would be wise to use all of the information channels available to reach as many people as possible.

How about their website, which is accessible to everyone because it doesn't require you to log in?

New comment by BobAliceInATree in "How far back in time can you understand English?"

BobAliceInATree — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 21:56:48 +0000

Interestingly I found the long s annoying and I had to think every time I saw it, but I quickly got used to and could read it naturally after a few paragraphs.

New comment by BobAliceInATree in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

BobAliceInATree — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:16:33 +0000

I tested this, and if I have slide-to-type disabled, and slide my fingers, then every letter I slide over will highlight, but only the letter I let my finger up on will show up in the text input box.

If I don't have slide-to-type enabled, then only the letter I press down on will highlight, and what shows up in the text input box is pretty inconsistent for horizontally adjacent letters.

New comment by BobAliceInATree in "ai;dr"

BobAliceInATree — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:59:53 +0000

> I'm having a hard time articulating this but AI-generated code feels like progress and efficiency, while AI-generated articles and posts feel low-effort and make the dead internet theory harder to dismiss.

I think it's the size of the audience that the AI-generated content is for, is what makes the difference. AI code is generally for a small team (often one person), and AI prose for one person (email) or a team (internal doc) is often fine as it's hopefully intentional and tailored. But what's even the point for AI content (prose or code) for a wide audience? If you can just give me the prompt and I can generate it myself, there's no value there.

New comment by BobAliceInATree in "Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem?"

BobAliceInATree — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:00:16 +0000

Shutterfly will also continually spam you despite clicking the unsubscribe button multiple times.

New comment by BobAliceInATree in "Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices"

BobAliceInATree — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 02:22:38 +0000

The problem is that they drive out local grocery stores that were actually pretty good, have terrible safety records, and food sanitation.

Last Week Tonight did an episode on them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4QGOHahiVM