Hacker News: ChrisRR

New comment by ChrisRR in "No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026"

ChrisRR — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:17:33 +0000

What a weird tangent

New comment by ChrisRR in "What Does a 13-Year-Old See on Snapchat in a Normal Week?"

ChrisRR — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:21:18 +0000

Surely that falls under the 25% sexually suggestive messages in the article

New comment by ChrisRR in "PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity (EU)"

ChrisRR — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 08:29:49 +0000

So that make all of the games that release for consoles good news, right?

New comment by ChrisRR in "Resetting Xbox"

ChrisRR — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:12:15 +0000

Yes very different business models. Supermarkets have the benefits of frequent repeat customers

New comment by ChrisRR in "Resetting Xbox"

ChrisRR — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 10:20:30 +0000

That would be King

New comment by ChrisRR in "Resetting Xbox"

ChrisRR — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 10:18:44 +0000

They have been doing long term accounting, and that's why they're resetting their business

New comment by ChrisRR in "Resetting Xbox"

ChrisRR — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 10:16:26 +0000

What's not to understand that when you're having to spend 4.85B in order to get 5B in revenue makes your business quite risky. You want to be operating on larger margins than that

New comment by ChrisRR in "Hackers shoveled snow for company, were rewarded with network admin access"

ChrisRR — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:50:10 +0000

I like the last line of your comment

My password is now password

New comment by ChrisRR in "Mystery identity of 'Green Boots' climber is finally solved after DNA test"

ChrisRR — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:58:53 +0000

Everyone should be averse to the daily mail

New comment by ChrisRR in "This blog is written in en-GB"

ChrisRR — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:06:00 +0000

I've just checked my instagram and it's using the UK spelling "favourites"

New comment by ChrisRR in "This blog is written in en-GB"

ChrisRR — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:47:42 +0000

As far as I'm aware the US does have free OTA TV. A quick google tells me that basic cable means the cheapest tier of cable. So maybe equivalent to a sky/cable entertainment package?

New comment by ChrisRR in "This blog is written in en-GB"

ChrisRR — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:43:08 +0000

Brit here. I spent decades hearing about twinkies from US TV so I had to finally try one.

It was the blandest, most solid chunk of cake with a flavourless blob of sugar in the middle.

New comment by ChrisRR in "This blog is written in en-GB"

ChrisRR — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:24:17 +0000

By your logic, chinese english or indian english are the defacto as they massively outnumber american english

You just mean that you visit more american sites than other non-US english speaking sites

New comment by ChrisRR in "This blog is written in en-GB"

ChrisRR — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:21:39 +0000

I'm fairly sure they were referring to the americans that this post is about

New comment by ChrisRR in "This blog is written in en-GB"

ChrisRR — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:20:33 +0000

Americans often don't twig how many random american terms we brits have to learn the double meaning of and don't pipe up about. I'm not talking the well-known ones like cookies, but even things like "the ER" meaning "A&E"

Sometimes it's their turn to repay the favour

New comment by ChrisRR in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

ChrisRR — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:29:30 +0000

Because they have almost definitely already factored in the loss from people boycotting vs the gain due to killing the resale market into their analysis. They are fully aware that some people are going to refuse to buy digital only

The unfortunate truth is that physical sales have been ever declining so the writing was on the wall

Edit: And you can't really compare the PS2 and PS5 in terms of competition. PS5 isn't just competing against other consoles, it's also competing against netflix, youtube, tiktok, any endless scrolling platform. There were much fewer options for entertainment in 2001 than there are now

New comment by ChrisRR in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

ChrisRR — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:26:42 +0000

It probably reduces the amount of media attention if they do it all at once instead of spreading it out over months

New comment by ChrisRR in "Linux for the Sega MegaDrive"

ChrisRR — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 10:34:53 +0000

I don't know what emulators you're using that gives you dropped frames. Megadrive emulation has been a solved problems for decades

New comment by ChrisRR in "Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

ChrisRR — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 09:07:49 +0000

No they didn't. The vikings became part of the population

New comment by ChrisRR in "Linux for the Sega MegaDrive"

ChrisRR — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:00:52 +0000

I just emulate. So much easier