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New comment by IrishTechie in "Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC"

IrishTechie — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:56:24 +0000

I recall thinking the same thing when Apple and Microsoft hit $1tn. Here we are less than a decade later and they’re up 3-400%.

New comment by IrishTechie in "Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame"

IrishTechie — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:08:23 +0000

I guess they meant 'by nature', but maybe not, which will be fun to hear!

New comment by IrishTechie in "How Pizza Tycoon simulated traffic on a 25 MHz CPU"

IrishTechie — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:33:51 +0000

I was looking for this game on GOG only an hour ago having regaled a teenager with how great it was! It’s not on GOG unfortunately.

New comment by IrishTechie in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

IrishTechie — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:34:05 +0000

I’ve often thought about a model like this and would love to see a few news outlets run it as a pilot and see how it stacks up.

New comment by IrishTechie in "EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

IrishTechie — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:46:21 +0000

I had a similar realisation in IT support - I regularly discover the answers I get from junior-to mid-level engineers need to be verified, are based on false assumption or are wildly wrong, so why am I being so critical of LLM responses. Hopefully some day they’ll make it to senior engineer levels of reasoning, but in the meantime they’re just as good as many on the teams I work with and so have their place.

New comment by IrishTechie in "Apple Business"

IrishTechie — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:57:55 +0000

The baffling thing is that iOS+MDM has been fantastic over the years. macOS is a completely different beast though.

New comment by IrishTechie in "Apple Business"

IrishTechie — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:55:46 +0000

It can be done that way, but it is definitely not the norm. Businesses will generally “purchase” (many for €0) apps in ABM that are to be used for business purposes and push those to devices, the user can then use an Apple ID to download any other apps they want for personal use.

New comment by IrishTechie in "Honda is killing its EVs"

IrishTechie — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:54:26 +0000

€1500 or so for Tesla to replace the screen, cheaper in many other cars.

New comment by IrishTechie in "Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)"

IrishTechie — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:34:20 +0000

Energy ≠ electricity

New comment by IrishTechie in "World-first gigabit laser link between aircraft and geostationary satellite"

IrishTechie — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:18:17 +0000

I guess if your goal is just to stream aircraft telemetry and black box like recordings then latency may not be high on the agenda.

New comment by IrishTechie in "The Enchiridion by Epictetus"

IrishTechie — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:18:19 +0000

That seems like a rather cynical take. I think you’re conflating philosophy as guidance for how to live (stoicism etc) and philosophy as more of a science to explore unanswered questions, which are naturally going to have very different practitioners and audiences?

New comment by IrishTechie in "Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study"

IrishTechie — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 10:24:16 +0000

I was giving the Leaf as an example of a worse warranty offering from 15 years ago sorry. Toyota now have the longer warranty compared to all the others, and even as a fairly poor EV they’re hugely popular with taxi drivers etc.

I’m a bit EV obsessed so spend a lot of time answering questions about them online, the longer warranty is 100% impacting buying choices.

New comment by IrishTechie in "Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study"

IrishTechie — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 09:01:40 +0000

I get what you’re saying but I think it misses that battery longevity can be a competitive advantage for the companies with better technology.

The Nissan Leaf 15 years ago came with a 5-year/100,000km battery warranty, now Toyota are at 10-year/1,000,000km.

New comment by IrishTechie in "Europe wants to end its dangerous reliance on US internet technology"

IrishTechie — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 08:55:09 +0000

I disagree. They could for example make it mandatory to grant more stock options to employees so the wealth they are generating is more broadly spread beyond the founder/CEO. I’m sure there are plenty of other approaches that would still handsomely reward innovation and growth but prevent where we ended up today.

New comment by IrishTechie in "How I Became a Quant (2007) [pdf]"

IrishTechie — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 19:37:33 +0000

Sam Bankman-Fried. And I think he’s a bit of a special case, others do not need to be worried they’ll succumb to multi billion dollar fraud schemes if they try to earn-to-give.

New comment by IrishTechie in "Swedish Alecta has sold off an estimated $8B of US Treasury Bonds"

IrishTechie — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:27:58 +0000

Don’t think they’re dumb, their goals are just shorter-term, they need to juice the numbers before the next election cycle.

New comment by IrishTechie in "Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars"

IrishTechie — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 06:22:06 +0000

I rented a hybrid recently while my car was in for a service. Picked it up, drove home (25 mins on motorway) then returned it the next day. It spent all of that time burning petrol while popping up notices about all the reasons it couldn’t use electricity right now (too cold, too fast etc).

All ICE cars should have been hybrid from 5-10 years ago but it is a stepping stone we should already be stepping off.

New comment by IrishTechie in "Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars"

IrishTechie — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 06:17:29 +0000

Other than price, in what ways are they streets ahead? I’m a bit of an EV nerd and that would not be my assessment at all. Unfortunately for Western manufacturers price/volume is probably the most important thing right now, so they are still in serious trouble.

New comment by IrishTechie in "Show HN: Customizable OSINT dashboard to monitor the situation"

IrishTechie — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 20:15:00 +0000

I’ve just Googled SpiderFoot and gone to the top result (spiderfoot.org). I see four banners on-screen promoting VPNs and crypto and a pop-up that reappears every few seconds telling me that a VPN is mandatory to use the site. I’m guessing this is not the right site?

New comment by IrishTechie in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

IrishTechie — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 09:42:21 +0000

I have a Windows 11, macOS and Ubuntu Desktop VM that I alternate across throughout the week, I find I need to reset all three periodically to sort out random weirdness. It has more to do with which machine I've used most in the last few weeks not which OS is in-use in my experience.