Hacker News: NotYourLawyer

New comment by NotYourLawyer in "xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B"

NotYourLawyer — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 01:23:21 +0000

> valuation that he himself assigned to that company but that was less than what he paid for it

It’s more than he paid. There’s 12 billion of debt you’re not accounting for.

New comment by NotYourLawyer in "Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account"

NotYourLawyer — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 00:10:18 +0000

Windows 7 was legitimately pretty good. It’s been downhill ever since.

Clough42: What I Learned from 300 Hours with the Bambu Lab H2D 3D Printer [video]

NotYourLawyer — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 18:52:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCXL7N9NNq8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43508800

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by NotYourLawyer in "In Jail Without a Lawyer: How a Texas Town Fails Poor Defendants"

NotYourLawyer — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 13:08:50 +0000

An 800 page lawsuit full of conspiracy theories? Sounds legit.

New comment by NotYourLawyer in "Shift-to-Middle Array: A Faster Alternative to Std:Deque?"

NotYourLawyer — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 18:40:26 +0000

Middle out?

New comment by NotYourLawyer in "‘Bluey’s World’: How a Cute Aussie Puppy Became a Juggernaut"

NotYourLawyer — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 22:57:32 +0000

They don’t on streaming. I’m always having to google it.

New comment by NotYourLawyer in "The FBI Seized This Woman's Life Savings–Without Telling Her Why"

NotYourLawyer — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 10:53:03 +0000

Civil asset forfeiture needs to go.

New comment by NotYourLawyer in "SoftBank Group to Acquire Ampere Computing for 6.5B"

NotYourLawyer — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 22:51:49 +0000

Puts on Masa.

New comment by NotYourLawyer in "The Internet Slum: is abandoning the Internet the next big thing? (2004)"

NotYourLawyer — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 03:17:14 +0000

I hadn’t heard that he died, sad.

New comment by NotYourLawyer in "Volkswagen's cheapest EV ever is the first to use Rivian software"

NotYourLawyer — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 23:37:27 +0000

I’m kidding. Slightly.

New comment by NotYourLawyer in "Volkswagen's cheapest EV ever is the first to use Rivian software"

NotYourLawyer — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 19:23:11 +0000

You can’t buy them in the US though. They might as well not exist.

New comment by NotYourLawyer in "Amazon to kill off local Alexa processing, all voice requests shipped to cloud"

NotYourLawyer — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 19:20:43 +0000

It’s useful only to let big tech companies listen in to everything that happens in your home.

New comment by NotYourLawyer in "Amazon to kill off local Alexa processing, all voice requests shipped to cloud"

NotYourLawyer — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 19:03:38 +0000

Ehhh but I just bought one of the M4 Mac minis. And it’s pretty nice.

New comment by NotYourLawyer in "Amazon to kill off local Alexa processing, all voice requests shipped to cloud"

NotYourLawyer — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 18:58:43 +0000

It’s almost enough to make me try Linux on the desktop again.

New comment by NotYourLawyer in "Amazon to kill off local Alexa processing, all voice requests shipped to cloud"

NotYourLawyer — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 18:58:18 +0000

Throw your wiretap in the garbage where it belongs.

New comment by NotYourLawyer in "When Oregon blew up a whale with 20 cases of dynamite (2024)"

NotYourLawyer — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 15:42:37 +0000

I bet it would burn just fine. Lots of blubber.

New comment by NotYourLawyer in "Occupry your next lease to negotiate a better deal"

NotYourLawyer — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 01:39:54 +0000

I can’t really explain why (there’s no L!) but the name struck me the same way for some reason.

New comment by NotYourLawyer in "Undergraduate Disproves 40-Year-Old Conjecture, Invents New Kind of Hash Table"

NotYourLawyer — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 19:11:22 +0000

Ok.

Look, I’m not saying the cranks should be dragged out back and shot, just that they are a net negative.

New comment by NotYourLawyer in "Undergraduate Disproves 40-Year-Old Conjecture, Invents New Kind of Hash Table"

NotYourLawyer — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 16:10:34 +0000

Sending them manuscripts, publishing nonsense on the arxiv, reducing the overall SNR of research.

New comment by NotYourLawyer in "Undergraduate Disproves 40-Year-Old Conjecture, Invents New Kind of Hash Table"

NotYourLawyer — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 15:49:56 +0000

It matters because they waste the time of serious researchers.