Hacker News: Shawnj2

New comment by Shawnj2 in "Gemma 4 on iPhone"

Shawnj2 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:27:54 +0000

Depends on the phone, I have trouble fitting models into memory on my iPhone 13 before iOS kills the app. I imagine newer phones with more RAM don’t have this issue especially with some new flagship phones having 16+ GB of memory

New comment by Shawnj2 in "Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth"

Shawnj2 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 02:17:22 +0000

I’ve always heard this term in use from a defense contractor

New comment by Shawnj2 in "Lisbon Airport is turning away private jets inbound for the Web Summit"

Shawnj2 — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 23:08:15 +0000

Maybe you could also have ChatGPT book a hotel for you too at that point

New comment by Shawnj2 in "Ask HN: Windows/Linux software that has no real equivalent on macOS?"

Shawnj2 — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 21:35:22 +0000

Yeah one example is you can’t run Altium on macOS. You can run eagle which is similar but not the same thing as altium and has no compatibility with it.

New comment by Shawnj2 in "Python Software Foundation gets a donor surge after rejecting federal grant"

Shawnj2 — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 20:57:46 +0000

By accepting the grant they are giving themselves a legal responsibility to “not do DEI” where the government arbitrarily decides what DEI is. Even something like employing a trans software engineer or talking about the impact Python is having in POC communities could be considered reason to go after PSF legally or rescind the grant. It’s just not worth the risk for the reward.

New comment by Shawnj2 in "Two new PebbleOS watches"

Shawnj2 — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 08:15:30 +0000

It's not the worst but the original Pebble Time Steel looks better IMO. I understand why they used a simpler case design (They don't have the resources to make anything like the PTS) but I still like the PTS design more. Maybe someone will come out with a custom case or something idk

New comment by Shawnj2 in "Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening"

Shawnj2 — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 06:38:26 +0000

I mean night workers also don’t get to do other traditional evening events like go to a concert or bar so this doesn’t bother me. Night workers in nearby time zones would be able to use it either before or after their shift depending on their location

New comment by Shawnj2 in "Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening"

Shawnj2 — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 03:31:02 +0000

Sure but Nextdoor is still a huge business trying to reach the widest possible audience of local areas. Something limited by if you’re awake when it’s up is different IMO

New comment by Shawnj2 in "Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening"

Shawnj2 — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 02:23:27 +0000

I kind of like the idea of a regional social media app which literally doesn’t work in other parts of the world. It makes the space a little more special than something trying to reach everyone IMO

New comment by Shawnj2 in "Tesla sales in Europe down 45% in January"

Shawnj2 — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 08:46:07 +0000

Trump has a long history of falling out with his political allies. Will the trump musk alliance last 4 years? Who knows.

New comment by Shawnj2 in "Reverse-engineering and analysis of SanDisk High Endurance microSDXC card (2020)"

Shawnj2 — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 14:39:40 +0000

Considering SSD prices have crashed it’s the only way to go IMO, it solves literally all of the problems with other iptions like power draw for hard drives and longevity and speed over flash drives

New comment by Shawnj2 in "GM exits robotaxi market, will bring Cruise operations in house"

Shawnj2 — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 16:50:32 +0000

There’s other big changes like the current model 3 has a heat pump and the 2018 one doesn’t

New comment by Shawnj2 in "GM exits robotaxi market, will bring Cruise operations in house"

Shawnj2 — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 22:14:08 +0000

Not like that but an ICE car from 2018 and 2023 are basically the same while a 2023 EV is massively more efficient than a 2018 one.

New comment by Shawnj2 in "GM exits robotaxi market, will bring Cruise operations in house"

Shawnj2 — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 22:12:36 +0000

The biggest one I can think of is really stupid actually which is a NACS port and proper supercharger network access for any non Tesla (and I personally would recommend against buying a Tesla for build quality and lack of repairability). Either way ICE cars are basically about as good as they can get while EV’s have a ton of room for improvement

New comment by Shawnj2 in "GM exits robotaxi market, will bring Cruise operations in house"

Shawnj2 — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 22:09:58 +0000

Accessible taxis already exist and are probably better for elderly people since they have a drive to help you get in and out of the taxi

New comment by Shawnj2 in "GM exits robotaxi market, will bring Cruise operations in house"

Shawnj2 — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 09:26:26 +0000

I actually think robotaxis will never really catch on widely in the US outside of big cities or maybe very poor people with no other option or misc use cases like if you own a car and drop it off at the dealership or if you’re out with friends and want to go home early. Most of the US is designed for you to own a car and drive it everywhere, just because cars can drive themselves now isn’t going to make self driving taxis more convenient than driving yourself without changes to how cities are already set up. Eg if you use a taxi you have to drag all your stuff with you and it’s less convenient if you live in a place where parking is effectively guaranteed. I think it will displace the existing app based taxi market and regular taxis by offering lower prices but greed will prevent companies from pricing them low enough for them to truly get people to stop driving personal vehicles. They’re really going to do well in parts of the world where taxis are already very popular because parking is limited or expensive like Singapore, Japan, China, and Europe.

New comment by Shawnj2 in "GM exits robotaxi market, will bring Cruise operations in house"

Shawnj2 — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 09:18:22 +0000

I mean Waymo already has competitors, Uber, Lyft, and regular taxis. Right now Uber and Lyft are typically strategically priced to be slightly cheaper than taxis are but I think Uber has enough margin to cut costs to compete with Waymo as they enter more markets, and Waymo needs to get people on board to make robotaxis a real thing people use and to offset their dev costs.

New comment by Shawnj2 in "GM exits robotaxi market, will bring Cruise operations in house"

Shawnj2 — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 09:13:42 +0000

As long as your old cars are like Toyota corolla/camry’s and not like giant gas guzzling SUV’s or trucks keeping them on the road is better than buying a new EV IMO. I think the current EV gen is kind of doomed because of the fact the next EV gen is going to have massive QOL features the current one doesn’t and waiting for a more compelling car is worth doing IMO

New comment by Shawnj2 in "It's time to replace TCP in the datacenter (2023)"

Shawnj2 — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 01:33:48 +0000

Obvious answer is to run something on top of UDP like QUIC does

New comment by Shawnj2 in "Trends in Cars that Could be Affecting Toyota's Legendary Reliability"

Shawnj2 — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 17:39:51 +0000

Also worth noting that all of the Toyota trucks are way less reliable than their other cars because truck fans are pretty adamant about having the best technology and being able to do everything possible ever in their truck so they update the drivetrain more consistently and there’s more failures and issues. Other Toyotas are more reliable on average