Hacker News: Synaesthesia

New comment by Synaesthesia in "Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989"

Synaesthesia — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:43:04 +0000

Pentium is a bad processor? It's way faster than 486, especially on FP it's not even close.

New comment by Synaesthesia in "[dead]"

Synaesthesia — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:27:57 +0000

Immediately after the ceasefire Israel attacks hundreds of sites in Lebanon, what the heck is that! We are tired of this bloodshed.

New comment by Synaesthesia in "Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat"

Synaesthesia — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:56:02 +0000

Land-mines, particularly anti-personnel land minds are just horrible weapons. They should be banned.

New comment by Synaesthesia in "Record wind and solar saved UK from gas imports worth £1B in March 2026"

Synaesthesia — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:11:31 +0000

When I was young they talked about a green revolution. Now with low solar panel costs, as well as batteries and inverters we really are living in a green revolution.

New comment by Synaesthesia in "Ubuntu now requires more RAM than Windows 11"

Synaesthesia — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:30:44 +0000

The amount of people still on less than 8gb of memory is really small.

New comment by Synaesthesia in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"

Synaesthesia — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:11:00 +0000

Ricing = making your linux desktop look pretty. arch = a 'techy' flavour of linux.

New comment by Synaesthesia in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

Synaesthesia — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 06:24:01 +0000

Because as the article explains the US ships cannot even approach the straits due to the threat of anti-ship missiles.

New comment by Synaesthesia in "What major works of literature were written after age of 85? 75? 65?"

Synaesthesia — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:10:39 +0000

It counts more! His novels are mind-blowing. Blood Meridian is unsurpassed IMO

New comment by Synaesthesia in "Spain shuts airspace for US planes involved in Iran war"

Synaesthesia — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:40:26 +0000

I mean have you seen what US colleges cost?

New comment by Synaesthesia in "Spain shuts airspace for US planes involved in Iran war"

Synaesthesia — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:55:17 +0000

Iran was never a threat to NATO. It was posing no threat when the US launched this war. The entire threat is the fault of US aggression.

New comment by Synaesthesia in "Spain shuts airspace for US planes involved in Iran war"

Synaesthesia — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:51:27 +0000

5k is almost free. And yes you pay tax to find universities. Makes sense. Paying full tuition in the USA is like paying a tax, only worse, it's a lot more.

New comment by Synaesthesia in "How Iran is making a mint from the current war"

Synaesthesia — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:48:59 +0000

The big loser in this war is Europe and other roil importing nations.

The US is a major oil and has producer. It's benefiting from this war of aggression and not even taking any damage.

Oil companies and arms manufacturers are having a bonanza.

After the violence wracked 20th century I was hopeful the 21st century would be a bit more enlightened ...

New comment by Synaesthesia in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

Synaesthesia — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:53:46 +0000

Israel is an arm of the US empire. It's a very useful ally of the US in the region. And when I talk about the US here I mean ruling elites.

The US is doing just fine from this war. The US is an oil and gas producer, the largest in the world. So they benefit from rising prices.

I'd say the biggest losers are countries like Europe, and neutral oil importing countries around the world.

New comment by Synaesthesia in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

Synaesthesia — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 06:09:14 +0000

The purpose of the war is to destroy the Axis of Resistance, Iran, Hezbollah and its allies, the only force standing in the way of US/Israeli hegemony in the region.

New comment by Synaesthesia in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

Synaesthesia — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 06:08:39 +0000

He writes that the region is not very important to the USA. It's not, but it is a strategically important area, not only in terms of its location, at the nexus of Asia, Africa and Europe, but also because of the oil there.

Now the US is not dependent on Middle Eastern Oil, but Japan, China and other countries are. So controlling the region will mean a lever of power over those regions.

New comment by Synaesthesia in "Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons"

Synaesthesia — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:36:03 +0000

I don't know, I always see this pattern with iOS or MacOS releases. Everyone piles on at the time.

I've actually quite enjoyed some design changes in Tahoe, and looking at older versions of MacOS just looks old fashioned once you're used to them.

New comment by Synaesthesia in "YouTube is asking users if videos "feel like AI slop""

Synaesthesia — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 08:39:59 +0000

Good because damn, there is some AI slop out there.

New comment by Synaesthesia in "[dead]"

Synaesthesia — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 07:42:29 +0000

And their conduct in Lebanon is just appalling. It constitutes outright terrorism.

They have no right to be there.

New comment by Synaesthesia in "Review: Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra"

Synaesthesia — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 07:29:58 +0000

It's a very impressive phone and will likely be the case that Apple and Samsung dominate western phone sales. But you can get way better phones from China right now with these new silicon carbide batteries which is just a game changer.

New comment by Synaesthesia in "What makes Intel Optane stand out (2023)"

Synaesthesia — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 06:37:37 +0000

I still think it has a lot of potential, and is the logical next storage system, because of its performance advantages over NAND flash. Because input costs can come down.