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New comment by TylerE in "Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s"

TylerE — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 22:27:50 +0000

Why make a recreational activity "risky" when it has zero reason to be?

New comment by TylerE in "Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge"

TylerE — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:37:37 +0000

To be fair in many cases the actual clothes aren't much better. I've had two pair of the same pants, same brand, same size fit noticeably differently.

New comment by TylerE in "Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls"

TylerE — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:51:33 +0000

It's not something for you to not like. Many of us that have visual deficiencies and have that setting turned on for a reason.

New comment by TylerE in "Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s"

TylerE — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 06:55:39 +0000

Was looking for this comment.

While I'm not really defending the markup of the commercial system, you're not so much paying for the system as you are paying to have someone to call when it breaks, ready spares inventory that can be overnighted, etc).

New comment by TylerE in "Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s"

TylerE — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 06:41:55 +0000

A little bit of leather isn't really gonna help much there either.

New comment by TylerE in "Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s"

TylerE — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 06:38:30 +0000

That sounds quite hazardous to anyone who happens to be epileptic.

New comment by TylerE in "Bananas sprout in Rayleigh Garden UK after 15 years"

TylerE — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 06:13:26 +0000

Similarly, all apple varieties are propagated like this.

Apple cultivars are not genetic. If you plant seeds, you're going to get some random apples, which probably aren't very good. The cultivars are all produced via cuttings.

New comment by TylerE in "Kaiser nurses say AI, surveillance are making their jobs and patient care worse"

TylerE — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 05:50:36 +0000

If you're more or less healthy they're fine. When things start to go sideways my experience is that they get out of their depth pretty quick.

New comment by TylerE in "Painting the sides of railroad rails white to reduce derailment"

TylerE — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 01:56:08 +0000

Airlines killed passenger rail, not freight. Prior to it all being rolled into Amtrak virtually every railroad was losing money on passenger service.

New comment by TylerE in "Texas wins court order to suspend domain name for violating age-verification law"

TylerE — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:50:02 +0000

No more than the government of France is the EU government.

New comment by TylerE in "How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues"

TylerE — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 07:52:08 +0000

Efficiency is never worthless in a world where resources (if nothing else, labor) are not infinite.

New comment by TylerE in "How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues"

TylerE — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 05:30:13 +0000

Survivorship bias in action.

New comment by TylerE in "How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues"

TylerE — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 05:29:19 +0000

The thing is, we're actually pretty crappy at knowing what we'll need 50 years from now, much less 500. Doesn't make sense to overbuild for an unknown future, when hundred years from now us will likely be able to do a far better job anyway.

New comment by TylerE in "Theo de Raadt: "You've been smoking something mind altering" (2007)"

TylerE — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 17:47:20 +0000

I mean, Torvalds has called basically every person on earth an asshole at some point, hasn’t he? He’s the opposite of being sparing with critisicism, and frankly has historically often used his bully pulpit to do it.

New comment by TylerE in "New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices"

TylerE — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:26:52 +0000

A big one I’ve been seeing a lot lately is advertising annual subscriptions as monthly rates. It isn’t $12/month subscription if I have to pay $120 in a lump sum up front. The actual monthly rate is often basically double what they’re advertising.

New comment by TylerE in "In Emacs, everything looks like a service"

TylerE — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:10:48 +0000

Taken a look at the job market lately? Unless you’re like the top 1% (which most people aren’t), it’s extremely bleak.

New comment by TylerE in "In Emacs, everything looks like a service"

TylerE — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:11:29 +0000

To build? Sure.

To run? Absolutely not.

New comment by TylerE in "The classifiers Anthropic puts in front of Fable are too zealous"

TylerE — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:03:49 +0000

Feels like a distinction without a difference. What is any intelligence but a sum of its knowledge?

New comment by TylerE in "TabFont – guitar tabs rendered as you type"

TylerE — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:57:36 +0000

Um, how exactly does that even tangentially relate to my point?

New comment by TylerE in "TabFont – guitar tabs rendered as you type"

TylerE — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:19:13 +0000

Yeah, as a guitarist this is hideously non-standard. Definition of change for the sake of change.