Hacker News: Zircom

New comment by Zircom in "HP trialed mandatory 15-minute support call wait times (2025)"

Zircom — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:54:37 +0000

Average Handle Time actually

New comment by Zircom in "A Social Filesystem"

Zircom — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 18:20:51 +0000

https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/atproto

New comment by Zircom in "Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context"

Zircom — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 15:13:07 +0000

That was his point lol, if someone is saying it'll happen in 5 years, triple that for a real estimate.

New comment by Zircom in "VPN signups from UK surge 1400% after Online Safety Act goes into effect"

Zircom — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 18:02:47 +0000

It's less the people of the UK have chosen this and more of general apathy towards the state of the world today. The lack of unity and mobilization of the proletariat class to secure our rightful share of the productivity gains of recent decades has left us in a terrible bargaining position, and technology these days is such a huge force multiplier that it feels hopeless to go against governments, and to a lesser extent the huge corporations and elites that influence them (or totally control, according to some). Sometimes I wonder if we've already crossed the point of no return and that they've won and just nobody realizes it yet, and we're doomed to descend into some flavor of corporate dystopian hellhole future.

New comment by Zircom in "Programming vehicles in games"

Zircom — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 01:14:21 +0000

Fun game, have you considered allowing people to control the sliders with their scroll wheel if they're on a desktop web browser?

New comment by Zircom in "The Italian towns selling houses for €1"

Zircom — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 15:54:09 +0000

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Here's a few

New comment by Zircom in "Domains I Love"

Zircom — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 22:16:30 +0000

I've always wanted zir.com but had to settle for notzir.com

New comment by Zircom in "It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System"

Zircom — Tue, 20 May 2025 04:50:49 +0000

Yes but dedicating the same amount of time as kids or young adults do to school while also working full-time as an adult is exhausting. I washed out on my first go at college, and going back several years later took me 6 years to finish what was 4 semesters of credits back when I wasnt having to work 40 hours a week AND squeeze in classes when I can at night or early morning.

New comment by Zircom in "Bridge to Nowhere"

Zircom — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 22:38:15 +0000

Universal Paperclips, it's a clicker game where the only object of the game is to make your count of paper clips go as high as possible. With that in mind I'm sure you can reason out his intent now.

New comment by Zircom in "My first game with Carimbo, my homemade engine"

Zircom — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 18:42:40 +0000

Maybe re-assess if a game engine is needed for your use case? A slot machine doesn't really need a whole ass game engine, you could do it with pretty much any graphics library.

New comment by Zircom in "I Made a Rubbish Clock"

Zircom — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 17:23:30 +0000

Most American towns have one pickup day for both recycling and trash, and only one type of recycling anyways. Kind of unnecessary to print hundreds of thousands just to mark Tuesday or Friday every week on them.

New comment by Zircom in "Anime is eating the world"

Zircom — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 20:32:12 +0000

Calling FSN a porno because it has sex scenes is like calling Wolf of Wall Street a porno just because it has sex scenes. It's extremely reductive and entirely inaccurate. There's like literally 3 or 4 h-scenes in the entire novel, and collectively they all probably make up less than a few percent of the text/screentime.

New comment by Zircom in "Reports of the death of dental cavities are greatly exaggerated"

Zircom — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:01:03 +0000

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B06XK6XJBP?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_...

Bought just this past Sunday and delivered this morning, had zero issues finding and ordering it :)

New comment by Zircom in "The wild,winding world of New York City's legal (& not-so-legal) cannabis market"

Zircom — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 00:26:18 +0000

Your judgemental attitude is definitely a part of the problem because while you may be 'accepting' others that share your actual opinion aren't. Do you also think people that take anxiety medication are wasting their life? People that take sleep medication? People that take ADD medication? People that take pain medication? People that have a drink after work to relax? People that drink socially to have a good time?

New comment by Zircom in "Why are Texas interchanges so tall?"

Zircom — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 03:26:07 +0000

My partner got me this shirt and I love wearing it, not because of any sort of state pride just because I think it's absurdly hilarious.

https://hivemill.com/products/smbc-texas-shirt

New comment by Zircom in "Why are Texas interchanges so tall?"

Zircom — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 20:13:11 +0000

The 75 lane your talking about is actually an HOV lane, not an express one. And I appreciate that it exits off the highway for exactly one reason and it's that it makes it so incredibly easy for the cops to setup their checkpoints to catch single people using the HOV lane without screwing over the rest of the traffic on the highway. Love to see it.

New comment by Zircom in "The guidance system and computer of the Minuteman III nuclear missile"

Zircom — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 22:56:37 +0000

I mean it's a nuclear missile, millimeter accuracy isn't really necessary. Somewhere in the general vicinity is good enough for it's purpose of going boom.

New comment by Zircom in "There Is No Antimemetics Division (2018)"

Zircom — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 13:45:31 +0000

Reach out to me via email on my profile, I have an ebook version of Worm and Ward(the sequel) I'd be happy to share.

New comment by Zircom in "Aster shootdown over Sydney in 1955"

Zircom — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 20:20:35 +0000

Literally all they're saying is 'fuck' and 'holy shit', it's not like they're dropping racial slurs or anything.

If you're that sensitive to this mild of profanity you probably shouldn't be on the fucking internet in the first place my friend.

New comment by Zircom in "Dmv.org"

Zircom — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 12:10:54 +0000

Tax office has to be in your county yes, which makes sense because you're registering your vehicle with the county you live in so it has to be one of their tax offices, but you can go to any DPS for drivers license stuff. We regularly use a specific DPS office in the next county over that's in small town about an hour away, and so much quicker to get things done there even accounting for the extra time driving out there.