Hacker News: autoexecbat

New comment by autoexecbat in "Microsoft disguises Bing as Google to fool inattentive searchers"

autoexecbat — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 21:47:08 +0000

Agreed that the Bing brand has to go, but I think they should use their normal naming schemes, something like "Microsoft Azure Cloud Search Pro 2025 SP1"

New comment by autoexecbat in "New H1-B Rule by Homeland Security"

autoexecbat — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 17:38:40 +0000

I hope it says that they remain above 50%

New comment by autoexecbat in "The Rise of Bluesky"

autoexecbat — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 20:38:06 +0000

All that really matters is: where do the advertisers choose to put their dollars

New comment by autoexecbat in "The Rise of Bluesky"

autoexecbat — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 20:29:53 +0000

Why not? These all come and go, it could be Twitter's time to go. MySpace became irrelevant, Facebook is near-irrelevant.

New comment by autoexecbat in "How oxide cuts data center power consumption in half"

autoexecbat — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 20:53:10 +0000

and Windows used to be certified for posix, but none of that matters theses days if it's not bug-compatible with Linux

New comment by autoexecbat in "Only buy a magnetic keyboard for gaming"

autoexecbat — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 18:44:30 +0000

They should put the numpad on the left side then, people can learn to hit numbers with left hand, I used to do this with a dedicated usb numpad

New comment by autoexecbat in "New Calculation Finds we are close to the Kessler Syndrome [video]"

autoexecbat — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 22:02:18 +0000

> upper stages designed to explode into a thousand pieces at the target altitude

By this do you mean at the 800km altitude?

New comment by autoexecbat in "DeepComputing: Early Access Program for RISC-V Mainboard for Framework Laptop 13"

autoexecbat — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 23:54:01 +0000

I really wish these CPUs had the Vector extension

New comment by autoexecbat in "The future of software is Nix"

autoexecbat — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 18:20:34 +0000

Is there a good book that describes everything we need to know?

New comment by autoexecbat in "Singapore OKs 4,300km subsea cable for importing electricity from Australia"

autoexecbat — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 22:19:38 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia-Asia_Power_Link#/med...

New comment by autoexecbat in "Intel and AMD form advisory group to reshape x86 ISA"

autoexecbat — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 18:36:42 +0000

Give us some riscv instruction decoders on the x86 cpus, let us pick per-process what ISA we use

New comment by autoexecbat in "Fukushima Reactor: TEPCO robot aims to extract nuclear fuel"

autoexecbat — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 19:29:51 +0000

They don't have to pay for it all this year

New comment by autoexecbat in "I made $1M in 67 days during Covid"

autoexecbat — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 22:50:32 +0000

Its shiny

New comment by autoexecbat in "AOC Proposes $30B Public Investment in Affordable Housing"

autoexecbat — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 16:37:54 +0000

This implies it doesn't really matter what the corporate tax rates are

But this is testable in reverse, what happens to tax revenue when corporate taxes are cut? The tax revenue goes down.

New comment by autoexecbat in "Intel Clear Linux: 16% more Ryzen 9 9950X performance"

autoexecbat — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 21:02:44 +0000

It's the compilers.

> Clear Linux makes use of compiler function multi versioning, performance-minded defaults, aggressive compiler CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS defaults, optional AVX-512 usage for more libraries, and many other patches and optimizations in the name of delivering the greatest x86_64 Linux performance.

New comment by autoexecbat in "Why won't some people pay for news? (2022)"

autoexecbat — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 21:26:36 +0000

Some countries provide government funded news that is of reasonable quality, for example abc.net.au/news

New comment by autoexecbat in "Keep uBlock Origin in Chrome for another year by enabling Enterprise policy"

autoexecbat — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 17:40:16 +0000

Moving to firefox seems more practical at this point

New comment by autoexecbat in "the US Navy's warship production is in its worst state in 25 years. Why"

autoexecbat — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 22:54:06 +0000

That's just lack of political will to engage and collateral effects on non-combatants.

The carrier group could have stayed in position and inflicted enormous damage in retaliation, but no one wants nukes used

New comment by autoexecbat in "NASA says Boeing Starliner astronauts may fly home on SpaceX in 2025"

autoexecbat — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 23:25:08 +0000

I hope they just cut their losses and sell the program to Blue Origin, they're a deep pocketed company who'd love to say they have an orbital vehicle

New comment by autoexecbat in "Show HN: Play with an interactive heatmap of SF crime (and other cities)"

autoexecbat — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 17:30:16 +0000

It is somewhat surprising actually. Presumably if there's an actual hotspot that police would be ever-present in the area until it dilutes out