Hacker News: bandyaboot

New comment by bandyaboot in "What Is Blueskyism?"

bandyaboot — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 16:30:58 +0000

I don’t know, this seems like something to be taken with a grain of salt. Throughout, the post is dripping with personal contempt for the people he’s talking about. It just seems like he’s taking his personal experience with the “blueskyists” pre Bluesky and turning it into something important enough to coin this term “Blueskyism”, without ever making the case that that’s true.

It’s less, “this is an important thing to consider in contemporary, online political discourse”, and more, “I have personal experience with these sorts of people, and let me tell you, they annoy the living piss out of me.” And I have no trouble believing him.

New comment by bandyaboot in "Jimmy kimmel should have strong odds at the Supreme Court"

bandyaboot — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 23:51:46 +0000

Did you even read the piece?

New comment by bandyaboot in "Jimmy kimmel should have strong odds at the Supreme Court"

bandyaboot — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 23:47:49 +0000

The author seems to underestimate this Supreme Court’s willingness to make nakedly partisan rulings.

Edit: oh here we go. Partisan first amendment issues were perfectly fine to discuss here when it was about Twitter. But, different ox being gored now, so we’re going to flag this into oblivion. Absolute frauds.

New comment by bandyaboot in "U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China"

bandyaboot — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 01:21:37 +0000

And now we see them getting main stream networks on a leash.

Edit: Not to mention universities. It’s crazy how quickly civil institutions are being consolidated by the right. They have gone all in and there appears to be insufficient appetite to stop them.

New comment by bandyaboot in "What's New in C# 14: Null-Conditional Assignments"

bandyaboot — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:51:26 +0000

I’m having a hard time imagining where this is useful. If I’m trying to assign to a property, but encounter an intermediate null value in the access chain, just skipping the assignment is almost never going to be what I want to do. I’m going to want to initialize that null value.

New comment by bandyaboot in "Wind turbine blade transportation challenges"

bandyaboot — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 23:46:03 +0000

Ok, hear me out. How powerful of a battery would we need to turn the blades and nacelle into a helicopter?

And just think. Once it arrives on site, you have a big ass grid storage battery to install!

New comment by bandyaboot in "Recession Probability Surges to 93%: UBS"

bandyaboot — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 22:29:36 +0000

Is there one for 2026? I’m guessing if there is you’ll see one trending down while the other is trending up, for obvious reasons.

New comment by bandyaboot in "Should we drain the Everglades?"

bandyaboot — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 22:05:10 +0000

> Hopefully nothing that advances a dystopian fascist agenda, right? Right?

Hey! You can’t say that! That’s wrong speak!

New comment by bandyaboot in "We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness"

bandyaboot — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 14:18:45 +0000

So what is it that you’re saying is keeping younger people from getting out? Just the knowledge that there may be people out in the world with them who are creepily obsessing over their birth rate?

New comment by bandyaboot in "FBI seized $40k from Linda Martin without charging her with a crime"

bandyaboot — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:57:46 +0000

And to add, the lawsuit didn’t lose on its merits, but on lack of jurisdiction.

New comment by bandyaboot in "The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs"

bandyaboot — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 13:49:07 +0000

Get better citizens.

New comment by bandyaboot in "Webb telescope helps refines Hubble constant, suggesting resolution rate debate"

bandyaboot — Sat, 31 May 2025 15:41:09 +0000

This has to be satire.

New comment by bandyaboot in "[dead]"

bandyaboot — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 02:06:13 +0000

There’s a lot I agree with here, but the section pertaining to Ukraine might as well have been written by Vladimir Putin.

New comment by bandyaboot in "CDC Confirms H5N1 Bird Flu Infection in California Child: First Child Case in US"

bandyaboot — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 06:06:02 +0000

While it’s true that setting a new record isn’t unusual, in the case of 2020, the turnout was actually very high even taking into account population growth.

New comment by bandyaboot in "CDC Confirms H5N1 Bird Flu Infection in California Child: First Child Case in US"

bandyaboot — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 01:27:16 +0000

I was referring to the 2020 election.

New comment by bandyaboot in "CDC Confirms H5N1 Bird Flu Infection in California Child: First Child Case in US"

bandyaboot — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 00:11:51 +0000

What low turnout? Both presidential candidates received more votes than anyone had ever received prior to that.

New comment by bandyaboot in "Starship IFT-6 Livestream (liftoff at 4pm CT)"

bandyaboot — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 19:10:14 +0000

The spacex website indicates that it was indeed an automated check of the tower that caused the catch to be scrapped.

New comment by bandyaboot in "Starship IFT-6 Livestream (liftoff at 4pm CT)"

bandyaboot — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 22:33:22 +0000

Whatever it was, it seems more likely that it was a booster issue than anything relating to the tower given that they were initially go for the catch. It was only during the boostback burn that they scrapped it.

New comment by bandyaboot in "The Onion buys Infowars"

bandyaboot — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 04:29:25 +0000

Imagine being such a condescending douche…and an ignorant one to boot.

New comment by bandyaboot in "The Onion buys Infowars"

bandyaboot — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 23:41:18 +0000

You don’t value polling, ok. No use continuing to go back and forth about it. Instead, maybe you’ll feel like responding to one of the other commenters that replied to you about prediction markets…