Hacker News: barryrandall

New comment by barryrandall in "Rootless Pings in Rust"

barryrandall — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 15:56:51 +0000

Python's ping3 package also encodes this knowledge in LLM-accessible form.

New comment by barryrandall in "Two Amazon delivery drones crash into crane in commercial area of Tolleson, AZ"

barryrandall — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 14:03:17 +0000

I'm not looking forward to _that_ CAPTCHA.

New comment by barryrandall in "Starbucks in Korea asks customers to stop bringing in printers/desktop computers"

barryrandall — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 14:22:48 +0000

Then they'd have two problems: people camping out in the stores and managing thousands of printers.

New comment by barryrandall in "A 2030 Morning Routine"

barryrandall — Fri, 23 May 2025 14:44:27 +0000

Because enough people will pay $200 for a "premium" HDMI cable, that a market for premium HDMI cables exists.

New comment by barryrandall in "Technical analysis of the Signal clone used by Trump officials"

barryrandall — Mon, 05 May 2025 13:54:15 +0000

It's not a person in the chat, it's an account. The account is usually controlled by the person associated with it, but you can't assume that it's always controlled by that person.

New comment by barryrandall in "The missteps that led to a fatal plane crash at Reagan National Airport"

barryrandall — Thu, 01 May 2025 13:35:55 +0000

All the more reason the elected need to experience it.

New comment by barryrandall in "Google Play sees 47% decline in apps since start of last year"

barryrandall — Thu, 01 May 2025 13:17:07 +0000

One could assume that the previous priority was "grow the app catalog through the use of a permissive listing model," and it's changed to "improve the quality of the app catalog by being more selective about who and what is allowed to be listed."

New comment by barryrandall in "We need more optimistic science fiction"

barryrandall — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 14:29:24 +0000

Please note that this isn't a call for investments or request for startups.

New comment by barryrandall in "How to win an argument with a toddler"

barryrandall — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 14:44:09 +0000

Never present an option you wouldn't want to live with. The internet teaches us that what "nobody should ever do" isn't obvious to everyone all the time.

New comment by barryrandall in "Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi"

barryrandall — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 13:52:37 +0000

IIRC, nerds were the primary drivers of the search engine wars.

New comment by barryrandall in "The long-awaited Friend Compound laws in California"

barryrandall — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 15:01:41 +0000

How many of these would it take to drive down property values in a neighborhood?

New comment by barryrandall in "Palantir suggests 'common operating system' for UK govt data"

barryrandall — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 13:24:18 +0000

Policy is a political issue.

New comment by barryrandall in "Why is Hacker News still keep this hard-to-use UI and has such poor readability?"

barryrandall — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 19:11:58 +0000

But for modernity's sake, the site needs to add 100 MB of poorly-understood and maintained JavaScript dependencies that break the behavior you're describing so that it can be done entirely in JS.

New comment by barryrandall in "PG&E asks to raise rates for California customers so it can pay investors more"

barryrandall — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:00:17 +0000

Someone has to pay, but there's no requirement that someone gets to take a percentage as profit.

New comment by barryrandall in "The Road Not Taken Is Guaranteed Minimum Income"

barryrandall — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:39:47 +0000

What's the percentage?

New comment by barryrandall in "Volkswagen's cheapest EV ever is the first to use Rivian software"

barryrandall — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 13:54:22 +0000

"We have inferred that you need to learn more about Florzipan+ by Pajoobi."

New comment by barryrandall in "Nomars: No Manning Required Ship"

barryrandall — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 13:38:46 +0000

I'd be very surprised if there's not at least a debug port onboard.

New comment by barryrandall in "Apple M3 Ultra"

barryrandall — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 16:29:49 +0000

Sure, but FreeBSD also has a Linux compatability layer. For a company that's given up on the server market so many times, making MacOS compatible with _THE_ server OS makes a lot of sense.

New comment by barryrandall in "Dust from car brakes more harmful than exhaust, study finds"

barryrandall — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:08:17 +0000

Not if you're breathing through your mouth. Inhaled asthma medication has about the same consistency as brake dust.

New comment by barryrandall in "Open source maintainers are feeling the squeeze"

barryrandall — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 14:44:25 +0000

It's either that, or Enterprise Linux vendors will start buying out struggling maintainers in order to make future updates subscriber-only.