Hacker News: bobbean

New comment by bobbean in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

bobbean — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 20:46:44 +0000

Since these speeds are hard to grasp: That's about 416 miles a minute, or 7 miles a second. It traveled a mile in about the time it takes for a person to blink.

New comment by bobbean in "Turns out your coffee addiction may be doing your brain a favor"

bobbean — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 01:53:19 +0000

Try caesar dressing

New comment by bobbean in "Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign"

bobbean — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 04:27:29 +0000

Depends, are they doing something super interesting on their phone?

New comment by bobbean in "Teenager ‘taken to security room and interrogated’ for throwaway ticketing"

bobbean — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 18:37:50 +0000

It's literally not. That's the definition of an interview

New comment by bobbean in "Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement"

bobbean — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 05:38:25 +0000

No one is going to remember this comment 30 seconds after they click away, and this thread will be absorbed into an AI

New comment by bobbean in "Why is desalination so difficult?"

bobbean — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 17:56:36 +0000

I'm not even remotely knowledgeable about this, but I'd assume saltwater would wreck plumbing. The connection in and out would probably be degraded much quicker. Then the water treatment plants would have to deal with dirty salt water, which is probably more difficult.

On top of that all the brine that people produce in their homes would have to be disposed of, and I'm sure many people would just end up flushing it down the drain. So the water treatment plant would have to deal with highly concentrated, contaminated saltwater.

New comment by bobbean in "Honda Monkey Breaks World Record Covering 4,183 Km on Single Tank"

bobbean — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 04:47:03 +0000

https://youtu.be/hAjlV2DdC5o

A bit tangential, but this guy drove from Alaska to Argentina on a c90. It was a few years of sleeping in a tent, some random person's spare bedroom, or the cheapest hotel possible.

New comment by bobbean in "Ask HN: IP cameras that don't require an app or internet?"

bobbean — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 18:45:32 +0000

Would it be possible to use the phone without a battery?

New comment by bobbean in "Update from Lemmy after the Reddit blackout"

bobbean — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 04:07:25 +0000

How hard is it to say "that's not going to work" or "maybe one day" or "that's a good idea". If it's something open and collaborative, maybe someone will see the idea and be willing to implement it. Also, on a separate note, why are you so aggressive and belittling?

New comment by bobbean in "Update from Lemmy after the Reddit blackout"

bobbean — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 03:32:42 +0000

Investing dozens of hours into learning something deeply enough to be able to modify it is a bit silly when someone who already knows what they are doing could probably do the same thing in half an hour.

New comment by bobbean in "Two men got jobs at Amazon just to steal copies of Zelda"

bobbean — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 16:28:12 +0000

Sure, stealing is wrong. But he paid them back for the theft. In Amazon's eyes, they just made a sale. And probably a bit of a laugh over what the kid went through

And before you say anything about losing money from training the kid or turnover or whatever, Amazon's turnover is horrible. They're used to it.

New comment by bobbean in "Two men got jobs at Amazon just to steal copies of Zelda"

bobbean — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 16:10:48 +0000

I'm pretty sure the person you're responding to doesn't have billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of the same copy of a game. Because I'm pretty sure they wouldn't care.

Oh wait, that's exactly what happened.

New comment by bobbean in "California’s population declines, again, as state grapples with housing crisis"

bobbean — Thu, 04 May 2023 14:55:09 +0000

That doesn't make any sense. You really think remote tech jobs are the leading cause of this population decline in a state of 39 million people?

New comment by bobbean in "AT&T Wireless traffic shaping apparently making some websites unusable"

bobbean — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 22:00:29 +0000

But I'll eat until they kick me out. That's how I know I got my moneys worth

New comment by bobbean in "Google Drive does a surprise rollout of file limits, locking out some users"

bobbean — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 06:45:47 +0000

Could you just zip them?

New comment by bobbean in "Unchecked corporate pricing power is a factor in US inflation"

bobbean — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 05:39:24 +0000

I got a 0% raise, at least you got something :/

New comment by bobbean in "Emptying the dishwasher with systems theory"

bobbean — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 02:38:37 +0000

I had a dishwasher at my last place, landlord special and everything. But it was smart, if you did a load of dishes, a little led would turn on saying it's done. The led wouldn't turn back off until the dishwasher was fully closed. So you could open it, be lazy and take a clean fork out, and then close it most of the way, and the clean light would stay on.

New comment by bobbean in "Amazon’s big dreams for Alexa fall short"

bobbean — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 03:40:22 +0000

It only happened twice, for less than 48 hours

New comment by bobbean in "How true is 'Speed Enforced by Aircraft' Sign? (2016)"

bobbean — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 21:51:54 +0000

Always gotta remember the people who have to scrape your body off the ground don't work for free

New comment by bobbean in "Universal Paperclips"

bobbean — Sat, 05 Nov 2022 18:17:01 +0000

I've really been enjoying Leaf Blower Revolution. it's a very long term game. I've been playing it for maybe 2 or 3 months, checking it every day, and I still have a lot to do. To be fair, it slows down A LOT, but it's still fun.