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New comment by boredinstapanda in "32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building"

boredinstapanda — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:49:41 +0000

Man, I remember my first 8MB cost over $400.

New comment by boredinstapanda in "Fire for You"

boredinstapanda — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:44:23 +0000

This seems apropos given the currentstate if AI in society.

'“A tool.” Most tools come with safeguards or clear consequences for their misuse: GenAI has neither.'

Fire for You

boredinstapanda — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:44:23 +0000

Article URL: https://portsherry.com/comic/fire-for-you/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48290568

Points: 1

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New comment by boredinstapanda in "What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard"

boredinstapanda — Tue, 26 May 2026 02:40:53 +0000

You might see if he would be OK with a flag on a stick attached to the back wheel.

New comment by boredinstapanda in "Niche Museums"

boredinstapanda — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:57:43 +0000

I really liked the American Precision Museum in Windsor, Vermont when I went to visit. https://americanprecision.org/

New comment by boredinstapanda in "I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens"

boredinstapanda — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 00:21:02 +0000

Seeing his description about the early visits when he was a child reminded me of the City Museum in St Louis.

Kid sized interactive art museum. A place I wish were around when I was grade school age.

New comment by boredinstapanda in "Building a DOOM-like multiplayer shooter in pure SQL"

boredinstapanda — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 23:43:39 +0000

Reminds me of the text mode Doom before the ASCII mode video drivers.

I couldn't find the site after a quick search,maybe the wayback machine.

New comment by boredinstapanda in "Printing metal on glass with lasers [video]"

boredinstapanda — Fri, 30 May 2025 15:20:54 +0000

Seems similar to vapor deposition, though probably it looks like particles rather than vaporization.

New comment by boredinstapanda in "Show HN: We open-sourced our compost monitoring tech"

boredinstapanda — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 03:20:25 +0000

Do you know if anyone is writing a HomeAssistant integration for this?

New comment by boredinstapanda in "Seven things I wish I would not hear as an autist"

boredinstapanda — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 06:38:59 +0000

Be careful he doesn't burn out. I did pretty early on because it took me a lot more effort to get some things done.

New comment by boredinstapanda in "Obsolete Command-Line Tools of Linux"

boredinstapanda — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 11:38:11 +0000

I also am an avid screen user. There are a number of places where I need a serial console and TMUX basically says "we will not support serial connections ever".

screen is way better than the alternatives for what I want. I never got minicom to work as smoothly as screen. It's just so clunky.

New comment by boredinstapanda in "The brutal business practices of Amazon"

boredinstapanda — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 18:33:09 +0000

That seems to reason. Unless you buy all your stuff at Walmart online, you have to go in and see the people working and their working conditions.

Amazon, you only see the checkout page. It makes it much easier to ignore the problems.

New comment by boredinstapanda in "Nicole Oresme"

boredinstapanda — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 22:03:52 +0000

I guess they're not talking about Quantum Vibe webcomic: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/QuantumVib...

New comment by boredinstapanda in "There has never been a better time to game on Linux"

boredinstapanda — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 20:18:03 +0000

One thing I didn't see mentioned here (or the article) that I discovered recently is the "Heroic" game launcher that works in Linux. It lets you start and run GOG and Epic games on Linux. GOG has some Linux stuff, but Epic is allergic to anything but Windows.

It looks like Heroic sets up your wine environment for each game.

I've only installed one game from that, but it seems to work pretty well. Very slick too.

New comment by boredinstapanda in "Switch off bad TV settings"

boredinstapanda — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 02:33:56 +0000

It's a shame no one makes a control board for TV screens like you can often find for old screens like from digital photo frames.

New comment by boredinstapanda in "The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think (2016)"

boredinstapanda — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 15:13:03 +0000

I really think that while, interfaces are less complex these days, they're much more inscrutable, especially with the advent of flat interfaces. You can't tell what's a control or action item or not anymore.