Hacker News: charlieo88

New comment by charlieo88 in "Michael Keating has died"

charlieo88 — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:47:36 +0000

That was my first thought.

New comment by charlieo88 in "Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting"

charlieo88 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:58:13 +0000

assuming it flips, and you aren't locked into that age bracket for the duration of your OS

New comment by charlieo88 in "CO2 batteries that store grid energy take off globally"

charlieo88 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:30:00 +0000

Is this sarcasm?

New comment by charlieo88 in "Laptops with Stickers"

charlieo88 — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 15:25:48 +0000

Back in the day, a coworker would replace the "Intel Inside" on his computer with a sticker using a similar style that read "Evil Inside".

New comment by charlieo88 in "F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash"

charlieo88 — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 19:17:56 +0000

dang, I was looking forward to reading about the same F150 CarPlay and MS Teams being available in f35.

New comment by charlieo88 in "Burner Phone 101"

charlieo88 — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 01:08:19 +0000

"If you're going to keep your phone in a bag of potato chips, then keep your phone in a bag of potato chips" --Terminator: Dark Fate (2019) Carl the T800.

New comment by charlieo88 in "Equal Earth – Political Wall Map (2018)"

charlieo88 — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 18:51:45 +0000

This.

Bonus, it helps make clear what is wrong with many flat-earthers assertions.

New comment by charlieo88 in "Nukes, Nubs And Coners: The Social Hierarchy Aboard A Nuclear Submarine (2020)"

charlieo88 — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 17:11:36 +0000

I grew up watching Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea... those guys were always needing to break out the small arms. Apparently lots of rowdy sea critters looking to get in the boat.

New comment by charlieo88 in "USPTO refuses Tesla Robotaxi trademark as "merely descriptive""

charlieo88 — Fri, 09 May 2025 15:22:37 +0000

Should have gone with the "Johnny Cab".

How did a Schwarzenegger movie from 1990 do a better job of naming a robot taxi than Tesla?

New comment by charlieo88 in "A Tour Inside the IBM Z17"

charlieo88 — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 16:59:24 +0000

How much does it cost? I'm just curious. No, I don't want to book a meeting to "discuss" it.

New comment by charlieo88 in "Technical Mathematics (1954) [pdf]"

charlieo88 — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 13:15:32 +0000

From the PDF - "The scanned pages in this file were extracted from the text and only deal with math operations being solved using the slide rule."

New comment by charlieo88 in "Republican Congressman Introduces Bill Seeking Abolishment of OSHA"

charlieo88 — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 14:12:19 +0000

Seems that five minutes ago, this was on the top of the front page. Now it's not in the top 90 entries. Maybe gone altogether.

New comment by charlieo88 in "79 Percent of CEOs Say Remote Work Will Be Dead in 3 Years or Less"

charlieo88 — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 13:02:10 +0000

That's why they published "79 Percent of CEOs", to provide cover. If we knew WHO they were specifically, well that might a great list of stocks to short.

New comment by charlieo88 in "Octopuses seen hunting together with fish, punching those that don't cooperate"

charlieo88 — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 14:46:27 +0000

...and buried in this discussion of octopus management technique, we find the TRUE reason behind the wave of return to office requirements

New comment by charlieo88 in "Human genome stored on 'everlasting' memory crystal"

charlieo88 — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 16:48:09 +0000

Worse than that, by count, only a minority of the cells using a person's DNA make up that person. The number of other cells are 10x, but being smaller, only make up 1% to 3% by mass. https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-human-micr...

New comment by charlieo88 in "Human brain organoid bioprocessors now available to rent for $500 per month"

charlieo88 — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 13:31:03 +0000

How do you think they should determine the threshold of consciousness?

New comment by charlieo88 in "My new PSU burns out – I fix it, and torture it by cracking water"

charlieo88 — Tue, 28 May 2024 13:08:06 +0000

Right? The best you can do it test a sampling of fuse from a batch, to there failure point, which destroys the fuse.

New comment by charlieo88 in "My new PSU burns out – I fix it, and torture it by cracking water"

charlieo88 — Mon, 27 May 2024 15:37:00 +0000

Terminally.

New comment by charlieo88 in "North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs"

charlieo88 — Sun, 05 May 2024 14:37:53 +0000

As someone with an apostrophe in my name, it has been my experience whenever I come across this sort of thing, you can be sure the project is crap.

New comment by charlieo88 in "Australian Federal Police would repeat undercover operation on autistic teenager"

charlieo88 — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 14:39:45 +0000

That leads to an interesting question. Sure this kid is what, 13? What happens when he is a young adult, 20 years old? You can't make an IQ test for allowing access to the internet, a license as it were.