Hacker News: cjrp

New comment by cjrp in "NTSB Preliminary Report: Prime Air 767 Runway Overrun [pdf]"

cjrp — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 08:44:52 +0000

Speed brakes can be deployed manually I think.

New comment by cjrp in "Show HN: Trader News – Hacker News for Finance"

cjrp — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:44:56 +0000

Increase in traffic has broken the site

New comment by cjrp in "Two-tier encryption in the UK"

cjrp — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:40:22 +0000

How many of those 30 are unarguably "bad" posts though? Threats of violence and so forth.

New comment by cjrp in "Apple Music to open concert venue in Battersea Power Station"

cjrp — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 06:37:27 +0000

Presumably they’re putting it there because their corporate office is in the power station too.

New comment by cjrp in "The addiction of online sports gambling: "Like crack in the '80s""

cjrp — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 09:40:41 +0000

The industry can't survive on people who see it as harmless fun, that's the problem.

New comment by cjrp in "Saving Jet Fuel"

cjrp — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:50:10 +0000

Virgin Atlantic trialled this at Heathrow in 2006[0]. It looks like it didn't gain traction because the airport would need to be resigned to support it, and the landing gear might have been damaged by so much towing.

[0] https://simpleflying.com/throwback-virgin-atlantics-fuel-sav...

New comment by cjrp in "Recreating Voodoo Graphics and a Late-1990s Gaming PC on an FPGA"

cjrp — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:24:52 +0000

I remember exactly that feeling; I had a cricket game where my PC met the minimum specs, but it ran terribly. That's the day I learned that minimum is not enough.

New comment by cjrp in "Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger"

cjrp — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:20:50 +0000

BA (and presumably other airlines) run fear-of-flying courses where you have some ground sessions with flight crew explaining what happens during takeoff/landing, what noises you might hear, etc. Then you go up for a short flight as a passenger to sort of re-enforce what you learned earlier.

https://flyingwithconfidence.com/

New comment by cjrp in "US diesel hits record $6 a gallon on Iran supply shock"

cjrp — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:12:50 +0000

And countries that import goods. If you supply chain needs diesel, you're going to be paying more.

New comment by cjrp in "We built our house for LAN parties (2024)"

cjrp — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:35:38 +0000

Rahhhhmmmssss apparently!

New comment by cjrp in "We built our house for LAN parties (2024)"

cjrp — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 09:04:47 +0000

We stayed in a hotel in Reims, France which had them. Controlled by a remote, and when they were down they completely blacked out the room too. Awesome.

New comment by cjrp in "I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked"

cjrp — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:39:20 +0000

787s too https://www.theregister.com/software/2020/04/02/boeing-787s-...

New comment by cjrp in "“It works better in the app”"

cjrp — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:00:05 +0000

Do they require it though? I've used a few, but it's always been a convenience thing to use the NFC-scanning app; the alternative is just typing in the details manually.

New comment by cjrp in "Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal"

cjrp — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:47:06 +0000

For me it's slightly more convenient than manually entering CC details, but still less convenient than Apple/Google Pay where that's supported.

New comment by cjrp in "Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media"

cjrp — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:22:14 +0000

Ditto in the UK.

New comment by cjrp in "European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple"

cjrp — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:14:38 +0000

I didn't say it would be decent, just that it might make financial sense.

New comment by cjrp in "European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple"

cjrp — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:30:33 +0000

> building a worse version of AWS just so that it is "European" makes no financial sense

Unless it becomes necessary because of EU regulation?

New comment by cjrp in "The Boeing 747 begins its final descent"

cjrp — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:34:01 +0000

More likely United I'd say

New comment by cjrp in "5k menus from the New York Public Library’s Buttolph Collection (1880-1920)"

cjrp — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 09:15:44 +0000

Funny to see Marmite on a menu for a (presumably) fancy NYC restaurant https://pudding.cool/2026/06/menu-story/assets/menus/474586....

New comment by cjrp in "Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators"

cjrp — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:08:49 +0000

That's a fair point, it would be more interesting to compare the salary to equivalent, family-owned private companies (although I'm sure most of them don't disclose that sort of thing).