Hacker News: clintfred

New comment by clintfred in "CIA suddenly stops publishing, removes archives of The World Factbook"

clintfred — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:31:09 +0000

Facts are the enemy.

I remember reading books like 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 as a teen thinking, "Cool story, but the US will never look like that." Oof.

New comment by clintfred in "Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support"

clintfred — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 18:14:46 +0000

With limited resources, sometimes practicality needs to win. Kudos to Bruce for putting aside his (valid) feelings on the subject and doing what is best for the team and community overall.

New comment by clintfred in "uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store"

clintfred — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 20:04:28 +0000

I can't get ticketmaster to work reliably on Firefox. I guess it thinks I'm a bot. I can use Chrome on the same computer and book tickets just fine.

One crap product forcing me to use another crap product! ;)

New comment by clintfred in "Electric car batteries last longer than expected (study) – ecomento.de"

clintfred — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 21:44:20 +0000

I don't think I realized that ICE engines had this kind of degradation. What causes this? Seals and parts loosening as they break in? Some loss of efficiency in the fuel mixing/burning process?

New comment by clintfred in "Electric car batteries last longer than expected (study) – ecomento.de"

clintfred — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 20:35:44 +0000

Using Firefox's built-in translation...

> The key results: In the first approximately 30,000 kilometres, the loss of capacity is accelerated, and the so-called state of health (soH) drops relatively quickly from 100 to around 95 percent. With increasing mileage, real degradation decreases. According to the Electrive portal, Aviloo data from the 7,000 vehicles showed a (average) SoH of around 90 percent at 100,000 kilometres. According to this, the trendline is almost horizontal, between 200,000 and 300,000 kilometres, it is almost stable – and is well above the 70 to 80 percent of the battery guarantee. In fact, it is rather 87 percent.

New comment by clintfred in "Tech jobs are mired in a recession"

clintfred — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 22:18:55 +0000

https://archive.is/zZETf

New comment by clintfred in "Why is it so hard to go back to the moon?"

clintfred — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 16:46:49 +0000

I love this perspective! Exploration has probably never "made sense", has it?

New comment by clintfred in "Why is it so hard to go back to the moon?"

clintfred — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 16:44:44 +0000

I'm interested in learning more about your perspective that there's no science left to be done on the moon.

Do you think establishing a human base on the moon has value?

New comment by clintfred in "Translating All C to Rust (TRACTOR)"

clintfred — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 22:33:20 +0000

Even if just all the unsafe areas were marked, wouldn't that be valuable? At least it would focus review efforts on the parts with the most risk?

New comment by clintfred in "ICQ will stop working from June 26"

clintfred — Fri, 24 May 2024 18:15:21 +0000

1657721. Yeah. Why do I remember this 25+ years later. I guess you did have to tell someone else the number so they could find you. Maybe that's it?

New comment by clintfred in "How photos were transmitted by wire in the 1930s"

clintfred — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 19:12:42 +0000

I think the video said it was a neon bulb, which reacted "fast enough".

New comment by clintfred in "AI behavior guardrails should be public"

clintfred — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 20:40:25 +0000

Human's obsession with race is so weird, and now we're projecting that on AIs.

New comment by clintfred in "The likelihood of unilateral solar geoengineering"

clintfred — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 19:49:41 +0000

And somehow, in the US at least, we don't even have broad agreement that climate change is real, happening, and will dramatically adversely affect humans for centuries to come.

Anyone have any good resources or techniques for having honest discussions with friends and family that simply refuse to believe a problem even exists? Real solutions will only come once we admit there's a problem.

New comment by clintfred in "The likelihood of unilateral solar geoengineering"

clintfred — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 19:46:02 +0000

This is a really interesting idea to me, honestly. Someone would have to do some modeling, but I'm guessing that amount being emitted would be low enough to not dramatically cool the Northern Hemisphere (where most of the air traffic is) and messing up some weather patterns. The author stresses several times in TFA that sulfur emissions should be done at the equator to have an equal, global effect.

New comment by clintfred in "Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice"

clintfred — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 20:16:19 +0000

Would you be willing to share the one you ended up getting?

New comment by clintfred in "The highest-resolution photos of snowflakes (2021)"

clintfred — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 22:39:51 +0000

Maybe they are? Has this been tested?

New comment by clintfred in "Murder is a pixel art ECS game engine in C#"

clintfred — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 17:21:34 +0000

Not sure if I'm supposed to laugh, groan, or shake my head. Nicely played, sir!

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

clintfred — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 21:57:11 +0000

But their point is that your comment doesn't have anything to do with what the article is talking about. TVs having picture settings have nothing to do with connecting it to the network.

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

clintfred — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 21:55:31 +0000

I don't necessarily disagree, but this article doesn't talk about any of that. It's talk about picture setting, like motion smoothing, dynamic range, local dimming, etc.

New comment by clintfred in "Getting my library cards onto my phone the hard way"

clintfred — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 19:01:18 +0000

That's amazing. Truly. I'm assuming you're on iPhone. Anyone know if there is a way to do this in Android?