Hacker News: creaturemachine

New comment by creaturemachine in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"

creaturemachine — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:22:17 +0000

ILOVEYOU was in 2000 and behaved that way. I remember we just shut off our Exchange servers until there was a fix. Email was still new enough that the world didn't implode.

New comment by creaturemachine in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"

creaturemachine — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:21:34 +0000

But they dodge taxes, so they're effectively spending it anyway.

New comment by creaturemachine in "EMachines never obsolete PCs: More than a meme"

creaturemachine — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:32:34 +0000

I went as far as sourcing a SCSI drive with a dedicated card just to get results. Fond memories of clicking Burn and slowly backing away from the desk to let it do its thing.

New comment by creaturemachine in "Suburban school district uses license plate readers to verify student residency"

creaturemachine — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:01:41 +0000

I'm in Canada, and I definitely experience winter. My child walks to school. Boots work far better in snow than four tires and a steel box.

New comment by creaturemachine in "Suburban school district uses license plate readers to verify student residency"

creaturemachine — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:12:16 +0000

How and why are license plates being tracked to children? That this is not the most twisted part of the story is insane. Just the fact that driving children to school has become so prevalent that ALPR is an effective tool should raise some questions. Is walkability so far gone in the public consciousness?

New comment by creaturemachine in "“Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server"

creaturemachine — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:22:29 +0000

It's the new .NET

New comment by creaturemachine in "Why isn't LA repaving streets?"

creaturemachine — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:51:47 +0000

Because you need to build a form for concrete, and to build the form after paving means you'd have to cut then patch that new asphalt, which will just end up forming potholes.

New comment by creaturemachine in "Tesla registrations crash 17% in Europe as BEV market surges 14%"

creaturemachine — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:58:08 +0000

They might be happy that they can keep making V8s, but they have to know any future administration could easily outlaw any design that goes too far backwards. Such a car will also not be able to be sold anywhere else in the world. Heck, by the time they design, tool, and produce such a beast it could already be too late.

New comment by creaturemachine in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

creaturemachine — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:00:03 +0000

Did you just create Pied Piper IRL?

New comment by creaturemachine in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

creaturemachine — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:41:07 +0000

This is the state of friendship in the social media age.

New comment by creaturemachine in "London's most controversial cyclist"

creaturemachine — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:37:20 +0000

Fortunately for the people in London and the UK, jaywalking is not illegal.

New comment by creaturemachine in "Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial"

creaturemachine — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:42:33 +0000

I suggest you read The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt. As much as it is damaging to adults, it's much more so to children in early development all the way through puberty.

https://www.anxiousgeneration.com/

New comment by creaturemachine in "Ode to the AA Battery"

creaturemachine — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:41:31 +0000

I've jump-started my share of batteries this way. Such a deep discharge might affect lifespan but it's typically old devices we do this to anyway.

New comment by creaturemachine in "Voyager 1 is about to reach one light-day from Earth"

creaturemachine — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 20:50:17 +0000

The instructions aren't encoded in the grooves, that makes no sense. Rather the schematics are etched on the back sides of the records, and with those you can build the stylus and decode the images.

New comment by creaturemachine in "Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10"

creaturemachine — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:41:49 +0000

Remember folks, the iphone was released in 2007, and the files app in 2017. Cut & paste? Apple didn't give ios a clipboard until 2021.

New comment by creaturemachine in "Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10"

creaturemachine — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 17:51:59 +0000

Ever since the iphone apple has been trying to make you believe files aren't a thing.

New comment by creaturemachine in "What happened with the CIA and The Paris Review?"

creaturemachine — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:55:44 +0000

It's called a French Tuck.

New comment by creaturemachine in "Steam Machine"

creaturemachine — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 18:32:01 +0000

If MS even bothers to make another xbox this is what it will be.

New comment by creaturemachine in "Laptops with Stickers"

creaturemachine — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 15:54:38 +0000

Prior to secret ballots being a thing you would have voted "viva voce" by saying your preference aloud. Violence and intimidation were common.

New comment by creaturemachine in "Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article"

creaturemachine — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 15:25:53 +0000

I've instructed Gemini to never give me the american spellings of words, and to always pronounce Z the proper way. Never give up the fight.