Hacker News: dessimus

New comment by dessimus in "A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS"

dessimus — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 21:24:00 +0000

Just think how sullied whitehouse.com has become due to the current occupier of whitehouse.gov.

New comment by dessimus in "All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen"

dessimus — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:37:54 +0000

I'm going to assume that commenter is referring to 'black crime rates' claiming that they make up 13% of the population while claiming that 85% of crime or some segment like violent crime is committed by them.

New comment by dessimus in "All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen"

dessimus — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:57:43 +0000

It might be deleted at the PD, does not mean it wasn't uploaded to Flock DCs for metadata analysis and retained there.

New comment by dessimus in "Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences"

dessimus — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:20:41 +0000

Hollywood is ready to run the gamut of cocaine-fueled fauna.

New comment by dessimus in "Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days"

dessimus — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:25:48 +0000

Web devs aren't forced to deal with accessibility either, unless they choose to work with or for an entity that requires it. No one is coming for your self-hosted blog because its not ADA-compliant.

But if you want every restaurant to be forced into labeling, you will see the small restaurants claim all the allergens are used and they cannot protect against cross contamination.

New comment by dessimus in "BMW Is Showing Commercials on Their Car's Dash Screens as a Treat"

dessimus — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:54:06 +0000

BMW: The Ultimate Advertising Machine

New comment by dessimus in "Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick"

dessimus — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:42:51 +0000

Our government chooses to not punish those companies. Unfortunately, the lawmakers have decided that the donations to their PACs are more important than actually doing something about it.

New comment by dessimus in "Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party"

dessimus — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 22:42:22 +0000

Post your domain and we can see if that is still the case in a few days.

New comment by dessimus in "Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for command and lunar modules"

dessimus — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:14:15 +0000

And miss the chance to rewrite it in Rust?! How dare you, good sir!

New comment by dessimus in "Amid nurse shortage, a university rolls out the welcome mat for men"

dessimus — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:00:18 +0000

The issue for doctors isn't medical school but the bottleneck is residency slots available post graduation.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12256077/

New comment by dessimus in "Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July"

dessimus — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:09:43 +0000

We couldn't get people to wear masks to reduce the spread and help keep beds open for all the other typical needs, why would they let harm from fireworks impede them?

New comment by dessimus in "This is my attempt to get Vulkan going on NetBSD"

dessimus — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:15:41 +0000

BitTorrent transfers files, so should a BT client be bolted on too? Typically the Unix philosophy has been do one thing well, not do all the things.

New comment by dessimus in "This is my attempt to get Vulkan going on NetBSD"

dessimus — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:18:30 +0000

Sure, if those functions added were related to configuring network interfaces, but it would be odd if someone added functions for configuring storage controllers.

New comment by dessimus in "WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996)"

dessimus — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 09:36:01 +0000

He could have finished the series long before the Game of Thrones adaptation was in full swing, much less the general availability of LLMs. I think the HBO money made him care a lot less about ASoIaF mainline and went back to editing Wild Cards and other projects.

New comment by dessimus in "LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach"

dessimus — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:45:04 +0000

Security Best Practices change all the time. Failing to implement MFA because "it takes time and energy" and "besides we implemented 12 character, complex passwords years ago" will not be valid excuses for government regulators when they come knocking.

New comment by dessimus in "I built a GPU back end for Emacs"

dessimus — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:27:44 +0000

Did you read the article to the end? It does bring speed ups for high resolution, like 4K. It's at more conventional laptop display sizes that its roughly on-par with, but the GPU scales better with pixel count.

New comment by dessimus in "Ford rehires 350 engineers after AI fails to preserve expertise or train juniors"

dessimus — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:28:12 +0000

It's not like those consultants recommended something the CEO and Board didn't want to hear. They are paid to be the shield that blocks the arrows from shareholders. If they can get paid twice, once to recommend laying off 350 engineers and again to later recommend refilling 350 engineers all the better.

New comment by dessimus in "GTA 6 will cost $80"

dessimus — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 10:56:54 +0000

A game that I get bored of in 20 hours versus a game I sink 200 hours into have provided different levels of entertainment value.

Even for books, a book that one enjoys reading so much that they return to multiple times is providing more entertainment value than one read once and given away.

New comment by dessimus in "GTA 6 will cost $80"

dessimus — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 02:13:55 +0000

Another way to consider it is to think of it in terms of entertainment value. The average movie runtime in the US is 114 minutes or 1.9 hours, and the average movie ticket is $11.50. This means I'm paying on average ~$6.05/hr to see a movie. Taking the cost of GTA at $80, then you would only need to play for ~13.2 hours to break even compared to watching movies in the theater. But if I played 100 hours, then I paid $0.80/hr to play the game.

New comment by dessimus in "Alan Greenspan has died"

dessimus — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 07:29:59 +0000

>Prices should get cheaper. That's a progress dividend. We get better at growing food every year, why shouldn't food get cheaper?

This can only really happen if the rate of efficiency gains consistently out pace resource and labor costs, such that the marginal cost of delivering produce to market is flat or decreases for the farmer over time.