Hacker News: dmsayer

New comment by dmsayer in "The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war"

dmsayer — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:23:05 +0000

Taiwan?

New comment by dmsayer in "Ask HN: What's good for VR these days, free and paid"

dmsayer — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 05:29:13 +0000

I built a sim racing setup slowly over time, and using a VR headset instead of a screen has been a game changer. It's actually fun again. Downside is that I don't think I can ever go back to racing on a regular screen anymore.

New comment by dmsayer in "LG TV's new software update installed MS Copilot, which cannot be deleted"

dmsayer — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 16:57:30 +0000

502 error

New comment by dmsayer in "Subprime Lender PrimaLend Enters Bankruptcy After Bond Default"

dmsayer — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 22:18:25 +0000

"the ASS buying drones,"

care to elaborate on that one for me a little more?

are we even doing phrasing anymore?

New comment by dmsayer in "Fallout from the AWS outage: Smart mattresses go rogue"

dmsayer — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 10:53:33 +0000

i also have questions. was the fridge "smart"-capable prior to the esp32 mods and you just replaced the factory controller with your esp32 stuff, or youre saying you wired in the appropriate circuitry to replace the pressure-controlling thermostat with your esp32 stuff?

New comment by dmsayer in "Experts have it easy (2024)"

dmsayer — Sun, 18 May 2025 19:29:35 +0000

im glad that my answer was an external drive, and is considered correct.

New comment by dmsayer in "US Securities and Exchange Commission beginning to bring on DOGE staff"

dmsayer — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 22:13:53 +0000

thats the thing, "Big Guns", and "SERIOUS money" are the ones pulling the strings to ensure that they make even more profit.

New comment by dmsayer in "$1.4B is a lot to fall through the cracks, even for Tesla"

dmsayer — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 04:07:31 +0000

i am not an accountant either, but this line stuck out to me as quite important to grasp the overall picture of what the article is getting at: "Aggressive classification of operating expenses as investment can be used to artificially boost reported profits."

New comment by dmsayer in "Start a computer club in the place that you live (2023)"

dmsayer — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:31:58 +0000

Southern Indiana, anyone?

probably crickets, but you never know. I even have a space we could use for meetings, my own pizza place.

New comment by dmsayer in "The first mass-produced DRAM of the Soviet Union"

dmsayer — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 04:55:04 +0000

insulated on the underside is my only educated guess.

New comment by dmsayer in "Tell HN: Google's new summarize SMS just read another person's messages to me"

dmsayer — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 18:25:41 +0000

Assistant doesn’t log messages or summaries, and the interactions aren’t used to train the Large Language Model (LLM).

New comment by dmsayer in "The Rabbit R1 is probably running Android and is powered by an Android app"

dmsayer — Thu, 02 May 2024 01:11:44 +0000

what are you implying here? that folding phones are simply a money thing, and have no actual value?

New comment by dmsayer in "Power Metal: is it really about dragons? (2018)"

dmsayer — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 21:32:03 +0000

static-x, especially the older stuff.

New comment by dmsayer in "Chevrolet Blazer EV Left Me Stranded in Rural Virginia"

dmsayer — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 18:47:43 +0000

not only that, it had multiple faults in multiple systems one of which was not even related to charging.