Hacker News: doobiedowner

New comment by doobiedowner in "German AI consortium releases Soofi S, an open 30B model that tops benchmarks"

doobiedowner — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:07:38 +0000

How can we get these things to fight each other for sport? Real battle bots

New comment by doobiedowner in "Guide to data tools landscape for developers"

doobiedowner — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:48:39 +0000

What about PI?

New comment by doobiedowner in "Footage Shows Cop Stalking Woman After Surveilling Her with a LPR"

doobiedowner — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:13:27 +0000

Because republicans continue to fight each other over how much they can lick authority boot. Gone are the days of fiscal conservatives or small government… no sir they are all on board for locking this place down.

New comment by doobiedowner in "The bottleneck might be the air in the room"

doobiedowner — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 11:37:15 +0000

You put one CO2 sensor in the return air duct and tie it to outside air control.

New comment by doobiedowner in ""An AI Job Apocalypse?" – Goldman Sachs Report [pdf]"

doobiedowner — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 01:29:55 +0000

Pid control was supposed to allow people that rotate valves to magically transform into software configurators. That never happened. Those people turned into janitors and an automated solution became a capital project. The janitorial staff gets fired in the end.

New comment by doobiedowner in "Hengefinder"

doobiedowner — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:22:32 +0000

Oh this post again. Kind of made sense to repost it on the solstice, but why again and again and now?

New comment by doobiedowner in "Wit, unker, Git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy"

doobiedowner — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:52:38 +0000

Whoppers junior

New comment by doobiedowner in "In 6 violent encounters, evidence contradicts immigration officials' narratives"

doobiedowner — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:19:47 +0000

You send in the Calvary to get this straw Juan of yours, you don’t sick them on the state of Minnesota

New comment by doobiedowner in "In 6 violent encounters, evidence contradicts immigration officials' narratives"

doobiedowner — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:12:24 +0000

If that’s your rationale for soft pedaling shock troops attacking American citizens, yes deeply flawed.

New comment by doobiedowner in "Hellenistic War-Elephants and the Use of Alcohol Before Battle"

doobiedowner — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 22:58:24 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_pink_elephants

New comment by doobiedowner in "Flock Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure 53 Times"

doobiedowner — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 22:01:24 +0000

You can eat shit. A private investigator has a specific target and a specific complaint. The topic, blanket surveillance by a private company does not have either. Again, eat shit. Shame on you apologizing for this behavior.

New comment by doobiedowner in "XKeyscore"

doobiedowner — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:50:25 +0000

How do they not have much to lose? They are the ones that have their users on a subscription basis.

New comment by doobiedowner in "XKeyscore"

doobiedowner — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:24:17 +0000

Wasn’t room 641A just the NSA strong arming At&T to facilitate full take collection?

New comment by doobiedowner in "PixiEditor 2.0 – A FOSS universal 2D graphics editor"

doobiedowner — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 16:16:19 +0000

As a guy that tries to make the lame ui in FactoryTalk sparkle, thank you!!!

New comment by doobiedowner in "Arduino PLC IDE"

doobiedowner — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 21:22:40 +0000

How is procurement process with Beckhoff? I am tempted to make the jump from mostly AB.

New comment by doobiedowner in "Arduino PLC IDE"

doobiedowner — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 21:18:45 +0000

Sure, call. Do a back and forth with calls and emails for two days with their sales guy to make sure they got it right. Spending five to six figures. 5-15% of order shows up incorrect.

When you go to try another distributor: No, you're in crappy vendor's territory. So, sorry!

Waiting for that invisible hand of the free market to step in...

New comment by doobiedowner in "Arduino PLC IDE"

doobiedowner — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 21:10:10 +0000

Cheap and reliable goods. Free software. Great prices. Decent Docs.

Best of all, no middle men distributors to dick around with. It is so easy to buy their stuff compared to almost all other controls hardware.

New comment by doobiedowner in "Nathan Tolbert pushes the limitations of new games on old consoles"

doobiedowner — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 22:42:44 +0000

I see "pre-order" and "shipping winter '23"... :(

New comment by doobiedowner in "Engineer Used Water Pump to Get $1B Stuxnet Malware into Iranian Nuclear Plant"

doobiedowner — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 00:48:09 +0000

Hacked VFD firmware makes the most sense to me. The PLC/PAC is giving a reference of xx Hz, the hacked VFD overrides the speed reference to destroy the centrifuge but reports back that everything is tickety-boo.

New comment by doobiedowner in "Pixel 8 Pro"

doobiedowner — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 23:03:35 +0000

Just switched my work phone to a flip phone. Fuck smart phones. My life and job aren't that important for immediate email updates.

I've got automated SMS texts for critical alarms. if something else is burning down, someone will call.

I miss email on my phone, but it just makes me use the phone for what it is for: Talking