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New comment by dylan604 in "Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons"

dylan604 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 03:00:12 +0000

Commutation and Pardon are not the same thing though. If she was commuted the first time, she couldn't have been "pardoned again" as you state.

Commutation is ending any punishment for a conviction, but the conviction stands. A pardon wipes out the conviction.

New comment by dylan604 in "Every plane you see in the sky – you can now follow it from the cockpit in 3D"

dylan604 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 02:22:43 +0000

Exit Cockpit disabled; No parachutes available

New comment by dylan604 in "DOJ wants to scrap Watergate-era rule that makes presidential records public"

dylan604 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:48:25 +0000

This Congress? Flex? Against this POTUS? Not going to happen.

New comment by dylan604 in "Combining spicy foods with mint boosts anti-inflammatory effects 100x or more"

dylan604 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:25:57 +0000

It is funny how that is the thing people turn to rather than just eating food. Let me eat junk and be happy while taking supplements.

New comment by dylan604 in "DOJ wants to scrap Watergate-era rule that makes presidential records public"

dylan604 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:08:47 +0000

And then pardoned by Trump

New comment by dylan604 in "White House staff told not to place bets on prediction markets"

dylan604 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:25:29 +0000

I'm sure every POTUS has at one point thought it would be great if they could dictate what congress does

New comment by dylan604 in "Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead"

dylan604 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:01:42 +0000

> Even then, 90% of the time was watching local/broadcast networks via cable

that was pretty much the point of cable being invented. the other networks just jumped on the bandwagon in a "if you build it" situation

New comment by dylan604 in "Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers"

dylan604 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:38:52 +0000

I didn't really think that any of what I wrote would be taken seriously to the point of needing a retort. I mentioned blade servers and knew rack unit measurements which as context clues would have suggested I was familiar with actual data center equipment.

New comment by dylan604 in "Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers"

dylan604 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:03:17 +0000

If the battery in the laptop is still good, it comes with it's own UPS. My MBPs haven't had an ethernet port in a minute, so do you have to supply your own adapters as well??? You could fit ~15 MBPs on their edge in 9RUs. That'd be an interesting looking rack. Not quite a blade chassis. It'd be rather boring looking as there's no blinky-blinkies

New comment by dylan604 in "Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead"

dylan604 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:22:51 +0000

Dallas had the Mr Peppermint Show that was syndicated to a few places around the country.

By the time the Saturday morning cartoons were gone, there were 24/7 channels for cartoons and kid's entertainment.

New comment by dylan604 in "Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead"

dylan604 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:00:43 +0000

Not quite the same though. If you picked up a dud from Blockbuster, it's no big as it was a cheap rental. For music, you had to buy it and then be stuck with it if you didn't like it. There was no music rental business. A lot of that has been forgotten because most people didn't buy it.

Even the Fiona Apples of the world had duds on their albums. Most albums had a few choice tracks and then filler. This is why so many people were happy for the $0.99 per track of the tracks you wanted instead of the $19.99 for the full album with songs you will forever hit skip.

New comment by dylan604 in "Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead"

dylan604 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:06:47 +0000

As they say, you get what you pay for.

New comment by dylan604 in "Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead"

dylan604 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:06:10 +0000

I have programmed well over hundreds of DVDs, and I can assure you, there were finicky players. Apex players were infamous on how cheap they were, and finicky is an appropriate word. DVD had a spec, and there were parts of the spec that Apex players did not do well at all. The spec allowed for random play. Apex players cheaped out on an PRNG type of ability and came with a saved preset list of random values. If you programmed a disc with random playback, it would playback exactly the same way every. single. time. It really sucked when we were programming games using the random feature. The spec allowed for 99 titles. Any where over 50 titles, and there was a better than not chance that an Apex player wasn't going to even recognize the disc. There were other quirks too, but I'm hoping the point was made

New comment by dylan604 in "Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead"

dylan604 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:59:32 +0000

> "we have access to everything all the time"

I remember when there were 3 networks. I remember when those networks stopped broadcasting content around midnight by playing the national anthem and then playing bars or just going off the air. I used to think the concept of UHF is kind of lost, but then realized it's kind of just what YouTube has become-weird, random, wacky content produced by just about anybody that can hit record on a camera.

New comment by dylan604 in "Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead"

dylan604 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:54:35 +0000

You'll be looking really really hard.

For those unawares at the humor attempt:

https://www.ign.com/articles/redbox-officially-shutting-down

New comment by dylan604 in "Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead"

dylan604 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:52:04 +0000

The amount of trash released to VHS during the heyday of Blockbuster is something most people forget about. Most people browsed along the walls for the new releases, but all of those shelves in the middle of the store were full of straight to home video releases that were really really not good. Think Hallmark channel content but with even less talent. Think Troma again, with less talent. Think Jack Black recreating movies bad, but without meaning to be that bad

New comment by dylan604 in "Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead"

dylan604 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:49:09 +0000

meh. it's 10 seconds out of your day. it's kind of a silly thing to bitch about

New comment by dylan604 in "Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead"

dylan604 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:48:18 +0000

I pulled out an old working PS3 just for this. It's the only thing in my house that plays shiny round discs

New comment by dylan604 in "Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead"

dylan604 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:47:37 +0000

> I've searched for data on how often people do this

I've just started doing this late last year. I'm down to one active service at a time. I heard of it from someone else, so that's at least +2 to your tally

New comment by dylan604 in "Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead"

dylan604 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:44:57 +0000

I was paying for Prime, and then they introduced ads. They started comingling their video content just like their warehouses so you'd get AVOD content with your premium VOD content so it made picking something ad free very difficult. They started with "Included with Prime" labels for the ad free stuff, but then that label started showing ads. I stopped watching so many shows at the first ad break and never returned. It made me finally cancel Prime.