Hacker News: eddieroger

New comment by eddieroger in "Lemonade by AMD: a fast and open source local LLM server using GPU and NPU"

eddieroger — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:33:28 +0000

Do they know who you are? They're the guys who are going to blow your house up ... with the lemons.

New comment by eddieroger in "Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview"

eddieroger — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:13:51 +0000

`ollama serve` and `ollama run`

The devex is great and familiar to folks who have used Docker. Reading through the Lemonade documentation, it seems like a natural migration, but we're talking about two steps for getting started versus just one. So I'd need a reason to make that much change when I'm happy enough with Ollama.

New comment by eddieroger in "I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard"

eddieroger — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:05:48 +0000

I feel very torn between the “make something” or “buy a Slylight” decision, so I’m curious what makes it better in your eyes, so much so that you don’t think it’s worth attempting anymore. I’m struggling to justify a monthly fee for what I perceive is a daily calendar view with chores.

New comment by eddieroger in "I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard"

eddieroger — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:03:20 +0000

There’s nothing stopping both from happening together.

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

eddieroger — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 19:29:13 +0000

Its presence on Hacker News and Reddit tells you that the folks who use Hacker News and Reddit are fed up with the keyboard. Most people don't care. Tech nerds do, and that's not nothing, but it's not necessarily a majority either. No one I know outside of tech brings up the keyboard to me, ever.

New comment by eddieroger in "Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?"

eddieroger — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:06:11 +0000

No it doesn't. I live in a planned neighborhood in the suburbs. I can walk to a branch of my local library, a few restaurants, a bar, a bookstore, I even get my haircut in my neighborhood. And even if none of that existed, nothing has stopped me from being friends with my neighbors, or the parents of my kid's friends. The suburbs are a different model with tradeoffs, but they're also useful for periods and phases of life different from the ones served by urban settings.

New comment by eddieroger in "Many hells of WebDAV"

eddieroger — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:21:41 +0000

I've been playing with a toy app that dabbles in the Cal/CardDAV space, and it blows my mind that for all the power latest generation languages have, the thing I keep coming back to is PHP-based Sabre/DAV. That's not to say PHP isn't modern now, but instead a reflection of my surprise that there doesn't appear to be any other library out there that does as good or nearly as good a job at DAV as that one, and that one is pretty darn old.

On a different point, I don't think the author's point about having to "also" inspect the headers is a fair critique of DAV - HTTP headers are to indicate a certain portion of the request/response, and the body a different one. I wish it was simpler, but I think it's an acceptable round peg in a round hole use of the tools.

New comment by eddieroger in "It's hard to justify Tahoe icons"

eddieroger — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 14:33:40 +0000

It's not only not how you get promoted, it's a pretty good way to get canned as well. If you don't like the work you're being asked to do, your options are pretty limited to doing it or going elsewhere. There are a million UXers and engineers who'd love to work at Apple and would be happy making whatever their boss suggests.

New comment by eddieroger in "Epic celebrates "the end of the Apple Tax" after court win in iOS payments case"

eddieroger — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 16:58:11 +0000

Tim Cook, or any CEO, is accountable to the shareholders, so job well done it seems. It's still the user's choice if they want to live in the walled garden or not, and lots of people do, so why would they change it?

New comment by eddieroger in "Things I want to say to my boss"

eddieroger — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:42:37 +0000

I'm in the middle and lean loyal, but the younger folks probably got it right. There's no more IBM of the 1960s loyalty to be had from the company's perspective, so why not go out and make what you can while you can. No more pensions, not even a gold watch. Look at how often tech sees layoffs - it's not if there's another, it's when.

New comment by eddieroger in "The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora"

eddieroger — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:59:15 +0000

If Disney could throw concepts at their properties like Mickey Mouse Clubhouse or Paw Patrol or any of their other CG shovel content (which my kid loves, of course) and have a new episode every day of the year, they would, and this lets them do that without employing the staff to make that happen. If all it took was a writer to put a pitch together and Sora to turn out an episode, that'd be a steal for $1B.

New comment by eddieroger in "Cloth Simulation"

eddieroger — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:30:58 +0000

I think the little tears were fine, but my expectation of the weight of the cloth wasn't so much that it would start to rip on its own after a certain point. It felt more like a wet dough at a certain point than cloth.

New comment by eddieroger in "BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive"

eddieroger — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:45:16 +0000

If there was a market for those vehicles, they'd exist. The folks you asked either didn't buy them when they had the chance or don't make up enough of the market to justify the truck.

New comment by eddieroger in "BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive"

eddieroger — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:44:12 +0000

Yes, those. Thank you!

New comment by eddieroger in "Covid-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality"

eddieroger — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:58:26 +0000

Frame it as the safety of the vaccine, not the efficacy of it. If it was about efficacy, it would lead with the 25% lower risk because of COVID safety. But, these days, there are people who think vaccines are dangerous just because, so saying that taking the vaccine or not has equal mortality puts that to rest (or at least does for those who find science real).

New comment by eddieroger in "BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive"

eddieroger — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 03:50:41 +0000

I've felt similarly recently, and I think those days are fleeting if not gone. Ford recently talked about replatforming their entire range, which would include basic trucks at more reasonable prices, but there's not really a market for work trucks in the way there used to be, and they're gone in favor of the luxury ones with small beds. It is annoying. There is an interesting startup that I can't remember the name of that touts an 8 foot bed (which is great) in the chassis footprint of a Mini Cooper. I don't think I saw pricing, but I would snatch one of those up.

New comment by eddieroger in "People are using iPad OS features on their iPhones"

eddieroger — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:12:21 +0000

You can have that today. If you get a USB-C breakout for the dock, it'll treat the Moonlander, or any keyboard, like a normal keyboard. You can not destroy your wrists right now, as I sometimes choose to do.

New comment by eddieroger in "The history of Casio watches"

eddieroger — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:47:50 +0000

I had one, too, and in hindsight I regret what an ass I was to the poor substitute teachers who had one job to do for the day and couldn't because I thought it was funny to turn the TV off when they bend down to turn on the VCR.

I also had the one that could do IR messages with other watches, and that was a lot less disruptive and still pretty fun.

New comment by eddieroger in "iPhone Pocket"

eddieroger — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 15:01:27 +0000

There's one data point. I would bet, though, that Apple, Sony and Samsung have plenty more data points of devices that didn't move and thus they stop making smaller devices.

New comment by eddieroger in "OS/2 Warp, PowerPC Edition (2011)"

eddieroger — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 02:33:55 +0000

I'm not sure I agree with "dead end" outside of the benefit of hindsight, or maybe don't get the point you're making. Neither the PowerPC nor OS/2 were dead-end in 1995, and competition in the OS space was still happening. Why wouldn't IBM want to have PowerPC survive, let alone thrive, with OS options? And surely they'd have loved something to take on Microsoft at this point in history.