Hacker News: eddof13

New comment by eddof13 in "Grok 4.5"

eddof13 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 01:57:54 +0000

nice try fbi

New comment by eddof13 in "Grok 4.5"

eddof13 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:33:09 +0000

Claude literally today just reprimanded me on my personal account and refused a request due to political bias- and so I decided to cancel and subscribe to Grok. SuperGrok performed the task no issue.

New comment by eddof13 in "Almighty Lisp: Lisp and Emacs Essentials Book"

eddof13 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:56:12 +0000

very nice though I am old fashioned and would like a hard copy option

New comment by eddof13 in "MacBook Neo"

eddof13 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:01:20 +0000

that's a wild price point for a mac, impressive

New comment by eddof13 in "OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub"

eddof13 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:57:06 +0000

I'm tempted not to use it to control everything, but install it on my mac and give it access to keyboard maestro macros and that's it

New comment by eddof13 in "The Last Drops of Mexico City"

eddof13 — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 17:12:34 +0000

Been in Mexico almost 7 years- it's common knowledge, you don't drink the tap water, ever. The destitute who can't afford bottled water might be the exception.

New comment by eddof13 in "Game Boy Advance Architecture – A Practical Analysis"

eddof13 — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 19:25:52 +0000

adjacent perhaps but I am looking forward to this book https://nostarch.com/game-boy-coding-adventure

New comment by eddof13 in "Sharks test positive for cocaine in waters off Brazilian coast"

eddof13 — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 16:55:38 +0000

cocaine shark was the obvious sequel

New comment by eddof13 in "Tech firms must tame toxic algorithms to protect children online"

eddof13 — Wed, 08 May 2024 17:59:01 +0000

No. The parents are responsible for their children, not tech firms or anyone else.

New comment by eddof13 in "Wine 9.5 (Dev) – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS"

eddof13 — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 16:03:18 +0000

I don't use it but it's one of the few projects I have followed the change log fairly religiously for many years (others being Slackware and MAME which I also rarely use)

New comment by eddof13 in "Meta outage"

eddof13 — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 16:41:42 +0000

Google was acting up for me as well, so that could be

New comment by eddof13 in "Senior Boeing employee on why he won't fly a MAX: Just Get me Off This Plane"

eddof13 — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 20:11:33 +0000

flying is not safer than driving- unless you drive 500 miles with 150 other people every time you get in the car- statistics are massaged, and I think risk of accident per journey is better (and is higher in flying)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18439872

New comment by eddof13 in "104-year-old woman dies days after making a skydive that put her in the record"

eddof13 — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 15:45:51 +0000

If I was 104 I would have just made the dive without a chute and gone out that way

New comment by eddof13 in "Pilots abort landings at SFO after spotting plane in their path"

eddof13 — Thu, 25 May 2023 22:11:08 +0000

I was on a plane during an aborted landing over the weekend, I think the 2nd/3rd I've experienced. I always assume death will occur shortly after but it hasn't yet.

New comment by eddof13 in "Eggspensive"

eddof13 — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 17:56:36 +0000

I'll have you know in Mexico my eggs are still $1.50 or less a dozen

New comment by eddof13 in "Lean pork has 34 % less cholesterol than skinless chicken"

eddof13 — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 16:40:41 +0000

Was about to say- dietary cholesterol doesn't matter! Eat those eggs folks

New comment by eddof13 in "Apple to allow outside app stores in overhaul spurred by EU laws"

eddof13 — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 21:12:37 +0000

Come on Telegram uncensored!

New comment by eddof13 in "Edward Snowden gets Russian passport"

eddof13 — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 19:54:17 +0000

His traitorous nature made official

New comment by eddof13 in "Beyond Meat is struggling, and the plant-based meat industry worries"

eddof13 — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 17:53:14 +0000

I wouldn't touch this with a ten foot pole so good riddance

New comment by eddof13 in "Meal kit giant, HelloFresh, accused of using monkey labor to source coconut milk"

eddof13 — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 19:18:48 +0000

I don't have any problem with giving monkeys a job, but it does appear they were abused in this case