Hacker News: geostupid

New comment by geostupid in "Southwest Headquarters Tour"

geostupid — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:32:42 +0000

Could you kindly elaborate on the "afraid of heights" aspect? Was there a lot of catwalks or anything of that nature?

New comment by geostupid in "TV Garden"

geostupid — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 15:12:02 +0000

This is fantastic! One of my favorite things about traveling is experiencing their media--it gives me that same feeling.

Also, as someone that studied Geography extensively, it's an excellent review in that respect as well. One can quickly jump from one place to another.

Bonus points for using a globe, and not a map!

New comment by geostupid in "Show HN: Stretch My Time Off – An Algorithm to Optimize Your Vacation Days"

geostupid — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 22:36:41 +0000

Most companies don't take all public holidays; this ends up being primarily for Federal workers who do get each of those holidays.

If you make a table of holidays and then check on/off those applicable, then have the algorithm fill back in as needed, that would be helpful.

New comment by geostupid in "The occult technology of the rollercoaster"

geostupid — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 22:23:25 +0000

Exactly; some of these machines have an explicit purpose according to the author: "We feed children into this machine and it spits out teenagers."

New comment by geostupid in "Baron who revived Olympics believed they were a religion of perfection and peace"

geostupid — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 00:13:30 +0000

Fucking troll user profile created five minutes ago. The site is for individuals who would like to engage in respectful discussion based in science. Get your political shit out of here.

New comment by geostupid in "Ask HN: What rabbit hole(s) did you dive into recently?"

geostupid — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 00:30:23 +0000

Did the phrase 'knife fight in a phone booth' still apply to SF politics back then?

New comment by geostupid in "Ask HN: What rabbit hole(s) did you dive into recently?"

geostupid — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 00:21:49 +0000

After the post the last week about the DIY GPS receiver, I decided to get out my RTL-SDR and set it up. Took a couple of days of fiddling around with it, but now I've got SDRtrucking setup. Spent one morning listening to the public safety radio traffic. That was a wild ride on it's own with all sorts of things going on in this metropolitan area.

New comment by geostupid in "The NSA is just days away from taking over the internet"

geostupid — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 14:15:41 +0000

All hail Bentham!

New comment by geostupid in "Show HN: Comprehensive inter-process communication (IPC) toolkit in modern C++"

geostupid — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 06:13:51 +0000

Thank you so much for posting everything that you did. Long-form details are hard to find. In my truest contribution, I suggest you're a pleasure to work with. Rarely have I seen anyone willing to give the deep-digest of their determination and problems with a function. Consider writing more!

EDIT

I didn't see the other posts about brevity. Fuck that. Details matter and so does the human experience. Who hasn't on this site been the unfortunate recipient of trying to get some brilliant but shitty function to work?

New comment by geostupid in "End of an era: Final Delta IV heavy rocket carries NROL-70 on historic mission"

geostupid — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 23:48:51 +0000

Who can't love the commemorative poster as well!!

https://www.nro.gov/Portals/135/Images/Social%20Media%20grap...

New comment by geostupid in "Things Every Hacker Once Knew (2017)"

geostupid — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 22:23:16 +0000

4800bps! Back in my day we were happy to get 2400!

Sadly, I had a 1200 baud; my uncle told me his first was 300.

I remember a 110 setting, which might go all the way back to the '48 Berlin airlift!

New comment by geostupid in "WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight"

geostupid — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 18:02:55 +0000

Ha! I've used a high-end GPS to see my location and other fun facts in flight. I learned to keep it in my pocket as despite my attempts to explain it was only a receiver, I was told by the flight attendant to "PUT IT AWAY." Not being one to push back as to be removed for that flight, I did just that.

Streets and Trips was fun on a laptop for long car drives as you could live reroute in the car much like any old app can do these days but seemed somehow magical back then.

New comment by geostupid in "Visa, Mastercard Prepare to Raise Credit-Card Fees"

geostupid — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 15:24:03 +0000

I hated having to use my 'backup' Mastercard for Costco purchases.

New comment by geostupid in "Unconfirmed video showing potential LK-99 sample exhibiting the Meissner effect"

geostupid — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 13:31:40 +0000

Thanks so much for the link to Polymarket. I haven't seen a prediction site since Intrade.

New comment by geostupid in "A gigantic landslide shows the limit to how high mountains can grow"

geostupid — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 17:16:37 +0000

Love the geologic zoo!

I refer to botanical gardens as 'botanical zoos' as well

New comment by geostupid in "Germany to Rethink Nuclear Shutdown as Energy Crisis Deepens"

geostupid — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 14:59:04 +0000

Appreciate the link to Project Independence. Despite way too many late nights reading about atomic/nuclear history, somehow I missed this one.