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New comment by grosswait in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

grosswait — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:08:04 +0000

You could use network link conditioner to artificially limit, or one of the apps that can enforce per app limits such as tripmode

New comment by grosswait in "MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production"

grosswait — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:40:00 +0000

Was that side by side comparison with all the security cruft running, because this is totally contrary to my experience with both sets of hardware managed by IT.

New comment by grosswait in "AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study"

grosswait — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:13:56 +0000

He who makes the rules…..makes the rules.

New comment by grosswait in "Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection"

grosswait — Fri, 29 May 2026 11:04:55 +0000

Please stop spreading misinformation. Neither assertion is remotely true. Affinity groups naturally form in an organization when enough are present, and this applies to all peoples and cultures. It doesn’t mean there is some mandate from some authority.

New comment by grosswait in "FreeBSD Foundation executive director tries daily driving FreeBSD on laptop"

grosswait — Sun, 24 May 2026 17:46:16 +0000

I think you’re the one focusing on gender.

New comment by grosswait in "The seed oil panic is hurting my cardiac patients"

grosswait — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:16:18 +0000

I appreciate the warning and it says to me this is an annoying read.

New comment by grosswait in "Mycorrhizal Fungi, Nature's Key to Plant Survival and Success"

grosswait — Sat, 23 May 2026 14:02:47 +0000

I’ve come across this YouTube channel and found it interesting. But only as a lay person. I’d be interested if your partner found this content credible. https://youtube.com/@soilworksllc-gsrcalcium

New comment by grosswait in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

grosswait — Sat, 23 May 2026 13:10:18 +0000

And I will stop assuming that people know what the word fascist actually means

New comment by grosswait in "News outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism"

grosswait — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:07:15 +0000

This sounds like the beginning of a story where the next odd thing is your family and friends don’t know who you are, and know one has ever heard of you.

New comment by grosswait in "Linux security mailing list 'almost unmanageable'"

grosswait — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:08:28 +0000

Will clicking on this link download a 26MB message putting extra load on archive.org's servers?

New comment by grosswait in "Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels"

grosswait — Mon, 18 May 2026 11:34:09 +0000

Economics. No one lives 150 years, so why pay for someone else’s roof when you’ll be making payments for so long.

New comment by grosswait in "Nearly 50 Years Later, WKRP in Cincinnati Becomes a Real Radio Station"

grosswait — Sat, 16 May 2026 16:55:45 +0000

Even their footprints look like a dinosaur track

New comment by grosswait in "Tesla Wall Connector bootloader bypasses the firmware downgrade ratchet"

grosswait — Fri, 15 May 2026 12:23:25 +0000

I don’t think the mobile charger allows more than 32A continuous over NEMA, even on a 50A receptacle

New comment by grosswait in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

grosswait — Fri, 15 May 2026 12:11:01 +0000

This might be historically accurate, but no longer to represent the present state IMO

New comment by grosswait in "MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble"

grosswait — Thu, 14 May 2026 11:56:04 +0000

One is a four letter set of characters without a vowel, the other spells a word with 5 letters. And so what?

I’ll add on that the change to Apple silicon was an amazing improvement, even in the same OS version. Maybe these anecdotes mean your experience in this regard is dated. (I say this as someone who came reluctantly to Mac, and looks forward to returning to Linux)

New comment by grosswait in "Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract"

grosswait — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:29:40 +0000

? They are a Chinese company

New comment by grosswait in "Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE"

grosswait — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:22:58 +0000

That is indeed interesting!

New comment by grosswait in "Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE"

grosswait — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:21:47 +0000

Maybe. Depends on context, and in this case the context means, no I do not mean GNU/Linux

New comment by grosswait in "CUDA-oxide: Nvidia's official Rust to CUDA compiler"

grosswait — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:17:17 +0000

Orange Reddit. Unfortunately that rings a little too true these days. Hopefully a stage that reverts at some point.

New comment by grosswait in "Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?"

grosswait — Sun, 10 May 2026 13:22:32 +0000

Hard to verify self-employment