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New comment by helterskelter in "The vi family"

helterskelter — Wed, 13 May 2026 05:47:45 +0000

If anyone wanted to write a minimal vi-style helix clone they should call it 'ix', as it's derived from helix, gives a nod to 'vi' and a wink at the turning of vi syntax on its head, like rotating a six to make a nine. Then a descendent of 'ix' could be called 'six', and we'll have come full circle.

New comment by helterskelter in "590k buyers paid $59M for Trump's gold phone, but not one has shipped"

helterskelter — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:01:04 +0000

1. "Oh no don't make me more money. Okay if you insist..."

2. Kansas City was 30% black but his audience at that show was almost entirely white. I have a hard time believing none of them could afford a ticket.

3. Yeah which he announced after the public letter from his 11 year-old fan which had a ton of press coveeage saying how it wasn't fair

New comment by helterskelter in "590k buyers paid $59M for Trump's gold phone, but not one has shipped"

helterskelter — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:35:11 +0000

Yeah I dunno, the nose job makes me think it was about more than evening some skin tone. That guy was weird.

New comment by helterskelter in "590k buyers paid $59M for Trump's gold phone, but not one has shipped"

helterskelter — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:01:52 +0000

He's estimated to have made $10-12m in the 80's.

I had some of the details wrong btw, you had to mail in $120 for the chance at 4 tickets, and he only held it for 6-8 weeks. Part of what was so shitty though was that very many of his fans couldn't really afford what was about a months rent but scrapped it together anyways. Maybe it was a poor financial decision on their part, but he took advantage of those people for his own profit, when he didn't even really need the money.

Edit: link from sibling comment:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_Tour_(The_Jacksons)#Ti...

New comment by helterskelter in "590k buyers paid $59M for Trump's gold phone, but not one has shipped"

helterskelter — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:57:22 +0000

Thank you, I was flipping through the book that I read about it in and was having trouble finding it.

New comment by helterskelter in "Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house"

helterskelter — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:00:33 +0000

Hey the military has rules of engagement.

Stick Charts

helterskelter — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:05:51 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Islands_stick_chart

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48086812

Points: 4

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New comment by helterskelter in "I have seen the dystopian future of elderly care"

helterskelter — Sun, 10 May 2026 18:50:55 +0000

Agencies. I ended up doing private hires, which was a little nerve-wracking since I didn't have somebody doing background checks, etc. One of them was a total scammer who I probably should have reported for fraud, but the others ended up being really good and went above and beyond.

New comment by helterskelter in "I have seen the dystopian future of elderly care"

helterskelter — Sun, 10 May 2026 18:05:27 +0000

Not much different than the US, really. I had to hire some at-home care for a relative with brain cancer, and almost all of them were drunk on the job, falling asleep when they were supposed to be monitoring at night, or getting offended at something their patient said, who's mental state resembles that of a psychotic 8 year old. Oh and if you don't lock shit up, some of them will steal.

At a certain point, you fire so many there aren't any left in the area. I moved my relative to another area for unrelated reasons, but it was the same story at the new place too.

There were a few really good ones tbh, but 95% were in private care because nobody else would hire them.

New comment by helterskelter in "Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only)"

helterskelter — Sun, 10 May 2026 07:11:30 +0000

This happened to me with RPN calculators. One day I realized I had way more calculators than I knew what to do with. Original HP's, re-released HP's, SwissMicros, not to mention the accompanying documentation I printed out and had spiral-bound. This all started out because I wanted a FOSS calculator to do some math for another rabbit hole I was down. Next thing I knew, I was getting excited about the life you'd get out of silver oxide batteries.

New comment by helterskelter in "GrapheneOS fixes Android VPN leak Google refused to patch"

helterskelter — Sat, 09 May 2026 17:39:38 +0000

They're paid not to.

New comment by helterskelter in "Cartoon Network Flash Games"

helterskelter — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:48:38 +0000

Omg thank you, this is giving me flashbacks.

New comment by helterskelter in "Cartoon Network Flash Games"

helterskelter — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:38:50 +0000

Does anyone remember that Gorillaz flash game? You basically just had a dune buggy and drove around in a 3D world over some randomly scattered obstacles and terrain.

That was my entire computer class in 9th grade.

(that and harrassing teachers with netsend)

New comment by helterskelter in "The Old Guard: Confronting America's Gerontocratic Crisis"

helterskelter — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:39:53 +0000

> My observation living in an area that has a mix of 70+ WASPs and younger black and hispanic people is that the WASPs are the ones who are by far the most incensed by Trump. They don't just dislike his policies. They hate the way he talks.

A lot of minorities in America like the tough on crime talk because they're often the ones most affected by it.

New comment by helterskelter in "Human brain changes after first psilocybin use"

helterskelter — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:07:33 +0000

It depends on the variety of mushroom. Some varieties can be 3-4 times stronger than what you'll typically run into. So I've heard anyway.

Single dose of magic mushroom psychedelic can cause anatomical brain changes

helterskelter — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:04:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/may/05/magic-mushrooms-psychedelic-changes-brain-anatomy-psilocybin

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48051855

Points: 3

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New comment by helterskelter in "Linux, Windows or macOS: Which Operating System to Use in 2026?"

helterskelter — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:00:49 +0000

I think you meant to say that may not be a good reason. If so... I'd normally be inclined to agree with you but RedHat so far has taken care of their users at least (I'm not sure it will be that way forever) by giving the benefits of corporate without any real downsides. SELinux by default is a huge plus all by itself.

I love community supported distros, but I've used Linux on desktop and server since around 2000 and I can handle some issues. The proverbial non-tech spouse on the other hand doesn't care that there's a one-line fix to their problem, to them it's just broken and now they want a mac.

New comment by helterskelter in "The Car That Watches You Back: The Advertising Infrastructure of Modern Cars"

helterskelter — Tue, 05 May 2026 05:25:18 +0000

Sorry, I meant ECU not ICU.

New comment by helterskelter in "Linux, Windows or macOS: Which Operating System to Use in 2026?"

helterskelter — Tue, 05 May 2026 04:15:36 +0000

At this point I just point people to Silverblue or a variant. It's got SELinux, flatpaks, atomic updates and corporate sponsorship. I'm not so wild about Redhat these days, but Silverblue is honestly probably the best from the standpoint of being secure, stable, robust, generally well put-together out of the box, and very difficult for a noob to screw up. I don't love saying this, but it's true.

New comment by helterskelter in "The Car That Watches You Back: The Advertising Infrastructure of Modern Cars"

helterskelter — Tue, 05 May 2026 03:51:45 +0000

I know you can yank the modem out of a SuperDuty. Say what you will about them, they're work-oriented despite the luxury packages available and don't force you into being treated like the product -- Ford will track your location if you don't pull the modem, but at least it isn't necessary for the ICU and it doesn't nag you about the anything being disconnected. Fuel prices and gas economy are another issue...

(You may be able to do this with other Ford models)