Hacker News: hyperdimension

New comment by hyperdimension in "Ask HN: What's a book that fundamentally altered your mental models"

hyperdimension — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 19:16:33 +0000

Is it that good? I quite liked The Plague Dogs. He writes with a nice flowery style.

New comment by hyperdimension in "I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me"

hyperdimension — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 01:20:26 +0000

Neat, I didn't know there was an upside down interrobang.

New comment by hyperdimension in "Uber is turning data about trips and takeout into insights for marketers"

hyperdimension — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 18:49:46 +0000

Interesting! That makes sense now. I thought it stood for CAble TV and always wondered why they used two letters instead of just CTV.

New comment by hyperdimension in "Outdated Samsung handset linked to fatal emergency call failure in Australia"

hyperdimension — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:16:07 +0000

Yeah, I'll freely admit I'm a curmudgeon with respect to technology "upgrades", but we've really lost a lot of solid reliability in our phone systems (landlines at least)

Now it feels like an afterthought compared to all of the redundancies they had put in place back then.

New comment by hyperdimension in "The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia"

hyperdimension — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 00:17:48 +0000

I guess my opinion rounds down to nothing now. I guess that fits my track record.

New comment by hyperdimension in "I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]"

hyperdimension — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 14:39:29 +0000

Funny, I use toilet paper and check if it gets wrinkled, but I like your method better.

New comment by hyperdimension in "Download responsibly"

hyperdimension — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 16:50:15 +0000

Yeah, but everyone knows that one. ;)

New comment by hyperdimension in "iPhone Air"

hyperdimension — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 13:05:02 +0000

That bothers me way more than it ought to too. When I hear people saying it IRL I keep thinking that trillion dollar companies are engineering our speech.

What can ya do? :/

New comment by hyperdimension in "A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in"

hyperdimension — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 15:57:14 +0000

That's the point. It hardly does what is claimed to do.

New comment by hyperdimension in "Pixel 10 Phones"

hyperdimension — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 14:15:11 +0000

Until we find the murderer's face!

New comment by hyperdimension in "Vibechart"

hyperdimension — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 16:42:11 +0000

"I asked GPT-5 without thinking and it said..."

New comment by hyperdimension in "Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption"

hyperdimension — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 15:22:36 +0000

Did you post the essay anywhere? I've always had kind of a soft spot for Ted--not his actions, mind, but his manifesto raises some rather prescient ideas. I also think he was..."justified" in a sense; again, not in his actions, but his decision to check out of society, only for society to come back to get him.

I'm happy to be proven wrong about any of that though. It's been quite a few years since I read it.

I completely agree with your "Children of Ted" hypothesis, for that matter. Historically, oppression births revolutionaries, for better or worse.

New comment by hyperdimension in "Anker is no longer selling 3D Printers"

hyperdimension — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 16:01:26 +0000

"The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is the day they start making vacuums"

New comment by hyperdimension in "Man wearing metallic necklace dies after being sucked into MRI machine"

hyperdimension — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 22:05:20 +0000

Not part of this, but that's not really called for.

It just seems you two have different experiences from possibly different countries is all.

New comment by hyperdimension in "Where's Firefox going next?"

hyperdimension — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 23:13:11 +0000

On nearly every point. We should be glad we still have water, if not just to flush the toilets with.

New comment by hyperdimension in "Linda Yaccarino is leaving X"

hyperdimension — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 22:04:02 +0000

I believe that would be the line for me. Personally, anyway.

New comment by hyperdimension in "Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion"

hyperdimension — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 01:28:52 +0000

>Do people pay for tinfoil hats these days?

Only with cash.

New comment by hyperdimension in "Ask HN: How do I learn practical electronic repair?"

hyperdimension — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 12:51:04 +0000

"common failure mode" = 'they break in a particular way a lot'

As Randy Fromm says, "the things that work the hardest fail the most"

Examples: MLCC (multi-layer ceramic capacitors) over time will often fail short.

Older devices with electrolytic capacitors (the large can-shaped things often situated by where the power input is) have a liquid electrolyte in them that evaporates (boils off?) over time. When it does, they lose their capacitance and the power supply stops being able to supply (good) power.

The point being, when something stops working, check these things first. It's like if your lawnmower dies on you, don't go pulling off the head to look at the piston. Check if there's gas in the tank first.

Finally, a DMM is a digital multimeter. This is your basic tool to measure voltage, current resistance, capacitance, et c.) You can't do much troubleshooting without one.

Hope this helps.

New comment by hyperdimension in "New research reveals the strongest solar event ever detected, in 12350 BC"

hyperdimension — Mon, 19 May 2025 19:02:01 +0000

I'm dense. Who are you two talking about?

New comment by hyperdimension in "Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks"

hyperdimension — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 18:53:42 +0000

Off-topic: I initially thought you misspelled 'flaunt,' but 'flout' is indeed the correct word to use. Nice!