Hacker News: justin66

New comment by justin66 in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

justin66 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:45:13 +0000

> Therefore, here's a feature request: allow per-user killfiles.

That would be lovely. It's also an obvious feature which has existed in other contexts for a very long time, and it would be easy to implement. That means its omission was a deliberate design choice. It'd be interesting to understand why.

New comment by justin66 in "Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons"

justin66 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:27:52 +0000

The next step would be to dig into how much money is spent lobbying for pardons.

https://campaignlegal.org/update/inside-pardon-playbook-anal...

I'm pretty new to this particular issue so I don't have a ton to offer. It's really interesting, though. Nice site, by the way.

New comment by justin66 in "Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons"

justin66 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:22:47 +0000

The Obama number is also high because the designer combined Obama's first and second terms into one figure, unlike what he did with the other presidents who served two terms.

New comment by justin66 in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

justin66 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:48:43 +0000

There are lots of bugs and the person you're responding to might have a different one in mind, but this is the classic, ancient unresolved bug:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462156

Although in recent years it looks like it turned from a bug about one specific (never resolved) issue to a more general troubleshooting session related to data loss issues.

New comment by justin66 in "Top laptops to use with FreeBSD"

justin66 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:47:17 +0000

It's MIT licensed now, which isn't particularly useful when it comes to Pi (there's some Broadcom crap in that boot loader so it won't be open sourced) but otherwise is kind of interesting.

https://github.com/eclipse-threadx

New comment by justin66 in "Top laptops to use with FreeBSD"

justin66 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:33:30 +0000

That's insanely complicated compared to plugging in a USB dongle.

New comment by justin66 in "Top laptops to use with FreeBSD"

justin66 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:31:45 +0000

Seriously. I'd rip the wifi hardware out of the laptop with a spoon if it somehow got me a laptop that handles sleep mode properly. I can't even imagine what that would be like with a Unix (aside from a Mac).

New comment by justin66 in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

justin66 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:47:35 +0000

I don't pretend to be an expert on political satire but I never noticed that steelmanning, to use the modern vernacular, was ever a technique featured in high quality work like Tom Lehrer or George Carlin. I mean, literally never.

It sounds like you're describing something very boring, but if there's a political satirist (or Satanist, or Salafist, or whatever) you think is funny and an exemplar of what you're describing, drop it here.

New comment by justin66 in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

justin66 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:44:29 +0000

> I think people don't like Onion stories because they're not funny, they're just pretentious and political.

After reading this comment thread I think this would best be rephrased as "Some people don't like Onion stories because they feel like they're the butt of the joke." Which is fair enough, but let's not over-intellectualize it.

New comment by justin66 in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

justin66 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:59:57 +0000

Which is part of why the reuse of the headline still works as grim comedy.

New comment by justin66 in "Every GPU That Mattered"

justin66 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:09:50 +0000

"Hey, I wonder what they'll say about SGI Impact."

Oh well.

New comment by justin66 in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

justin66 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:49:06 +0000

I bet. Holy hell…

New comment by justin66 in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

justin66 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:10:25 +0000

I’m honestly not sure whether I believe these comments, or understand how to put them in context. Not for the first time I’m aware I do live in a cultural bubble, but: it’s hard for me to image anyone getting outraged by an Onion story (other than a religious right person stumbling across the “Why Do All These Homosexuals Keep Sucking My Cock?” piece, or something like that). Similarly, hard to imagine someone identifying with the over-the-top stupid people in Idiocracy.

Wild.

New comment by justin66 in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

justin66 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:06:51 +0000

> That is how 'free' market is done in US, all the rules are to make sure the richest people become richer.

In all fairness, we put an awful lot of effort into making the poor poorer as well.

New comment by justin66 in "Big-Endian Testing with QEMU"

justin66 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:35:27 +0000

> What you should do instead is write all your code so it is little-endian only

Of course that’s not what people will do. They’ll write code and not have any idea which parts have a dependency on endianness. It won’t be given a thought during their design or testing and when they need to make it work on a different architecture, it will needlessly be a giant pain in the ass.

New comment by justin66 in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

justin66 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:27:06 +0000

Asperger’s spans the continents! It’s inspiring.

New comment by justin66 in "The FAA’s flight restriction for drones is an attempt to criminalize filming ICE"

justin66 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:19:33 +0000

The main thing I’m getting from this comment is that Fox News must exist in France.

New comment by justin66 in "Delve removed from Y Combinator"

justin66 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:50:06 +0000

“We’re keeping our distance but we still own a piece of their company” might have done it?

New comment by justin66 in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

justin66 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:15:06 +0000

It's sad how quickly this comment thread went from someone talking about their experience at SERE to... this.

New comment by justin66 in "The story of Britain's oldest sweet, the Pontefract Cake (2019)"

justin66 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:00:19 +0000

It's deliberately unappetising. The holy grail is hidden inside.