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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.

New comment by justin66 in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

justin66 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 01:12:54 +0000

> Surface drones are effectively indistinguishable from that threat.

It's pretty hard to imagine a scenario from the nineties where there are so many speedboats in an attack that all four CIWS on a carrier use all their ammo at once. (that's an awful lot of suicidal jihadis, or whatever)

On the other hand, if the CIWS are targeting clouds of aerial drones and jetski drones at the same time, that could be a pretty bad scene. About fifteen seconds of fire per CIWS (1550 rounds), five minutes downtime to reload, between one and three seconds to service each target...

New comment by justin66 in "What major works of literature were written after age of 85? 75? 65?"

justin66 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:16:49 +0000

> Hasn't he publicly stated that he's given up on completing it?

No.

Alan Moore on William Blake's Contempt for Newton

justin66 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:14:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/william-blake-isaac-newton-ashmolean-oxford

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47588564

Points: 2

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New comment by justin66 in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

justin66 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:20:33 +0000

From the online job searcher's point of view, it's one of the least awful circle jerks in a Dante's Inferno-esque series of circle jerks. It is only the first or second circle jerk, at worst.