Hacker News: jwilcoxson

New comment by jwilcoxson in "Mac Studio M5 Ultra 512GB Officially Released"

jwilcoxson — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 22:06:53 +0000

Exactly, optimizing for VRAM where you don’t need the RTX 6000 performance.

New comment by jwilcoxson in "MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch"

jwilcoxson — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:43:45 +0000

They do drop prices from time to time, they just don’t do the live market pricing Dell and Lenovo do where it can change day to day.

I hear you though on the cost. The Mac Mini was a killer deal a year ago, especially if you could get it on sale for <$500. Not today though.

New comment by jwilcoxson in "New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6"

jwilcoxson — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 16:47:49 +0000

My M1 Pro has been great, certainly doesn’t feel like a 5-year old computer.

New comment by jwilcoxson in "Apple introduces the new 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6"

jwilcoxson — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 16:43:21 +0000

Competition is a beautiful thing.

New comment by jwilcoxson in "New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6"

jwilcoxson — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 16:41:10 +0000

Exactly. A late model Intel Mac is still a perfectly cromulent computer in 2026.

New comment by jwilcoxson in "New iMac with M6"

jwilcoxson — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 15:58:38 +0000

That’s the crazy thing, not everything has to be for you.

New comment by jwilcoxson in "New iMac with M6"

jwilcoxson — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 15:56:04 +0000

27 is fine, fixed a lot of the issues in 26.

New comment by jwilcoxson in "Tesla cancels Cybertruck in Australia and NZ after 7 years of deposits"

jwilcoxson — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 23:34:21 +0000

I agree, anyone serious about a truck isn’t getting a Rivian or Cybertruck.

New comment by jwilcoxson in "Nvidia discusses $2k-per-GPU annual fee for software"

jwilcoxson — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 23:32:56 +0000

In the industrial automation world, you pay for the hardware (PLC), and then separately have to pay for the software to program it (made by the same company). Now if you want support for the software or hardware, that’s another cost.

At every interaction point, someone has their hand out wanting payment.

New comment by jwilcoxson in "Tesla cancels Cybertruck in Australia and NZ after 7 years of deposits"

jwilcoxson — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 16:40:57 +0000

That’s called a topper or a SUV.

New comment by jwilcoxson in "Root shell on Samsung TV"

jwilcoxson — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 22:05:15 +0000

The laws of the country would apply to the objects in that country. If you route traffic from America to Russia, the hosts/clients in America need to follow American laws and the hosts/clients in Russia need to follow Russian laws.

New comment by jwilcoxson in "Samsung running a TensorFlow lite model on 960x540 image to track you"

jwilcoxson — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 14:53:23 +0000

But it’s absolutely placeable. The internet is run by real computers that exist in the physical world.

New comment by jwilcoxson in "XPS 16 Creator Edition Laptop"

jwilcoxson — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 13:39:05 +0000

Not exactly performance, but features. For example, you can’t use Remote Desktop to connect to a machine running Windows Home.

Also, there are industry specific apps that can require Pro.

New comment by jwilcoxson in "XPS 16 Creator Edition Laptop"

jwilcoxson — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 13:36:33 +0000

It means what it says

New comment by jwilcoxson in "XPS 16 Creator Edition Laptop"

jwilcoxson — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 12:38:09 +0000

And not even Windows Pro

New comment by jwilcoxson in "XPS 16 Creator Edition Laptop"

jwilcoxson — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 12:36:47 +0000

Is this for developers with a humiliation fetish?

New comment by jwilcoxson in "Helm: Personal Email Server"

jwilcoxson — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 18:41:57 +0000

I don't see how we should automatically trust them because we "own" the hardware. If its not open source and able to be verified by third parties, what does it matter if we have the "keys"? $500 for proprietary hardware just seems odd considering the goal here.

New comment by jwilcoxson in "DuckDuckGo Traffic"

jwilcoxson — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 13:58:38 +0000

Exploding might be an overstatement, but it did hit an all time high for daily queries this week.

New comment by jwilcoxson in "DuckDuckGo Traffic"

jwilcoxson — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 13:57:32 +0000

I’ve also been all-in on DuckDuckGo for over a year now. I feel like it always gives me good results. I only speak English, but better support for other languages would be fantastic for those who can benefit from it.

New comment by jwilcoxson in "GPG Suite 2018.4 adds a fee for encrypting and signing new mail"

jwilcoxson — Sat, 22 Sep 2018 16:08:04 +0000

Well, even though I had it installed, I never really used it.

Does this change anything with GPG Keychain?