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New comment by lttlrck in "H-1B Visa Holders Disappear from US Housing Market"

lttlrck — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 02:08:14 +0000

That's not necessarily what this means though. Is it.

I bought a house while on H1B in 2014.

If the climate was like it is now back then, I would have waited for my GC or, for everything to calm down.

But I wouldn't have left...

Edit: BTW it was far far from a low-risk venture in 2014.

New comment by lttlrck in "Two Amazon delivery drones crash into crane in commercial area of Tolleson, AZ"

lttlrck — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 12:26:53 +0000

Just add a radius.

New comment by lttlrck in "Oral Microbes Linked to 3-Fold Increased Risk of Pancreatic Cancer"

lttlrck — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 04:40:35 +0000

Same for me. It's always an add-on but same provider and policy.

This has been true with multiple providers on the east and west coast.

New comment by lttlrck in "Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is coming to Playstation 5 on December 8th"

lttlrck — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 23:48:11 +0000

For many, the reason to pick a console over a PC is as true today as it has always been: UX.

I do wish they'd bring Gran Turismo to PC. If that happens, I think it will signal the end of PlayStation as we know it.

New comment by lttlrck in "A vibrator helped me debug a motorcycle brake light system"

lttlrck — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 02:38:01 +0000

I used one to find the location of rattles in my car.

New comment by lttlrck in "iFixit iPhone Air teardown"

lttlrck — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 15:27:26 +0000

Still have my W800. It was a marvel at the time, still is really. The only thing that irked me what the proprietary connector - which has perished now.

New comment by lttlrck in "Meta exposé author faces $50k fine per breach of non-disparagement agreement"

lttlrck — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 15:14:50 +0000

All true but she still signed the document, and later acted against the agreement with the very same trillion dollar company.

New comment by lttlrck in "Bosch Unveils New Brake Technology"

lttlrck — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 20:14:09 +0000

If "touch sensitive" means it's a load cell then that's not so bad, simracing has used load cells for years and they work very well.

New comment by lttlrck in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

lttlrck — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 01:16:57 +0000

Of course it depends on the nature of the business but push that too far and you can lock yourself out of projects that require work to be performed on US soil.

I work for a very small company and we've seen by that stipulation a couple of times on anything _remotely_ close to defense/MIC/security.

And the administration can tighten those screws further if it desires.

(I am the only H1B in the history of the company, now a citizen. It would have been impossible to have taken this path with this alleged financial burden)

New comment by lttlrck in "The Worst Air Disaster You've Never Heard Of"

lttlrck — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 14:01:51 +0000

It had two disasters?

;-)

New comment by lttlrck in "Tomorrow's emoji today: Unicode 17.0"

lttlrck — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 12:46:35 +0000

I remember thinking emoji are cheating. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

New comment by lttlrck in "Cassette Logic: technology that never dies but is already dead"

lttlrck — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 04:49:44 +0000

They are surprisingly durable. I have a tape I made in 1990, it's followed me across continents and been in cardboard boxes, basements and attics. It still plays flawlessly.

Not wanting to push my luck, I archived it. On Minidisc.

I have quite a large CD collection. Two albums from the same era are unplayable due to oxidization, same band Banco De Gaia, pressed at the same plant in the UK too.

New comment by lttlrck in "Tesla’s autonomous driving claims might be coming to an end [video]"

lttlrck — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 02:13:03 +0000

I am not convinced that a camera fixed in place is equivalent to eyeballs with 6 degrees of freedom. That freedom significantly boosts the available parallax for depth and distance perception something fixed in place cameras lack.

New comment by lttlrck in "Speed-coding for the 6502 – a simple example"

lttlrck — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 02:45:52 +0000

I wrote a token ring networking simulator with error simulation (token dropping etc) on a 6502. 128 bytes of RAM. It was a squeeze.

I used a Hewlett Packard development system with a 12" hard disk.

Good times.

New comment by lttlrck in "MAGA declares war on the property tax"

lttlrck — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 21:35:00 +0000

That the TFA puts forward this as a proposed solution drives your point home

> As the name suggests, a property tax deferral program allows seniors to defer paying their property taxes until death.

More direct pricing of police, fire, education, roads is likely the end game they're looking for - and it's kinda the case in California for new build via Mellon-Roos.

New comment by lttlrck in "Why haven't quantum computers factored 21 yet?"

lttlrck — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 22:53:50 +0000

If this is what AI is going to look like in practice it's a big letdown.

Science fiction has been predicting what an AI would be like for over a hundred years, there was even one in a movie in 1927. We're so far from what we dream that, to me, it feels like a mere leaf blowing in the wind compared to the Wright Flyer.

New comment by lttlrck in "The No-CPU Amiga Demo Challenge"

lttlrck — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 22:10:30 +0000

Tremendous. Miss my Amiga and booting up the latest demo with my mates. It was a different time.

Interesting parallels with GPUs too.

New comment by lttlrck in "macOS 26 Tahoe's Dead Canary Utility App Icons"

lttlrck — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 22:10:06 +0000

I ran Vista on a 17" Dell Inspiron. Core 2 Duo. It ran magnificently.

Sometimes it seems like I was the only person that had that experience...

New comment by lttlrck in "Reading for pleasure plummets by 40% in the US"

lttlrck — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 23:20:21 +0000

So is reading a paperback in a house full of kids or Starbucks.

New comment by lttlrck in "Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?"

lttlrck — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 12:34:57 +0000

There is a kernel of truth.

But I think you are, maybe to a large extent, misattributing political apathy.