Hacker News: mike50

New comment by mike50 in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

mike50 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:50:11 +0000

Because the students learned that school is designed by old morons, without understating why writing book reports and doing math drills has the intent of creating students that can read and write or learn other transferable skills.

New comment by mike50 in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

mike50 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:37:52 +0000

This has been replaced by a webcam on a stick and a computer monitor.

New comment by mike50 in "Bring Back MiniDV with This Raspberry Pi FireWire Hat"

mike50 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:31:18 +0000

Unless there has been some change recently those have never had the bandwidth or software support needed to capture DV.

New comment by mike50 in "First Western Digital, now Sony: The tech giant suspends SD card sales"

mike50 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:02:20 +0000

Automotive, space and defense happily use older processes at scale. Also embedded electronics in all sorts of electronics.

New comment by mike50 in "First Western Digital, now Sony: The tech giant suspends SD card sales"

mike50 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:00:48 +0000

It's just an attempt to copy Taiwan and the Philippines by starting with the labor intensive low value add part of semiconductor manufacturing.

New comment by mike50 in "Toyota’s hydrogen-powered Mirai has experienced rapid depreciation"

mike50 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:11:24 +0000

Let alone the compressors or the flow measurement equipment. Also significant portions of the pipesline (especially in neighborhoods / last mile) aren't metal anymore.

New comment by mike50 in "Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down"

mike50 — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 20:35:09 +0000

They do sell ir dongles for android but the reviews on amazon don't look great.

New comment by mike50 in "Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores"

mike50 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:01:27 +0000

100% no subway link to Manhattan, pretty car friendly and mostly two or three family attached homes.

New comment by mike50 in "Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores"

mike50 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:00:35 +0000

Again go to Queens or Brooklyn plenty of suburban size and shape supermarkets.

New comment by mike50 in "Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores"

mike50 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 18:59:55 +0000

Maybe if you only shop at the mass market chains in the gentrified central part of the city. Go to Flushing and tell me that or just go to a Western Beef.

New comment by mike50 in "Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores"

mike50 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 18:56:18 +0000

If you live in a Sienfield rerun in Manhattan the city looks like your comment. There are plenty of conventional supermarkets in NYC they just don't have a huge parking lot.

New comment by mike50 in "Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores"

mike50 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 18:52:37 +0000

I can list like five mass market supermarkets in NYC. Western Beef, Food Bazaar H Mart, City Fresh the regional chains like Stop and Shop Target.

New comment by mike50 in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"

mike50 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 03:19:14 +0000

Many people in the UK were detained or interviewed by police for protesting Israeli actions.

New comment by mike50 in "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"

mike50 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:43:13 +0000

I just plug the sd card reader into my phone.

New comment by mike50 in "White House alters arrest photo of ICE protester, says "the memes will continue""

mike50 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:40:46 +0000

Use the actual military with more personnel tanks and air support.

New comment by mike50 in "Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers"

mike50 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:11:46 +0000

Build quality is trash consumer with a hefty markup. The older CD player era equipment has the cheapest CD mechanisms I've ever seen for the era. The audio pathway is the same hybrids that everyone else uses. Bose is 100% mass marketing. I'm old enough to remember the endless ads in the back of magazines.

New comment by mike50 in "Imagine 130M Washing Machines"

mike50 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 19:31:11 +0000

Mega yachts are not airplanes, computers, software or some other cutting edge or basic research technology. It's a boat that other then adding starlink hasn't meaningfully changed for decades.

New comment by mike50 in "A New Year's letter to a young person"

mike50 — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 21:55:31 +0000

Yeah because Seattle is a third tier city. Chicago isn't a second tier city because it is surrounded by 10 other completely irrelevant cites. Austin is solidly a second tier city though.

New comment by mike50 in "IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off"

mike50 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 03:51:47 +0000

The transistor was funded by Bell Labs.

New comment by mike50 in "IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off"

mike50 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 03:43:28 +0000

Spending money is not the solution. Spending money in a way that doesn't go to subcontractors is part of the solution. Building shelters beyond cots in a stadium is part of the solution. Building housing is a large part of actually solving the problem. People have tried just giving the money but without a way to convert cash to housing the money doesn't help. Also studies by people smarter then me suggest that without sufficient supply the money ends up going to landlords and pushing up housing costs anyway.