Hacker News: mikestew

New comment by mikestew in "Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age"

mikestew — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 02:11:47 +0000

…spending every weekend wretching

A hilarious typo, or actual response after seeing the mechanic’s bill?

New comment by mikestew in "Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age"

mikestew — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:27:07 +0000

In the case of Rover, the price you pay for the vehicle is just the initiation fee. You still need to pay regular dues to stay in that club, but they call it "maintenance" and it ain't cheap.

(At least that's how I read OP.)

New comment by mikestew in "'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth"

mikestew — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:11:40 +0000

Welcome to Deadhorse, Alaska:

https://partyshopmaine.com/alaska/is-alcohol-illegal-in-dead...

(And apologies for the slop, that was the first reasonable link I found.)

New comment by mikestew in "Lawmakers Introduce Multiple Laws to Curb Flock After 404 Media Coverage"

mikestew — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 22:50:26 +0000

You’re going to have to back that up with a link. It is a long way from patent to implementation, and all I’ve ever seen is the patent.

New comment by mikestew in "Lawmakers Introduce Multiple Laws to Curb Flock After 404 Media Coverage"

mikestew — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 20:31:36 +0000

Is this just poorly worded, or a bad-faith argument? I read it as: "if you're against Flock cameras, you must be a criminal".

EDIT: Ah, the ninja edit. At least the edit clarifies that it's a bad-faith argument.

New comment by mikestew in "US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban"

mikestew — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 17:52:46 +0000

Which is why, as you imply, that such things be in carry-ons. But, man, just ban power banks outright? Outright bans won't fly, but the power banks will.

New comment by mikestew in "Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too?"

mikestew — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:48:01 +0000

Yeah, our city’s new garbage contractor is kinda crap. After three weeks of no new bin (“You’ll get a new one on Tuesday.” “Which Tuesday?”), I sent the city solid waste manager after them. Next day, new bin. :-)

New comment by mikestew in "Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too?"

mikestew — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 22:03:08 +0000

That’s all well and good until the truck driver operating the mechanical arm drops your bin into the truck. Spoiler alert: the bin will not be fished out, it is now garbage.

So those tags are going to have to be a little cheaper before I’ll use them. :-)

New comment by mikestew in "Apple Pass Designer"

mikestew — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 21:30:29 +0000

Not a new idea, and it could be worse. How about we drive the front wheel instead, and put a bunch extra weight over the front?

https://motoredbikes.com/resources/sears-bike-bug-engine-man...

Filed under “I’m kinda surprised that was ever legally sold”. (You’ll find it next to the lawn darts.)

New comment by mikestew in "Creatine may help build muscle even without exercise, researchers find"

mikestew — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 04:11:36 +0000

Where did you see this? I don’t find it in TFA. And who are you taking about?

New comment by mikestew in "RIP, vector database"

mikestew — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 23:30:23 +0000

There are HN accounts that have been shadow-banned for years, and yet they keep posting despite few people ever seeing their posts. They're not LLMs AFAICT, but they just keep posting into the void.

So why use an LLM for commenting? See above, people are weird.

New comment by mikestew in "Strange Parodies of Atari 2600 Video Game Box Cover Art (2008)"

mikestew — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:53:28 +0000

All those titties on the Nintendo cartridge box put U. S. Congress into a tizzie, I’m sure.

New comment by mikestew in "Climate is accumulating 4 Hiroshima atomic bombs worth of heat per second"

mikestew — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:36:28 +0000

“Evaporated“? I think you need to reread parent comment.

New comment by mikestew in "Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain"

mikestew — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:10:57 +0000

https://roboticparking.com/how-it-works/

...as one example.

New comment by mikestew in "On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted"

mikestew — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:57:42 +0000

The “drama” was linked in TFA:

https://github.com/neovim/neovim.github.io/issues/501

New comment by mikestew in "On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted"

mikestew — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:53:17 +0000

The software might eat your dog, and feed your homework

Sure, and when it does we can say “this piece of shit ate my dog, and the authors of the software have no concept of a duty of care to their users”. And no amount of “well, axually…” is going to make any difference. I have a hard believing someone is copy-pasting a license file in good faith in response.

New comment by mikestew in "Rising sea destroys homes, erases beaches in California"

mikestew — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 21:37:28 +0000

If you're talking about this article[0], you'll have to argue with NOAA[1] as that's the source that The Seattle Times used to determine that the "high tide in Elliot Bay has risen 10 inches since 1899".

Since you didn't provide a link to your referred article, I have no idea if the Times blamed any particular cause or not. In the article I've referenced, there were several causes for the flooding in the South Park neighborhood.

[0] https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/climate-lab/4-thin...

[1] https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station....

New comment by mikestew in "Rising sea destroys homes, erases beaches in California"

mikestew — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 21:31:39 +0000

And if a frog had wings, it wouldn't bump its ass when it hops. But frogs don't have wings, and the line wasn't drawn.

New comment by mikestew in "Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy"

mikestew — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 04:46:37 +0000

Some reactors we operate today are older than the oldest people on the planet!

You might want to look that up, because I’m older than the oldest operating reactor.

New comment by mikestew in "Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived"

mikestew — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:53:04 +0000

Trust was a thing back then.

No, it wasn't. The reason I even raised this bug to begin with was not because of some nefarious $BAD_COUNTRY hacker getting yer dataz from far away, it's because you have to worry about your own users first. I'd guess that any consultant doing the kind of work FoxPro excelled at (LOB apps) has found some clever boy or girl who discovered they can poke at DBF files directly. Long before internet connectivity was common, one still had to worry about your own coworkers futzing things up.