Hacker News: petra303

New comment by petra303 in "BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth"

petra303 — Sun, 03 May 2026 18:47:55 +0000

Ricochet was a mesh internet provider.

New comment by petra303 in "Ti-84 Evo"

petra303 — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:30:18 +0000

It doesn’t have a qwerty keyboard. That would be such a pain to type on.

For some reason qwerty keyboard calculators are banned in tests.

New comment by petra303 in "Update on the eBay Scam"

petra303 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:36:43 +0000

This is the reason I stopped selling on eBay. Zero protection for the seller.

New comment by petra303 in "An old photo of a large BBS (2022)"

petra303 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:13:58 +0000

More likely coax. 3com 509c network cards. Much less infrastructure to have a lan that way.

IBM had a network that ran over phone cords that were daisycbained from one node to the next.

New comment by petra303 in "Danish postal service to stop delivering letters"

petra303 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 02:36:36 +0000

Which makes taking the time to send a letter have a lot of importance. I wrote a note to my mother and it meant a lot to her to get a hand written correspondence.

New comment by petra303 in "Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem?"

petra303 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:11:10 +0000

So never buy a gift card at a retail location, unless it’s digital. Preferably buy directly from the website of the company where th credit will be used.

But why would apple punish the secondary user of the card? That seems like the wrong person to punish.

New comment by petra303 in "Bring Back the Blue-Book Exam"

petra303 — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 18:54:52 +0000

I doubt they’re talking about entry level maths.

New comment by petra303 in "Nobody’s buying homes, nobody’s switching jobs, America’s mobility is stalling"

petra303 — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 01:50:09 +0000

Why get out of a 3-4% loan just to get into a 7-8% loan?

New comment by petra303 in "Why does a fire truck cost $2m"

petra303 — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 01:17:58 +0000

I would think it’s more about economy of scale. If you tried to build a car without any of the standard parts being available, it would be expensive.

New comment by petra303 in "Binary Wordle"

petra303 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 04:06:19 +0000

Yea, you don’t need more than two chances.

New comment by petra303 in "Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Rear-Ending Motorcyclists More Than Any Other"

petra303 — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 14:37:41 +0000

Lane filtering solves this fear. Should be legal nation wide.

New comment by petra303 in "Why Not Bluesky"

petra303 — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 03:59:03 +0000

If Reddit has taught me anything it’s that the huge number of new subscribers is probably a large amount of bot owner accounts trying to make accounts to age for later use. They just like to say “x million accounts created” with no due diligence behind the accounts.

New comment by petra303 in "Amazon ordered a return to the office – but research says they'll backtrack"

petra303 — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:44:55 +0000

I leave my computer at my desk. Anyone contacting me gets the reply of “i don’t have my computer, I will look at it in the Morning”. When I worked from home I had no problem jumping on a call for 10 mins after hours.

New comment by petra303 in "Wells Fargo employee found dead at desk after 4 days"

petra303 — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 01:57:26 +0000

I can see my employer now. “See, this is why we have short wall cubes! So we can find your body quicker!”

New comment by petra303 in "CA bill to require all new cars to prevent them from going 10mph over speedlimit"

petra303 — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 01:43:33 +0000

I drove a moving van once between to major cities. It was governed not to go over 65. On some two lane roads I would run come upon a slower moving vehicle. If I tried to pass the governor would kick in and make it really dangerous to pass safely. I would have to sit behind the car for a long time going 50 in a 65 before there was a huge gap in oncoming traffic to be able to pass.

New comment by petra303 in "Maybe Google Is Popular Because It's Good?"

petra303 — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 00:18:22 +0000

Mind blown. No more copy paste for me!

New comment by petra303 in "TSA officers accused of stealing from passengers"

petra303 — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 02:50:03 +0000

That’s carry on luggage, not checked luggage.