Hacker News: plasticsoprano

New comment by plasticsoprano in "Southwest Headquarters Tour"

plasticsoprano — Sun, 03 May 2026 20:40:41 +0000

Remember, most fire stations will give you a tour, let you sit in the truck, etc, if you just pop in. They love to show off.

Source: My father was a 35 year veteran of the fire department in a large city.

New comment by plasticsoprano in "Chuck Norris has died"

plasticsoprano — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:55:52 +0000

Except is was said by Vice President Thomas R. Marshall upon Theodore Roosevelt’s death and co-opted as a Chuck Norris joke.

New comment by plasticsoprano in "Clockwise acquired by Salesforce"

plasticsoprano — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:20:13 +0000

speaking of, Dropbox bought a similar product a couple of years ago https://reclaim.ai/

New comment by plasticsoprano in "Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers"

plasticsoprano — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:09:28 +0000

I tried this out about 2 months ago when setting up a new server. I wanted something simpler and less resource heavy as webmin but it was just too simple. Adding questionable, half baked add-ons to get various functions to work just didn't give me the flexibility of webmin.

New comment by plasticsoprano in "Vercel's CEO offers to cover expenses of 'Jmail'"

plasticsoprano — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:12:10 +0000

no account needed -> https://www.threads.com/@qa_test_hq/post/DUkC_zjiGQh/media

New comment by plasticsoprano in "4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025)"

plasticsoprano — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 02:25:28 +0000

I have made a dedicated api application and I have adjusted the tps flags. I’ve scanned the forums a few times but I’ve yet to inquire there.

New comment by plasticsoprano in "4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025)"

plasticsoprano — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 02:24:17 +0000

Interesting. I’ve been through 4 large transfers to Dropbox in the last 3 years and never once has it honored that header.

New comment by plasticsoprano in "4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025)"

plasticsoprano — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:16:06 +0000

This has been my problem. Not necessarily that the rate limits are low, many can be gotten around by using multiple users to do the work since the limits are per user, but how rclone handles those rate limits when they hit them. The exponential back off will end up making hours and days long delays that will screw a migration.

New comment by plasticsoprano in "4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025)"

plasticsoprano — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:01:26 +0000

How do you deal with how poorly rclone handles rate limits? It doesn't honor dropbox's retry-after header and just adds an exponential back off that, in my migrations, has resulted in a pause of days.

I've adjusted threads and the various other controls rclone offers but I still feel like I'm not see it's true potential because the second it hits a rate limit I can all but guarantee that job will have to be restarted with new settings.

New comment by plasticsoprano in "Tell HN: iCloud with Advanced Data Protection doesn't delete your files"

plasticsoprano — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 20:20:52 +0000

I mean, you didn’t give it enough time. All of these cloud storage platforms are databases at their core. When you delete the file you’re updating the database entry, the data (and the record of it) is still there until their purge process runs, which could be days or weeks.

If it’s still there at a month I’d be surprised and be checking terms of service to see what they commit to.

New comment by plasticsoprano in "Perfectly Replicating Coca Cola [video]"

plasticsoprano — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 02:11:00 +0000

That’s because Diet Coke is not based on classic Coke. It’s based on new coke, it should really be called diet new coke. Coke Zero is based on Coca Cola classic.

New comment by plasticsoprano in "Statement from Jerome Powell"

plasticsoprano — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 01:27:04 +0000

I always appreciate when people make comments like this. It helps identify the trolls or people so completely outside of reality you can mark them as untrustworthy and ignore whatever they say.

New comment by plasticsoprano in "Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs"

plasticsoprano — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 18:14:31 +0000

Amen! This is part of the overall societal decline of no failing for anyone. You gotta feel the pain to get the growth.

New comment by plasticsoprano in "Ask HN: Resources to get better at outbound sales?"

plasticsoprano — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 09:34:49 +0000

This is the crux of Michael Dell’s big lesson as a teen that lead to the creation of dell computers. dell had a summer job in high school selling subscriptions to the Houston paper. He realized that the two groups of people most likely to buy were newly weds and those who recently moved. He paid his friends to scour the local marriage certificates and real estate rolls to see who met those qualifications and called only them. He claims to have made more in his summer job than his teachers made all year and paid cash for a new BMW.

New comment by plasticsoprano in "Rob Reiner has died"

plasticsoprano — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 16:16:25 +0000

I don't think the source was the concern .

New comment by plasticsoprano in "The Mack Super Pumper was a locomotive engined fire fighter (2018)"

plasticsoprano — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 22:27:56 +0000

Better building fire suppression systems. Not to mention improvements to flame retardant materials.

New comment by plasticsoprano in "Dating: A mysterious constellation of facts"

plasticsoprano — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 15:19:10 +0000

I would say, instead of "ideally an Asian woman", a millennial woman. Was recently in a tourist spot for a work outing, we asked a random person to take our photo in front of the big monument and the photos were awful, including a finger of the photographer in each photo. This woman was in easily 50+. Gave the phone to a passing millennial aged woman and got 10 well compositioned photos in both landscape and portrait mode.

New comment by plasticsoprano in "Ground stop at JFK due to staffing"

plasticsoprano — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 03:31:40 +0000

Except the ground stop was due to an emergency with a flight from Puerto Rico

https://rollingout.com/2025/10/30/jfk-airport-frontier-fligh...

New comment by plasticsoprano in "Toothbrush is bristling with bacteria – is it time to change it?"

plasticsoprano — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 19:59:17 +0000

Didn’t mythbusters prove fecal matter on brand new toothbrushes, fresh out of the package?

New comment by plasticsoprano in "TikTok Sold for $14B"

plasticsoprano — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 15:46:33 +0000

There is when the $14B doesn't go to Bytedance.