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New comment by ricktdotorg in "Ask HN: What's your workflow for fixing "port in use" on Windows?"

ricktdotorg — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:38:37 +0000

powershell:

Stop-Process -Id (Get-NetTCPConnection -LocalPort 1234).OwningProcess -Force

New comment by ricktdotorg in "Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice"

ricktdotorg — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:30:22 +0000

wow, i had no idea at all there was a Microcenter in Socal! not too far, i'll be visiting, thank you. i went to a Microcenter in Dallas decades ago and was blown away.

New comment by ricktdotorg in "Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice"

ricktdotorg — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:51:12 +0000

i would love to know more about this.

i live in the largest city on the west coast of the USA and the only stores i've found where i can press keyboards is Office Depot and the like, and at least in the stores that i have visited, they have not had mechanicals.

even when Frys was around, i don't remember them having keyboards out and about.

New comment by ricktdotorg in "One Brain to Query: Wiring a 60-Person Company into a Single Slack Bot"

ricktdotorg — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:12:41 +0000

is it just me or was the scrollbar purposefully hidden on this site? in chrome on windows, i found it very jarring and user-hostile to NOT know how far along i was in reading the article.

i make a judgement call early on: is this worth my time? my whole article calculation algo was thrown off by this.

do not like.

New comment by ricktdotorg in "Help Denmark Buy California – Because Why Not?"

ricktdotorg — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:32:46 +0000

hi, this is why Solvang[0] exists.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solvang,_California

New comment by ricktdotorg in ""Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds"

ricktdotorg — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:24:09 +0000

this is exactly the same as people who drive their car into a river because google maps told them to.

New comment by ricktdotorg in "Dave Farber has died"

ricktdotorg — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 13:43:35 +0000

Dave's Interesting People email list was a TRUE highlight of the early Internet.

New comment by ricktdotorg in "Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?"

ricktdotorg — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 22:04:57 +0000

i have been recently quite enamoured with using both the ChatGPT mobile app (specifically the Codex part) and the Github mobile app, along with Codex. with an appropriate workflow, i've been able to deploy features to some [simple] customer-facing apps while on the go. it's very liberating!

GP's setup sounds like the logical extension to what i'm doing. not just code, but sessions within servers? are sysadmins letting openclawd out and about on their boxes these days?

New comment by ricktdotorg in "Time Station Emulator"

ricktdotorg — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 04:33:00 +0000

thank you for this reply! i've got 6x CASIO watches and have struggled to the time on them synced for over a decade. a quick [small] purchase later and every single one of my CASIOs are synced. i'm so happy. its the little things that matter. thanks again.

New comment by ricktdotorg in "Discover Your Attractiveness Score with This AI Face Test Tool"

ricktdotorg — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 11:13:04 +0000

25th year anniversary of hotornot.com[1] coming up!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_or_Not

New comment by ricktdotorg in "Show HN: Create your own finetuned AI model using Google Sheets"

ricktdotorg — Thu, 01 May 2025 01:20:10 +0000

this is great, and right up my alley. i built a customer support chatbot using a google sheet for our CS folks to input & structure their question/answer pairs. that is auto xformed into markdown and fed into the bot for context. it works fairly well considering how simple it was to do. i'm really intrigued as to what promptrepo can add to that. will definitely give it some R&D time!

New comment by ricktdotorg in "Bring Back Shortwave"

ricktdotorg — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 14:58:05 +0000

shoutout fellow Mackem! not often spotted on HN!

New comment by ricktdotorg in "GibberLink [AI-AI Communication]"

ricktdotorg — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 16:00:22 +0000

you're right -- there SHOULD be!

New comment by ricktdotorg in "Apple Introduces News+ Food"

ricktdotorg — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 22:56:15 +0000

still no Puzzles within Apple News or News+ in UK :-\

New comment by ricktdotorg in "Divvy Homes, Once Valued at $2B, Is Sold for Half That Price"

ricktdotorg — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 03:07:35 +0000

where i come from in the north east of England, a "divvy" is a "stupid person", a "moron" etc.

New comment by ricktdotorg in "Printf Debugging Is OK"

ricktdotorg — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 04:04:35 +0000

totally agree re: structured logging. my intro to that was w/GCP Logging and it changed my mind on when and what to log. proper structured logging and keying metrics/alerts from those metrics is extremely satisfying and legitimately useful.

New comment by ricktdotorg in "The GPU, not the TPM, is the root of hardware DRM"

ricktdotorg — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 05:31:26 +0000

> Sure, let's say that's true. The obvious implication is that these users actually don't care about whether they're running Windows 11 or not, and thus the Windows 11 TPM requirement is utterly irrelevant in their decision to buy a new computer. > I don't see how this supports the theory that this is all about revenue from Windows OEM licenses from forced hardware upgrades.

what on earth makes you think that "what the users actually don't [or do care about]" has any affect on what corporate IT does with their users' devices?

do you think corporate IT is going to say "oh ok" when a user says "i don't want to upgrade to Windows 11 or a laptop that has TPM"

c'mon. lol.

New comment by ricktdotorg in "More telcos confirm Salt Typhoon breaches as White House weighs in"

ricktdotorg — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 16:25:07 +0000

i bought a Tello eSIM to use for my Rabbit R1, am in USA, was not required to provide any KYC, received a (213) LA area code number, recommend Tello so far.

New comment by ricktdotorg in "VW Group Collects Vehicle Movement Data"

ricktdotorg — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 13:20:58 +0000

re: EU central registry of assets, here is a Bloomberg Law piece from July 2024, detailing the chairman of the EU parliament's tax subcommittee's desire to get a "European registry of assets". it seems fairly straight forward.

[1] https://myconvergence.bna.com/ContentItem/ArticlePublic/2620...

edited to fix link

New comment by ricktdotorg in "VW Group Collects Vehicle Movement Data"

ricktdotorg — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 13:14:33 +0000

i'm afraid ChatGPT was wrong about the asset registry. the EU parliament's tax subcommittee most definitely does want such a registry.

here [1] is a feasibility study released by the EU in 2024 re: "Feasibility study for a European asset registry in the context of the fight against money laundering and tax evasion".

[1] https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/0d8...