Hacker News: rjp0008

New comment by rjp0008 in "A Love Letter to 'Girl Games'"

rjp0008 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:31:49 +0000

The past 40 years we went from pinball and arcade machines, to most men playing some sort of game on a personal device (phone, console, computer etc). I could see the next 40 years capturing women in the same capacity given the right infrastructure and content.

New comment by rjp0008 in "Honda is killing its EVs"

rjp0008 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 01:43:44 +0000

Cutting someones breaks requires physical access to the hardware.

Changing: if (brakeDepressed()){ engageBrake(); } To: if (brakeDepressed() && currentTime < '5/6/26 4pm EST'){ engageBrake(); } Can be deployed to thousands of vehicles, and would stop brakes from working during peak commute time on the East Coast.

New comment by rjp0008 in "Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges"

rjp0008 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 17:23:18 +0000

I would definitely argue the opposite, that China is the larger threat.

They want control of Taiwan and are building way more capable hardware than Russia has.

New comment by rjp0008 in "Bit flips: How cosmic rays grounded a fleet of aircraft"

rjp0008 — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 20:29:56 +0000

What if in the time between initialization of cosmic_ray to False, and the time this if statement executes, a legitimate cosmic ray flips the bool bit representing cosmic_ray?

New comment by rjp0008 in "The effect of shingles vaccination at different stages of dementia"

rjp0008 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 19:48:01 +0000

The cynic in me things the Dems take the legislative branch next year, curtail executive power but are unable to undo anything and then win a massively nerfed executive position in 2028.

New comment by rjp0008 in "The Banished Bottom of the Housing Market"

rjp0008 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 16:56:22 +0000

I'd prefer they have housing somewhere to live and not in the streets! Just not in my neighborhood, man that's a mouthful, maybe NIMNH? Doesn't really roll off the tongue though...

New comment by rjp0008 in "The Banished Bottom of the Housing Market"

rjp0008 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 16:21:00 +0000

You're moving the goalpost now.

Here's a 200k house: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1404-36th-St-N-Birmingham...

Here's how much they pay in property taxes ($1270): https://eringcapture.jccal.org/parceldetail/23%2000%2019%203...

30 year loan at 4% (not feasible today) means 115k in interest paid after putting 20% down. It would take way longer than 50 years to pay more in property taxes than interest.

New comment by rjp0008 in "The Banished Bottom of the Housing Market"

rjp0008 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:45:21 +0000

I think you're vastly over estimating property taxes. Texas is less than 2% on average assessed on home value. I'd be curious about your example of what "most mortgages" payment breakdown looks like, like year 5 in texas on a 300k house putting 5% down and a 5% interest rate. Look at principle, interest, property taxes, and avg insurance payment.

New comment by rjp0008 in "The Greatest Motorcycle Photo"

rjp0008 — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 16:57:36 +0000

Not in relation to his body which is the concerning interaction. Though contact with a 150mph tire would have had similar if not the exact same consequences as a 300 mph tire.

New comment by rjp0008 in "Unintended workplace safety consequences of minimum wages"

rjp0008 — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 19:30:57 +0000

>>It's not intended to provide a family with a living wage;

Maybe not family but definitely the individual, FDR on minimum wage:

Ultimately, he hoped to mandate that all workers would be paid "living wages" as described in his 1933 speech on the National Industrial Recovery Act, "It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By 'business' I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white-collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages, I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living."

From: https://publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu/blog/posts/what-did-fdr-...

New comment by rjp0008 in "Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline"

rjp0008 — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 01:43:52 +0000

Interesting that the reference linked is in reference to must-carry regulation. The tiktok scenario is the opposite though? Must-not-carry that content! I suppose Uncle Sam's sword cuts both ways.

New comment by rjp0008 in "How good can you be at Codenames without knowing any words?"

rjp0008 — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 19:59:59 +0000

Or a boggle-esque set of dice rather than a phone app.

New comment by rjp0008 in "New open source GPU is free to all"

rjp0008 — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 16:31:08 +0000

Any of the VR Virtual Desktop apps are certainly done in UnrealEngine or the like, but I think it's really just a virtual display for your computer and the 'desktop engine' is still windows if I'm interpreting your comment correctly.

New comment by rjp0008 in "How far could the sun possibly be?"

rjp0008 — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 18:41:53 +0000

If you do this, the clocks will be in the same place, it would have to be opposite acceleration profiles to get them moving away from each other.

New comment by rjp0008 in "Student photographs people with hidden spy cam in the 1890s (2018)"

rjp0008 — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 04:44:35 +0000

The same thing will exist for people in 2010/2030 because of computational photography filters/algos.

New comment by rjp0008 in "Ask HN: How did my LastPass master password get leaked?"

rjp0008 — Mon, 27 Dec 2021 23:20:59 +0000

Can't use the same PIN as a hacker would just add myhackurl.com/login to your vault and see what the PIN came across as. I think you'd also run into issues with password length as a lot of sites still have a restriction. I like the idea though and maybe a different implementation could work.

New comment by rjp0008 in "Video of Tesla FSD almost hitting pedestrian receives DMCA takedown"

rjp0008 — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 16:19:29 +0000

> the autopilot was programmed to go in a straight line and at an intersection decided to steer into a crosswalk.

Agree this is a weird and very concerning bug.

> Not to mention the fact that it seems entirely legal for a company like Tesla to test such dangerous functionality on public streets with other drivers and pedestrians, with zero permission or regulation.

This driver seems to be someone who I would be ok with testing this. He's got his hand an inch from the steering wheel and obviously paying attention. I would rather this scenario happen, than Tesla be restricted to no public road access and they just unleash an untested system.

New comment by rjp0008 in "Math Problems for children from 5 to 15 (2004) [pdf]"

rjp0008 — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 19:54:22 +0000

> (Problem #2 requires kopecks to be divisible.)

Does it? Did I fail at problem 2? I got:

Bottle + cork = 10

Bottle = 9cork

bottle/9 = cork

9(bottle + bottle/9) = 9(10)

9 bottle + bottle = 90

10 bottle = 90

bottle = 9

9 = 9cork

1 = cork

New comment by rjp0008 in "GitHub Copilot as open source code laundering?"

rjp0008 — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 13:19:42 +0000

I would bet this as applicable as the Facebook posts of my parents friends something like, 'All my content on this page is mine alone and I expressly forbid Facebook INC usage of it for any purpose.'

New comment by rjp0008 in "Writing books is not really a good idea"

rjp0008 — Mon, 10 May 2021 15:20:06 +0000

The 2.6 million is the choice of books available. Like baskin robins has 31 flavors but only 5 of them sold more than 100k scoops.