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New comment by rpcope1 in "Ti-84 Evo"

rpcope1 — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:03:20 +0000

Honestly, most of the time whatever the newest variant of the TI-30 is ends up being plenty (and what I have at my desk).

New comment by rpcope1 in "Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs"

rpcope1 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:48:43 +0000

You say that like it's assumed that ubiquitous smart phones were obviously a good thing, when it sure seems like there's an increasing number of people questioning that assumption.

New comment by rpcope1 in "Vercel April 2026 security incident"

rpcope1 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:39:21 +0000

I actually noticed the same. Having it work on Mithril.js instead of React seems (I know it's all just kind of hearsay) to generate a lot cleaner code. Maybe it's just because I know and like Mithril better, but also is likely because of the project ethos and it's being used by people who really want to use Mithril in the wild. I've seen the same for other slightly more exotic stacks like bottle vs flask, and telling it to generate Scala or Erlang.

New comment by rpcope1 in "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner"

rpcope1 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:41:01 +0000

> Mercedes feels premium and isn't full of bugs.

I see you've never actually owned or worked on a German car, especially in relation to even modest Japanese models. Maybe they were a little nicer inside in the 80s and maybe 90s, but "German car" and frankly "European make" is basically synonymous with "big expensive pile of shit that's an expensive pain in the ass when things start falling apart (which they seem to with increasing rapidity)." It's like the disease that plagued British cars for the longest time got contaminated with the German propensity to build overly complex monstrosities.

New comment by rpcope1 in "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner"

rpcope1 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:03:15 +0000

I mean if it were anyone else, yeah I might agree, but I think Salvatore is being genuine here (and have seen Claude do a similarly surprising job fixing ops issues).

New comment by rpcope1 in "AI-assisted cognition endangers human development?"

rpcope1 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:30:35 +0000

You're absolutely right! But Brawndo has what plants crave!

Anthropic Revises Claude Enterprise Pricing Structure

rpcope1 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:16:15 +0000

Article URL: https://letsdatascience.com/news/anthropic-revises-claude-enterprise-pricing-structure-f3022a32

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47783863

Points: 1

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New comment by rpcope1 in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

rpcope1 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 03:57:57 +0000

Go to any mechanic thats been doing cars, especially if it's a focused subset of cars, for more than a few year and I guarantee they'll either have some modified HF sockets or wrenches or some home made tools. Probably don't want to cut up your SnapOff debt peonage tools, but a lot of the time they alone don't cut it.

New comment by rpcope1 in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

rpcope1 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:58:30 +0000

Maybe we'll wake up and realize that putting WiFi and stupid "cloud enabled" Internet of Shit hardware into everything was an absolutely terrible idea.

New comment by rpcope1 in "I Won't Download Your App. The Web Version Is A-OK"

rpcope1 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:44:55 +0000

TurboTax, for all its faults is one of those where the desktop app is better than the webapp they keep pushing.

New comment by rpcope1 in "FCC updates covered list to include foreign-made consumer routers"

rpcope1 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 01:34:33 +0000

What exactly does "produced" mean in this context? That the final assembly was done here, software was written here, PCB was assembled here, SoCs and ICs wwre manufactured here, or something else? Regardless, while consumer routers are 9 of 10 times insecure garbage, it's hard to think of any that aren't manufactured outside the US.

New comment by rpcope1 in "Walmart: ChatGPT checkout converted 3x worse than website"

rpcope1 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:31:20 +0000

RockAuto also has what some might consider a "dated" interface, but honestly it's light years better than trying to use NAPA's or CarQuest's website or god forbid looking through dealership parts counter websites. I honestly wish regular retailers would have stuck more closely with what worked for more B2B focused ecommerce, i.e. I wish shopping Best Buy or Home Depot was more akin to McMaster, Fastenall or some of the nicer supply house web portals.

New comment by rpcope1 in "OpenClaw is a security nightmare dressed up as a daydream"

rpcope1 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 20:59:03 +0000

Even the navigation part, I'm not so sure. I remember Dad would bring a laptop when we would drive new places and it would be running Microsoft Streets and Trips with a GPS dongle, and I think that have been late 90s or early 00s. I remember seeing other people do that and by the time I was driving a lot in 07 I remember having a dash mounted GPS, maybe a Magellan or Garmin, that didn't cost that much and again I remember a lot of people doing it. The smartphone definitely displaced it, but it wasn't a complete novelty even for the general public.

New comment by rpcope1 in "The U.S. Ammo Shortage Is Worse Than You Think"

rpcope1 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:26:29 +0000

Hopefully your question is sarcasm, as it should be obvious why this is a terrible idea on many fronts.

In case it isn't, for starters, especially given the way the world seems to be changing these days, if you put all of your critical supplies in the hands of another nation, especially an adversary like China, you basically are at their beck and call when things get ugly. Even non-advesary states can either have regime change or just not want to deal with you, and all of a sudden everything is completely out of your control. Others basically own you at that point, which is obviously unacceptable from a defense or critical logistics standpoint.

On a whole other level, it's incredibly immoral and stupid that we're ok with externalizing problems that labor and environmental standards protect. If you wouldn't accept having your kin or friends work in the sort of conditions you see in many exploitative "cheap labor" centers overseas so much so that it's codified in law, why is it OK to just pawn it off on another nation's people? If you wouldn't accept the environmental damage that other countries seem willing to inflict, why is it suddenly ok when laundered as free trade, especially given how concerned we are with the global reach of environmental problems. If there were ever an application for tariffs that made sense it would be to ding the shit out of products and services that come from states that don't meet minimum levels of labor and environmental law.

The only reason we don't do this is that we're addicted to cheap shit and can't think more than maybe a year ahead.

New comment by rpcope1 in "OpenBSD: PF queues break the 4 Gbps barrier"

rpcope1 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:43:36 +0000

Just a single data point, but the BSDs in general, as much as people like to jerk them off, having tested both recent FreeBSD (which should be much faster than OpenBSD) and Debian on I guess the now kind of elderly APU2s I have, netfilter is noticably faster (and I find nftables to be frankly less challenging than pf) and gets those devices right at gigabit line speed even with complex firewall rules, where as pf leaves performance on the table. It probably has to do with the fact it's an older 4 core design that wasn't super high power to begin with (does still does its job extremely well), but still.

New comment by rpcope1 in "Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts"

rpcope1 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:49:27 +0000

That man must really hate his dog. I'm sure there's some ATF agents just salivating to Waco this guy.

Apollo's John Zito questions private equity's software valuations

rpcope1 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 23:17:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/16/apollo-john-zito-private-equity-software-valuations.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47406391

Points: 2

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New comment by rpcope1 in "Head of FCC threatens broadcaster licenses over critical coverage of Iran war"

rpcope1 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 01:34:11 +0000

Honestly the world might be a better place if the vast majority of spectrum were just ISM bands anyways.

New comment by rpcope1 in "Changes to OpenTTD Distribution on Steam"

rpcope1 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 23:06:11 +0000

I kind of doubt that. Chris Sawyer is on record being really hostile to open source reimaginations, especially OpenTTD (and it's just a reimagination at this point as OpenTTD shares no assets or code with it's predecessor). It wouldn't remotely surprise me if Atari was putting legal pressure on the OpenTTD devs.

New comment by rpcope1 in "Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI facial recognition"

rpcope1 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:15:40 +0000

There's no way this isn't a slam dunk case to sue the piss out of the Fargo Police, probably the US Marshals and maybe other orgs. The woman in the surveillance phone clearly looks way younger, among the many other obvious signs this woman didn't do it. I hope she wrings at least several million dollars out of the government.