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New comment by satiric in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

satiric — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:57:24 +0000

Of course the proof in the pudding is in the eating, but just saying that they want to do this stuff is at least a slight improvement over before, where we mostly just saw apathy and enshittification. It's also a promise that people can hold them to if they fail.

New comment by satiric in "British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time"

satiric — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 01:06:33 +0000

Mountain time is ambiguous due to Arizona, and yet we still use that phrase. Hawaii-Aleutian time is also ambiguous: the Aleutian islands do daylight savings, but Hawaii doesn't.

Casual speech doesn't use the city names (like America/Los_Angeles for pacific time); presumably we'd have Pacific time (America/Los_Angeles) and BC time (an update of the existing America/Vancouver). If Washington's time change ever gets approved it would presumably become simply Washington time (America/Seattle maybe?).

New comment by satiric in "New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes"

satiric — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 10:12:22 +0000

Preventing pasting would drastically reduce how often people cite their sources; no one wants to hand copy a long url.

New comment by satiric in "Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway"

satiric — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 04:16:34 +0000

Roadster launch is supposed to be on April 1st... Hard to think of any response other than "once bitten, twice shy"

New comment by satiric in "10th Person"

satiric — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 23:12:18 +0000

I think I've been this person before, but I've also been the person that makes the meeting go on for 20 minutes longer than necessary by bringing up stuff that doesn't need to be talked about in a big meeting. I've also been the one who thought he knew enough to try and force his opinion, when actually I was just being confidently wrong and not listening to others. So there's a time and a place.

New comment by satiric in "A shortage of tenors"

satiric — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 04:19:41 +0000

In John Adams' Harmonium, I was surprised to learn the basses go into treble clef for a second. I hadn't sung untransposed treble clef in many years! I think it was only an F#4 or A4 or something but it felt real strange to be singing in the treble clef again.

New comment by satiric in "The RCE that AMD won't fix"

satiric — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 08:39:37 +0000

Here it is on archive.org, since the original was taken down (hey, the cat's out of the bag now): https://web.archive.org/web/20260205155934/https://mrbruh.co...

New comment by satiric in "TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe"

satiric — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 22:33:56 +0000

I use an addon for firefox called "Hide shorts for Youtube™". Works just fine.

New comment by satiric in "New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers"

satiric — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 04:56:54 +0000

The g-code is not being distributed, because it's specific to each printer, filament, etc. G-code is not the same thing as a STP or STL file.

New comment by satiric in "We can’t send mail farther than 500 miles (2002)"

satiric — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:55:10 +0000

It would have made for a great puzzler.

New comment by satiric in "Tesla is killing off the Model S and Model X"

satiric — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 02:24:34 +0000

My faulty memory is the only source - looks like I was remembering that he became CEO in 2008. The Wikipedia article for the model S says they began design in 2007.

New comment by satiric in "Tesla is killing off the Model S and Model X"

satiric — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:33:28 +0000

The days when it was exciting to see a Tesla model S seem like a distant memory now. Elon wasn't even at Tesla when they started the model S design. The US EV tax credit had not begun, and Obama was still just the junior senator from Illinois.

New comment by satiric in "So, you’ve hit an age gate. What now?"

satiric — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 09:19:45 +0000

I wondered for a while why I got so many ads targeted towards seniors when I made my facebook account as a kid. Then I remembered my birth year was set to 1905. I guess I should let the Guinness World Records know that their listing for oldest man in the world is inaccurate.

New comment by satiric in "Texas A&M bans part of Plato's Symposium"

satiric — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 04:23:34 +0000

For those like me wondering what in this syllabus they should be looking at, the key bit is the required reading in the middle of the second page: "Plato, excerpts from Symposium" instead of just "Plato's Symposium".

Edit: weird. On the app I'm using ("Harmonic") it redirects to a syllabus PDF. But when I open in a browser it opens to an article.

New comment by satiric in "Eat Real Food"

satiric — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 23:28:30 +0000

Talking about "concern for secondary effects like autism" legitimizes the theory, whether you wanted to or not; that's why the person you responded to got annoyed.

New comment by satiric in "-tucky (2023)"

satiric — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:19:53 +0000

Cf. Spokompton (Spokane, WA + Compton).

New comment by satiric in "Exe.dev"

satiric — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:17:01 +0000

Thanks. I feel like I expect home pages to contain at least a modicum of information. And three seconds spent thinking about accessibility would have told them that light gray links on a white background are a terrible idea...

New comment by satiric in "You used to be able to just create a Native GUI App in 10 seconds"

satiric — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 22:11:40 +0000

Someone replied to that post "notice how fast everything is to launch", but did Visual Basic really start up that fast back in the day? I'm old enough to have used XP as a kid, and I remember the languorous boot times, but I never programmed on it. My guess is that XP is running in a VM on modern hardware in this GIF.

New comment by satiric in "The Nova Programming Language"

satiric — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 18:10:03 +0000

This feels like prolog, although I don't remember much about prolog apart from writing about 3 lines to get a CS degree. What puts this apart from prolog? (And are there, you know, reasons for using the language?)

New comment by satiric in "New Glenn Update"

satiric — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:45:00 +0000

Welcome to Earth. Some countries use different unit systems. (Some even use a hodge podge of multiple systems!) Please enjoy your stay.