Hacker News: sco1

New comment by sco1 in "The only known trebuchet casualty in history"

sco1 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:42:12 +0000

They typically weren't trying to hit people with them.

New comment by sco1 in "Fed's Kashkari says 'now is the time to start slowly moving' rates up"

sco1 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:53:34 +0000

> Corporate earnings are through the roof. They’re doing great. The consumer is hanging in there. The labor market is hanging in there.

Are we though?

Thank god corporate profits are ok...

New comment by sco1 in "Eight Newly Produced MQ-9 Reaper Drones Destroyed in Iranian Strike"

sco1 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:33:08 +0000

> Whatever your opinions on the war itself, this has been a fascinating exercise in how a small regional power has militarily defeated the global hegemon relatively cheaply (ie with a military budgets 1% of the size).

It's honestly perplexing how major powers seem incapable of learning from history. Short of nukes, bombing a country into submission has never worked. Even now the Ukraine War is here just staring everyone in the face and yet the same mistakes are being made all over again?

Iran has been preparing for this for decades, and has apparently been paying attention to everything going on in the region. What has everyone else been doing? Is it just arrogance?

New comment by sco1 in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"

sco1 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 01:24:13 +0000

This is sad. I've been using a few read-only lurking apps to browse reddit for a while now and unfortunately this change seems to have broken most of them.

I tried looking into how to do things the "correct" way nowadays and they seem to have completely changed their app platform since the last time I looked. They've completely locked out the old method for requesting API access in favor of whatever this Devvit thing is: https://developers.reddit.com/docs/

If you want just plain old data access you have to submit a help ticket, which as far as I can tell just goes completely ignored if it doesn't get rejected outright by some automation.

New comment by sco1 in "Google Flight Simulator"

sco1 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:18:56 +0000

I'm pretty surprised they brought something fun and charming forward instead of sending it to the graveyard.

New comment by sco1 in "Cats Lock – keyboard lock for cat people"

sco1 — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:53:27 +0000

The App Store description is more helpful: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cats-lock/id6763495406

New comment by sco1 in "I Spent My Sabbatical Building a Power Meter for Sledgehammers"

sco1 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:08:00 +0000

> How do you travel and see the world like that?

Wait until we're old enough to retire and then can maybe afford it.

New comment by sco1 in "Show HN: Built a daily game where you sort historical events chronologically"

sco1 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:32:57 +0000

Very fun! My family is a big fan of the Chronology card game (https://buffalogames.com/chronology/), hopefully this helps me win next next time :)

New comment by sco1 in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

sco1 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:39:47 +0000

> Not a popular election where people vote to put new people in charge, which necessarily means removing the old people in charge.

More than a year after they took office and in the middle of a war?

New comment by sco1 in "OVH forgot they donated documentation hosting to Pandas"

sco1 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:46:22 +0000

It does appear to potentially be possible: https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/pull/64585

New comment by sco1 in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

sco1 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:06:39 +0000

There is already genai.mil: https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4354916/

New comment by sco1 in "Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce"

sco1 — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 18:21:32 +0000

> I can think of many ways to generate more bullshit and emails

Like Elon's weekly 5 bullet summary of what you did this past week :)

New comment by sco1 in "Dict Unpacking in Python"

sco1 — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 00:27:41 +0000

The author also has an accompanying video: https://youtu.be/eqiM0xRmFJg

New comment by sco1 in "PEP 779: Free-threaded Python is officially supported"

sco1 — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:22:03 +0000

You can read the details in PEP 703: https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/

New comment by sco1 in "Uber raises in-office requirement to 3 days, claws back remote workers"

sco1 — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:37:10 +0000

Easy! Just give me a laptop with spyware on it :)

New comment by sco1 in "uv downloads overtake Poetry for Wagtail users"

sco1 — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 15:09:27 +0000

tox-uv has been a great selling point for my personal use of uv. I'm typically testing across 4-5 different versions of Python and the build speedup has been significant.

New comment by sco1 in ".aq"

sco1 — Thu, 16 May 2024 19:11:12 +0000

For now!

New comment by sco1 in "Ontario family doctor says new AI notetaking saved her job"

sco1 — Fri, 03 May 2024 13:15:45 +0000

> but you're technically not supposed to use instrument navigation until your certified to do so

What do you mean by this? Not having an IFR rating does not mean you're not allowed to use the navigation aids or the plane's autopilot.

New comment by sco1 in "Python Project-Local Virtualenv Management Redux"

sco1 — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 20:30:03 +0000

Poetry does no management of Python versions.

New comment by sco1 in "Apple's New CarPlay Becomes Last Hope to Crack the Auto Industry"

sco1 — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 18:38:01 +0000

It's from their 2022 WWDC presentation: https://youtu.be/q5D55G7Ejs8?t=2271