Hacker News: seanalltogether

New comment by seanalltogether in "Tesla Balance Bike"

seanalltogether — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:55:38 +0000

We bought our kid a balance bike for £45, there is no need to go much above that price.

New comment by seanalltogether in "If you're a button, you have one job"

seanalltogether — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:37:45 +0000

Its a perfect illustration of the tradeoffs between synchronous and asynchronous logic. Synchronous logic allows for maximal consistency at the cost of wasting time. Asynchronous logic allows you to use time efficiently, but requires you to track all the different states you can be in simultaneously.

New comment by seanalltogether in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

seanalltogether — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:49:33 +0000

I've reached an age where I don't actually buy games anymore, I just load up my wishlist with games and between Christmas, birthday and fathers day I get all the games I will care to play for the year. My wife, parents, extended family likes being able to buy me a physical gift, wrap it, and hand it to me. I understand that this is just getting rid of the disc and keeping the box, but pretty soon there's gonna be no box either, and I know my wife will hate the idea of just handing me a gift card on special days. I just hate how all physical products are evaporating.

New comment by seanalltogether in "Steam Machine launches today"

seanalltogether — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:00:54 +0000

If Valve wants users to compare the Steam Machine to a PC, then it's going to be outdated in 6 months.

New comment by seanalltogether in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

seanalltogether — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 13:37:20 +0000

Is it really unified memory? AMD Strix Halo is "unified" but you still have to allocate memory separately for cpu vs gpu. Apple Silicon is true unified memory.

New comment by seanalltogether in "Nvidia RTX Spark"

seanalltogether — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:25:05 +0000

"Unified Memory" still means divided address space right? You have to pre-allocate system vs gpu and copy from one to the other?

New comment by seanalltogether in "Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans"

seanalltogether — Fri, 22 May 2026 10:15:17 +0000

Ireland has this and honestly I hate it now. It's impossible to get tickets unless you win the lottery to buy them when they first go on sale. Paying a premium to buy them on the second hand market sucked, but at least I could make that calculation and decide which bands I was willing to pay to actually see. Now, I can't see any of the big bands anymore. I just wish they'd reserve like 1/3 of the tickets for an auction system or something.

New comment by seanalltogether in "Google changes its search box"

seanalltogether — Tue, 19 May 2026 22:00:28 +0000

"When is Stephen Colberts last show?"

"The last episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is airing on Thursday, May 21, 2026. Based on your interest in The Late Show with Stephen Colbert you might also like the new Amazon Prime Video series of Last One Laughing, available to stream now"

Does that answer your question?

New comment by seanalltogether in "Why IPv6 is so complicated"

seanalltogether — Sat, 02 May 2026 16:38:59 +0000

personally I just hate this -> http://[0123::4567]:5000/whatever

New comment by seanalltogether in "Rust Memory Management: Ownership vs. Reference Counting"

seanalltogether — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:02:34 +0000

I've not really used Rust, and I can certainly appreciate the goal of the language. However this code bothers me, and I can't really articulate why.

    struct Node {
        value: i32,
        children: Vec>>>,
        parent: Option>>>, // Weak breaks parent→child cycle
    }

I understand its all boxes inside boxes inside boxes, but as an outsider it looks confusing mixing data type semantics with memory managment semantics.

New comment by seanalltogether in "'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win $34,000 Polymarket bet"

seanalltogether — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:29:10 +0000

People with cryptocurrency and no idea what to do with it.

New comment by seanalltogether in "3.4M Solar Panels"

seanalltogether — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:39:27 +0000

He just does this with all his blog posts, don't overthink it. The tech industry is full of people with unexpected quirks.

New comment by seanalltogether in "NASA Force"

seanalltogether — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:15:43 +0000

> The appropriated FY2026 budget has the largest discrepancy from the White House Request since 1987 at nearly 30%.[3] The request, submitted in May 2025, proposed a 24% cut to NASA's overall budget.[4] In January 2026, Congress passed the final budget, rejecting nearly all of the proposed cuts.

From wikipedia. The white house is pushing for major cuts to Nasa

New comment by seanalltogether in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

seanalltogether — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:12:58 +0000

Does this also apply to sites like instagram that simply erase your entire back button history if you visit the site.

New comment by seanalltogether in "The Physics of GPS"

seanalltogether — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:23:03 +0000

Do the satellites broadcast their own position, or is that all held in a database on your phone? Also why is it so draining on your battery to get GPS location, if it's just solving a simple calculation.

New comment by seanalltogether in "White House staff told not to place bets on prediction markets"

seanalltogether — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:26:04 +0000

I remember reading something awhile ago in regards to why people were investing in NFTs when it seemed so clear they were a scam. The gist of it was that it's easy to get into cryptocurrency, but it's hard to get out. KYC, taxes, age requirements, currency fees, etc are enough of a barrier that many people would rather just keep those assets in virtual space. Polymarket is the answer to the question "Well what else am I gonna do with this crypto I own"

New comment by seanalltogether in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

seanalltogether — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:40:19 +0000

I wish I could donate without entering an email address.

New comment by seanalltogether in "When legal sports betting surges, so do Americans' financial problems"

seanalltogether — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:50:26 +0000

When I was in college I got lured into one of those pyramid schemes advertised in the middle of the night hoping to make extra money. I wonder how much money I would have lost if I had instant access to betting on a "sure thing" back then.

New comment by seanalltogether in "Neanderthals survived on a knife's edge for 350k years"

seanalltogether — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 10:07:44 +0000

I think about this a lot. How much anxiety do most people feel from the millions of options that are available to them daily, or young adults that are told they can be anything they want, but clam up and choose to do nothing instead.

New comment by seanalltogether in "Android Developer Verification"

seanalltogether — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:16:01 +0000

"This is so clearly a matter for government oversight: prevent abuse, protect the citizen's safety, rights, welfare, etc. It's not reasonable to expect consumers to figure out if the meat they buy is tainted, just as it's not to figure out if the APPS THEY INSTALL spies on them, manipulates information, or sells their data"

Do you see how quickly that argument can be flipped to support what google is doing here? Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if half the reason to to lock down phones is because governments keep pressuring them to do so.