Hacker News: selectodude

New comment by selectodude in ""Not Medically Necessary": Helping America's Health Insurers Deny Coverage"

selectodude — Wed, 13 May 2026 20:11:32 +0000

As long as you accept the outcome of “drop dead” when something happens to you.

Problem is you’ll go right to the emergency room when you have a heart attack.

New comment by selectodude in "Googlebook"

selectodude — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:23:52 +0000

My wife got upset with me when I dns-blocked all the ads.

It sounds totally insane but we’re the minority here. That’s why Google is a $4.5 trillion company.

New comment by selectodude in "US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos"

selectodude — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:42:31 +0000

Too little too late, unfortunately. The train has left the station.

New comment by selectodude in "Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off"

selectodude — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:28:19 +0000

Blue Cruise is far more upfront about its abilities than whatever deadly beta garbage Tesla keeps tossing out there.

New comment by selectodude in "Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off"

selectodude — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:38:08 +0000

F150 Lightning checked all those boxes and also isn’t a complete piece of shit that sheds parts on the road.

New comment by selectodude in "Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense"

selectodude — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:27:11 +0000

It really isn’t. The fact that it seems like people can’t use descriptive adjectives on HN is always so bizarre to me.

New comment by selectodude in "Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense"

selectodude — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:29:49 +0000

I don’t think we need to be providing proof that the sky is blue at this point but here you go.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/oct/31/tucker-carlson...

New comment by selectodude in "Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense"

selectodude — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:33:07 +0000

I’m happy to report I am able to hold both violations of the law and ethics rules in similar contempt.

New comment by selectodude in "Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense"

selectodude — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:12:16 +0000

I’m not entirely sure if you understand what fiduciary duty actually means if you read federal ethics laws and don’t make the connection. Just because you can’t control+f “fiduciary duty” doesn’t mean the concept isn’t identical. Hell, there’s literally a law that bans insider trading futures on unknown information. Not “kind of like it”, literally named verbatim.

And I’m not putting words in your mouth, I’m just calling out your revealed preferences.

New comment by selectodude in "Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense"

selectodude — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:57:56 +0000

Look, just come out and say you’re okay with them doing what they’re doing. Stop making arguments that are just verifiably untrue.

> Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to declare that such Members and employees owe a duty arising from a relationship of trust and confidence to Congress, the U.S. government, and U.S. citizens with respect to material, nonpublic information derived from their positions as Members or congressional employees or gained from performance of the individual's official responsibilities.

(Sec. 5) Amends the Commodity Exchange Act to apply to Members and congressional employees, or to judicial officers or employees its prohibitions against certain transactions, involving the purchase or sale of any commodity in interstate commerce, or for future delivery, or any swap.

Extends the meaning of "covered government person" (currently restricted to Members of Congress and congressional employees) to include the President, Vice President, an employee of the U.S. Postal Service or the Postal Regulatory Commission, or any other executive branch employee.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/senate-bill/203...

New comment by selectodude in "Apple Cuts More Mac Studio and Mac Mini RAM Options as Memory Shortage Worsens"

selectodude — Tue, 05 May 2026 22:08:30 +0000

They don’t use ARM IP. They have an architecture license. They basically created aarch64.

New comment by selectodude in "World's biggest RC A380 [video]"

selectodude — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:57:49 +0000

Apparently the real big ones are like $100k.

New comment by selectodude in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

selectodude — Mon, 04 May 2026 02:32:44 +0000

Spirit's assets are almost entirely their slots at ORD, EWR, LAX and LGA. They don't many of their planes.

New comment by selectodude in "Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected"

selectodude — Mon, 04 May 2026 00:02:34 +0000

Tough to decide who I trust less, denuvo or a ring-0 hypervisor I downloaded off BitTorrent.

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

selectodude — Sat, 02 May 2026 16:37:28 +0000

https://www.juniper.net/documentation/us/en/software/junos/n...

New comment by selectodude in "How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?"

selectodude — Sat, 02 May 2026 16:27:52 +0000

Yes it did. You just couldn’t use it. I could send a text message while listening to music. Sometimes the music would crash due to OOM.

New comment by selectodude in "Ti-84 Evo"

selectodude — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:56:17 +0000

Decent? I'm not sure the new CAS models do anything that the TI-89 didn't.

New comment by selectodude in "AI uses less water than the public thinks"

selectodude — Fri, 01 May 2026 18:43:44 +0000

Open loop cooling can work fine if they use greywater. The water isn’t potable anymore, but it goes into the sky and becomes clean again.

It’s all just a lack of imagination.

New comment by selectodude in "10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home"

selectodude — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:24:31 +0000

I think a lot of patents have recently expired for 10GbaseT. I’ve noticed it getting a lot more accessible.

New comment by selectodude in "Mistral Medium 3.5"

selectodude — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:07:09 +0000

80 percent as good for 20 percent the cost.