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New comment by shinjitsu in "Tesla Roadster"

shinjitsu — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:42:58 +0000

>Wow you must drive a lot.

300 miles a week in a full sized van and 10K is a three year supply of gas at current prices.

Linus Torvalds let Claude Code fix the Linux page cache. reviewers found a race

shinjitsu — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:13:59 +0000

Article URL: https://thenewstack.io/torvalds-claude-code-kernel/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50104879

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

New comment by shinjitsu in "Who the welfare state protects shapes a country’s financial openness"

shinjitsu — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 21:50:08 +0000

I think also the ridiculous nature of the automobile market is a significant secondary problem in the US. When the median new vehicle is $49000 and the median annual salary (pretax) is ~$65,000 that isn't sustainable.

New comment by shinjitsu in "Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore"

shinjitsu — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:34:08 +0000

I actually require the book the Jon Bodner was talking about in a class I teach every couple of years. The students who do well (the ones you would want to hire) will read it, the others will skim or try to summarize it

New comment by shinjitsu in "Franklin's bad ads for Apple II clones and the beloved impersonator they depict"

shinjitsu — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:40:57 +0000

Patrick Santore - he worked there sometime in the mid-late 1980s

New comment by shinjitsu in "Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics (2023)"

shinjitsu — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:44:18 +0000

How much of the school closures are because of declining enrollment? https://www.bostonindicators.org/article-pages/2024/june/emp... https://www.bu.edu/articles/2025/public-school-enrollment-do...

New comment by shinjitsu in "Franklin's bad ads for Apple II clones and the beloved impersonator they depict"

shinjitsu — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:11:09 +0000

How big was the Franklin back then? My uncle worked there in the 1980s, but I was a kid and have no concept of if it was a scappy startup or a midsized company.

New comment by shinjitsu in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

shinjitsu — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:05:29 +0000

As a fan of Heinlein's book, the movie flattened the exploration of the political themes from the book and turned it into said black comedy. It would be like turning Animal House or Lord of the Flies into a black comedy.

New comment by shinjitsu in "The Junior Hiring Crisis"

shinjitsu — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 20:11:20 +0000

>Despising older folks has been a thing a long time, made famous by Zuck starting out.

and before that is was hippies with "Don't trust anyone over 30" which became deeply ingrained in at least American culture.

New comment by shinjitsu in "The Junior Hiring Crisis"

shinjitsu — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:46:39 +0000

Sometimes people who are able to talk a lot do quite well in interviews - and University students need to be exposed to a wide variety of topics, but rarely support large projects for a long time, so that wouldn't be something that would come up in an interview.

New comment by shinjitsu in "D&D is Anti-Medieval"

shinjitsu — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:08:13 +0000

So Thundarr the Barbarian?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_4HBH6Z-Iw

New comment by shinjitsu in "Are US EV sales a disaster or a booming segment? The answer may be both"

shinjitsu — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 16:13:16 +0000

Right you are - if cheap was all that matter the Yugo would have been everywhere https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a21082360/a-quick-hist...

New comment by shinjitsu in "Why Is the Press Attacking Home Schoolers?"

shinjitsu — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 14:36:52 +0000

My parents were public school teachers for decades. When our oldest son was getting to be school aged they recommended that we homeschool because as they said "It is nothing like when you went to school".

When I met an old high school classmate who is a public school teacher in the district we both live in (300 miles away from where we grew up), she also said something similar.

New comment by shinjitsu in "Gen Z is lonely. Going back to the office may be the cure for some"

shinjitsu — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 12:39:19 +0000

large cities seeing erosion of their tax base are also hiring PR firms I think

New comment by shinjitsu in "SCOTUS to decide if public officials can block critics online"

shinjitsu — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 20:02:12 +0000

Well The local governor of Hawaii used twitter to cancel a missile alert - so it isn't that wild an idea

https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/23/16923080/hawaii-governor-...

New comment by shinjitsu in "13 States join the IRS direct-file test after tax prep firms dropped the ball"

shinjitsu — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 15:56:11 +0000

Now if only they could do something like this for states. Some of the high pop high tax states are far worse to file for than the feds.

New comment by shinjitsu in "X.org Alternatives? MicroXWin, Wayland, Y, DFB, Xynth, Fresco, etc. (2009)"

shinjitsu — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 15:20:52 +0000

Wayland has struck me for years as being the new IPv6, the tech that the deep technical people tell me needs to come and replace the old thing that "doesn't work any more" and yet never quite takes over.

maybe the year of critical mass switchover will be soon?

New comment by shinjitsu in "I thought I wanted to be a professor, then I served on a hiring committee (2021)"

shinjitsu — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 14:25:44 +0000

Was the one who got tenure the one who brought in bigger grants? Unfortunately in the R1 Universities these days that is probably the most important thing, even more than your academic family tree https://academictree.org/

New comment by shinjitsu in "Are the Americans Awake?"

shinjitsu — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 14:24:53 +0000

>then I'd argue Maine should be in -4.5 instead of -5. Maine knows it should be in Atlantic, it just doesn't want to be more isolated from the rest of the country than it already is https://www.pressherald.com/2017/04/27/maine-may-switch-to-a...

New comment by shinjitsu in "Brazil develops tropical wheat and predicts self-sufficiency in 5 years"

shinjitsu — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 00:25:47 +0000

An interesting take on this. Will it lead to a general increase for the Global South?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKvT7OS-lbU