Hacker News: sitzkrieg

New comment by sitzkrieg in "Vim Classic 8.3 Released"

sitzkrieg — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:44:15 +0000

it’s doing a funny on “retarded”

New comment by sitzkrieg in "Ask HN: How to escalate a rejected Google extension?"

sitzkrieg — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:37:31 +0000

google is an ad company. mow different lawns

New comment by sitzkrieg in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

sitzkrieg — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:29:25 +0000

and both saw the world through an inherited training/feed bias and censorship, hurray!

New comment by sitzkrieg in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

sitzkrieg — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:27:36 +0000

people have already become accustomed to low quality software, luckily just in time for ai llms to finally start generating somewhat usable code (in small context) for h1b prompt pilots. silicon valley rejoicing

New comment by sitzkrieg in "Roku LT Operating System open source distribution"

sitzkrieg — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:21:20 +0000

after looking at it, i would use anything else over the roku stuff if i felt the need for tasking. bare metal esp32 is easy with the espressif sdk anyway .

esp32 is way too power budget heavy for anything using batteries though. even using all deep sleep available a msp430 will leave it in the dust by a large factor. i’m surprised they use such large devices in remotes but go figure

New comment by sitzkrieg in "What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications"

sitzkrieg — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:56:40 +0000

1000s of people have their alarm on ios go off completely silent daily. mine did it 6 days in a week before i got a physical alarm clock. and yes, all the usual settings are correct. more H1Bs please!

New comment by sitzkrieg in "Reviving Teletext for Ham Radio"

sitzkrieg — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:36:24 +0000

aprs is basically here

New comment by sitzkrieg in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

sitzkrieg — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:34:36 +0000

windows 10 LTSC has none of these problems and every software i use on it runs faster than on my 2023 mac. but decruddibg up your install , which is a 5 minute and massgravel away, is only valid from one direction for apple fanboys

New comment by sitzkrieg in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

sitzkrieg — Sat, 30 May 2026 20:25:45 +0000

you misspelled wealthy

New comment by sitzkrieg in "The Last Technical Interview"

sitzkrieg — Sat, 30 May 2026 20:20:28 +0000

is this sarcasm? tech industry has some of the worst layoffs ever. i have personally seen several different employers notify employees day of firing they no longer have a job

New comment by sitzkrieg in "What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications"

sitzkrieg — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:19:58 +0000

apple can’t even make a working alarm clock on a smartphone

New comment by sitzkrieg in "News about Raspberry Pi 6 and Microcontroller Development"

sitzkrieg — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:18:56 +0000

raspberry pi has terrible power management as well. turning off a core was impossible on previous generations for example. a few years ago rpi was the worst of all sbcs we measured for battery powered usages. this was for an actual embedded product so it wasn’t going to be used either way (ask broadcom for some chips HAHA)

but there is very little reason to use a rpi over other sbcs if you have a remote idea what you’re doing beyond hobby use

New comment by sitzkrieg in "sp.h: Fixing C by giving it a high quality, ultra portable standard library"

sitzkrieg — Sat, 23 May 2026 18:52:06 +0000

in just the past ten years i’ve had to write asm for x86, arm, mips, riscv, 8051 and something else i can’t even remember. generalizing rules

New comment by sitzkrieg in "The FBI Wants 'Near Real-Time' Access to US License Plate Readers"

sitzkrieg — Sat, 23 May 2026 18:46:22 +0000

that’s great but these plate readers have nothing to do with that.

New comment by sitzkrieg in "Don't Sign in with Google"

sitzkrieg — Tue, 19 May 2026 01:57:42 +0000

using google in 2026 is self imposed risk

New comment by sitzkrieg in "Hosting a website on an 8-bit microcontroller"

sitzkrieg — Sun, 17 May 2026 14:09:33 +0000

silabs efm8 series is great (and fast lil buggers)

New comment by sitzkrieg in "WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward"

sitzkrieg — Fri, 15 May 2026 05:29:57 +0000

explorer opens instantly on my windows desktop. i cannot replicate this on any mac.

New comment by sitzkrieg in "Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude"

sitzkrieg — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:11:18 +0000

very trustworthy of the system sharing your taxes with a third party

New comment by sitzkrieg in "AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved"

sitzkrieg — Wed, 13 May 2026 01:24:29 +0000

fair point. credit where it is due not a user but my understanding is netflix never went down w us-east-1 :-)

New comment by sitzkrieg in "An Introduction to Meshtastic"

sitzkrieg — Sat, 09 May 2026 14:51:45 +0000

or miles easily on 900mhz if you’re on a hill…