Hacker News: slillibri

New comment by slillibri in "Amazon is adding a fuel surcharge to fees it collects from third-party sellers"

slillibri — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:39:03 +0000

Stopping marketing mail wouldn’t change the number of accelerations per mailbox. USPS would still need to check each stop for outgoing mail. The only difference would be in weight carried.

New comment by slillibri in "DeployTarot.com – Tarot card reading for deployments"

slillibri — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:08:29 +0000

> The cards observe it is Friday.

Um, where I am it's still Thursday.

New comment by slillibri in "Lessons you will learn living in a snowy place"

slillibri — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 06:06:33 +0000

The main lesson I learned was I didn’t have to live in a snowy place. I left SW Michigan in 2000 and haven’t looked back. I don’t like being cold, but I loathe snow and ice.

New comment by slillibri in "LiftKit – UI where "everything derives from the golden ratio""

slillibri — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 01:17:20 +0000

There is that, but I get the impression that you could hire an expert to help.

New comment by slillibri in "BillG the Manager (2021)"

slillibri — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 18:36:46 +0000

"So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated" This has to be my favorite part.

New comment by slillibri in "The most banned books in U.S. schools"

slillibri — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 19:57:11 +0000

I expect the bible is in virtually every public and school library in the US. It’s hardly a banned book by any measure.

New comment by slillibri in "Delivery robots take over Chicago sidewalks"

slillibri — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 22:46:38 +0000

I hate it because the last thing we need on sidewalks, at least here in Seattle, is more junk making it impossible to walk anywhere.

New comment by slillibri in "Solution to US debt crisis is severe austerity triggered by a fiscal calamity"

slillibri — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 14:45:27 +0000

Reminder that social security is funded entirely by a separate tax and not debt, so unless you are planning to cut benefits but continue the tax it would do nothing to reduce the deficit or debt.

New comment by slillibri in "The Ofcom Files, Part 4: Ofcom Rides Again"

slillibri — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 01:42:03 +0000

Hong Kong and New Zealand are Berne Convention countries so that would be the grounds for extradition. I don’t remember other countries signing up to enforce Ofcom’s laws.

New comment by slillibri in "Copper thieves are wreaking havoc across America"

slillibri — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 22:58:33 +0000

I highly doubt that anyone is doing 8 hours of BJs a day to pay for their habit.

New comment by slillibri in "Thoughts on Omarchy"

slillibri — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 09:39:04 +0000

I believe the answer is that English is a stupid language. Also, starchy (containing a relatively high amount of starch) doesn’t have a hard c.

New comment by slillibri in "Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's a slippery slope"

slillibri — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 23:35:59 +0000

> all legal to the T

You might want to check that because it's not so cut and dried: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_fictional_porn...

New comment by slillibri in "Overtourism in Japan, and how it hurts small businesses"

slillibri — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 16:22:28 +0000

Don't forget Yoshinoya, Sukiya, or Cafe Gusto.

New comment by slillibri in "The National Guard Deployment in LA Is a Threat to Democracy"

slillibri — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 22:50:40 +0000

The national guard was deployed to Kent State by the governor. The last time the guard was deployed without the governor’s consent was to protect civil rights marchers in Selma in 1965.

New comment by slillibri in "Let's Talk About the Bidet, the Bathroom's Best-Kept Secret"

slillibri — Sun, 11 May 2025 19:53:19 +0000

The Toto washlets I used in Japan were plenty powerful, plus they had adjustments for pressure and temperature.

New comment by slillibri in "Driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes"

slillibri — Fri, 02 May 2025 19:38:00 +0000

The problem with this is we live in a 24 hour world. When I worked 2nd shift, I got out of work at 2am so I would have to “choose not to” use the highway to get home. Also, emergency vehicles also use highways.

New comment by slillibri in "ICE director envisions Amazon-like mass deportation system"

slillibri — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 12:15:21 +0000

True, but there is this mythology that all prisons in the USA are private prisons controlled solely by corporations, which is wildly untrue. Public prisons aren't much better than private prisons, due to the fact that they are just punishment and not rehabilitation. On your second point, undocumented immigrants also count in the census and give more weight in representation and elections, even though they cannot vote. In a perfect world, we would expect elected officials to represent all of their constituents, not just those who voted for them, but we are far from that.

New comment by slillibri in "ICE director envisions Amazon-like mass deportation system"

slillibri — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 11:50:19 +0000

Nationally, there are less than 10% of incarcerated people in private prisons. This number starts to vary widely from state to state though, with some states having more than 50% and some having 0%.

New comment by slillibri in "Ask HN: Why is uptalk intonation so prevalent in ChatGPT voices?"

slillibri — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 17:53:23 +0000

They are still working on a realistic vocal fry?

New comment by slillibri in "IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp"

slillibri — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 01:57:32 +0000

HCL isn’t a programming language. This seems to be the main misconception about it and Terraform.