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New comment by smcnc in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

smcnc — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:50:37 +0000

I was merely responding to replies directed at me. But that is probably good advice. No opinion was ever changed online. :)

New comment by smcnc in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

smcnc — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:40:30 +0000

“Flee and reside in hotels” not equal to relocate and continue mission. The major operational staff at these bases still work there. Support was relocated not fleeing.

New comment by smcnc in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

smcnc — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:22:35 +0000

US soldiers get hotels when fleeing? Wtf lol

New comment by smcnc in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

smcnc — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:12:37 +0000

US blew up C-130s stuck in sand. A few got shot up. Iranians on the ground got the brunt of the bullets, however.

New comment by smcnc in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

smcnc — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:11:18 +0000

There’s a difference between occupation (where this wins) and deterrence (where they can’t attack your country). The latter was the primary objective.

New comment by smcnc in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

smcnc — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:08:24 +0000

Define defeat here. I think everyone in this thread confuses actual defeat with indifference and political risk. If the US military could be defeated so easily America would cease to exist, no? It just loses interest and moves on. Nobody attacks the US because they would lose.

New comment by smcnc in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

smcnc — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:03:44 +0000

This is now Vietnam with no boots on the ground or years of war? Wow! Thanks

New comment by smcnc in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

smcnc — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:02:10 +0000

More leverage with less conventional firepower? Objectives of reducing conventional military threats and nuclear weapons seem less now, no?

New comment by smcnc in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

smcnc — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:58:48 +0000

Uncertainty.

New comment by smcnc in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

smcnc — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:57:25 +0000

> 90% destruction of military is meaningless if 10% can wreck havoc on the strait. The cost associated with eliminating that 10% was deemed too much. That is Iran’s “win”.

New comment by smcnc in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

smcnc — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:56:36 +0000

Agree with same comment as above.

> This is true. 90% destruction of military is meaningless if 10% can wreck havoc on the strait. The cost associated with eliminating that 10% was deemed too much. That is Iran’s “win”.

New comment by smcnc in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

smcnc — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:55:28 +0000

This is true. 90% destruction of military is meaningless if 10% can wreck havoc on the strait. The cost associated with eliminating that 10% was deemed too much. That is Iran’s “win”.

New comment by smcnc in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

smcnc — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:53:18 +0000

Cost of insurance for ships did.

New comment by smcnc in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

smcnc — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:51:30 +0000

Search and rescue. Yes, it takes assets. Correct.

New comment by smcnc in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

smcnc — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:44:13 +0000

Insightful

New comment by smcnc in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

smcnc — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:29:27 +0000

I don’t see how the majority of comments paint this as a victory for Iran. Your entire formal military apparatus was destroyed, nuclear sites in rubble, defense industrial complex leveled, two levels of leadership KIA, and the only thing preventing you from permanent destruction or regime change is an impotent threat of attacking ships? I guess I’m missing something. War sucks but in this case Iran is a shell of the threat it was a month ago.

New comment by smcnc in "Show HN: Terminal UI for AWS"

smcnc — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:42:57 +0000

It’s pretty clear it was your post/project you reference, but how do you know he got inspiration from you? Did OP post on your Reddit post, confirming they were even aware of it?

Creating a tool via a LLM based on a similar idea isn’t quite stealing.

New comment by smcnc in "Comptime – C# meta-programming with compile-time code generation and evaluation"

smcnc — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 02:30:17 +0000

I think Zig really shines here: https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#comptime

New comment by smcnc in "Yellen says government will help SVB depositors but rules out bailout"

smcnc — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 22:01:11 +0000

I’m personally fine with US gov backstopping depositors (but leaving equity unbacked) for the specific case of SVB, but the ultimate question remains: if the US government insures unsecured deposits over $250k (even if no practical risk with long term assets on balance sheet as collateral), doesn’t this in effect create a precedent of no upper limit to FDIC insurance moving forward? So now taxpayers are on the hook for all bank deposits (thus, creating potential for more reckless behavior by regional bank CEO/CFO/CIOs). Isn’t that somewhat dangerous?

New comment by smcnc in "Show HN: Wasp – DSL/framework for building full-stack web apps – now in beta"

smcnc — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 13:33:51 +0000

We don't have an uninstall script at this time, but the install is pretty localized. You get a directory called wasp-lang under ~/.local/share and a binary called wasp in ~/.local/bin.