Hacker News: smegsicle

New comment by smegsicle in "Apple has locked me in the same cage Microsoft's built for Windows 10 users"

smegsicle — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 03:45:40 +0000

engines are expensive, processors are cheap. and as revamp and degerret pointed out the hardware is a lossleader for the appstore

here's a nickel to buy a real computer, as they say

New comment by smegsicle in "Mozilla's response to proposed remedies in U.S. vs. Google"

smegsicle — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 04:48:28 +0000

does 'a lot' mean like almost half?

New comment by smegsicle in "McDonald's gives its restaurants an AI makeover"

smegsicle — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:23:25 +0000

why don't you explain how the f-35 works then smart guy

New comment by smegsicle in "I recreated Shazam's algorithm with Go [video]"

smegsicle — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 22:43:08 +0000

i want to believe

New comment by smegsicle in "Fans are better than tech at organizing information online (2019)"

smegsicle — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 17:56:12 +0000

yeah but that's like walmart greeter tier labor and super nice farm fresh eggs

New comment by smegsicle in "Dust from car brakes more harmful than exhaust, study finds"

smegsicle — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:22:11 +0000

stop signs considered harmful

New comment by smegsicle in "Nocc – A Distributed C++ Compiler"

smegsicle — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 14:42:17 +0000

a useless comment lacking any kind of comparison

why don't you say what they meant to say but better, in less words?

New comment by smegsicle in "I tasted Honda's spicy rodent-repelling tape and I will do it again (2021)"

smegsicle — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 20:23:01 +0000

boiling corn in limestone pots makes it taste better

New comment by smegsicle in "The Cost of Being Invisible: Dis-Inclusion's Toll on Neurodivergent Employees"

smegsicle — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 04:40:05 +0000

> neurodivergent people don't need to be babied

> neurodivergent people need to be given work that they like, unlike normies who should just suck it up

hmmmm

New comment by smegsicle in "White House rescinds federal aid freeze"

smegsicle — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:52:00 +0000

boy that is hard to read

twitter really has gone downhill

New comment by smegsicle in "Seagate: 'new' hard drives used for tens of thousands of hours"

smegsicle — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 17:32:23 +0000

write amplification. random writes can take, what twice as long?

wear leveling could mitigate, but the choices are somewhat limited:

NILFS seems to make assumptions based on SSDs, blowing up during its cleaning operation

btrfs or bcachefs could help, but who knows whats going on with those

New comment by smegsicle in "Google says it will change Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps"

smegsicle — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 01:47:25 +0000

they laughed when he said we'd be tired of winning

New comment by smegsicle in "US Department of Labor to Cease and Desist All Investigation and Enforcement"

smegsicle — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 21:39:02 +0000

first the department of education and now this?

New comment by smegsicle in "Tell HN: I'm getting spam on an email address only ever used to sign up to HN"

smegsicle — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 21:05:11 +0000

not even as part of a background check on someone you know?

New comment by smegsicle in "Interesting BiCMOS circuits in the Pentium, reverse-engineered"

smegsicle — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 19:04:50 +0000

whats that supposed to be some kind of sick joke?

New comment by smegsicle in "Earth's magnetic North Pole is on the move, scientists just updated its position"

smegsicle — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 17:48:01 +0000

but its going too fast!

New comment by smegsicle in "Finland's zero homeless strategy (2021)"

smegsicle — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 16:38:48 +0000

i think you've got it backwards- the xenophobia of so called 'high trust' bigots are holding back the global society of our future, and their low homelessness is in reality an unfair burden on other more troubled countries

New comment by smegsicle in "The number given as % CPU in Activity Monitor"

smegsicle — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 20:12:49 +0000

honestly if you want load avg why not just use load avg

New comment by smegsicle in "It's 10am and Dad's Doing Jell-O Shots. Must Be Parents' Weekend"

smegsicle — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 23:49:10 +0000

if you're spending 30-50k/yr for someone else to have an 'experience' you might want to skim a little off the top

New comment by smegsicle in "Tuberculosis is rising in the U.S. again. How did we get here?"

smegsicle — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 22:34:22 +0000

very underrated comment. more research into why alaska has always had the highest rate of tb in the us is warranted.

could proximity to canada truly be to blame?