Hacker News: smm11

New comment by smm11 in "Tesla Roadster"

smm11 — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 21:31:08 +0000

All Musk cares about is Mars. The CT is going to be a Mars vehicle, that's why it looks like that by and large.

And this tech is simply part of the Tesla/SpaceX merge, and right in line with flamethrowers, tunnels, and chainsaws. It's going to funnel loads of cash his way, which was the idea.

New comment by smm11 in "Telnet BBS Guide"

smm11 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:15:05 +0000

1982, Omaha.

New comment by smm11 in "15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished"

smm11 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:50:20 +0000

Way, way pre-WWW I was at an REM concert when the lyrics were suddenly wrong, "I did not invent this world" snuck in somehow. My friends didn't notice, didn't recall it.

Six years later I'm riding my bike through a bar-heavy area in a large city, and I hear a snippet of that same lyric somewhere, where? I went to every bar there the next six months, until I heard it across the street. Went to the manager, then another one, then another one, until I got the answer. Future 40s, Syd Straw, with Michael Stipe, on Golden Palaminos.

Of course. It was maybe 1991 by now. I told my friends years later, and and nobody had any idea what was talking about.

New comment by smm11 in "Shimano Bicycle Museum Review"

smm11 — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:47:23 +0000

Bridgestone bicycles.

New comment by smm11 in "Red Hat being phased out of existence?"

smm11 — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 20:11:50 +0000

Are you listening, Canonical?

New comment by smm11 in "macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess"

smm11 — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:54:07 +0000

I'm still running the Public Beta on my Powermac G4. As long as I roll the date back I'm good.

New comment by smm11 in "Asahi Linux on M3"

smm11 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 23:23:30 +0000

I don't understand this. Buy something else to run Linux, as in anything other than Apple M series laptops. And if you want to do AI stuff, suffer with OSX using too much RAM, or again, buy something appropriate.

New comment by smm11 in "New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson"

smm11 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:01:40 +0000

Exactly. I'm seeing pullback more and more.

New comment by smm11 in "New Casio F-B100W – Upgrade to the iconic F-91W after 40 years"

smm11 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:56:33 +0000

Just go run or go on a walk every day.

New comment by smm11 in "Unearthing my 1996 windowed OS in machine code for Am29000 homebrew computer"

smm11 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:39:27 +0000

OP just casually dropped awesomeness on a Thursday.

New comment by smm11 in "Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s"

smm11 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:44:24 +0000

Next you can hook up an abandoned nuke silo, right?

New comment by smm11 in "CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers"

smm11 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:13:32 +0000

We already had this. It was called Theranos.

New comment by smm11 in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

smm11 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:41:25 +0000

You guys weren't very good, then.

New comment by smm11 in "Palantir Wants to Reinstate the Draft"

smm11 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:53:25 +0000

Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country, and the country now has to serve.

What?

New comment by smm11 in "Sauna effect on heart rate"

smm11 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:38:32 +0000

I feel better after sitting in a steam room two or three times a week. That's proof enough for me.

New comment by smm11 in "Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16"

smm11 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:14:50 +0000

Good thread.

I've been going backwards to Afterstep and Window Maker theming. Maybe I'll get back to E in a few years.

New comment by smm11 in "Protect your shed"

smm11 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:07:34 +0000

Yep, beyond 30 minutes or so I'll just switch rooms and watch a hockey or baseball game. I'm at the "done that" phase now. Not much excites me in the computer space.

New comment by smm11 in "Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)"

smm11 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:52:10 +0000

Thinkpad 765d

New comment by smm11 in "The Los Angeles Aqueduct Is Wild"

smm11 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:32:18 +0000

California pays other states to take its excess solar energy. Power for a project like this isn't the issue, actually building the system is the issue.

New comment by smm11 in "Why I love FreeBSD"

smm11 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:29:40 +0000

I could never get sleep to work, and got tired of rebooting 17 times a day.