Hacker News: spiffistan

New comment by spiffistan in "How can Apple deal with the memory shortage?"

spiffistan — Wed, 13 May 2026 23:40:00 +0000

This is probably the natural conclusion but it will take some time to get there

Energetically Modified Cement

spiffistan — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 00:53:32 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energetically_modified_cement

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45786959

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by spiffistan in "Signalling chaos: Inside the Elizabeth line's two-day breakdown"

spiffistan — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 05:19:22 +0000

Incidentally GSM-R problems led to a nationwide train service shutdown in Norway on December 25. Related?

New comment by spiffistan in "Show HN: I made a Bluesky video downloader"

spiffistan — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 11:22:26 +0000

twitter 2.0

New comment by spiffistan in "Show HN: Go Plan9 Memo"

spiffistan — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 17:06:37 +0000

You're right, my bad

New comment by spiffistan in "Show HN: Go Plan9 Memo"

spiffistan — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 16:13:39 +0000

There was a controversy when Go came out about the naming due to another language also being called Go, and the top voted alternative name was Plan9, and as an homage they may have used that internally instead.

New comment by spiffistan in "Starlite"

spiffistan — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 11:51:41 +0000

A coating for projectiles to be able to withstand the heat from laser weapons would be one with possibly significant impact, given recent announcements.

New comment by spiffistan in "Tesla FSD Timeline"

spiffistan — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 16:10:49 +0000

It probably does work for certain kinds of software, but groundbreaking research breakthroughs not so much.

New comment by spiffistan in "Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)"

spiffistan — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 11:45:09 +0000

Twitter has been rebranded as 'X'. Elon has the domain x.com and I suppose he wants to use it

New comment by spiffistan in "Astronomers observe subpulse drifting and nulling of pulsar PSR J0026–1955"

spiffistan — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 01:43:13 +0000

That's one of the most jargon-dense sentences I've ever read

Mount of Piety

spiffistan — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 23:08:37 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_of_piety

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36365229

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by spiffistan in "Apple Entertainment Services are slow or down"

spiffistan — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 23:00:25 +0000

Was about to say this. Kudos to them for actually conveying the information! They seem to have learned that what they're (partially) in the business of selling is long term trust.

New comment by spiffistan in "2M year old DNA demonstrates Greenland was 12 degrees warmer than today"

spiffistan — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 02:12:29 +0000

Considering continental drift is about 2.5cm per year (or one inch)...about 50km from where it is today.

New comment by spiffistan in "California’s population shrinks for third straight year"

spiffistan — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 02:15:21 +0000

But SF is also very chilly for California so it really helps with the perception of humidity.

New comment by spiffistan in "Ask HN: Why is Tesla stock dropping? Meta?"

spiffistan — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 12:05:42 +0000

This is the reason. Institutional investors (which hold the lions share) are more wary of stocks with astronomical P/E ratios when the macroeconomical forecasts are what they are today. Expect the bloodbath to continue until there is a semblance of calm waters on the horizon. I'm thinking around March.

New comment by spiffistan in "Tesla Market Cap Falls Below $400B"

spiffistan — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 19:14:57 +0000

There's very little relative trading volume on the price slope below 165-150 here, I wouldn't be surprised to see a fall to 95 and down to 30-50 in the medium term, and a cap of "only" about $100-150bn.

New comment by spiffistan in "There oughta be a Game Boy capture cartridge"

spiffistan — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 00:28:22 +0000

Well, I'd like it to be a standard size I could stack. Maybe I'm just nostalgic but I pine for the days where I had a shelf full of self-burnt CD's. Shame they're so prone to bit rot.

New comment by spiffistan in "There oughta be a Game Boy capture cartridge"

spiffistan — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 00:19:57 +0000

I've been thinking that there oughta be a human-sized cartridge for data in general. Current SD-cards are flimsy, and it's just getting worse. The Minidisc/Gameboy cartridge/MiniCD form factor was something that was tangible but not oversized. It could go in your drawer and not be lost. You could write something informative on it.

Lawson Criterion for Fusion Energy

spiffistan — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 21:48:40 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawson_criterion

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34032594

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Twitter bans popular flight tracking service ADS-B Exchange

spiffistan — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 17:54:45 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/osinttechnical/status/1603426030752043011

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34003151

Points: 56

# Comments: 2