Hacker News: static_motion

New comment by static_motion in "Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM"

static_motion — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:24:23 +0000

My thoughts exactly. People regularly run Pi-Hole on these things, which not only is "serving a website" (the dashboard) but is also being a DNS server.

New comment by static_motion in "If Apple makes an iPad Neo, it's all over"

static_motion — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:34:08 +0000

I don't know whether to consider the fact that you find a device lasting 6 years an impressive feat as testament to how crappy devices, especially mobile ones, have been for the past decade, or how used everyone is to abandon perfectly good devices just because "it's X years old".

New comment by static_motion in "Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice"

static_motion — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:44:17 +0000

I disabled the lighting on my Keychron Q1 Max due to the battery drain. With it on (on the lowest glow possible), it would barely last a week. With it off? I go literal months without charging it back up, and it's used wirelessly 100% of the time, both via Bluetooth and 2.4 GHz.

New comment by static_motion in "Lichess and Take Take Take Sign Cooperation Agreement"

static_motion — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:59:38 +0000

Or full time. In some countries, those are pretty decent salaries. I earn €50k in one of the poorer European countries and that puts me in the top ~8%.

New comment by static_motion in "Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access June 15"

static_motion — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:03 +0000

Is it really? Instagram, arguably the most popular (or maybe just behind TikTok, I'm not sure) social network currently, has successfully disengaged from the tainted Facebook name entirely. It may seem like a small thing but I do think that has a deep impact on the average person's perception of the service. Especially in the younger generation, the Facebook name has a definite "ick" to it (is that what the kids say these days?), even if it's just because it's the "boomer social network" and not because of the myriad privacy concerns associated with it.

New comment by static_motion in "There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout"

static_motion — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 23:44:29 +0000

I'd say that an OSRS outage would be more likely to measurably affect the Venezuelan economy than the reverse.

New comment by static_motion in "Tesla's European sales tumble nearly 50% in October"

static_motion — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 01:57:27 +0000

You would never guess this while driving around in my small European country. The amount of Teslas is baffling and I still see very new ones every day.

New comment by static_motion in "Show HN: Autism Simulator"

static_motion — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 17:29:44 +0000

I'm not autistic and social interactions are incredibly energy draining for me. Granted I'm quite an introverted person, but not having autism doesn't mean you get pumped up from being around people.

New comment by static_motion in "Notion releases offline mode"

static_motion — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 20:16:26 +0000

But everything is stored as .md, which is ubiquitous. You'll still have access to your notes and be able to edit them with your preferred text editor.

New comment by static_motion in "OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats"

static_motion — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 17:21:56 +0000

I understand what they mean. There's this great video [1] which explains it in better terms than I ever could. I've timestamped the link because it's quite long, but if you've got the time it's a fantastic video with a great narrative and presentation.

[1] https://youtu.be/Fzhkwyoe5vI?t=4m9s

New comment by static_motion in "Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo"

static_motion — Tue, 13 May 2025 18:11:48 +0000

I'm a pretty young developer and git is the only VCS I'm familiar with, and even though it has its quirks I find it quite powerful and a perfectly adequate tool for the job. In what way is Mercurial better?

New comment by static_motion in "Attacking My Landlord's Boiler"

static_motion — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 15:16:37 +0000

Depending on the region, "reasonably insulated home" really is the factor that makes this not so viable for a lot of people. In my Mediterranean-adjacent climate country, most homes are just not well insulated at all, and having heat running 24/7 during winter is extremely costly and inefficient even if the heating is on a low setting.

New comment by static_motion in "JetBrains IDEs Go AI: Coding Agent, Smarter Assistance, Free Tier"

static_motion — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 21:45:08 +0000

Calling JetBrains IDEs "VS Code clones" is the most batshit insane thing I've read regarding editors and IDEs as a whole.

New comment by static_motion in "Highest-resolution images ever captured of the sun’s entire surface"

static_motion — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 16:45:56 +0000

Big fan of Andrew McCarthy's work, been following him on IG for a few years now. The stuff he's able to pull off as a backyard astrophotographer is very impressive.

New comment by static_motion in "How long til we're all on Ozempic?"

static_motion — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 17:46:56 +0000

> It's volume. I eat too much.

Bingo. I've had this conversation with my girlfriend. She's not overweight by any means (160 cm ~55 kg) but I am quite underweight (182 cm, 65 kg, < 10% body fat) and the conclusion I've arrived at regarding our differences in body composition is because she routinely eats 1.3x to 1.5x the amount I eat. We both exercise and eat little junk food.

I'm convinced it has to do with upbringing. My family never ate a lot and the portions I was served as a kid weren't big. Nobody in my family is anything more than skinny. Her family however, they eat a lot (and healthy too, mind you). This is all influenced by other factors, her parents and grandparents grew up with not a lot to their names and with food scarcity, so when they reached a position in life where they could comfortably afford to eat they gained the habit of having big meals. My family was mostly more privileged in that regard so maybe they never felt the need to focus on food as much.

New comment by static_motion in "Qualcomm Wants to Buy Intel"

static_motion — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 16:42:11 +0000

> Intel's networking is mediocre to bad depending on the product

That's an interesting statement, as their Wi-Fi cards are some of the best on the market and common laptop-purchasing wisdom says to buy anything with an Intel Wi-Fi adapter and avoid everything else.

New comment by static_motion in "NASA announces Boeing Starliner crew will return on SpaceX Crew-9"

static_motion — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 18:35:57 +0000

Beyond the cost aspect that other commenters have referred to, they're evolving tech. They're the first ones to have a working full-flow staged combustion cycle rocket engine (the Raptor, currently used in the Starship prototypes), something the Soviets tried before and failed. Their Dragon capsule was also a gigantic technological leap relative to the admittedly tried-and-true Soyuz, and it also looks far more comfortable for astronauts than the Soyuz does.

New comment by static_motion in "Microsoft formally deprecates the Windows Control Panel"

static_motion — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 18:29:25 +0000

I have a deep albeit unfounded suspicion that no developer currently at Microsoft actually knows how the old Windows interfaces like Control Panel are built, which would explain why they haven't changed at all since Windows 7 and they're just slowly but surely tacking on new, different (and worse) interfaces which resort to the same APIs. They're essentially slowly replacing the 20-odd years accumulated work done from Windows 95 onwards, which is why they still haven't entirely replaced the old interfaces and the new ones often link to the old ones so that users can still access most of the functionality.

New comment by static_motion in "NASA announces Boeing Starliner crew will return on SpaceX Crew-9"

static_motion — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 18:13:35 +0000

I'm all for holding him accountable to his outlandishly unrealistic claims, but he and the entire SpaceX team are wholly responsible for the biggest advancements and innovations in space explorations since the space race. Credit where credit is due.

New comment by static_motion in "Why does current flow the opposite way from the electrons?"

static_motion — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 15:32:04 +0000

My personal mnemonic for that is that the letter A is often used for getting the opposite meaning of words (moral/amoral, sexual/asexual), and even moreso in my native (non-english) language. Thus my brain wired itself to associate "anode" with negative. It's quite a stretch but my mind seems to form a bunch of these weird mnemonics.