Hacker News: supertroop

New comment by supertroop in "Flavor Graveyard"

supertroop — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 06:17:20 +0000

They are fighting to get it back:

https://time.com/7344796/ben-jerrys-ice-cream-magnum-unileve...

Also the shareholders overrode Ben and Jerry against their objections to sell. They didn’t want to. Of course they probably shouldn’t have gone public in the first place but if they hadn’t you never would have heard of them. Unless you grew up in Vermont. Like me. It was kinda weird seeing a beloved business become huge. Like watching Phish go from a local band to something giant.

New comment by supertroop in "Flavor Graveyard"

supertroop — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 06:16:05 +0000

Rip White Russian. I loved that. Never understood how that nasty jimmy fallon flavor still exists.

New comment by supertroop in "Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For"

supertroop — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:57:34 +0000

There’s only one party fighting for things like this and they are in the minority. Funny how people that cry about politics on hacker news don’t understand how it directly affects them until their digital media is no longer their property. Sad that’s what it takes.

New comment by supertroop in "The Anti-Palantir Manifesto"

supertroop — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:56:11 +0000

Flagged???

New comment by supertroop in "Amazon seller reveals glimpse of shadow bribery market"

supertroop — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 01:39:34 +0000

I can’t believe Nekhala managed to gross $6million on a bed scrunchy on Amazon without Chinese competitors pirating the design, even with a US patent. That in itself is a major accomplishment. At some point when progressives finally take the house perhaps we can get some real regulations in place so that someone banned from the system like this has recourse other than call tree AI.

New comment by supertroop in "Have you restarted your computer this week?"

supertroop — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 01:31:39 +0000

I’ve been on macOS since 2012 and only have to restart during Os updates. What is this person on about? Slow news day? Clickbait? I was clearly baited.

New comment by supertroop in "Trump made more than $1B on crypto deals, part of 2025 windfall"

supertroop — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 01:29:03 +0000

That’s it??? With all the corruption he has visibly demonstrated and his long list of boot licks I would have expected 10x that.

New comment by supertroop in "Factorio 2.1 Experimental Release"

supertroop — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:51:54 +0000

I play on an 8 year old MacBook Pro and with 10k logistics bots it still has smooth graphics and zaro boogs. It reminds me of how good blizzard was in the 90s.

New comment by supertroop in "30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech"

supertroop — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:44:56 +0000

Simple: critical thinking skills. Sorry you missed the boat on those.

New comment by supertroop in "30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech"

supertroop — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 04:19:57 +0000

My god why are you so willfully ignorant of the fact that guns were present. Just stop talking if you’re going to play dumb or are dumb.

New comment by supertroop in "30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech"

supertroop — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 04:18:24 +0000

I agree but trump pardoned 1600 of them! Sucks? I agree.

New comment by supertroop in "30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech"

supertroop — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 04:17:00 +0000

Stop conflating two different unrelated events. It is nauseating.

New comment by supertroop in "1.38 Millimeter Microcontroller"

supertroop — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:36:10 +0000

Bare metal refers to not using an rtos. I know that sounds weird but it is an industry convention. It does not refer to the language.

New comment by supertroop in "A native graphical shell for SSH"

supertroop — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:51:57 +0000

You have a very loose definition of a shell that conflicts with about 40 years of history.

New comment by supertroop in "A native graphical shell for SSH"

supertroop — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:37:12 +0000

Defeats the purpose of the shell. The shell is for CLI interaction.

New comment by supertroop in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

supertroop — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 05:31:47 +0000

I’m 57. It is insane to hear this bullshit.

New comment by supertroop in "There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days"

supertroop — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 17:49:57 +0000

Yes. The downward spiral exploded into the pop scene in 94 from a goth niche to sorority girls going to nin concerts just to get drunk and scream “I want f you like an animal”. It was a weird time for us goths watching our secret club become pop. Nin rode the wave for years. The Music arc moved much more slowly then.

New comment by supertroop in "What is a Lithium-ion capacitor?"

supertroop — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 17:46:32 +0000

You could have just said yes.

New comment by supertroop in "The origins of the school system aimed to produce independent, critical thinkers (2024)"

supertroop — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 17:43:34 +0000

We went from critical thinking to only some people can participate in society in the blink of an eye. What if you’re one of the people deemed too dumb? Did that ever occur to you?

New comment by supertroop in "AI learns the “dark art” of RFIC design"

supertroop — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 21:18:25 +0000

Ai can’t even place and route a two layer board with a microcontroller and a few peripherals.