Hacker News: tass

New comment by tass in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

tass — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:35:16 +0000

Try a corporate laptop. Every stupid thing you don’t need except to know it’s running is there, but you don’t know it’s running because they may just be hidden.

Jamf, zscaler, virus checkers, etc. need to all go to hell with this crap. I’m glad Tailscale are removing theirs.

New comment by tass in "747s and coding agents"

tass — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:08:14 +0000

Yeah I learn from reading other work too, but it doesn’t stick as well as when I work through it.

The problem now is the pressure to use llms means creating more code but understanding so much less.

New comment by tass in "747s and coding agents"

tass — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:45:53 +0000

I interpreted this as not as good a way to learn.

I learn the most from struggling through a problem, and reading someone’s code doesn’t teach me all the wrong ways they attempted before it looked like the way it now does.

New comment by tass in "Tesla has to pay historic $243M judgement over Autopilot crash, judge says"

tass — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:52:03 +0000

I'm not sure it's been codified, but I was told I would need to understand how to use the VOR and autopilot if the plane I was in had one.

In the fleet at the school I was learning in (Cessna 162) only one plane had an autopilot, which meant nobody practiced with it, so they never scheduled this plane for a check ride.

New comment by tass in "Tesla has to pay historic $243M judgement over Autopilot crash, judge says"

tass — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:40:04 +0000

This would be more like they enabled cruise control, hit the brakes, and sued the manufacturer because they were rear-ended.

New comment by tass in "Tesla has to pay historic $243M judgement over Autopilot crash, judge says"

tass — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:37:10 +0000

I don't mean a reasonable pilot. Would a reasonable person expect autopilot in a plane prevents a plane from crashing into something that the pilot was accelerating towards while physically overriding the controls. The claim is that autopilot should not have been able to crash even with the driver actively overriding it and accelerating into that crash.

To me, it's reasonable to assume that the "autopilot" in a car I drive (especially back in 2019) is going to defer to any input override that I provide. I wouldn't want it any other way.

New comment by tass in "Tesla has to pay historic $243M judgement over Autopilot crash, judge says"

tass — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:02:56 +0000

I’m not usually an apologist, and I’d agree with this judgement if the car was left to its own devices, but the driver of the car held his foot on the accelerator which is why it blew through those stop signs and lights.

In regards to the autopilot branding, would a reasonable person expect a plane on autopilot to fly safely if the pilot suddenly took over and pointed it at the ground?

New comment by tass in "The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal"

tass — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 08:02:13 +0000

A person can get mistakenly (or not) flagged for special screening and get it over and over again - it happened to me many years ago.

I fixed it by filling out a form requesting a review, after which I received a “redress number” which could be entered into my booking information. It reliably stopped after that.

New comment by tass in "Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking"

tass — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 11:00:03 +0000

Tailscale allows you to disable the expiration time - I do this for my gateways.

My other simplifier is having everything at home get a .home dns name, and telling Tailscale to route all these via tailnet.

New comment by tass in "AI’s impact on engineering jobs may be different than expected"

tass — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 08:56:11 +0000

You mean, with Microsoft 365 Copilot App (there’s no more Office)

New comment by tass in "An Illustrated Guide to Hippo Castration (2014)"

tass — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 10:44:35 +0000

According to a related article: https://www.discovermagazine.com/why-its-nearly-impossible-t...

The death was caused by an "unknown pre-existing condition" but doesn't elaborate further.

New comment by tass in "The tech monoculture is finally breaking"

tass — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 10:00:10 +0000

Almost certainly a typo, the first Walkman was 390g or 14 ounces (not 1.4oz)

New comment by tass in "IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world"

tass — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 07:50:50 +0000

Yes, I can’t even use many 10.x subnets at home because my work VPN configures a huge routing table including many of them.

Basically I had no choice but to redo my home network if I wanted to use my new work laptop at home (and I work 100% remote).

New comment by tass in "Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending"

tass — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:18:48 +0000

They’ve done loud, in-store presentations for longer than Apple Intelligence has been a thing, but you’re right that it’s a captive audience of mostly disinterested people.

New comment by tass in "DOOM could have had PC Speaker Music"

tass — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 06:11:31 +0000

I’ve had this music in my head for 30+ years. I could never get very far in the game though!

New comment by tass in "AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem"

tass — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 04:14:32 +0000

Only if it tells you which one it is

New comment by tass in "AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem"

tass — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 11:28:59 +0000

I use mine in meetings and often end up in a situation where I need to remove and charge the one which is about to go flat for a few minutes.

I need to know individual levels to do that

New comment by tass in "Why AC is cheap, but AC repair is a luxury"

tass — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 06:29:01 +0000

Oh I don’t know how I missed that unless you made an edit, but I also just woke up :) This price makes more sense.

23k didn’t sound too far off what an American installer would try charge for a new system in a high cost of living area, so this wasn’t too unbelievable.

New comment by tass in "Why AC is cheap, but AC repair is a luxury"

tass — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 06:09:33 +0000

23k seems like a lot, especially so if the leak is somewhere other than a hidden part of the line. Equipment cost is likely only a couple of k, and labour to replace without running new lines is maybe a few hours.

Please get a second opinion, especially if you can find a non-shop to give you one.

New comment by tass in "OpenAI thought to be preparing for $1T stock market float"

tass — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 19:38:08 +0000

I could be wrong, but it’s quite a bit harder to build a product that competes with Tesla than with OpenAI.