Hacker News: tedd4u

New comment by tedd4u in "Now is the best time to write code by hand"

tedd4u — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:10:42 +0000

I think you'd have to start with 55+ years old and go upward to find an age range where more than 10% of programmers routinely wrote assembler code in their careers.

To find the same for machine code you'd need to start at 65 or older.

New comment by tedd4u in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

tedd4u — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:49:54 +0000

The other reason is that the capsule can splashdown far away from the ship. In this case it was close (3km or so). It can possibly fall much farther away. In which case boats would be much slower. Add in the possibility of rough seas & bad weather the helos make sense. And just to keep things simple I think they just use them no matter what. Prevent errors. Also gives a chance to rehearse and debug the full recovery process in case it’s actually really needed the next time.

New comment by tedd4u in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

tedd4u — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:42:39 +0000

Still waiting to see comparison to A1’s used heat shield. Obviously it worked at least just well enough. They have a new formulation apparently for use with subsequent missions. New might be better but obviously it has not been tested in a real re-entry scenario so also kinda concerning for the next flight.

New comment by tedd4u in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

tedd4u — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:40:01 +0000

100%. Easy to criticize this but you have to remember these are the people that planned and executed a successful moon mission. Pretty sure they know what they are doing and have thought about things in more that just a passing way.

New comment by tedd4u in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

tedd4u — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:55:57 +0000

Definitely not the 70's. I think the most recent age that might have counted as hopeful was really between the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989) through the beginning of the GWOT (9/11/2001). So basically the 90's.

New comment by tedd4u in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

tedd4u — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:53:30 +0000

Yes, and the four RS-25 main engines on the SLS rocket (Space Launch System) are literally SSME's harvested from the shuttles (Space Shuttle Main Engine). Of course that means they are re-usable. So sad to see them plummet to the ocean floor. Perversely Rocketdyne is building cheaper non-reusable versions of the RS-25 for future missions.

New comment by tedd4u in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

tedd4u — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:07:02 +0000

Trigger warning: AI animation of uncanny-valley Sam Altman "hydra"

New comment by tedd4u in "The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok"

tedd4u — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:03:40 +0000

Still, it's probably true that Claude Code (etc) will be more successful working on clean, well-structured code, just like human coders are. So short-term, maybe not such a big deal, but long-term I think it's still an unresolved issue.

New comment by tedd4u in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

tedd4u — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:24:17 +0000

Just get Rectangle.

https://rectangleapp.com

https://www.tomsguide.com/how-to/use-this-awesome-trick-to-g...

New comment by tedd4u in "CBP says it can't comply with refund order"

tedd4u — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:54:10 +0000

CIT Judge Eaton:

    “Customs knows how to do this,” Eaton said during a court hearing on Wednesday. “They do it every day. They liquidate entries and make refunds.”

New comment by tedd4u in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

tedd4u — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 05:59:58 +0000

Reuters now reporting "U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children"

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-investigation-p...

New comment by tedd4u in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

tedd4u — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 05:59:05 +0000

Reuters now reporting "U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children"

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-investigation-p...

New comment by tedd4u in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

tedd4u — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 04:47:14 +0000

We deserve to know if Claude was involved with targeting the girls’ school that was bombed in the first hours of the attack on Iran. 50-100+ girls are reported to have been killed.

Claude is integrated into Palantir’s Project Maven targeting system. The Pentagon has touted how many more targets they were able to attack with this system (1,000’s).

NY Times: Analysis Suggests School Was Hit Amid U.S. Strikes on Iranian Naval Base

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/world/middleeast/iran-sch...

New comment by tedd4u in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

tedd4u — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 04:40:09 +0000

Read the article. NY Times develops several facts that support it being part of a US volley, not Israel.

New comment by tedd4u in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

tedd4u — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 01:55:23 +0000

What’s a “warfighter?” Do they come from the “Gulf of America?” We used to call them servicemen or service members. Emphasizing they served the people. I guess that’s too effeminate for our roided up and ironically hyper-insecure Secretary of Defense.

New comment by tedd4u in "1.5 Million Users Leave ChatGPT"

tedd4u — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:09:39 +0000

I would imagine they chose to cap the resources spend on batch processing for this export function.

New comment by tedd4u in "Mexico Mandates Biometric SIM Registration for All Phone Numbers"

tedd4u — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:07:33 +0000

Will prepaid SIMs from outside Mexico no longer be able to roam onto Mexican mobile phone networks? Another problem. Given the notorious corruption my guess is it will just cost $xx to get a fake CURP. I'm sure there are other ways to circumvent. This leaves criminals with ample opportunities to avoid effective tracking but leaves out the legitimately at-risk populations mentioned in the article.

New comment by tedd4u in "MacBook Neo"

tedd4u — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:54:37 +0000

That machine's form factor was so great, it was just saddles with that awful hot-running Intel CPU. I was hoping this device would be essentially the MB12, finally with the right chip. I guess they were going for target price, not target weight.

New comment by tedd4u in "MacBook Neo"

tedd4u — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:52:07 +0000

Can you say more about what software? (I'm sure the Neo runs Chrome perfectly fine)

New comment by tedd4u in "TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe"

tedd4u — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:49:52 +0000

Regarding "why care." It's where a shockingly large portion of voters and adults get their "news."

• 43% of US 18-29 year olds regularly get news on TikTok

• Half of US adults get news on TikTok, 1 in 5 US "regularly" do so

• This is 2 points less than Twitter and two points more than Facebook

Data from Pew Research (Sep 2025): https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/09/25/1-in-5-am...