Hacker News: thetinguy

New comment by thetinguy in "Raspberry Pi Pico does line rate 100M Ethernet"

thetinguy — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 18:56:33 +0000

Can it do 10BASE-T with no overclocking?

New comment by thetinguy in "An Update on the Lock Icon"

thetinguy — Tue, 02 May 2023 21:37:43 +0000

Good luck describing that icon in words over the phone.

New comment by thetinguy in "YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down"

thetinguy — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 17:38:31 +0000

>Google was founded on September 4, 1998

Maybe she was an early employee?

New comment by thetinguy in "80/20 Aluminum T-slot Building Systems – Build your Idea"

thetinguy — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 20:25:02 +0000

Also open builds v-slot is excellent https://openbuildspartstore.com/v-slot-linear-rail-1/

New comment by thetinguy in "Amazon has radically transformed small businesses in both the U.S. and China"

thetinguy — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 19:45:15 +0000

Taobao is a direct influence whereas Amazon is an indirect influence through the sellers importing things from China to sell on Amazon.

New comment by thetinguy in "Setting the bozo bit on Apple"

thetinguy — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 18:46:51 +0000

> How can such basic functionality be this incredibly broken?

This is not basic functionality. The vast majority of iPhone users never plug their device into a computer.

New comment by thetinguy in "DaVinci Resolve for iPad"

thetinguy — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 17:24:56 +0000

External drives just like people using macbooks

New comment by thetinguy in "Pentagon Puts DJI on Blacklist"

thetinguy — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 14:52:05 +0000

The list of restricted airspaces is not static.

New comment by thetinguy in "You Hated Your Cable Package. Your Streaming Services Are Bringing It Back"

thetinguy — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 16:53:43 +0000

And no equipment rentals.

New comment by thetinguy in "Engine makers sound downbeat on supersonic, leaving Boom in a bind"

thetinguy — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 16:06:14 +0000

The Concorde made money for both Air France and British Airways.

New comment by thetinguy in "System memory allocator free operation zeroes out deallocated blocks in iOS 16"

thetinguy — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 16:03:09 +0000

I have seen release notes about automated fixes Apple themselves for apps in the App Store that haven’t been updated recently.

New comment by thetinguy in "Rolls Royce Ends Boom Supersonic Partnership"

thetinguy — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 14:42:27 +0000

>Their only innovation compared to Concorde is the use of composite materials which is just not enough to hit their targets.

There’s been 50 years of commercial aviation development since the Concorde. Composite materials is only one thing on a list of differences between Concorde and boom.

New comment by thetinguy in "Artemis I Launch Attempt Scrubbed"

thetinguy — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 17:06:40 +0000

Artemis is a federal jobs program.

New comment by thetinguy in "Vietnam to make Apple Watch and MacBook"

thetinguy — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 20:45:10 +0000

Because 0 Covid policies are leading to unpredictable and extended delays.

New comment by thetinguy in "Celsius Network Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy"

thetinguy — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 15:25:06 +0000

The federal government guarantees the banks. No one is guaranteeing Celsius.

New comment by thetinguy in "US Air Force connects 1,760 Playstation 3's to build supercomputer (2010)"

thetinguy — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 17:26:49 +0000

They did not have a support contract.

https://www.syracuse.com/news/2011/03/rome_labs_supercompute...

> Rome Lab asked the Department of Defense for $2.5 million to assemble its supercomputer. By the time money to buy that many was approved in 2009, PlayStation 3s were hard to find. Rome Lab bought as many as they could — 1,700.

New comment by thetinguy in "US Air Force connects 1,760 Playstation 3's to build supercomputer (2010)"

thetinguy — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 17:23:39 +0000

It wasn’t just the air force.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_cluster

New comment by thetinguy in "Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after two decades"

thetinguy — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 16:53:46 +0000

It’s the car that auto plays the first thing. My old car used to do the same thing. New car no longer does this.

New comment by thetinguy in "FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores"

thetinguy — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 18:18:03 +0000

What? One is a democracy and one is a dictatorship.

New comment by thetinguy in "Netflix is in rough shape. This week will determine its future"

thetinguy — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 14:21:58 +0000

Sony and UMG are both fairly large shareholders in Spotify.