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New comment by tonetheman in "When (if ever) it's appropriate to make jokes before the US Supreme Court"

tonetheman — Sun, 24 May 2026 16:34:34 +0000

The Supreme court currently is itself a joke. They are bought and paid for agents of Trump.

It used to matter if you would say such things in court. It does not matter now when the court is loaded with unintelligent purchased ghouls.

New comment by tonetheman in "Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service"

tonetheman — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:28:29 +0000

More vile destruction from the Trump admin.

Wonder who will help for fires now? Conservatives do hate trees I guess.

New comment by tonetheman in "Trump order seeks to protect weedkiller at center of barrage of lawsuits"

tonetheman — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 03:21:09 +0000

Nothing says America first like making sure we all continue to get cancer so some shareholders make money

New comment by tonetheman in "[dead]"

tonetheman — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 17:33:47 +0000

Because a good portion of the country voted for someone who wants to be a dictator. Fairly straightforward answer.

New comment by tonetheman in "How to repurpose your old phone into a web server"

tonetheman — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 20:38:53 +0000

As others have mentioned you have to watch the battery if you do this for real.

The battery will swell and explode if you run 24x7 on a phone.

New comment by tonetheman in "Arrival Radar"

tonetheman — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 17:45:50 +0000

This is a great game and a lovely use of the minimalism found in pico-8.

It would be cool to have a speed indication when a plane is selected or height but that makes everything more complex.

Again amazing game for the pico

New comment by tonetheman in "A Sad Collapse in Student Preparation at UC San Diego Was Inevitable"

tonetheman — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:40:23 +0000

I feel like this is nothing more than a side effect of what happened with Covid.

Which would mean if we were willing to shut things down like we did we should be willing to take the secondary effects and solve those problems too.

New comment by tonetheman in "US air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites"

tonetheman — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 00:05:41 +0000

The Republicans are literally starving poor people. People who are on SNAP who have less than 3k in their bank accounts.

Hateful and incompetent is how most people would describe that.

New comment by tonetheman in "Scheme Reports at Fifty"

tonetheman — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 18:15:11 +0000

I wish I saw what these guys do in scheme. I only barely know what is happening and it seems interesting.

The parens are so hard for me to follow and always have. I have yet to find an editor that fixes that. Perhaps I did not try enough or am not smart enough to acutally use the editors correctly.

Anyway interesting read I think

New comment by tonetheman in "Affiliates flock to scam gambling machine"

tonetheman — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 00:16:13 +0000

Anything with crypto has a scam smell

New comment by tonetheman in "[dead]"

tonetheman — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 18:05:29 +0000

virus stuff... should not be here

New comment by tonetheman in "RFK Jr. announces 8 appointees to CDC vaccine panel—they’re not good"

tonetheman — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 13:02:37 +0000

As expected. While Trump and Musk have or will have killed a lot of people with their cost cutting with USAID.

I expect the larger number of deaths to come from RFKjr. He is a deeply stupid man who cannot read and does not understand science or health related issues at all.

New comment by tonetheman in "Reverse engineering of Linear's sync engine"

tonetheman — Sat, 31 May 2025 01:52:19 +0000

Whatever a linear sync engine actually is... sigh. Needs more information.

New comment by tonetheman in "Ask HN: Anyone else use a single gigantic .txt file as a notetaking solution?"

tonetheman — Wed, 14 May 2025 01:31:38 +0000

I used to do this and it worked pretty well I thought.

I eventually broke it into years (YYYY-MM-DD-notes.txt and just grep'd the directory.

Finally I made it to markdown files also stored in the same directory.

It was great for searching.

New comment by tonetheman in "Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia"

tonetheman — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 22:05:53 +0000

It has differences in the command lines / behavior. We discovered this last week.

New comment by tonetheman in "Trump's Trade War Escalates as China Retaliates with 34% Tariffs"

tonetheman — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 12:41:25 +0000

Not sure why anyone would trust someone who has bankrupted 6 companies personally and directly to make any choices on the economy.

New comment by tonetheman in "Garry Tan says YC startups are launching with 95% AI-written code"

tonetheman — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 14:07:10 +0000

Good to know which companies to go after for security bounties. There will be a feast.

New comment by tonetheman in "Sorry Human, You're Wrong"

tonetheman — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 13:44:04 +0000

Good story of why you cannot trust what AI returns. You should check everything.

A confident liar.

New comment by tonetheman in "Why Elon Musk can never balance the budget, in one chart"

tonetheman — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 18:08:46 +0000

To be clear he is not balancing anything. He wants to punish people he does not like.

New comment by tonetheman in "CDC Confirms H5N1 Bird Flu Infection in California Child: First Child Case in US"

tonetheman — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 01:05:02 +0000

Much worse. The incoming health person is a vaccine denier. Which could put the US in the spot where we will not develop vaccines and lots of people could die.