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New comment by wcfields in "I want to live like Costco people"

wcfields — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:26:24 +0000

It's only Coca-Cola if it comes from the Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée of Atlanta, otherwise it's only a sparking cola beverage.

New comment by wcfields in "'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win Polymarket bet"

wcfields — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:22:24 +0000

It's a catch-22: I already gambled the coin I was going to use for the heads-or-tails bet.

New comment by wcfields in "BYD is seeing a flood of new EV buyers"

wcfields — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:39:10 +0000

If anyone from Ford reads HN: What's keeping me from a Ford Maverick truck is waiting for the PHEV version.

New comment by wcfields in "Jeffrey Epstein's Money Mingled with Silicon Valley Startups"

wcfields — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:44:23 +0000

Just take a look at the photos of his residences, it's filled with big black redaction squares of the "artwork" and photos on his walls and the little bits that can be seen lend a huge credence to his prior conviction.

Absolutely bonkers to say he's a "somewhat flawed person" when there's gigs of PDFs of some of the most heinous things imaginable.

New comment by wcfields in "MySpace Founder Deletes Post Amid Backlash After Teasing Platform Return"

wcfields — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:36:33 +0000

Insane thing to write when the "purity test" is not supporting/investing in a defense contractor with a CEO who begged Epstein to go to the island.

New comment by wcfields in "Sony Data Discman"

wcfields — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 23:18:07 +0000

Zip was fairly defacto RW media between ~1997-2004.

I was in College around that time and the blue Mac G3's in most computer labs had Zip drives, and many PC's in the labs had Zip drives too.

New comment by wcfields in "Can you slim macOS down?"

wcfields — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 21:47:46 +0000

Can speak for someone who managed a racked [1] Mac Mini racked as a server in 2015~2018:

* Profile Manager / MDM * Caching server for OS updates * Thunderbolt connection to a PCIe RAID HBA for a JBOD for NAS file sharing

All these things/use cases now are depreciated, MDM via JAMF in the cloud, internet is fast enough that caching OS updates isn't necessary, and NAS's are much better suited.

[1] https://www.sonnettech.com/product/legacyproducts/xmacminise...

New comment by wcfields in "IP Addresses Through 2025"

wcfields — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:10:01 +0000

Anecdotally on how this affects the day to day user experience: I just deployed T-Mobile 5G Business Internet to a temporary pop-up art space (it's only active for a few months) and I'd say twice daily I get a CAPTCHA challenge on Google search.

New comment by wcfields in "Can “second life” EV batteries work as grid-scale energy storage?"

wcfields — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 20:14:44 +0000

On the used market you'll find absolutely cooked (literally) Leafs whose first life was in Arizona and barely have enough range to back out of the driveway.

New comment by wcfields in "Thai Air Force seals deal for Swedish Gripen jets"

wcfields — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 23:59:26 +0000

I’m not any sort of analyst but from my understanding the threats Thai faces is Cambodia border skirmishes and Myanmar both of which could be handled with any aircraft.

China is a non starter, even a next gen aircraft is no match for their entire military.

New comment by wcfields in "Thai Air Force seals deal for Swedish Gripen jets"

wcfields — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 23:54:20 +0000

“Best” but you’re going to spend millions per missile system to have “the best”.

Israel quickly found out when trying to shoot down “cheap” $30k Iranian drones.

New comment by wcfields in "WeightWatchers files bankruptcy"

wcfields — Wed, 07 May 2025 16:22:17 +0000

> willpower

I mean, sure, but if it was just willpower for everyone then we'd all speak 10 languages, play piano, be buff as hell, be emotionally stable, and no one would be an alcoholic.

But we're squishy apes that are regulated by hormones and live busy messy lives with cars that are probably needing a tire rotation 3000 miles ago and putting it off a few more miles won't really hurt.

New comment by wcfields in "WeightWatchers files bankruptcy"

wcfields — Wed, 07 May 2025 15:58:49 +0000

> natural

Yeah, "natural" would be living in constant fight-or-flight fear from being eaten and/or attacked by a neighboring tribe. Probably always quasi-starving and having low-level diarrhea from eating scavenged rancid food and dying before your 28th birthday.

New comment by wcfields in "Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over"

wcfields — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 15:05:31 +0000

> They don’t really have a monopoly on local events or marketplace.

Yeah, I'd say from 2004 - 2015 was the heyday for me on local events for small bands, house shows, and punk/DIY venues. Eventually FB Events died out socially by not being able to send invites to mass groups of friends/previous attendees, and attrition, and so on... A real shame for non-major venue events and the DIY scene.

Marketplace is semi-useful still, quasi-better than craigslist, but keeps getting filled with a lot of cruft of drop-shippers and scammers.

New comment by wcfields in "Everyday life improvements since the 90s (2022)"

wcfields — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 20:36:58 +0000

More food:

- Brussels Sprouts taste much better now: https://www.bhg.com/news/brussels-sprouts-less-bitter/

New comment by wcfields in "Pope Francis has died"

wcfields — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 15:51:25 +0000

Not to sound like the oldest person in the room/thread, but the use of "opponent" as 'opps' has gained a lot of traction in the vernacular of Gen-z/alpha. Not so much as an outright enemy, and not so much as a 'hater'.

New comment by wcfields in "4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak"

wcfields — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 23:26:11 +0000

Do you have a link or reference to this? I'm going to be thinking about this for weeks now.

New comment by wcfields in "MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 still run train dashboards at German railway (Jan'24)"

wcfields — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 09:36:40 +0000

Retro gaming enthusiasts have been creating mini-PCs first starting with industrial computers (386) built for CNC machines, and have recently been getting custom PCBs made like the Pixel x86: https://youtu.be/B8WfiRRvQXo?si=lbDZymYKATkT66pf

You can find some oddball stuff on AliExpress that’s probably made to replace as close as possible 1to1 EOL equipment: https://youtu.be/6bODiZ5bP84?si=GTwF6MOQqm_VLy4s

New comment by wcfields in "Everyone knows all the apps on your phone"

wcfields — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 04:31:59 +0000

The author is probably Indian based upon the blogs subtitle of “ tales from indian web rabbit holes. “

New comment by wcfields in "Crew-9 Returns to Earth"

wcfields — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 14:57:44 +0000

I mean, if someone is saying plainly "I'm going to ruin your life and critically endanger your health." then one should expect some pushback.