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New comment by wffurr in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

wffurr — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 19:44:36 +0000

Actually no, they are required to allow you to enter the country, but they will make it a hassle, to the point of dehydrating you and/or refusing bathroom access, and confiscate the device in the end and access is through other technical means.

New comment by wffurr in "The A.I. In Google's New Pixel 11 Is Not Helpful"

wffurr — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:40:26 +0000

There are dozens of you, dozens!

New comment by wffurr in "OpenLogi"

wffurr — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:32:05 +0000

Top comment is a similar project for Razer devices: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49361345. https://github.com/gh123man/OpenSnek

New comment by wffurr in "In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices"

wffurr — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:52:03 +0000

I thought it was the opposite; it's blindingly obvious that everyone should be getting rooftop solar. The only thing holding me back is the need to work with the condo association on a new roof first.

New comment by wffurr in "In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices"

wffurr — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:50:30 +0000

There were significant state subsidies and regulation changes to encourage home battery installation. That's a lot less "free trade" driven than the GP post indicates. Is that still capitalism being an excellent system?

New comment by wffurr in "Bike Bureau: Report Bike Lane Obstructions"

wffurr — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:46:21 +0000

There's a difference between asserting your right to a travel lane and getting directly in someone's face to yell at or lecture them. I agree both can be seen as confrontational, but I think the latter is significantly riskier. Especially since said person you're confronting has already demonstrated themselves to be antisocial.

New comment by wffurr in "Heart Aerospace Completes First Flight of Largest Electric Aircraft"

wffurr — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:11:39 +0000

Aren't VTOL aircraft significantly more complex and riskier to operate than fixed-wing prop aircraft? There's certainly many fewer moving parts and tricky transitions from hover to airfoil flight regime.

New comment by wffurr in "Picking berries is my meditation"

wffurr — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:18:08 +0000

I think a reminder to periodically log out and go engage in some repetitive task and actually find peace and enjoyment in it is probably a good thing for a lot of folks.

New comment by wffurr in "Bike Bureau: Report Bike Lane Obstructions"

wffurr — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:13:14 +0000

I certainly don't give one whit for "placating" drivers. If you have time, take a pic, file a ticket, call the non-emergency police number. Great.

And then the adult can use their bike to take the lane, stopping traffic, and let the 6 year old go around.

No need for loud horns or confronting people.

New comment by wffurr in "Bike Bureau: Report Bike Lane Obstructions"

wffurr — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:06:57 +0000

>> Kindly fuck off.

Saying "kindly" doesn't not make this incredibly rude. Much like parking in the bike lane, lecturing a stranger, or sounding a loud horn in a crowded area.

By all means, take a pic, file a request, get the drivers ticketed. But then also go around. Please don't sound loud horns or confront people - it's rude and a bad idea.

New comment by wffurr in "Pixel 11 Pro Fold"

wffurr — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:43:08 +0000

I've been pleasantly surprised at how robust my 2024 Razr (regular edition) has been. I think if the outside screen was a hair bigger (like on the Plus and Ultra), it would be significantly more useful.

I tried the Clicks keyboard case, and it was cute, but wasn't actually better to type on, especially while the phone was open. It was fun pretending to have a Blackberry / Razr hybrid (2007 called!).

I think it would be neat to have a small square phone like the size and shape of the folded Razr but that doesn't actually unfold, and has the camera on the back. It would be a pretty handy device and encourage me to read more paper books or on a Kindle or something instead of scrolling.

New comment by wffurr in "Pixel 11 Pro Fold"

wffurr — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:40:34 +0000

This - I have the iFixit cleaning kit which has a really tiny plastic pick / brush thing - I think it might be a dental crevice cleaning tool, like floss but for bigger gaps. I got a wad of lint out of my lightning port and all of a sudden CarPlay works perfectly. Same thing happens to USB-C ports.

New comment by wffurr in "Bike Bureau: Report Bike Lane Obstructions"

wffurr — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:38:49 +0000

I could 100% get through there on my bike, one way or another. It's not hard.

New comment by wffurr in "New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it"

wffurr — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:17:38 +0000

Gotta pay the rent somehow. There has to be enough money in it somewhere for people to pay the rent so they can put the time in, or it doesn't happen.

New comment by wffurr in "Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD"

wffurr — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:57:34 +0000

The second line of commit #2's message is "You can find the actual git history at the v0.2 github tag." which in turn has almost 6000 commits.

I think it's a weird way to handle git history versus squashing feature branches into single commits, but it's not just one Claude session slapped up on GitHub. The OP also has a post above about their exhaustive testing which has uncovered a goodly number of bugs in Postgres itself, too. I think it's fair to say they're putting in a good amount of work on this.

New comment by wffurr in "Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD"

wffurr — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:54:03 +0000

Fuzzers are brilliant at this and produce all kinds of insane floating point inputs.

New comment by wffurr in "A big win for Android interoperability"

wffurr — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:59:46 +0000

A phone case with your NFC credit card in a pocket on the back. Boom, problem solved.

New comment by wffurr in "Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots"

wffurr — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:50:44 +0000

It's good for capital holders. It does imply a further shift in the distribution of wealth though with all the attendant implications thereof.

I question the premise that humanoid robots are "around the corner". I suspect this will turn out more like self-driving cars which are still a very slow burn.

New comment by wffurr in "A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands"

wffurr — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:28:12 +0000

It's accelerating. Electrification of infrastructure and buildings is a huge growth area with big delays in projects due to lack of capacity.

New comment by wffurr in "Vehicle Motion Cues"

wffurr — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:16:27 +0000

There's also glasses for this that put a fluid filled tube in your peripheral vision. I want to try it next time I'm on a sailboat and have to do something inside the boat while it's pitching.