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New comment by williadc in "Apple reports second quarter results"

williadc — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:25:21 +0000

For the same reason that Yahoo should have bought Google after the dot-com bust. AI is useful and will eventually change the world. Many companies won't be able to provide sufficient returns, but will still have useful assets that Apple could buy at a discount.

New comment by williadc in "If Apple makes an iPad Neo, it's all over"

williadc — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:05:51 +0000

Apple does make the product described in this article, aside from the fantasy price. It's called the iPad.

New comment by williadc in "Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents"

williadc — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 02:06:20 +0000

This is a really well-thought out comment, and I agree with just about everything in it. One comment I'd like to call out for additional consideration is the comment on retirees being priced out due to rising property taxes.

In my experience, most retirees have more rooms/land than they can make productive use of. I feel that there should be some pressure for them to sell that property to families who can use it more productively. That's the stick, but I feel there needs to be a carrot, where builders are constructing homes that these retirees will be drawn to. There are retirement communities in the southern US like "The Villages" https://www.thevillages.com/, but as the population here ages, we need to build these everywhere so retirees can move into the communities that meet their needs without being forced to leave their cities.

New comment by williadc in "How far back in time can you understand English?"

williadc — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 04:57:44 +0000

I've been thinking about this problem for quite awhile, and recently coded up something that allows for easy conversion between today's written English, and a phonetic spelling convention.

https://git.sr.ht/~dcw/iNgliS

I've created a Firefox Add-on for it as well.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/inglis/

New comment by williadc in "Don't create .gitkeep files, use .gitignore instead (2023)"

williadc — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 01:01:28 +0000

The idea is that you don't want to check-in any builds.

New comment by williadc in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

williadc — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 21:20:51 +0000

Is it your fault when someone puts a bad file on the Internet that the LLM reads and acts on?

New comment by williadc in "Two Weeks Until Tapeout"

williadc — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 18:26:41 +0000

I'm shocked that SRAMs would be considered a luxury item for open silicon. They're essential for building anything that would be commercially viable, since area is far from free.

New comment by williadc in "Python Workers redux: fast cold starts, packages, and a uv-first workflow"

williadc — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:20:28 +0000

`time` is a shell command that you can use to invoke other commands and track their runtime.

New comment by williadc in "Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit"

williadc — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 16:58:18 +0000

Alexandr Wang is 28 years old, the same age as Mark Zuckerberg was when Facebook IPO'ed,

New comment by williadc in "Meta convinces Blue Owl to cut $30B check for its Hyperion AI super cluster"

williadc — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 17:53:21 +0000

They probably used some of the money for this: https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/10/02/meta-buys-rivos-to-a...

New comment by williadc in "Linux 6.18 Will Fix Lockups When Systemd Units Read Lots of Files"

williadc — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 22:56:10 +0000

I use atime to identify archives that can be retired. It's common for circuit designer to release a lot of large files for their peers to analyze or incorporate into a parent/grandparent simulation. They will use that data for as long as it is still relevant, which means different things for different types of data, and the only consistent thing we've found is that if the data hasn't been accessed in awhile, then we can retire it.

New comment by williadc in "The future of large files in Git is Git"

williadc — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 23:42:20 +0000

I believe that was the author's intent.

New comment by williadc in "Show HN: I built a knife steel comparison tool"

williadc — Sat, 17 May 2025 19:57:20 +0000

Sandvik 14c28n is common for budget knives. It would be nice to see it on this list.

New comment by williadc in "Show HN: I built a knife steel comparison tool"

williadc — Sat, 17 May 2025 19:55:30 +0000

It's very likely 8cr13mov, which is listed

New comment by williadc in "Tcl Tutorial"

williadc — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 20:59:58 +0000

Tcl is more-or-less required if you're involved with the physical design of silicon (most EDA tools only provide a Tcl interface). It's a good fit for that purpose. If you need a language which is easy to embed and you want non-programmers to be able to use it, Tcl is a good choice, though I've heard that Lua has supplanted Tcl for that purpose.

New comment by williadc in "Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is America's largest recorded since the 1950s"

williadc — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 16:01:22 +0000

Two reasons: I enjoy Green's work; he's been researching this subject for a few years, so I expect a pretty thorough analysis.

New comment by williadc in "Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is America's largest recorded since the 1950s"

williadc — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 01:37:14 +0000

John Green, author of "The Fault in Our Stars", "Turtles All the Way Down", "The Anthropocene Reviewed", and other fine books is releasing a book called "Everything is Tuberculosis." If you are interested in the topic or just like to read well-written prose, I recommend joining me in pre-ordering it.

New comment by williadc in "Understanding Intel"

williadc — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 15:35:20 +0000

Intel bylaws state that the CEO has to retire at age 65. Pat will reach that age in March 2026. I haven't seen anyone being groomed to take the lead in 18 months, so I am concerned that the leadership transition will be jarring.

https://qlksearch.com/ceo-mandatory-retirement-age/

New comment by williadc in "Claiming high user satisfaction, IRS will decide on renewing free tax site"

williadc — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 23:07:36 +0000

> use up all the budget, or else your budget gets cut the next year

I have worked at multiple large and successful tech companies, and groups in those companies operated under the same principles.

New comment by williadc in "Rotz: Cross platform dotfile manager written in Rust"

williadc — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 18:16:13 +0000

To the folks who missed the nose next to the name of the app, I needed a second look.