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New comment by wmoxam in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

wmoxam — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:00:09 +0000

    Robot walks into a bar
    Orders a drink, lays down a bill
    Bartender says, "Hey, we don't serve robots"
    And the robot says, "Oh, but someday you will"

New comment by wmoxam in "Tractor"

wmoxam — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 21:26:46 +0000

LiamTronix on Youtube has some videos (ex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iEUp5Z1aNw) on converting a popular farm tractor (Massey Ferguson 65) to fulling electric.

Fun stuff!

New comment by wmoxam in "Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales"

wmoxam — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 04:59:16 +0000

> It's a $60,000 four-door lifted luxobarge with leather interior and a short bed

It can be that but all the major manufacturers have a ton of trim levels and options. Personally I drive a f150 that doesn't even have power windows.

Most Cybertrucks I've seen in the wild are running at a low ground clearance, reminiscent of a 'coupe utility' vehicle like an El Camino.

New comment by wmoxam in "The Cray-1 Computer System (1977) [pdf]"

wmoxam — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 03:19:27 +0000

Recently I've found myself wanting a tricorder type device.

New comment by wmoxam in "Nerd: A language for LLMs, not humans"

wmoxam — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:55:34 +0000

That does not answer the question

New comment by wmoxam in "Nerd: A language for LLMs, not humans"

wmoxam — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 01:38:39 +0000

Ok, now I'm even more confused. 40% of what code is machine written?

New comment by wmoxam in "Nerd: A language for LLMs, not humans"

wmoxam — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 01:29:41 +0000

> 40% of code is now machine-written

How did you arrive at that number?

New comment by wmoxam in "Karpathy on Programming: “I've never felt this much behind”"

wmoxam — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 03:05:23 +0000

IMO LLMs make for a great rubber duck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

New comment by wmoxam in "Ruby 4.0.0"

wmoxam — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 13:35:57 +0000

I found scrooge.

Bah, humbug!

New comment by wmoxam in "You can now play Grand Theft Auto Vice City in the browser"

wmoxam — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 20:56:10 +0000

Ah shit, here we go again

New comment by wmoxam in "Ruby 4.0.0 Preview2"

wmoxam — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:36:52 +0000

It has similar syntax, but adding explicit types and macros it's a very different language in practice.

IMO the two languages can be quite complimentary, I've been exploring using Crystal + MRuby to create apps, it's been fun so far.

New comment by wmoxam in "Canada Set to Side with China on EVs"

wmoxam — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 19:59:49 +0000

It doesn't matter what you or I want. How much money do you think the Canadian government should put behind a domestic auto maker? 10s of billions? 100s of billions?

How much are 125k manufacturing jobs in Ontario worth? Are there no better economic sectors that we can build up?

New comment by wmoxam in "Canada Set to Side with China on EVs"

wmoxam — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 18:17:24 +0000

Who would buy these EVs if we build them in Canada?

The Canadian market cannot support a car company without exporting the majority of production. The US is our largest natural market and does not want our auto exports. It's unclear why other markets would want our EVs either.

Artificial barriers to protect an industry where we don't have an advantage (autos) which results in tariffs on a sectors where we do (agricultural products, resources) isn't sustainable or desirable.

New comment by wmoxam in "Canada Set to Side with China on EVs"

wmoxam — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 13:50:53 +0000

Developing an EV industry depended on US cooperation. That cooperation is gone since Trump was elected.

New comment by wmoxam in "Canada Set to Side with China on EVs"

wmoxam — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 13:46:56 +0000

Trump says he wants every car sold in the United States to be made domestically.

The old integrated cross-border auto manufacturing system is over. Stellantis is already moving production of Jeep from Brampton to Illinois, and others are expected to follow.

New comment by wmoxam in "Toronto’s network of pedestrian tunnels"

wmoxam — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 14:47:24 +0000

There's rarely any slush on the streets before Christmas. Back when I lived in Toronto I used the PATH between January and March

New comment by wmoxam in "Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage"

wmoxam — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 21:34:19 +0000

Outages suck but for me this service has been rock solid. Much better uptime and more capable than the cellular broadband service that it replaced (Bell Canada) at a similar cost

New comment by wmoxam in "Replit's CEO apologizes after its AI agent wiped a company's code base"

wmoxam — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 13:39:50 +0000

The user was under the impression that production access is how it's supposed to work. https://xcancel.com/elchuchii/status/1946149142415196418#m

New comment by wmoxam in "Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down"

wmoxam — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 22:54:34 +0000

Don't look up!

New comment by wmoxam in "America will collapse by 2025 (2010)"

wmoxam — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 03:41:43 +0000

> And no, the US isn't "poised to withdraw from NATO". Nobody's even talking about that.

* https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/09/us/politics/trump-2025-na...

* https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/trump-may-withdraw-us-from-n...

* https://www.fairobserver.com/politics/its-time-for-the-us-to...

* https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/analytics/nato-under-trump-possib...

I don't know how close to withdrawing from NATO the US actually is, but people are talking about it. The aggressive stance the US President has towards two NATO members makes it seem like it could happen soon.

* https://apnews.com/article/trump-biden-offshore-drilling-gul...

* https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-canada-nato-allies-1....