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New comment by wrigby in "Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice"

wrigby — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:14:59 +0000

Probably Microcenter in Brooklyn is your best bet, but still limited selection. It really feels like there should be a hole-in-the-wall gaming PC shop in LES - maybe we should just open one?

New comment by wrigby in "Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability"

wrigby — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:54:36 +0000

Maybe not if one of those items is always in your backpack. A few other use cases that I think they're great for:

- Throw one in your checked bag when traveling

- Mount one in a relatively concealed location on your bike

- Keychain (depending on if you're prone to misplacing your keys)

New comment by wrigby in "Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation"

wrigby — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 23:16:24 +0000

Or just, I don’t know… package your software?

New comment by wrigby in "SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation"

wrigby — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:57:15 +0000

The fact that the Adafruit team continued that thread unabashedly after Paul Stoffregen's first reply is an awful look in my opinion. Doesn't seem like anyone here is behaving like adults.

Edit: I should clarify - Paul seems very much like a mature adult in all of this.

New comment by wrigby in "Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15"

wrigby — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 15:32:29 +0000

This comment shines a spotlight on my issues with the US auto market. None of these vehicles are sold in the US, for a variety of reasons - both economic and regulatory. I hate knowing that the vehicles I want to buy both exist and are affordable, but I just can’t have them. Meanwhile, the cars sold in my market are all egregiously enormous, have giant screens inside, etc.

This is the very definition of a “first world problem,” but it sure is frustrating.

New comment by wrigby in "Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15"

wrigby — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 15:24:53 +0000

My 2004 RX-8 had decently solid ESC, but it was a “high-end” vehicle at the time. It’s definitely something we want to keep in our idealized vehicle (but let’s also keep the “disable ESC so I can have fun” button)

New comment by wrigby in "Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15"

wrigby — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 15:22:28 +0000

This is my exact same sentiment. I’m cautiously excited about the upcoming Slate Pickup[1] - I can see it being my go-to if I leave NYC, but it still won’t hit like the XJ Cherokee I drove before I gave up cars for the city.

1: https://www.slate.auto/

New comment by wrigby in "Tesla Is Recalling Cybertrucks Again"

wrigby — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:19:39 +0000

What about if you’re hit at 10mph? Of course any crash at 55 is fatal for a cyclist, but most impacts with cyclists don’t occur at highway speeds.

New comment by wrigby in "CPUs and GPUs to Become More Expensive After TSMC Price Hike in 2026"

wrigby — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 22:31:10 +0000

That’s true, but Zen1 TDP is a lot higher than an RPi. Hitting that level of performance in a power and heat envelope that works for a Pi probably demands a smaller process node, unfortunately.

New comment by wrigby in "In orbit you have to slow down to speed up"

wrigby — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 12:53:00 +0000

But you exit going faster, which means you make up time on the straight after the corner.

New comment by wrigby in "Tesla reports steep drop in profits despite US rush to buy electric vehicles"

wrigby — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 02:48:31 +0000

> Also the claimed "Rush to buy electric vehicles" put revenue only 2% above expectations?

The rush to buy electric vehicles was baked into the expectations, so beating by 2% is still noteworthy.

New comment by wrigby in "IRS open sources its fact graph"

wrigby — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 04:07:46 +0000

Many states allow a state tax deduction for 529 contributions, which could net you up to an 8ish% discount if you’re in a high tax locality (e.g. NYC).

Intel Announces Inference-Optimized Xe3P Graphics Card with 160GB VRAM

wrigby — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 18:30:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-crescent-island

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45583243

Points: 209

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New comment by wrigby in "Qualcomm to acquire Arduino"

wrigby — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 03:54:37 +0000

Yeah, I just did a project at work with an RP2040 and was really impressed with the Pico SDK. It hits a sweet spot in between ST’s insanity and Arduino’s easy-but-not-powerful tradeoff.

No crazy code generation, going from 0 to blinky is quick, but also going from blinky to DMA’s and interrupts is also a breeze.

I will say that I think the hardware peripherals in STM32’s are miles ahead, and PIO’s don’t necessarily make up the difference.

New comment by wrigby in "Sora 2"

wrigby — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:11:16 +0000

There are two completely distinct differences that jump out to me initially that I think may help justify your feelings:

1: Reading a long book demands focus on a longer timespan than scrolling TikTok, and with focusing on a single thing for a long time, we get a sense of accomplishment. I don’t know how to justify this as valuable, but for some reason I feel that it is.

2: The Song of Ice and Fire (and GoT) were consumed by a huge proportion of people, and you now have this in common with them. This act of consuming entertainment also grants you a way to connect with other humans - you have so much to talk about. Contrast that with an algorithmic feed, which is unique just for you - no one else sees your exact feed. Of course, there are tons of people that see some of the same snippets of content, if their interests overlap with yours, but it’s not nearly as universal as having read the same series of books (and there’s much less to talk about when you’ve seen the same 17-second short form video than when you’ve both invested dozens of hours in reading the same series of books).

I don’t think these thoughts fully justify your belief, but hopefully they provide some support to it.

New comment by wrigby in "Apple Debuts iPhone 17"

wrigby — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:50:22 +0000

Thread is a mesh networking protocol mostly targeted at IoT and smart-home connectivity - it's basically a Zigbee competitor.

New comment by wrigby in "Prime Number Grid"

wrigby — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 20:22:39 +0000

I enjoyed looking at this one too - playing around for a minute on paper with it was fun.

The numbers in each row (when cols is set to 6) are of the form:

6n+1, 6n+2, 6n+3, 6n+4, 6n+5, and 6n+6

Only 6n+1 and 6n+5 can't be trivially factored:

6n+1, 2(3n+1), 3(2n+1), 2(3n+2), 6n+5, 6(n+1)

So it follows that for any n >= 1, numbers in columns 2, 3, 4, and 6 can never be prime. Fun!

New comment by wrigby in "The Gentoo Perl versioning scheme"

wrigby — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 12:22:15 +0000

Hah - there I go acting like I know more about Europe than a European. TIL!

New comment by wrigby in "The Gentoo Perl versioning scheme"

wrigby — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 11:54:13 +0000

Most European countries use . as the thousands separator and , as the decimal point.

New comment by wrigby in "Nano-engineered thermoelectrics enable scalable, compressor-free cooling"

wrigby — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 14:02:42 +0000

I didn’t know this, and it jumps out to me because 10k is pretty much the exact difference between room temperature and wine fridge tenperature - I wonder if this is actually not a horrible application for peltiers?