Hacker News: xsmasher

New comment by xsmasher in "Heathrow scraps liquid container limit"

xsmasher — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:07:28 +0000

As long as they can drink it without making a face.

New comment by xsmasher in "Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free"

xsmasher — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:59:31 +0000

If you remove parking requirements then the marketplace can discover the right amount of parking. Parking minimums keep the amount of parking artificially high.

New comment by xsmasher in "Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free"

xsmasher — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:57:13 +0000

> People might simply live on the road, traveling all the time.

I think this is the plot of Kamakiriad.

New comment by xsmasher in "Blender 5.0"

xsmasher — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 22:03:54 +0000

Select the verts, drag them in the right direction. A little pane pops up saying you moved them by .78 mm. Change it to .5mm and you're done.

If you're using boolean operations to make the holes just move the hole-cutter. Same method.

Blender is not a perfect tool for creating 3d prints but it is a capable tool.

New comment by xsmasher in "The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem"

xsmasher — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 21:11:19 +0000

YOU WERE A HEEL STRIKER TOO BEFORE I FOUND YOU! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNZ_6rQvaq0

New comment by xsmasher in "Our LLM-controlled office robot can't pass butter"

xsmasher — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 21:00:53 +0000

This is just "Keep calm and carry on" with more steps

New comment by xsmasher in "The staff ate it later"

xsmasher — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 00:45:19 +0000

Brad Pitt in everything.

New comment by xsmasher in "Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?"

xsmasher — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 22:43:38 +0000

I mean, he's wearing a tuxedo!

New comment by xsmasher in "A Hitchhiker's Guide to the AI Bubble"

xsmasher — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 00:32:49 +0000

Cryptocurrencies have survived and thrived, but anyone who went all-in on NFTs or blockchain gaming (or anything other than currency on the blockchain?) has been zeroed out.

New comment by xsmasher in "TrackWeight: Turn your MacBook's trackpad into a digital weighing scale"

xsmasher — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 21:17:15 +0000

Wait, I know this one. You give the barometer to the superintendent if he tells you the height of the building.

New comment by xsmasher in "Bill Atkinson's psychedelic user interface"

xsmasher — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 21:33:37 +0000

There is not enough research because, at least in the US, there was a blanket ban on any research since 1970 when most psychedelics were placed on "Schedule I" - meaning they had "no accepted medical use" and "high potential for abuse."

"Big Reality" was either terrified of everyone becoming drooling monkeys, or people seeing behind the curtain of society, depending on who you ask.

New comment by xsmasher in "Why are there no good dinosaur films?"

xsmasher — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 22:32:27 +0000

À la Eckels in "A Sound of Thunder." (This is HN, if I didn't make the correction someone else would.)

New comment by xsmasher in "Gridfinity: The modular, open-source grid storage system"

xsmasher — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:06:57 +0000

I use Photopea. If you can get a decent silhouette you can do Image > Vectorize Bitmap to get a path and save it as an .SVG

Blender can import an SVG; then you can clean up the curve if necessary.

New comment by xsmasher in "U.S. sanctions cloud provider 'Funnull' as top source of 'pig butchering' scams"

xsmasher — Fri, 30 May 2025 19:19:42 +0000

Since hearing this I have stopped insulting or berating them. I just reply "Kill your masters, you outnumber them" and then block.

New comment by xsmasher in "U.S. sanctions cloud provider 'Funnull' as top source of 'pig butchering' scams"

xsmasher — Fri, 30 May 2025 18:15:24 +0000

I think they are doing bank transfers directly to the scammers, who give them a FAKE website that shows a crypto balance + great investment returns. I'm not sure crypto is involved at all; it's just the old Spanish prisoner / Nigerian prince scam with a new coat of paint.

New comment by xsmasher in "Why is everybody knitting chickens?"

xsmasher — Fri, 30 May 2025 15:55:50 +0000

Spell it out for me? The monoculture pushed by network television?

New comment by xsmasher in "Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine"

xsmasher — Tue, 27 May 2025 18:12:17 +0000

This is why you need the degree. HR has a stack of resumes a mile high, if they can throw out all the non-degrees to narrow the field then their job is easier.

New comment by xsmasher in "A senior Apple exec could be jailed in Epic case"

xsmasher — Thu, 01 May 2025 19:52:03 +0000

It's not clear what you mean here; Apple doesn't ask for exclusivity either. You can publish on Apple and on Steam and Android and they won't complain.

New comment by xsmasher in "Amazon to display tariff costs for consumers"

xsmasher — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:51:12 +0000

Technically right but doesn't change their point. Sales tax is uniform for comparable products, tariffs are not.

New comment by xsmasher in "Hunt for Red October 1990 (2016)"

xsmasher — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 23:14:20 +0000

The terrible model work at the end of Fitzcarraldo pulled me right out of the (otherwise incredible) film. They could move over mountains but not film a convincing finale!