bombcar's comments

On: How the Final Cartridge III Freezer Works

[bombcar]

It would be useful during boss segments perhaps, as an extra challenge.

On: John Wells, 64, Who Fled New York for the Solitude of the Desert, Dies

[bombcar]

> He eventually arranged for a D.S.L. line and phone service (it cost $10 to bury the cables and run them to his property from the highway two and a half miles away).

Either that’s a typo for $10k or he had the nicest phone company in existence.

On: How to Bring Back Oddly Shaped App Icons in macOS 26 Tahoe

[bombcar]

At least 95 felt significantly different.

It also helped that it was a moment where the market exploded considerably

On: Cray versus Raspberry Pi

[bombcar]

What happened to the programs/problems the Cray 1 solved? If anyone can do it on commodity hardware - is it being done? Is it all solved?

[johannes1234321 → bombcar]

No. With more computing power the level of detail increased.

And some problems are even more complex.

My father spent his career on researching coil forms for Stellerator fusion reactors. Finding the shapes for their experiments then was a huge computational problem using then-state of the art machines (incl. cray for a while) and even today's computing power isn't there, yet.

Other problems we now solve regularly on our phones ...

[whartung → bombcar]

A “famous” instance was the use of a Cray to render the collapse of Jupiter in the movie “2010”. A very early example of CGI in cinema.

[Cheer2171 → bombcar]

It was pretty basic models for tasks like weather forecasting and simulating nuclear reactions. We've come a long way on both the software modeling and hardware front.

[acidburnNSA → Cheer2171]

We still use a lot of the same software for nuclear reactor simulations. They just run a lot faster.

[criddell → bombcar]

Most are not solved but modern systems can generate better solutions. Think about problems like forecasting weather or finite element analysis of mechanical systems.

[cratermoon → bombcar]

Work in computational fluid dynamics is limited by computing power. Bigger and faster computers give more accuracy and speed.

On: $100 Hamburger

[bombcar]

Most GA pilots rent or share ownership such that the $150/hr is “wet” and all inclusive - fuel, maintenance, capital costs, etc.

The planes at $150/hr are often considerably older than the pilot.

On: $100 Hamburger

[bombcar]

Non-NY fast food places have gotten close to or breached $10 for the burger.

I still remember the “six dollar burger” at CJ.

[ChrisMarshallNY → bombcar]

When I was a teenager, I was in a boarding school (1975 or so).

When we went on trips, we’d get $2 for lunch.

At McDonald’s, I could get 6 cheeseburgers and a Coke for that (I was a teen. I had no problem, eating them all).

[kdndnrndn → ChrisMarshallNY]

That's like >$10 in today's money. Significantly more than I would give kids for lunch today

5 EUR (about $1 in 1975) is about the cost of a Döner Kebab which is more than enough for a teenager

[ChrisMarshallNY → kdndnrndn]

> more than enough for a teenager

You watched any teenage boys eating, recently?

I assume a doner is about the same as a gyro sandwich, around here (usually $7-$10).

A good teenager can shovel down two of them, easy.

[felurx → kdndnrndn]

Probably depends on the city, but where I'm from it's difficult (but probably not completely impossible) to get a Döner for 5€ :(

On: $100 Hamburger

[bombcar]

You can often find a flight instructor willing to build hours at rates as low as $15/hr.

[haiku2077 → bombcar]

Although many can't officially take your money as that would he operating a commercial passenger service which is regulated differently.

[bombcar → haiku2077]

You just get a lesson!

On: Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not just a design refresh

[bombcar]

The reality distortion field didn’t die with Jobs.

[mrandish → bombcar]

True... and in AR the Liquid Glass UI actually distorts reality.

[DannyBee → bombcar]

The author is far enough into apple fanboy conspiracies that they will probably next claim the reality distortion field didn't die because Jobs never died.

[bombcar → DannyBee]

Jobs is dead. Proof:

Assume he is not dead.

What Apple has become would kill him.

Ergo, he is dead.

On: Ask HN: Why does EU institutions and member gov. websites have cookie banners?

[bombcar]

Everyone else has one, so you better have one too.

Same reason US sites for US audiences sometimes have a GDPR cookie banner.

Because the cults are cargo.

On: macOS Tahoe brings a new disk image format

[bombcar]

I seem to remember getting that and having the option to post it again. Maybe it’s a karma related thing.