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Re:Commodore 64 Basic for PostgreSQL
on Friday July 03, 2026 @07:40AM (#48773830)
Sometimes you simply ignore asking why and sit in awe of the what of it all. Impressive and nostalgic.
Re:Byte magazine artist Robert Tinney, who illustrated the birth of PC...
on Thursday February 12, 2026 @09:25AM (#46989234)
Robert's cover art set the tone for each issue. His covers danced a fine line between whimsical and informative.
Re:Apple Reveals 'Vision Pro' Headset
on Monday June 05, 2023 @04:42PM (#36203309)
Interesting that accessibility was not a theme (watched the online video, not the presentation). I'm interested to see what some low-sight folk might use this. Go shopping and have all the product labels magnified 20-30x?
Re:New Hampshire set to pilot voting machines that use software everyo...
on Friday November 04, 2022 @12:14PM (#33469115)
And some positions allow you to vote for "up to" some number of candidates.
Town selectman is a typical example.
Re:Volvo is using Rust for its in-vehicle software
on Saturday September 24, 2022 @08:48AM (#32962039)
First thing that came to my mind was something doing garbarge collection (obviously not RTOS).
Re:Ask HN: How to share a list of curated article links nowadays?
on Thursday September 22, 2022 @09:06PM (#32946729)
GitHub / GitLab pages? No RSS feed, but a popular way to share lists.
Re:Hardening macOS
on Friday June 24, 2022 @04:17PM (#31868731)
I'm also curious as to what is tiresome running as a regular user. I'm a developer and run two users (standard/admin) without any issue. Only issue I run into is having to switch to the admin user to run brew.
Re:BBEdit is 30 years old today
on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @08:49PM (#31009975)
Still my "go to" day-to-day text editor. My favorite editor when I used a Mac Quadra and my favorite editor today. Thanks Rich!
Re:Vuescan – Software support for 6500 abandoned scanners
on Thursday March 24, 2022 @01:54PM (#30793279)
Have two copies, one for each ScanSnap S510M connected to a Mac. It simply keeps working.
Re:How to set up a blog with Hugo and Cloudflare, and why you should
on Saturday February 19, 2022 @10:15AM (#30397709)
Been doing a lot of internal documentation with Gilab pages, Sphinx, and Myst (markdown for Sphinx). There are pre-built templates for the Continuous Integration for rebuilding the pages.
Re:How FreeDOS Grew Up and Became a Modern DOS (2021)
on Saturday January 29, 2022 @01:59PM (#30129264)
Worked at an OEM and Microsoft charged a license fee for every processor out the door regardless of whether the system had DOS, Novell, or nothing at all installed.
Re:Ask HN: How much was Python used from 1991 to 2006? What for?
on Saturday November 27, 2021 @03:07PM (#29362915)
Python 1.4: Desktop payment applications. Simple cgi-based dynamic website. System management scripts. Early Plone websites. Asynchronous desktop applications using Twisted.
Re:Jim Warren has died
on Thursday November 25, 2021 @09:50AM (#29341791)
And given how tall Jim was, you could see his face floating over the Faire floor from across the entire hall.
Re:OpenBSD 7.0
on Thursday October 14, 2021 @01:42PM (#28867451)
It's not like there's not 42 different flavors of Linux...
Re:The fungal mind: on the evidence for mushroom intelligence
on Friday September 03, 2021 @04:19PM (#28408895)
And wild carrots (Queen Anne's lace) look remarkably like poison-hemlock. Some people also have a dermal reaction to wild carrot as well.
Re:Ask HN: Have you found a good desk chair?
on Thursday June 17, 2021 @12:44PM (#27541618)
I've been using the SecretLabs Titan chair for a few months and am very happy with it. May be larger than you're looking for. https://secretlab.co/collections/titan-series
Re:Sublime Text 4
on Friday May 21, 2021 @11:07AM (#27234992)
Happy to see another satisfied BBEdit user. Been my go-to Mac editor since Mac Plus.
Re:Ward: Modern Test Framework for Python
on Sunday May 16, 2021 @11:21AM (#27174276)
Some of my tests have dozens of parameter sets with a half-dozen parameters. Getting those all aligned with individual 'each' statements would be interesting.
Re:Texas wants to charge Tesla and other EV owners annual fees
on Saturday May 15, 2021 @03:24PM (#27168092)
EVs run on the same roads and bridges that non-EV cars use.
Re:Python Tornado, a Quick-Start Guide
on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @07:11PM (#26896548)
Tornado has retrofitted async/await into the framework so you can use standard async modules.
The advantage I find to using frameworks like Tornado is the number of protocol edge cases they've addressed over the years.
I also appreciate the ability to deploy as a stand-alone multi-cpu application.
Re:What's New in SQLite 3.35
on Friday March 12, 2021 @04:17PM (#26441055)
Possibly the first step towards the ability to rename a column?
Re:Bitwarden Send - A trusted way to securely share information with a...
on Friday March 12, 2021 @10:47AM (#26437010)
I've been using Scribo (scriboco.com).
In addition to sending files, I can request files from a third party. Includes document signing and payments (which I've not used).
Re:Oracle Cloud is unreachable
on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @09:21PM (#26419423)
And DynDNS was definitely down.
Re:Ask HN: Interesting Python mistakes for teaching CS to high schoolers?
on Monday March 08, 2021 @04:35PM (#26391940)
A mistake I still occasionally make today is:
a = 123, # expecting a to be 123, not (123, )
Re:Homebrew 3.0
on Friday February 05, 2021 @09:25AM (#26036600)
As a long-time Python user, Homebrew jumping versions from 2.7.0 to 3.0 is a little disorienting. :}
Re:Homebrew 2.6.0 supports running natively on M1/Apple Silicon/ARM
on Friday December 04, 2020 @10:20AM (#25303186)
"...the beginnings of macOS M1/Apple Silicon/ARM support..."
Re:This could lead to the next big breakthrough in common sense AI
on Friday November 06, 2020 @09:32AM (#25007810)
And all sheep are not.
Re:Rocket Lab will deliver 30 satellites to orbit and a 3D-printed gnome
on Monday November 02, 2020 @04:51PM (#24973858)
Nobody, apparently. Article states the gnome will stay attached to the Kick Stage until it burns up on reentry.
RocketLabs has an interesting approach of leaving only the payloads in space, deorbiting the transport, and leaving as little debris behind as possible.
Re:Nikola founder bought truck designs from third party
on Sunday September 27, 2020 @02:23PM (#24608911)
And Micro-Soft (yes, two words at the time) bought the core of what would become MS-DOS from a third party.
Is there something else going on here besides noise about who invented something or who purchased an idea?
Re:The 2020 Ig Nobel Prize Winners
on Saturday September 19, 2020 @12:03PM (#24528370)
My favorite is the Peace Prize awarded to India and Pakistan for having their diplomats ring each other's door bells in the middle of the night and then run away.