Hacker News: BooneJS

New comment by BooneJS in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

BooneJS — Fri, 08 May 2026 01:39:38 +0000

My kids are in the middle of their finals week. What a mess. Universities know nothing, Canvas claims to be in a "scheduled maintenance", and one Prof claims to "not have any copies of material offline" which seems pretty negligent. Sounds like one section of a popular class will be doing paper exams while other sections had Canvas-based "half points for 2nd attempt"-type exams earlier today. How soon before names & grades appear in data dumps?

This would be like TurboTax "scheduling maintenance" on April 14th in the US.

New comment by BooneJS in "Apple to focus on 'quality and underlying performance' with iOS 27 next year"

BooneJS — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 19:36:15 +0000

“Snow Leopard”, the original OSX release that focused under the hood, returns. I’m glad to hear it.

New comment by BooneJS in "Why Wisconsin's county highways are lettered, not numbered (2019)"

BooneJS — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 00:02:45 +0000

They’re CTH : County Trunk Highway. Posting from CTH T between the intersections at TT and TTT.

New comment by BooneJS in "Merlin Bird ID"

BooneJS — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 18:18:35 +0000

My father is in his 80’s, has poor hearing aids, but still goes out daily with his dSLR and Merlin to see what’s around him and he still gets great shots. I’m really happy Merlin exists.

New comment by BooneJS in "AI Is Making Developers Dumb"

BooneJS — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 19:51:29 +0000

If you use LLMs in lieu of searching Stack Overflow, you're going to go faster and be neither smarter nor dumber. If you're prompting for entire functions, I suspect it'll be a crutch you learn to rely on forever.

New comment by BooneJS in "Pattern of brain damage is pervasive in Navy SEALs who died by suicide"

BooneJS — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 01:45:17 +0000

It’s not just the orders of magnitude difference in number of rounds fired; it’s the size and power of the rounds. SEALs don’t shoot soda cans with .22 rifles.

New comment by BooneJS in "Apple found in breach of EU competition rules"

BooneJS — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 14:23:24 +0000

And yet several places do. “Menu reflects cash prices” and “tuition payment via credit card will be subject to a 3.5% fee” are 2 I got this week.

New comment by BooneJS in "FAA investigating how counterfeit titanium got into Boeing and Airbus jets"

BooneJS — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 19:41:56 +0000

The FAA has their hands full investigating problems _after_ they become problems. Are airplanes in a race to the bottom or is there an opportunity to inject quality and reliability into this industry?

New comment by BooneJS in "Reversing Choplifter"

BooneJS — Tue, 21 May 2024 17:29:56 +0000

Would this have been written in C, asm, or something else? I suppose with Atari & Mac II both being Motorola processors the assembly would have been a direct lift except for any Apple-specific UI.

My favorite part of the story was the latent assertions looking for the bug. Any new code I write is peppered with these, though only active in debug builds. I've never learned to enjoy stepping through a debugger.

New comment by BooneJS in "Governor signs bills creating EV charging station network across Wisconsin"

BooneJS — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 23:57:38 +0000

MG&E built one on the Madison isthmus[0], but they’re already a utility company.

[0]: https://www.mge.com/lovev/charging/charge-go#/find/nearest?c...

New comment by BooneJS in "Surge Pricing Is Coming to More Menus Near You"

BooneJS — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 18:41:49 +0000

Dune 2 is almost 3 hours long. Why shouldn’t it cost more than a 90 minute romcom?

New comment by BooneJS in "Joplin is an open source note-taking app"

BooneJS — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 20:20:29 +0000

https://www.craft.do on macOS is a great text+media notes app, but I still use Obsidian for pure-test use cases for some reason.

New comment by BooneJS in "Bookish Diversions: Do Audiobooks Count?"

BooneJS — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 16:29:50 +0000

I like listening to The Great Courses on Audible. They’re long and interesting, but they’re nothing I’d take notes on, they’re not anything that would change my life. I have used credits on a few nonfiction books, gotten 1/4 in, and bought the physical book because I wanted a better understanding of the material.

New comment by BooneJS in "Disney to take $1.5B stake in Epic Games"

BooneJS — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 22:49:39 +0000

Disney is diversifying. This comes on the heels of their subsidiary ESPN creating a new sports streaming service with Fox and Warner/Discovery (https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/espn-fox-warner-bros-discov...)

New comment by BooneJS in "Bloated Google-cloud-CLI contains an entire Python installation (~300MB)"

BooneJS — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 04:45:46 +0000

It's the output of Bazel's py_binary rule that includes a py_runtime to create a single hermetic executable file that can be deployed anywhere.

New comment by BooneJS in "Goodbye non-KISS appliances"

BooneJS — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 17:25:40 +0000

Timely read; we’re in the process of replacing our $12k Thermador refrigerator 4 years after we bought it, and 6 months and a dozen trips by the repair guy.

New comment by BooneJS in "Apple to Remove Blood Oxygen Sensor from Watch to Avoid U.S. Ban, Rival Says"

BooneJS — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 00:49:13 +0000

I’ve used the blood oxygen sensor during bouts with Covid, while sleeping, and while sitting at a computer (“email apnea”). It’s an important part of the reason I own it.

If Apple removes this sensor from my ultra 2, I hope I can get my money back.

New comment by BooneJS in "OpenWrt One/AP-24.XY: new open source router board by OpenWrt and Banana Pi"

BooneJS — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 17:10:38 +0000

I wish I could get a decent mesh system. One router isn't enough to cover my house with some of the building materials used.

New comment by BooneJS in "FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s"

BooneJS — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 03:25:34 +0000

Good news, everyone: The United 737 Max 9 I’m supposed to board tomorrow has “already been checked out and returned to service.”

New comment by BooneJS in "Chisel: A Modern Hardware Design Language"

BooneJS — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 23:36:14 +0000

I verified verilog using the Vera language back in the day. The largest test benches would take 5s to compile to interpreted bytecode. Verification engineers rarely change the design, so keeping that part compiled is great for productivity. It’s really too bad that monolithic compilation is so dang slow.