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New comment by ChickeNES in "John C. Dvorak has died"

ChickeNES — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 23:10:08 +0000

I laughed at one I happened to spot recently, where he confidently said that Compaq would license Micro Channel from IBM according to "sources".

New comment by ChickeNES in "A new Intel Itanium (IA-64) emulator that boots Windows"

ChickeNES — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 23:14:12 +0000

Well, that's one vibe coded backburner'd project I can mark off my list...though maybe it would still be helpful so I'll link it here: https://github.com/ChickenParts/qemu-ia64

It booted Linux fine, was working on booting IPF EFI firmware when I got distracted by life and other projects.

New comment by ChickeNES in "Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line"

ChickeNES — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 07:16:32 +0000

What does your local setup look like?

New comment by ChickeNES in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

ChickeNES — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:35:26 +0000

Mine required very specific courses, including Discrete Math, which I scraped by in. Almost 15 years later and I have never needed any of the upper level math I was forced to take and wish I could have just taken more applied CS classes instead.

New comment by ChickeNES in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

ChickeNES — Thu, 28 May 2026 09:45:25 +0000

I think the average person has no idea who either of those people are. I think Liszt or Rachmaninov would be better reference points.

New comment by ChickeNES in "Handling the great code forge fragmentation"

ChickeNES — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:21:06 +0000

> The thing thay is not defined is why I should do it.

Most of the reasons seem to boil down to "X bad", where X is some combination of Github, Microsoft, America, and AI

New comment by ChickeNES in "Handling the great code forge fragmentation"

ChickeNES — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:19:17 +0000

> this place accepts patches via email, this one wants a URL to a pastebin containing the patch

I for one would never contribute to a project that requires one of the above. I know some will shoot back with "but Linux!", but that's the exception that proves the rule.

New comment by ChickeNES in "Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?"

ChickeNES — Mon, 18 May 2026 11:49:46 +0000

> the vibecoded OS

What counts as an OS? For that matter, a Photoshop? And are we talking Photoshop 1.0, CS2, or CC?

New comment by ChickeNES in "The SGI Buyer's Guide (2003)"

ChickeNES — Mon, 18 May 2026 03:29:52 +0000

I used to dream of owning an O2, in no small part due to it being the host of Erwin from UserFriendly. And then I managed to score multiple out of the trash years later in college, funny how the world works. :)

New comment by ChickeNES in "Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI next industrial revolution"

ChickeNES — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:11:02 +0000

What if that does not matter to someone? I know my opinion can't be common, but I cannot stand live music. I dislike the sound quality, the differences from the recording, the crowds, the cost, and more.

New comment by ChickeNES in "Reverse Engineering SimTower"

ChickeNES — Fri, 01 May 2026 04:42:56 +0000

Heh, I have four different games I am currently experimenting with, luckily I skipped this one as I am still expecting the original/Yoot source will be published (hopefully DonHopkins sees this and it nudges him to get it uploaded!).

New comment by ChickeNES in "Raylib v6.0"

ChickeNES — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:27:21 +0000

You should have read the post :P

> NEW Text Management API: Along with the new file system functionality, a new set of text management functions has been added, also very useful for text procesing and also used in custom build systems creation using raylib. At the moment raylib includes +30 text management functions:

New comment by ChickeNES in "62 years in the making: NYC's newest water tunnel nears the finish line"

ChickeNES — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 23:30:39 +0000

Wild to think this is the same project featured in the third Die Hard, which turned 30 this year.

New comment by ChickeNES in "The Boot Order of the Raspberry Pi Is Unusual"

ChickeNES — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 20:46:58 +0000

Yes, it's just a port of the EDK2 UEFI reference firmware

New Epstein emails appear to reveal more Trump ties

ChickeNES — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:45:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2025/11/12/nx-s1-5605582/epstein-files-release-trump-email-grijalva-massie

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45900091

Points: 33

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New comment by ChickeNES in "72% of devs believe Steam has a monopoly on PC games, according to study"

ChickeNES — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 13:37:17 +0000

I'm literally waiting for Satisfactory to go on Steam sale so I can buy it again and not have to deal with the Epic launcher for one game I bought on sale when the store launched. :)

New comment by ChickeNES in "The decline of deviance"

ChickeNES — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 02:03:44 +0000

Just saying: https://starlink.com/business/direct-to-cell

New comment by ChickeNES in "The decline of deviance"

ChickeNES — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 01:56:43 +0000

Right? When Spencer's Gifts is using the word "yiff" in advertising, you can't quite call it underground now lol

New comment by ChickeNES in "Generative AI Image Editing Showdown"

ChickeNES — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 01:34:46 +0000

Not always! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polydactyl_cat

New comment by ChickeNES in "FSF turns forty with a groundbreaking new project and a new president"

ChickeNES — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 20:40:59 +0000

> a developer who has worked on free software (including the GNU toolchain) since the 1980

Can they really not find ANYONE outside their bubble? A phone lives and dies by its UI and they pick someone who primarily does toolchain/CLI work? I don't get it.