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New comment by GartzenDeHaes in "Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables"

GartzenDeHaes — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:37:18 +0000

Good thing they won't be needing any of that LNG from the Gulf.

New comment by GartzenDeHaes in "Webbol: A minimal static web server written in COBOL"

GartzenDeHaes — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 20:04:39 +0000

COBOL used to drive some government and business web sites. You could tell because the HTML was output in 100 column fixed width format.

New comment by GartzenDeHaes in "Athlon 64: How AMD turned the tables on Intel"

GartzenDeHaes — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 22:45:07 +0000

> they wouldn’t have to worry about competing CPU designs, at least not for a very long time.

US Government sales require two vendors, which I think is why AMD had x86 licenses in the first place.

New comment by GartzenDeHaes in "40k-Year-Old Symbols in Caves Worldwide May Be the Earliest Written Language"

GartzenDeHaes — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 21:08:25 +0000

The uniform scale of the symbols is deceptive since the source drawings have substantially different sizes. The hand outline is hand sized, for instance.

New comment by GartzenDeHaes in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

GartzenDeHaes — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 20:43:40 +0000

H-1B is for difficult-to-find specialists and O-1 is for people with extraordinary ability in their field.

H-2B is for ordinary workers.

New comment by GartzenDeHaes in "Chat Control Must Be Stopped"

GartzenDeHaes — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:56:56 +0000

Hardware attestation. They say vendors are pushing this like crazy at security and government conferences.

New comment by GartzenDeHaes in "Freeway guardrails are now a favorite target of thieves"

GartzenDeHaes — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 02:59:25 +0000

Just like during the collapse of the Soviet Union.

New comment by GartzenDeHaes in "Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks"

GartzenDeHaes — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 02:54:59 +0000

Getting ready for doomsday? You need a solar powered, wifi-enabled, offline wikipedia server.

https://piwithvic.com/offline-wikipedia-with-kiwix/

New comment by GartzenDeHaes in "Debian switches to 64-bit time for everything"

GartzenDeHaes — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 02:52:28 +0000

That's what the specs say, but I found out it actually didn't work that way when I was working on a transpiler, at least for that installation.

New comment by GartzenDeHaes in "Debian switches to 64-bit time for everything"

GartzenDeHaes — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 22:01:42 +0000

People aren't getting that it was two characters that need to be added, not two bytes to make a short into an int. COBOL uses a fixed width character format for all data (yes even for COMP). If you want a four digit number, then you have to use 4 character positions. Ten digits? Then ten characters.

These field sizes have to hard coded into all parts of the COBOL program including data access, UI screens, batch jobs, intermediate files, and data transfer files.

New comment by GartzenDeHaes in "OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract"

GartzenDeHaes — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 02:19:57 +0000

Gen. Ripper is getting some validation now that fluoride is being banned in some places.

New comment by GartzenDeHaes in "South Korean president declares martial law, parliament votes to lift it"

GartzenDeHaes — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 15:28:41 +0000

Here one example. Al-Qaeda was the name of Osama bin Laden's legitimate political party in Saudi Arabia, which he kept separate from his jihadist activities in Afghanistan. There is not now, nor has there ever been, a shadowy international terrorist group called Al-Qaeda. It's a complete fiction that was used as a simple explanation for the dizzying array of groups hated by western oligarchs.

New comment by GartzenDeHaes in "Fiber optic drone control beats any RF jammer"

GartzenDeHaes — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 23:32:36 +0000

'explosively pumped flux compression generator', is an EMP generator I think.

New comment by GartzenDeHaes in "Fiber optic drone control beats any RF jammer"

GartzenDeHaes — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 23:29:16 +0000

I think older TOW, AT-2, and other such missiles used wires rather than fiber optics. Fiber optics is thinner, which would give it a much longer range presumably.

New comment by GartzenDeHaes in "GE Aerospace Successfully Develops and Tests New Hypersonic Dual-Mode Ramjet"

GartzenDeHaes — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 11:47:50 +0000

> which could enable high-speed flight and longer range across numerous multi-mission aircraft

This is DoD language, so more secret drones I would think.

New comment by GartzenDeHaes in "Security researcher discovers Microsoft's Recall tool is woefully insecure"

GartzenDeHaes — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:56:39 +0000

> main threat is from malware that compromises SYSTEM

It's a keylogger -- the system IS the malware.

New comment by GartzenDeHaes in "Carpenter's AirTags help uncover 'massive' case of stolen tools in Maryland"

GartzenDeHaes — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 10:18:07 +0000

Remember George Zimmerman? People aren't going to do what you say just because you have a gun.

New comment by GartzenDeHaes in "You Can Thank Private Equity for That Enormous Doctor's Bill"

GartzenDeHaes — Thu, 30 May 2024 14:03:29 +0000

By diagnosing more things, performing more procedures, and prescribing more pharmaceuticals. The opioid crisis, for example.

New comment by GartzenDeHaes in "Ask HN: What is your ChatGPT customization prompt?"

GartzenDeHaes — Sun, 26 May 2024 19:08:49 +0000

It seems as if the people who rave about it's coding abilities are doing a lot of copy+paste stack overflow level of coding. I'm not sure whether it's great that this can be automated, or if it's depressing that so much human effort is being wasted.

New comment by GartzenDeHaes in "Ask HN: What is your ChatGPT customization prompt?"

GartzenDeHaes — Sun, 26 May 2024 18:44:11 +0000

How long before people start non-ironically wearing their prompts on tshirts or putting them on business cards?