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New comment by Timothycquinn in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

Timothycquinn — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:50:51 +0000

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New comment by Timothycquinn in "Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)"

Timothycquinn — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 04:53:50 +0000

I learned of that from On the Metal podcast. Was a big favourite. Definitely a great watch.

New comment by Timothycquinn in "Microsoft will give the FBI a Windows PC data encryption key if ordered"

Timothycquinn — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 17:24:05 +0000

Time to use Linux as the on the metal OS.

New comment by Timothycquinn in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

Timothycquinn — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 01:48:23 +0000

I did this 10 years ago. I now run windows server as my windows guest so I dont get all the client cruft. Works like a charm

New comment by Timothycquinn in "Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models"

Timothycquinn — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 19:48:24 +0000

Could this be used to infer the alignments done by the creators of the models by passing in a common set of questions to before and after and then comparing the results? Would be interesting to see what Elon has done to his XAI model in comparison to OpenAI.

New comment by Timothycquinn in "Boa: A standard-conforming embeddable JavaScript engine written in Rust"

Timothycquinn — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 20:41:02 +0000

There is a Rust based browser project ongoing that can use this (if its not already).

Show HN: QResult – Another Result Model for Python

Timothycquinn — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 07:22:55 +0000

An alternative model for generating clean back-end python logic with strictly enforced error codes, result validation and with clean business logic for maximum code path coverage. Inspired by Functional programming result paradigms.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44909530

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New comment by Timothycquinn in "Why SSL was renamed to TLS in late 90s (2014)"

Timothycquinn — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:34:25 +0000

Considering that Microsoft was a completely different beast in that time, I'm not surprised it does not seem that silly.

M$ (appropriate name for that time) of the day was doing its best to own everything and the did not let up on trying to hold back the open source internet technologies until the early 2010's I believe. Its my opinion that they were successful in killing Java Applets, which were never able to improve past the first versions and JavaScript and CSS in general was held back many years.

I still recall my corporate overloards trying to push me to support IE's latest 'technologies' but I resisted and instead started supporting Mozilla 3.0 as soon as they fixed some core JS bugs for our custom built enterprise JavaScript SPA tools in the early 2000's. It turned out to be a great decision as the fortune 500 company started using Mozilla / Firefox in other internal apps in later years long before it became common place.

New comment by Timothycquinn in "Mitigating unexpected arithmetic overflow – Kees Cook"

Timothycquinn — Mon, 20 May 2024 23:10:42 +0000

Brodie Robertson just posted a YouTube video summarizing this including Linus’s response. It’s definitely a doozy. I’d be interested to hear the BSD folks perspective on this.

New comment by Timothycquinn in "A History of Source Control Systems: SCCS and RCS"

Timothycquinn — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 15:23:05 +0000

While researching which SCS to use at Honeywell in early 2000’s, I read the RCS thesis and it was short concise and a fantastic read. I recommend any SCS N00b’s to read it first.

Thankfully at the time, I chose SVN over CVS and although SVN was only at v0.8 my small team never lost any data. I never regretted my decision.

New comment by Timothycquinn in "Python 3.13 Gets a JIT"

Timothycquinn — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 17:51:18 +0000

Correct. I just checked the project yesterday and they are presently at 3.4 :-|

New comment by Timothycquinn in "Paste without formatting on macOS"

Timothycquinn — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 16:28:58 +0000

I don’t recall paste w/ formatting ever working well. IMHO, the OS’s should allow for some global config for default for Ctrl-v, Ctrl-shift-v.

New comment by Timothycquinn in "FindMyCat – Open-Source Pet Tracker"

Timothycquinn — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:12:55 +0000

I did a very rough BOM analysis of just the raw components and if you buy them at their highest rate (1pc cutoffs), the raw component cost excluding the PCB was about $100 USD. My guess is you would be looking at about $200.

Personally, I would be jumping in if I could buy a fully populated PCB and take care of 3D printing, final assembly and software. However, doing electronics like this is far out of my wheelhouse.

New comment by Timothycquinn in "WTFPython: Exploring and understanding Python through surprising snippets"

Timothycquinn — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 01:44:45 +0000

You are correct. I kind of took `is None` for granted as it just feels boilerplate when coding in Python.

Although I have written over a hundred thousand of lines of code in Python over the years; I use Python mostly for dev ops tooling, reporting, monitoring and automation so they don't get super complex and they mostly can lean on procedural programming patterns.

I could imagine complex frameworks needing heavy use of Objects that could lean on the 'is' keyword.

New comment by Timothycquinn in "WTFPython: Exploring and understanding Python through surprising snippets"

Timothycquinn — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 12:25:16 +0000

Love this. I’ve written a ton of Python in recent years but never used the ‘is’ operator. After reading this I’m glad I did not.

I can see usecases but clearly it should be used sparingly.

New comment by Timothycquinn in "Textual: Rapid Application Development framework for Python"

Timothycquinn — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 14:30:17 +0000

This looks great. I just finished an internal devops and change control app using unicurses and python and although it works, it will not scale well. Initially, I tried doing TK and QT but they both have their quirks with initial installation. My experience with QT is that its works well but useful documentation is sparse.

I'll definitely be giving textual a try as it fits my requirement space perfectly.

New comment by Timothycquinn in "Ball milling destroys PFAS in contaminated soil"

Timothycquinn — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 19:50:51 +0000

Maybe they can put these near power plants and use for power factor correction.

New comment by Timothycquinn in "Cap'n Proto 1.0"

Timothycquinn — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 18:20:22 +0000

Congrats in 10 years! Question: Can Cap'n Proto be used as an alternative to Python Pickle library for serializing and de-serializing python object structures?

New comment by Timothycquinn in "Oxide Computer: Docs"

Timothycquinn — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 18:20:16 +0000

However, the folks at Oxide are at the top of the game for this space with dozens of years of experience in building and testing such systems. Secondly Oxide's crucible stack is completely written from scratch in Rust, which dramatically reduces failure modes common to such stacks, which are often written in C / C++.

New comment by Timothycquinn in "RustPython – A Python-3 (CPython >= 3.11.0) Interpreter written in Rust"

Timothycquinn — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 04:34:43 +0000

Thanks for clarifying. Does not look like its there today but hopefully down the road it will.