Hacker News: Wiles_7https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Wiles_7Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 13 May 2026 19:12:58 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by Wiles_7 in "Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed"]]>Not any more, 'Not proven' was abolished at the start of this year.

]]>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:37:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47528373Wiles_7https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47528373https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47528373<![CDATA[New comment by Wiles_7 in "Heathrow scraps liquid container limit"]]>Thankfully, Edinburgh airport has relaxed it liquid rules. You are now allowed up to 2 litres, across one or more containers and they stay in your bag while going through security.

]]>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:41:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46781454Wiles_7https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46781454https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46781454<![CDATA[New comment by Wiles_7 in "A minimal-part-count way to connect an SD card to a 68K"]]>Running Linux on an 8-bit microcontroller is a classic. One of those articles I re-read every few years.

]]>Thu, 25 Jan 2024 10:31:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39128098Wiles_7https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39128098https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39128098<![CDATA[New comment by Wiles_7 in "Medals at Tokyo olympics are recycled from discarded electronic equipment"]]>Some sports also give out multiple bronze medals.

]]>Sat, 31 Jul 2021 15:08:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28018751Wiles_7https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28018751https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28018751<![CDATA[New comment by Wiles_7 in "Rollerball Pens of 2021"]]>I use Pilot's disposable fountain pens. Maybe not as good as the 'real' ones but I like them.

]]>Sat, 23 Jan 2021 16:38:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25883609Wiles_7https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25883609https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25883609<![CDATA[New comment by Wiles_7 in "The unexpected rule of adjectival ordering in English (2016)"]]>That specific example probably originates from Tolkien.

J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography:

> When [Tolkien] was about seven he began to compose his own story about a dragon. ‘I remember nothing about it except a philological fact,’ he recalled. ‘My mother said nothing about the dragon, but pointed out that one could not say “a green great dragon”, but had to say “a great green dragon”. I wondered why, and still do. The fact that I remember this is possibly significant, as I do not think I ever tried to write a story again for many years, and was taken up with language.’

]]>Sat, 12 Dec 2020 11:16:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25397541Wiles_7https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25397541https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25397541<![CDATA[New comment by Wiles_7 in "Cartographers Have Been Hiding Covert Illustrations Inside Official Maps"]]>I remember watching a documentary about the Ordnance Survey department and it mentioned that the artists would hid their name in things like rivers because they did not get official credit.

I think it is somewhere in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5_kWzUahQU

]]>Thu, 05 Mar 2020 18:26:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22496417Wiles_7https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22496417https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22496417<![CDATA[New comment by Wiles_7 in "A Dog of Flanders"]]>Anne of Green Gables is huge in Japan.

]]>Thu, 06 Feb 2020 19:40:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22259521Wiles_7https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22259521https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22259521<![CDATA[New comment by Wiles_7 in "28-Key Mechanical Keyboard"]]>How about 6 keys.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwriter

]]>Wed, 22 Jan 2020 02:17:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22113934Wiles_7https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22113934https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22113934<![CDATA[New comment by Wiles_7 in "If You Can't Buy the Keyboard You Want, Build It Instead"]]>I bought an Ergodox many years ago and used it daily for ~18 months. I never got used to it and it has been gathering dust they since.

]]>Mon, 16 Dec 2019 02:43:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21800437Wiles_7https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21800437https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21800437<![CDATA[New comment by Wiles_7 in "Gluu vs. Keycloak (2018)"]]>I had the same issue with Gluu a few years ago. Never did get it working.

]]>Tue, 05 Nov 2019 09:33:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21450937Wiles_7https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21450937https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21450937<![CDATA[New comment by Wiles_7 in "Show HN: Best Keyboard for Programming"]]>I have an Ergodox but never got used to it. I prefer a normal 75% layout.

]]>Fri, 23 Aug 2019 21:48:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20783001Wiles_7https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20783001https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20783001<![CDATA[New comment by Wiles_7 in "To plot my next murder, I went to the Body Farm"]]>His semi-autobiographical A Country Doctor's Notebook is well worth a read.

Also it was WWI not two.

]]>Sun, 21 Jul 2019 10:53:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20490774Wiles_7https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20490774https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20490774<![CDATA[New comment by Wiles_7 in "Public Domain Movies"]]>There's English as well.

]]>Sat, 06 Jul 2019 23:48:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20372741Wiles_7https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20372741https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20372741<![CDATA[New comment by Wiles_7 in "Public Domain Movies"]]>Kin Dza Dza! Is a great SciFi film as well.

]]>Fri, 05 Jul 2019 09:41:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20361166Wiles_7https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20361166https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20361166<![CDATA[New comment by Wiles_7 in "White House weighs encryption crackdown"]]>They've cracked down on numbers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number

]]>Fri, 28 Jun 2019 16:52:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20306303Wiles_7https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20306303https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20306303<![CDATA[New comment by Wiles_7 in "Debian Riscv64 port in mid 2019"]]>You can run Linux on at Atmega664. Not well, but you can.

https://dmitry.gr/index.php?r=05.Projects&proj=07.%20Linux%2...

]]>Wed, 19 Jun 2019 12:18:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20222580Wiles_7https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20222580https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20222580<![CDATA[A new immigration stream is coming for Ontario tech workers, but is it necessary]]>Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/ontario-immigrant-nominee-program-tech-sector-stream-1.5111508

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19778544

Points: 1

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]]>Mon, 29 Apr 2019 14:19:19 +0000https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/ontario-immigrant-nominee-program-tech-sector-stream-1.5111508Wiles_7https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19778544https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19778544<![CDATA[New comment by Wiles_7 in "New York Sky Turns Bright Blue After Transformer Explosion"]]>Same thing happened with the Halifax Explosion.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/halifax-explosion...

]]>Fri, 28 Dec 2018 15:33:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18777272Wiles_7https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18777272https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18777272<![CDATA[New comment by Wiles_7 in "Building an automatic chicken coop door opener"]]>That reminds me of this story about removing empty boxes from a production line.

https://userweb.cs.txstate.edu/~br02/cs1428/ShortStoryForEng...

]]>Mon, 26 Nov 2018 15:48:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18534110Wiles_7https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18534110https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18534110