Hacker News: adorton

New comment by adorton in "Steam Machine"

adorton — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 05:33:54 +0000

It's a computer that runs Linux.

New comment by adorton in "Planet eBook: free literature for your device"

adorton — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 04:48:41 +0000

The big one I noticed is 1984, which won't be out of copyright in the US for 20ish years.

New comment by adorton in "Show HN: Gitlab Meeting Simulator 2024"

adorton — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 02:51:36 +0000

We need to hook this up to a boss key stat

New comment by adorton in "Ray and Tom Magliozzi, MIT 1999 Commencement Address [video]"

adorton — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 15:47:39 +0000

Took me an embarrassingly long time to understand what they meant by "Erasmus B Dragon".

New comment by adorton in "ChatGPT web and mobile UIs unavailable"

adorton — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 15:16:01 +0000

Yeah but if I'm doing research online I'm going to stick with sources I consider reliable, written by real people and not a text generator. So I'm not sure I understand the comparison you're trying to make.

New comment by adorton in "ChatGPT web and mobile UIs unavailable"

adorton — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 14:53:21 +0000

How do you know the information you're getting is factual?

New comment by adorton in "Starbucks illegally fired US workers over union, judge rules"

adorton — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 17:01:09 +0000

The company is supposed to negotiate with the union. That's the whole idea behind unions.

New comment by adorton in "A guide for playing The Sims 1 on Intel and ARM Macs"

adorton — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 04:26:15 +0000

This is great. I very recently looked into getting the Sims 2 and found this:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UT0HX3cO4xLft2KozGypU_N7...

Still working on getting it (or a similar release) working in a Wineskin for macOS. But it works great on Windows 10.

New comment by adorton in "The dangerous playgrounds of 1900s through vintage photographs"

adorton — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 03:48:08 +0000

My elementary school playground had several giant tires. Not sure what that was all about but we found ways to make them fun.

New comment by adorton in "The Hipster PDA (2004)"

adorton — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 16:49:05 +0000

Reminds me of the Pocketmod, which to my surprise is still around:

https://pocketmod.com/

New comment by adorton in "Over-reliance on CGI in movies"

adorton — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 19:17:34 +0000

Fury Road makes pretty extensive use of CGI and digital compositing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB3tdMDRQBc

But it looks great so you don't really notice it.

New comment by adorton in "Yet Another Roguelike Tutorial"

adorton — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 16:43:44 +0000

Here's a great one for Rust: https://bfnightly.bracketproductions.com/rustbook/chapter_0....

New comment by adorton in "YAML: It's Time to Move On"

adorton — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 22:12:22 +0000

YAML stands for "YAML Ain't Markup Language"

New comment by adorton in "“This project will only take 2 hours”"

adorton — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 04:56:05 +0000

Scope creep happens when you discover new requirements after defining a project scope and delivering an estimate. The type of analysis outlined in the article is helpful to define a sane and reasonable scope upfront, to hopefully avoid creep down the line.

New comment by adorton in "Cashew of Pirangi"

adorton — Sun, 06 Dec 2020 05:34:34 +0000

They boil them

New comment by adorton in "New Dell XPS 13 developer edition now available"

adorton — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 22:59:32 +0000

Yeah, mine drops after suspending. Sometimes it shows the device is disconnected and I need to re-pair it. Not sure if that is a problem with the system or my MX Ergo, but it never has problems on my Windows machine. Occasionally the whole bluetooth system dies and I need to reset.

New comment by adorton in "New Dell XPS 13 developer edition now available"

adorton — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 18:14:53 +0000

I have a pretty new one (9370 I think) and I love it. No coil whine, the build feels great, and I have no complaints about that keyboard or trackpad. My only real complaint so far is the bluetooth is flaky.

New comment by adorton in "My PHP Development Setup"

adorton — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 20:22:18 +0000

Installing Make on Windows is easy. Works like a charm.

  choco install make

New comment by adorton in "YouTube Kids Is Going to Release a Whitelisted, Non-Algorithmic Version of App"

adorton — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 06:41:28 +0000

A few months ago, my Chromebook was updated to support Android apps. YouTube Kids should be available on the Play store assuming your Chromebook is updated to support it.

New comment by adorton in "I taught myself Python on the Internet and so can you"

adorton — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 19:26:47 +0000

Is Dive into Python still maintained by anyone? That's what I used when I learned Python about 10 years ago.