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New comment by anadem in "CFTC declares market emergency, orders Kalshi to continue to operate in New York"

anadem — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 01:02:47 +0000

Firefox says "Error Code: SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER" for that CFTC link (untrusted certificate issued by Avast in Prague) and won't open the site

New comment by anadem in "The first watch featuring computer functions"

anadem — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 03:16:04 +0000

Oops: "The owner of this website (www.ablogtowatch.com) does not allow hotlinking to that resource (/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Seiko-TV-Watch-T001-5019-15.jpg)."

New comment by anadem in "What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000"

anadem — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:02:59 +0000

Thanks! Settings > General > Browsing > Always underline links

(or in about:config set layout.css.always_underline_links true )

New comment by anadem in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

anadem — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:39:30 +0000

I'm SO happy to have retired a few years back!!

New comment by anadem in "Scientists warn Atlantic current at risk of shutting down"

anadem — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:44:23 +0000

The issue is not that that itself is the doomsday, but that when the current collapses the climate trajectory changes and aims at catastrophe, and changing that will be beyond our ability

New comment by anadem in "The Forth Language [Byte Magazine Volume 05 Number 08] (1980)"

anadem — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:30:59 +0000

FORTH got me my first paid programming work in 1981: a management suite for a water company, with customer accounting and river water-flow checks (reported in a synthesized voice)! A fun project for which I home-rolled the FORTH interpreter, thanks to a book "Threaded Interpretive Languages" by R.G. Loeliger.

New comment by anadem in "Volkswagen Brings Back Physical Buttons"

anadem — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 23:11:29 +0000

'Thence' is another nice word

New comment by anadem in "Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert"

anadem — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 23:13:10 +0000

To me "storytelling" certainly includes true stories, and isn't limited to fiction at all; "narrative" isn't a word I'd use in describing events.

New comment by anadem in "Chuck Moore: Colorforth has stopped working [video]"

anadem — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:05:03 +0000

Totally! At 87 that's gutsy! My very first paid programming work was in Forth on a 6502 platform in the '60s, building a networked accounting and flow management program for a water company, but I'm now 81 and very glad to be retired.

New comment by anadem in "Canada loses its measles-free status, with US on track to follow"

anadem — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 21:06:25 +0000

And the guy he works for ... sigh bigly

New comment by anadem in "FAA to cut flights by 10% at 40 major airports due to government shutdown"

anadem — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 03:10:02 +0000

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New comment by anadem in "Show HN: I built a minimal Forth-like stack interpreter library in C"

anadem — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 19:27:42 +0000

Loeliger's 'Threaded Interpretive Languages' jumpstarted my career in the late 1970s: I built a networked water management system based on their code, which was my first big project, earning me £1,500. Note that there's a bug in their code (I no longer remember exactly where) so getting it off the ground was tricky.

New comment by anadem in "UK backing down on Apple encryption backdoor after pressure from US"

anadem — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 04:02:56 +0000

Well I (as a widely-read 81 year old bookworm lol) have never heard of him

New comment by anadem in "Dinesh’s Mid-Summer Death Valley Walk (1998)"

anadem — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 00:25:21 +0000

Interesting that they didn't find the nights too cold for sleeping out. We camped in Racetrack Playa one spring some years back and the nights were bitterly cold with extreme wind.

New comment by anadem in "Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices"

anadem — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 20:40:25 +0000

I don't think our current administration cares what we can afford

New comment by anadem in "Battle to eradicate invasive pythons in Florida achieves milestone"

anadem — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 02:17:30 +0000

That headline sounds encouraging, but the actual info is anything but.

New comment by anadem in "Implementing a Forth"

anadem — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 16:51:35 +0000

Yes, it's a lovely book and led me to my first paid project over 40 years ago! Using the book I built a Forth to monitor the local water authority systems, with water-level tracking and customer accounting & billing, implemented on a home-brewed network of North Star PCs. Iirc there's a minor bug in one of the base subroutines as written though now I don't remember what it was. But I still have the book :-)

New comment by anadem in "The mysterious Gobi wall uncovered"

anadem — Wed, 28 May 2025 22:35:39 +0000

In the phys.org article:

> The paper is published in the journal Land.

the word 'published' links to the MDPI paper

New comment by anadem in "NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix"

anadem — Fri, 16 May 2025 03:40:40 +0000

> Cold war was best thing ... I hope we see it again

Ummm, no thanks

New comment by anadem in "The failure of the land value tax"

anadem — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:18:03 +0000

> Putting tax always seems to be more popular

I think you typo'd there, with initial 'P' intended to be 'C'