Hacker News: angled

New comment by angled in "Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony"

angled — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:18:11 +0000

Your story also reminded me of the early LUG scene, distributed all over the world. We believed and all we had access to were the dirtiest ratshit computers but hey they could boot Slackware or Debian and maybe if you said the right incantation you could get that 10Mb card you got for free but was still the most valuable part to work with cat5 Ethernet so you could download stuff from a local sunsite mirror so you could join in the future.

New comment by angled in "Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony"

angled — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 03:13:51 +0000

Did you ever bounce around the crackmonkey list? nick and friends seemed to know people with similar backgrounds.

New comment by angled in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

angled — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:39:57 +0000

Absolutely, I just linked to this in another comment, I couldn't easily find another story: https://www.techspot.com/news/63504-whatsapp-waves-goodbye-a...

New comment by angled in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

angled — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:38:36 +0000

Aren't people here old enough to recall paying for WhatsApp's original subscription fee?

Circa 2016: https://www.techspot.com/news/63504-whatsapp-waves-goodbye-a...

New comment by angled in "Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test"

angled — Fri, 29 May 2026 05:01:28 +0000

Why use fuel, though? Is there something about its specific density and weight distribution that rules out using other types of ballast?

New comment by angled in "Haskell Foundation 2026 Update"

angled — Sun, 24 May 2026 00:19:29 +0000

Thanks, I will try that!

New comment by angled in "Haskell Foundation 2026 Update"

angled — Thu, 21 May 2026 10:28:13 +0000

I was a little disappointed with the results I was seeing in F#. I thought the .NET + GPT-5.* pull through would be sufficient but it never seemed to work out. Maybe I just wasn’t approaching it correctly.

New comment by angled in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"

angled — Tue, 19 May 2026 06:16:15 +0000

My pipeline for this is vscode + prompts + markdown templates + GitHub copilot -> markdown docs -> pandoc to produce.docx -> copilot in word for “nice” formatting -> copilot in ppt for nice decks. LLMs all the way down.

I find it’s easier to version control and diff the .md artefacts, those remain my authoritative source.

New comment by angled in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"

angled — Tue, 19 May 2026 06:13:18 +0000

Copilot Cowork in the M365 ecosystem. It inherits all the permissions from my account, has access to exchange to send me emails, and OneDrive to save each day’s summary for posterity and future refinement.

New comment by angled in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"

angled — Tue, 19 May 2026 05:24:01 +0000

In business: using coworking tools to review and propose filing of emails; manage my files and folders; on a daily basis scour the intranet for interesting and relevant content.

Personal: my wife tutors in her native language to non-native primary and high school kids. They are all using these tools now generate fresh content for practice based on school lesson plans. The kids are improving much more quickly now than they were just a few months ago.

New comment by angled in "Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely"

angled — Mon, 18 May 2026 03:09:01 +0000

Cue the development of a limpet drone that would be enough to take down one of these birds in a non-destructive way… although perhaps these ones in particular would be uniquely positioned to deal with such adversaries.

New comment by angled in "Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only)"

angled — Sun, 10 May 2026 09:42:54 +0000

But surely, a Casio would be the fitting watch to wear while wielding this work: https://www.casio.com/us/watches/gshock/product.MRG-B2000JS-...

New comment by angled in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

angled — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:26:18 +0000

I am somewhat relieved to be working in a regulated industry where deterministic outputs are still needed. Maybe when someone has a validated AI model there will be trouble ...

New comment by angled in "Improving ICU handovers by learning from Scuderia Ferrari F1 team"

angled — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:01:30 +0000

Let's add that to the words of wisdom.

New comment by angled in "Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16"

angled — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 05:09:19 +0000

When all we needed was /. , freshmeat, and themes.org …

New comment by angled in "Diatec, known for its mechanical keyboard brand FILCO, has ceased operations"

angled — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 03:47:43 +0000

both my kids are using my old Filco TKL keyboards with blues. Absolutely no complaints from either of them. Only issues are that the footpads are getting a little worn down, one is missing, and I think I spilled beer on one many years ago before I gave them up.

I also have the Filco keycap puller. Keyboard cleaned and saved!

I now use a Keychron K2 with browns. My fingers are getting too old to use blues on a regular basis.

New comment by angled in "Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16"

angled — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:29:50 +0000

This was the era of !hurl, after all …

New comment by angled in "Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16"

angled — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:47:27 +0000

I still remember how cool I thought raster was with his vaio and everything. This was the future! Transparent eterms and tasteful backgrounds everywhere.

New comment by angled in "The secrets of the Shinkansen"

angled — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:45:09 +0000

Ah! But is your bicycle registered and do you have insurance.

(I agree with the trains. I love the trains.)

New comment by angled in "OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable"

angled — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:00:27 +0000

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Professionalism/Anarchist_Cook...

We work in the dark

we do what we can

we give what we have.

Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task.

The rest is the madness of art.