Hacker News: bgm1975

New comment by bgm1975 in "Nursing excluded as 'professional' degree by Department of Education"

bgm1975 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 01:38:57 +0000

…so tracks for America.

New comment by bgm1975 in "I set my phone to 'do not disturb' three years ago – and have never looked back"

bgm1975 — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:49:47 +0000

You can set contacts to bypass do-not-disturb settings. At least on the iPhone you can.

New comment by bgm1975 in "Okay, I Like WezTerm"

bgm1975 — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 01:25:53 +0000

And a middle-age'd man named XFree86 lol.

New comment by bgm1975 in "Leafy vegetables found to contain tire additives"

bgm1975 — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 16:40:19 +0000

No one thing is going to "fix our environmental problems." Only by doing a lot of "things" can we hope to "fix" our problems.

New comment by bgm1975 in "Lunatik: Lunatik is a framework for scripting the Linux kernel with Lua"

bgm1975 — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 17:17:26 +0000

What are some of the main use cases for this project?

New comment by bgm1975 in "Xonsh: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell"

bgm1975 — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 15:54:10 +0000

I switched a few years ago and while there's a lot to like about (and power in) zsh, there's a lot i really dislike about it. For starters, it adds so much additional functionality and compatibility that the documentation (man pages are terrible). Also, the additional history & variable expansion capabilities are messy/ugly in shell syntax (imho). I think ultimately the problem is that, for shell scripting, bash has clearly won, but other shells show that there's room for an alternative specifically for a user's interactive interface...but zsh didn't get the memo so is trying to be all things to all people. One of these days, i'll probably swing over to fish...if I can get the energy to change my environment yet again.

New comment by bgm1975 in "Billion file filesystem"

bgm1975 — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 19:33:28 +0000

As the saying goes: If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail.

New comment by bgm1975 in "RFC9460: Service Binding via the DNS (SVCB and HTTPS Resource Records)"

bgm1975 — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 20:18:36 +0000

I’m assuming the op is referring to relying on a commercial CDN provider’s anycast implementation but I could be mistaken.

New comment by bgm1975 in "test, [, and [[ (2020)"

bgm1975 — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 04:13:46 +0000

Apple switched when bash switched from GPL2 to GPL3 which they didn’t like. The older bash is still available.

New comment by bgm1975 in "test, [, and [[ (2020)"

bgm1975 — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 04:01:25 +0000

And ksh (ksh88 & later)

New comment by bgm1975 in "USB-C cable with the bandwidth and USB type imprinted on the connector"

bgm1975 — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 15:36:06 +0000

Considering the number of features and capabilities that can be given to a usb-c cable, I think a better alternative would be to take cue from the humble resistor and use color coded bands around each of the ends. Text can only really cover 1-2 capabilities and it’d be nice to have a way to know exactly what a given cable can do, even if it requires a decoder ring.

New comment by bgm1975 in "Louis Armstrong's Last Word"

bgm1975 — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 16:52:39 +0000

I don’t remember if it was called out explicitly but there’s a fantastic documentary out now on AppleTV+ about Louis Armstrong. If you have a subscription, I highly recommend watching it!

New comment by bgm1975 in "Louis Armstrong's Last Word"

bgm1975 — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 16:48:19 +0000

You forgot (or missed) the rest of the quote:

> …and the way people sang.

As the article stated, many great artists changed one or the other, but only Louis did both.

New comment by bgm1975 in "Kidney stone procedure "has the potential to be game changing""

bgm1975 — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 16:09:54 +0000

It also probably has the same caveat that shock wave lithotripsy does too, where if the stone travels below the pelvis, the procedure can’t be used.

New comment by bgm1975 in "Kidney stone procedure "has the potential to be game changing""

bgm1975 — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 16:07:36 +0000

Having had a Ureteroscopy procedure, I can say it sure as hell doesn’t feel minimally invasive. It (well, post-op until they remove the stint) was almost as unpleasant as the kidney stone.

New comment by bgm1975 in "Empires of the Steppes: The Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilisation"

bgm1975 — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 02:23:23 +0000

That series was my introduction to Hardcore History and to this day, my favorite series. The best podcast series on one of the best podcasts.

New comment by bgm1975 in "We have successfully completed our migration to RAM-only VPN infrastructure"

bgm1975 — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 14:44:22 +0000

If the feds have physical access and considering the high likelihood that these are VMs and not physical, it would be a whole lot easier to get the hypervisor to just snapshot the VM w/ its memory and perform forensics against that file(s).

New comment by bgm1975 in "ServiceNow Insecure Access Control to Full Admin Takeover"

bgm1975 — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 23:41:36 +0000

Can you elaborate more about what you saw/experienced there?

New comment by bgm1975 in "A reason for high housing prices: restrictive land-use regulations"

bgm1975 — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 14:36:47 +0000

It’s “invisible” in that it’s one of those things people (especially property owners) prefer not to talk or think about. Like how most people grossly discriminate based on perceived appearance or attractiveness. No one wants to admit that they are part of the problem.

New comment by bgm1975 in "Witch – macOS window switcher replacement"

bgm1975 — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 14:36:24 +0000

Have you tried Magnet[1] yet? I’ve been using it for years and really love it. TBH, I prefer it over way Windows does it (forcing you to decide wha goes in the “other” side of the screen).

[1] https://magnet.crowdcafe.com/