Hacker News: blipvert

New comment by blipvert in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

blipvert — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:02:38 +0000

Nice timing!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c9q91dnljpeo

New comment by blipvert in "U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio reaches 123%"

blipvert — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:26:59 +0000

You are Brian Bilston, and I claim my £5

New comment by blipvert in "Valve Sponsors Work Bringing Open-Source RADV Driver to Windows"

blipvert — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:31:41 +0000

Now it’s our turn to embrace, extend …

New comment by blipvert in "Future euro banknote design proposals"

blipvert — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:37:13 +0000

The Glaswegian would be incorrect in his insistence:

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/explainers/what-is-legal-ten...

New comment by blipvert in "The Beam Engine"

blipvert — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:56:44 +0000

There’s also the amazing Crossness, which does have occasional steaming days. And if you’re in Manchester the Museum of Science and Industry has a great collection of small and large engines which they run

New comment by blipvert in "Modern decor may be straining people's brains"

blipvert — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 19:06:13 +0000

Not sure that I’d want to lie down with a book on a slab of concrete.

New comment by blipvert in "Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)"

blipvert — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:27:34 +0000

Snails? These are MARINE snails, soldier! Oorah!

New comment by blipvert in "Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made"

blipvert — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:16:16 +0000

You’re all set!

New comment by blipvert in "Best Simple System for Now (2025)"

blipvert — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:07:33 +0000

Sounds a bit like the First System from Gancarz’s The Unix Philosophy.

New comment by blipvert in "Scars mark Britain's economy 10 years after Brexit vote"

blipvert — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:40:49 +0000

No, but the only two people that I personally know who voted for Brexit, my partner’s parents, were both retired. They did it as a protest because they never thought that it would pass.

They immediately regretted it once my partner explained how it would fuck up her/our future.

They have subsequently both died.

New comment by blipvert in "Scars mark Britain's economy 10 years after Brexit vote"

blipvert — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:36:49 +0000

Nigerian Prince scam 101. Just send another payment to cover disbursement costs and the money will be with you real soon now.

New comment by blipvert in "Measles surge in Utah sparks fears US could undo decades of progress"

blipvert — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:06:26 +0000

Some brass neck coming from the Daily Mail who championed Andrew Wakefield.

New comment by blipvert in "I tested every IP KVM in my Homelab"

blipvert — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:22:59 +0000

It’s bizarre that one needs to do all this via a keyboard/monitor interface.

Nearly thirty years ago when I used to work on Silicon Graphics kit everything from powering on and off a server to installing the OS from scratch over the network could be done out of band via serial - and automatically, using expect(1)

That’s progress, I guess.

New comment by blipvert in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

blipvert — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:12:28 +0000

The college graduation version of the company owner speaking to an employee:

“You see that Ferrari out there on the parking lot? If you work really, really hard this year and meet all of your targets, then next year I’ll be able to afford another one.”

New comment by blipvert in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

blipvert — Fri, 15 May 2026 22:22:17 +0000

I guess that “well” wouldn’t have sold many books.

New comment by blipvert in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

blipvert — Fri, 15 May 2026 22:10:54 +0000

Reminds me of the quote in the original Westworld movie:

“ These are highly complicated pieces of equipment… almost as complicated as living organisms.

In some cases, they’ve been designed by other computers.

We don’t know exactly how they work.”

Now how did that work out ;-)

New comment by blipvert in "Travelers on Air Force One ordered to throw away gifts, phones after China trip"

blipvert — Fri, 15 May 2026 19:09:09 +0000

And now for EU visitors to the US.

New comment by blipvert in "A new book on Steve Jobs at NeXT"

blipvert — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:56:46 +0000

I don’t think that the good guy/bad guy reputation referred to is solely about firing a couple thousand people.

New comment by blipvert in "Steve Jobs in Exile – New book on his years at NeXT Computer"

blipvert — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:26:11 +0000

I must have missed the bit where Steve Jobs was trying to create “legion” of his offspring, supported far-right parties in Europe and tried to foment civil war in the UK.

Guess I’ll have to buy the book

New comment by blipvert in "I moved my digital stack to Europe"

blipvert — Wed, 13 May 2026 12:47:36 +0000

Research.

Not implementation.