Hacker News: bluedino

New comment by bluedino in "Creepy Crawlies"

bluedino — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 15:35:15 +0000

> But no, let's in fact choose the stupidest possible way of doing it — by rendering everything as HTML commit by commit and then parsing it.

I feel like I'm at work.

We had some web crawler using Selenium to make queries and scrape the data instead of just downloading the whole file.

Every day it seems like we have some people that know just enough to be dangerous creating things like that. And then of course it's our fault that things are slow, or we won't give them infinite system resources, etc

New comment by bluedino in "An implementation of Conway's Game of Life for Windows 3.1x and later"

bluedino — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:11:17 +0000

It seemed like there were numerous versions of this, but LifeGenesis from Microsoft entertainment Pack was the one I remember playing the most

https://games.zerker.ca/GameDetails/LifeGenesis_Windows%203....

New comment by bluedino in ""IT WoRKs BeTter in the App ""

bluedino — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:17:30 +0000

I took a picture of my keychain tag, set the date of it to my membership expiration date, and then scan that picture my phone when I go in

DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding and Linux

bluedino — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 13:21:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYFGCESmikA

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49478095

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by bluedino in "France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026"

bluedino — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:58:36 +0000

Meanwhile we're having neighborhood groups protest running fiber through neighborhoods, calling police on the workers, removing untility marking flags in yards...

New comment by bluedino in "Tooltips need a delay, and then they need to skip it"

bluedino — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:28:03 +0000

I wish the Teams emoji/reaction popup would not come up so often.

I have to intention place my mouse cursor somewhere that won't trigger it. I don't need to react to every message. I'd rather be able to read them without something blocking them.

New comment by bluedino in "Why older tech is sometimes safer from hackers"

bluedino — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:27:18 +0000

It makes sense to have them connected for a lot of reasons.

New comment by bluedino in "The August 17 outage, and the work ahead"

bluedino — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:16:43 +0000

Does that $10k server not need RAM?

New comment by bluedino in "The August 17 outage, and the work ahead"

bluedino — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 19:54:42 +0000

> We have since added more than 3 million CPU cores, 120 petabytes of high-speed storage, and significant network capacity. We installed as much hardware as available power allowed in our existing data centers while accelerating our migration to Azure.

That can't be cheap.

New comment by bluedino in "Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003)"

bluedino — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 08:34:15 +0000

One of the earlier releases (when they would send you free CD's) got flack for people in their underwear

https://www.zdnet.com/article/canonical-turns-20-shaping-the...

New comment by bluedino in "Pressed Penny Machine Map"

bluedino — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 22:22:32 +0000

For those who have not seen one in action:

https://youtube.com/shorts/HzCCsZB4jKg?is=377XKg7gUXfMHzA2

New comment by bluedino in "Pressed Penny Machine Map"

bluedino — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 22:20:27 +0000

It's legal in America

https://www.parkpennies.com/-dl-disneyland-pressed-coin-guid...

New comment by bluedino in "Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees"

bluedino — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:00:26 +0000

I'd argue that that's a minority as well.

New comment by bluedino in "Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees"

bluedino — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:04:04 +0000

The true workaholics are brining their laptops home to do this either way.

New comment by bluedino in "Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027"

bluedino — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:36:34 +0000

Greenbar printouts.

New comment by bluedino in "Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027"

bluedino — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:35:08 +0000

> Prior to moving it to Google Drive, they started squashing the history into a single commit prior to pushing release tags. The tarballs provided via Google Drive have exactly the same source code. However, they went out of the way to make it more inconvenient in several ways.

Ugh.

Also I can't believe it's been 10 years since they shut down Google Code.

New comment by bluedino in "Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months"

bluedino — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:09:29 +0000

Dell wants $4,507 (web price) for each 32GB RDIMM in a PowerEdge 6625 (16GB is showing as unavailable)

New comment by bluedino in "The Amazon tax"

bluedino — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:05:16 +0000

eBay search is still pretty decent about letting you exclude things and other 'power user' search abilities

New comment by bluedino in "Fixing a Bricked Framework Laptop"

bluedino — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:18:18 +0000

Are there many laptop mainboards available and what is the price like?

New comment by bluedino in "Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study"

bluedino — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:42:31 +0000

> Hospitals have an operating margin of 2-5%

I don't spend any healthcare money at the hospital. It's all all providers office, private clinic, etc.

It costs $300 for my primary care doctor to see me for about 7 minutes. An assistant takes my blood pressure, he asks me a few questions about my habits and diet, and then I come back next year.

If I actually need any services, I go to much more expensive specialist, or urgent care facility. A visit there is about $100 and then a couple bucks for whatever prescription they give me.