Hacker News: bluedino

New comment by bluedino in "OpenBSD 7.9"

bluedino — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:21:50 +0000

About 10 years ago we moved offices, and I was over checking out the new internet circuit and cabling in the office. The circuit was up, and I hadn't brought anything with me to connect to the network, but we had already moved some boxes of old stuff over.

I found a 10+ year old Dell Pentium III laptop in one of the boxes, installed OpenBSD to do some simple connectivity testing, and ended up with a full workstation install and using it for network monitoring and some other random stuff. It stayed in the network/server closet until we moved out of that building just a few years ago.

New comment by bluedino in "The Power of a Free Popsicle (2018)"

bluedino — Thu, 14 May 2026 21:07:45 +0000

I thought this would mention Microsoft taking away free sodas

https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...

New comment by bluedino in "The Power of a Free Popsicle (2018)"

bluedino — Thu, 14 May 2026 21:05:49 +0000

Does DoubleTree still give you fresh-baked cookies when you check in?

New comment by bluedino in "US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war"

bluedino — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:04:42 +0000

> The average family spends something like $5,000 on gas a year, maybe $10k.

Half of that.

https://www.fool.com/money/research/gas-prices/

New comment by bluedino in "I'm writing a history of Visual Basic, Chapter 1 is up"

bluedino — Sun, 10 May 2026 02:10:49 +0000

I'm scared of the floppy disk used to load Visual Baction

New comment by bluedino in "I want to live like Costco people"

bluedino — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:03:13 +0000

Midwest. Kroger, Meijer, plus Costco and Sam's Club.

New comment by bluedino in "I want to live like Costco people"

bluedino — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:25:06 +0000

Home Depot Coke. $3, and in a plastic bottle. The worst Coke.

At least the grocery store sells cups at the register and there's delicious fountain Coke to be had on your way out the door.

New comment by bluedino in "245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping"

bluedino — Wed, 06 May 2026 19:21:12 +0000

Various Dell prices from the US website:

  3.84TB SSD SAS ISE, Read Intensive, up to 24Gbps 512e 2.5in with 3.5in HYB CARR, AG Drive 
  Dell Price $8,825.13 /ea.

  3.84TB SSD SATA Read Intensive 6Gbps 512e 2.5in Hot-plug AG Drive,3.5in HYB CARR, 1 DWPD 
  Dell Price $7,893.91 /ea.

  3.2TB Enterprise NVMe Mixed Use AG Drive U.2 with carrier 
  Dell Price $6,596.39 /ea.

I don't see a 'write intensive' option (I only looked around for a few minutes), but I can imagine them being 2-4x those prices.

New comment by bluedino in "LinkedIn scans for 6,278 extensions and encrypts the results into every request"

bluedino — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:39:03 +0000

And the useless notifications

New comment by bluedino in "Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs"

bluedino — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:31:27 +0000

What does "in row" mean? For us non-English English speakers.

New comment by bluedino in "Before GitHub"

bluedino — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:25:30 +0000

Has Google ever done a good job with anything, other than search? I don't want to count YouTube since they bought it, but least they haven't ruined it...

New comment by bluedino in "Before GitHub"

bluedino — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:22:45 +0000

That was just a byproduct of how Rails did routing based on the URL

New comment by bluedino in "If America's So Rich, How'd It Get So Sad?"

bluedino — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:31:59 +0000

Plenty of wealthy Americans live in big cities

New comment by bluedino in "NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating"

bluedino — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:34:07 +0000

An old timer once told me about how he would read his printouts, make new punch cards, send them over to the main office, someone would put the new cards into the system the next morning, and then read the printouts on the day after that to see if his code worked or not.

New comment by bluedino in "Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects"

bluedino — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 01:01:16 +0000

> Lockheed Martin can, given peak rates seen in 2025, produce a new F-35 approximately every 36 hours

Until we run out of materials

https://mwi.westpoint.edu/minerals-magnets-and-military-capa...

New comment by bluedino in "Solitaire simulator for finding the best strategy: Current record is 8.590%"

bluedino — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:14:21 +0000

The current version, you can play on 'Easy', I think my kindergartner wins all his games on that setting.

New comment by bluedino in "US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification"

bluedino — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:14:57 +0000

> Much of the USA accepts "gun deaths" as an unfortunate but acceptable price that must be paid for the widespread freedom to own guns.

Much of the USA recognizes that "gun deaths" are caused by criminals who aren't going to follow any gun laws in the first place.

New comment by bluedino in "30 Years of HPC: many hardware advances, little adoption of new languages"

bluedino — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:13:11 +0000

Most developers have no clue about any of that stuff. It's all abstracted out.

New comment by bluedino in "Reflections on 30 Years of HPC Programming"

bluedino — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:11:48 +0000

Python is huge in AI/ML etc as well.

I haven't talked to anyone writing C++ code on a HPC cluster that I'm working on in a long, long time. And that's in industrial/chemical/automotive fields.

New comment by bluedino in "North American English Dialects"

bluedino — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:08:22 +0000

Fred Armisen does a great bit on North American accents

https://youtu.be/G72tZdjnS2A?si=oMaLfGgJAZxaoAHn