Hacker News: brassattax

New comment by brassattax in "The history of Casio watches"

brassattax — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:14:52 +0000

Exactly. I did the same with my wrist remote in class. After the second time the TV turned off, without saying anything the teacher went to his desk, picked up a notecard, and propped it up over the remote sensor.

New comment by brassattax in "Show HN: New Ensō – first public beta"

brassattax — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:26:40 +0000

Also not to be confused with Enso Analytics https://ensoanalytics.com/ which is also software for Mac (and Windows and Linux)

New comment by brassattax in "Cursed Excel: "1/2"+1=45660"

brassattax — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 17:48:53 +0000

It would be interesting to know if your Excel correctly interprets 1/2 as 1st February based on your international settings.

New comment by brassattax in "Notepad++ is 21 years old"

brassattax — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 20:18:27 +0000

My favorite feature is when I try to save something in an admin restricted folder and I hadn't started it as admin. It seamlessly restarts itself as admin and restores the file I was working on. It's magic.

New comment by brassattax in "Brainfuck Enterprise Solutions"

brassattax — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 19:14:44 +0000

Why not GPT in Brainfuck?

New comment by brassattax in "ICQ will stop working from June 26"

brassattax — Fri, 24 May 2024 16:53:33 +0000

I believe you're right on this. The original ICQ number accounts got merged into AOL Instant Messenger, and for a while you could log into AIM with your ICQ number. I think the original ICQ died when AIM got shut down.

New comment by brassattax in "Surf the web like it's 1999"

brassattax — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 18:55:59 +0000

I like https://oldweb.today ... actually emulates old OS/browser combinations and proxies stuff from archive.org

New comment by brassattax in "Ask HN: What are you working on this year?"

brassattax — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 07:59:16 +0000

Love this. I have often thought about doing the same thing, but using the audio feeds from broadcastify perhaps.

New comment by brassattax in "Old-school computing: when your lab PC is ancient (2021)"

brassattax — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 05:29:04 +0000

And no modern OS does those two things consistently or correctly.

New comment by brassattax in "I drink before I interview"

brassattax — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 03:46:19 +0000

same, and I think the same. how did you go about getting diagnosed?

New comment by brassattax in "Demo of =GPT3() as a spreadsheet feature"

brassattax — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 20:11:19 +0000

ctrl+e

New comment by brassattax in "Guthib"

brassattax — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 15:15:28 +0000

I prefer `sl-h`

New comment by brassattax in "https://16777217/"

brassattax — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 13:23:12 +0000

https://0x1000001

New comment by brassattax in "The case for ending calculus requirements for science majors"

brassattax — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 23:26:33 +0000

At my university in the late 90s, I was required to take calculus for my CS curriculum, but no statistics courses, which I always found funny because our department was "Computer Science and Statistics". With "Data Science" (i.e. statistics) and "Machine Learning" (i.e. statistics) becoming so commonplace, I sure hope that has changed.

New comment by brassattax in "http://pn./"

brassattax — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 03:56:33 +0000

http://microsoft.com./ has an interesting 404 page

New comment by brassattax in "I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome"

brassattax — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 18:35:18 +0000

Says a website with 20 ads on it

New comment by brassattax in "A rant about search engine results for large format laser printers [video]"

brassattax — Mon, 23 May 2022 08:48:52 +0000

I have an HP m377dw laser and this exact thing was happening when I printed on card stock. TIL via the comments of this video that there should be a paper thickness setting in the driver.

New comment by brassattax in "The day I discovered that Apple Maps is Kind of Good now"

brassattax — Tue, 10 May 2022 22:21:58 +0000

Where I live this is the way we give directions (e.g. 2 blocks past McDonald's take a right), so to me it feels more natural than looking for a street name.

New comment by brassattax in "Singapore Government Tech Stack"

brassattax — Sat, 07 May 2022 16:27:27 +0000

I thought it was going to be built on Salesforce

New comment by brassattax in "Mourning loss as a remote team"

brassattax — Sat, 26 Mar 2022 19:15:00 +0000

Possibly true when the programmers are building the company's product. I happen to work for a company where all of IT is a cost center.