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New comment by buildbot in "A History of IDEs at Google"

buildbot — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:21:59 +0000

It would be nice if they extended their external services the same behavior…

Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?

buildbot — Sat, 02 May 2026 04:38:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.noctua.at/en/expertise/blog/how-can-it-take-so-long-to-release-black-fan-versions

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983352

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New comment by buildbot in "Recovering files from beyond the grave using PhotoRec"

buildbot — Fri, 01 May 2026 00:48:51 +0000

Honestly an AI model might be fairly okay at this?

New comment by buildbot in "10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home"

buildbot — Fri, 01 May 2026 00:46:52 +0000

Same, just had two fail, in a qnap 100gb switch with a reasonable level of cooling… Meanwhile the 100g optics are actually doing just fine!

New comment by buildbot in "Jumping into cold water can stop your heart"

buildbot — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:28:50 +0000

How common is this? In scouts we often did this, jumping into alpine lakes where you could see a glacier melting across the water.

We were also told that to treat heatstroke tossing someone in the lake and then treating for shock was somewhat preferable…

New comment by buildbot in "My audio interface has SSH enabled by default"

buildbot — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 23:52:25 +0000

Only a little bit of touching for the really expensive one. The Credo 50 was less than 1K though.

Also Phase One Support/Repair is absolutely phenomenal and unless you toast the sensor; repairs are “fairly” economical.

New comment by buildbot in "The Classic American Diner"

buildbot — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 23:44:42 +0000

Dicks in Seattle is currently only 5.75 for the deluxe; everything else is less! And IMO, very good for the money.

https://ddir.com/menu

New comment by buildbot in "My audio interface has SSH enabled by default"

buildbot — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:23:16 +0000

This 1000% - I’ve used AI to enable SSH in one Phase One digital back I own, and to reverse engineer and patch the firmware on another to make the back think it’s a different back - Credo 50 to IQ250! The internals are literally the Sam.

New comment by buildbot in "Incident with Multple GitHub Services"

buildbot — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:08:21 +0000

Anyone also seeing Active Directory/Entra issues?

New comment by buildbot in "3.4M Solar Panels"

buildbot — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:10:49 +0000

Also prevents you from messing with it too much, as any substantial change requires draining and refilling your loop.

New comment by buildbot in "Drunk post: Things I've learned as a senior engineer (2021)"

buildbot — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:03:54 +0000

Not really the case in any of the high cost of living cities - when I graduated undergrad in the mid 2010s, my peers where getting offers from Microsoft for 100-120K for their standard out of school dev positions, Amazon was better as was Apple from what I recall. Plenty of 23 year olds making that much?

New comment by buildbot in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

buildbot — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:28:33 +0000

Verilog is not the best and that’s not even the worst part - tools like ISE/Vivado and Quartus are even worse!

It’s really amazing that at least there are some fully open flows for FPGAs these days, unfortunately they don’t support system Verilog. (I think this is still the case?)

New comment by buildbot in "I Made the "Next-Level" Camera and I love it"

buildbot — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:01:30 +0000

Sensors this large do exist! https://www.servethehome.com/stmicroelectronics-makes-a-18k-...

There’s also (maybe) http://largesense.com

New comment by buildbot in "Focused microwaves allow 3D printers to fuse circuits onto almost anything"

buildbot — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:51:37 +0000

Hopefully not with Morning Light Mountain as well.

New comment by buildbot in "SDF Public Access Unix System"

buildbot — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:23:36 +0000

SDF inspired me to start setting up my own retro computing lab for fun; to experiment with actual working history is very entertaining! Since SDF mostly has older systems (https://wiki.sdf.org/doku.php?id=vintage_systems:start) I tried to get the later ones - Sparc M10, M7 & Ultrasparc, HP-C9000, etc.

Very cool how they tried to move and preserve many of the living computer museum’s computers before Paul Allens sister could sell them all off. https://wiki.sdf.org/doku.php?id=vintage_systems:lcml_collec...

I remember seeing the TOAD systems when I visited in 2016 long before they closed, it’s very sad that people no longer get to experience computer history in person the same way.

New comment by buildbot in "SDF Public Access Unix System"

buildbot — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:16:30 +0000

TIL there’s such a thing in Seattle! That’s very good to know!

New comment by buildbot in "Scientists discover “cleaner ants” that groom giant ants in Arizona desert"

buildbot — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 18:48:36 +0000

Cat’s will also literally try to clean you as well!

New comment by buildbot in "PCI Express over Fiber [video]"

buildbot — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:20:09 +0000

Blog post for people who prefer reading: https://hackaday.com/2026/04/11/implementing-pcie-over-fiber...

While at a higher level, thunderbolt and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExpEther can both of course work over fiber too!

(Q|O)SFP are basically just raw high speed serial interfaces to whatever - you see this a lot in FPGAs, you can use the QSFP interfaces for anything high speed - PCIe, SATA, HDMI…

New comment by buildbot in "Claude Opus 4.7"

buildbot — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:46:37 +0000

It's been shockingly bad for me - for another example when asked to make a new python script building off an existing one; for some cursed reason the model choose to .read() the py files, use 100 of lines of regex to try to patch the changes in, and exec'd everything at the end...

New comment by buildbot in "Claude Opus 4.7"

buildbot — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:40:33 +0000

Too late, personally after how bad 4.6 was the past week I was pushed to codex, which seems to mostly work at the same level from day to day. Just last night I was trying to get 4.6 to lookup how to do some simple tensor parallel work, and the agent used 0 web fetches and just hallucinated 17K very wrong tokens. Then the main agent decided to pretend to implement tp, and just copied the entire model to each node...