Hacker News: celsius1414

New comment by celsius1414 in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

celsius1414 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:19:39 +0000

They’re throwing something around.

New comment by celsius1414 in "Moonless Earth Theory"

celsius1414 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 01:08:38 +0000

Given climatic effects from the industrial revolution onward (and perhaps with a pro-lunar bias), it would make more sense to get rid of humans to reduce the frequency of catastrophes! ;)

New comment by celsius1414 in "A Review of Dice that came with The White Castle (2025)"

celsius1414 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:29:04 +0000

Use minutes if you need a D12 and are playing very slowly. ;)

New comment by celsius1414 in "HyperCard discovery: Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive (2022)"

celsius1414 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 01:59:29 +0000

I suspect that will get you trapped in a Myst linking book if you’re not careful! ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myst

New comment by celsius1414 in "Windows: Microsoft broke the only thing that mattered"

celsius1414 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 06:34:11 +0000

Could be Cook leaving, or could be even sooner:

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/03/apple-alan-dye-joining-...

New comment by celsius1414 in "How far back in time can you understand English?"

celsius1414 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 16:22:32 +0000

Username checks out.

New comment by celsius1414 in "Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19"

celsius1414 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:06:42 +0000

So the opposite of a Trojan Horse? A Greek Gateway?

New comment by celsius1414 in "A word processor from 1990s for Atari ST/TOS is still supported by enthusiasts"

celsius1414 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 01:45:53 +0000

tempus-word.de

New comment by celsius1414 in "Curating a Show on My Ineffable Mother, Ursula K. Le Guin"

celsius1414 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 05:32:20 +0000

2026 is the 60th anniversary of Rocannon’s World, the first novel of her Hainish Cycle SF books. I’m rereading all of them over the course of the year to celebrate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainish_Cycle

She is one of my writer-heroes.

New comment by celsius1414 in "Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results"

celsius1414 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 18:29:10 +0000

Doing your job and doing your job well are two different things, of course. The innovation is going to have to be in how to return to the latter when they’ve lost their way. Or, perhaps more accurately, been led astray by conflicting priorities.

They’ve done it recently with their hardware. Past time for the other side of the house to refocus.

New comment by celsius1414 in "Dead Internet Theory"

celsius1414 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 01:57:25 +0000

On a Mac keyboard, Option-Shift-hyphen gives an em-dash. It’s muscle memory now after decades. For the true connoisseurs, Option-hyphen does an en-dash, mostly used for number ranges (e.g. 2000–2022). On iOS, double-hyphens can auto-correct to em-dashes.

I’ve definitely been reducing my day-to-day use of em-dashes the last year due to the negative AI association, but also because I decided I was overusing them even before that emerged.

This will hopefully give me more energy for campaigns to champion the interrobang (‽) and to reintroduce the letter thorn (Þ) to English.

New comment by celsius1414 in "How to make a damn website (2024)"

celsius1414 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 20:21:56 +0000

Kids these days forgetting what blog is short for! ;)

New comment by celsius1414 in "Stellantis Is Spamming Owners' Screens with Pop-Up Ads for New Car Discounts"

celsius1414 — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 20:49:04 +0000

Or the opposite: cooling the interior to a survivable temperature.

New comment by celsius1414 in "Moss survived outside of the International Space Station for 9 months"

celsius1414 — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 03:00:02 +0000

If you’ve done so as moss, I salute your ability to use human technology to post!

New comment by celsius1414 in "Marko – A declarative, HTML‑based language"

celsius1414 — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 20:07:13 +0000

There’s a Marko Pollo joke, too, but I’m too chicken to say it.

New comment by celsius1414 in "Media's AI Anthropomorphism Problem"

celsius1414 — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 20:00:49 +0000

Which reminds me of the other old email sig:

Don’t anthropomorphize computers. They hate that.

New comment by celsius1414 in "AI note takers are flooding Zoom calls as workers opt to skip meetings"

celsius1414 — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 01:35:59 +0000

> I suppose they were simply working on their assigned tasks, listening to others in the background. How effective is that - I don't know.

If I’m doing that, I’m taking notes on the meeting. As long as the agenda items are at all relevant.

New comment by celsius1414 in "Snow - Classic Macintosh emulator"

celsius1414 — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 16:21:27 +0000

Turning “Reduce Transparency” on in Accessibility > Display will solidify the menubar in both light and dark modes.

I go through phases with transparency off or on.

New comment by celsius1414 in "What would happen if you tried to land on a gas giant?"

celsius1414 — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 22:13:20 +0000

Depending on your path to get there, the Jovian system’s radiation might kill you before you hit the atmosphere.

‘Jupiter’s radiation belts – and how to survive them’: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Techn...

New comment by celsius1414 in "The hidden cost of AI coding"

celsius1414 — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 18:27:56 +0000

You likely don’t have a say in the matter, but you should have a junior developer. That’s where senior developers come from.