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New comment by celsius1414 in "Job: Head of Stonehenge"

celsius1414 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:00:05 +0000

Missed opportunity to say they’re ‘looking for a rock star to lead our team!’

New comment by celsius1414 in "Show HN: Open Terminal – A Bloomberg Style App for Research"

celsius1414 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:07:11 +0000

0.1s if you note the domain TLD. ;)

New comment by celsius1414 in "Unix in East Germany (GDR) (1990)"

celsius1414 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 05:56:57 +0000

Getting William Gibson flashbacks.

New comment by celsius1414 in "Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'"

celsius1414 — Fri, 29 May 2026 00:55:48 +0000

I also wouldn’t put it past Flynn to rename ‘root’ to ‘backdoor’ as a joke.

New comment by celsius1414 in "Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'"

celsius1414 — Fri, 29 May 2026 00:47:38 +0000

Tron 2 for Daft Punk and Michael Sheen chewing scenery.

New comment by celsius1414 in "Time to talk about my writerdeck"

celsius1414 — Sun, 24 May 2026 17:38:13 +0000

The US version (the DM250US) is now $549, alas. I was looking at these briefly, but can’t justify the expense — might as well get a MacBook Neo if I were in the market.

New comment by celsius1414 in "I Miss Terry Pratchett"

celsius1414 — Sat, 23 May 2026 14:23:40 +0000

The first paragraph, and the one directly above the one about knowing more about furniture:

> There is a theory, popular among certain very old and very tired philosophers, that all memories take up a kind of furniture in the head. The good ones are armchairs. The painful ones are filing cabinets, usually full. And then there are the memories that are neither: the ones that arrive uninvited, settle in, and start terrorising the other occupants by kicking over the chairs.

New comment by celsius1414 in "Star Wars: Fall of the Empire by Stern Pinball"

celsius1414 — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:22:10 +0000

LGR just did a video on this table:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=fZtBT7dL3n0

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! ;)