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New comment by cestith in "Mini Micro Fantasy Computer"

cestith — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:54:17 +0000

I think indentation tries to step towards an outline, but without the item indicators we’d use in an outline format. This might actually be a selling point for something like YAMLScript.

https://yamlscript.org/

New comment by cestith in "Don't put aria-label on generic elements like divs"

cestith — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:10:37 +0000

I use DuckDuckGo Browser, Firefox, and Chrome on Android pretty much in that order of preference. In both mobile mode and desktop mode all of these browsers support pinch zoom and two-finger drag scrolling. I have no problems with this site using those.

I think we might need a little more information than just the OS to differentiate.

New comment by cestith in "C extensions, portability, and alternative compilers"

cestith — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:14:23 +0000

I don’t know that it’s impossible without that. It’s certainly easier with it.

New comment by cestith in "C extensions, portability, and alternative compilers"

cestith — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:01:37 +0000

The systemd init system is quite the Trojan horse, though. I prefer it greatly to SystemV init. Most of the rest of systemd varies from unremarkable to problematic in my opinion.

One bright spot is systemd-networkd allows one to change quite a few things about interfaces in the way server automation platforms expect to work without doing a network restart. The workaround otherwise on, say, CentOS was always to write the new config file used by future restarts, also run CLI commands to update things in memory, and be sure to tell the service not to trigger a restart on the config file(s) changing. Otherwise if you’re doing something like streaming UDP video your own automation can become a reliability issue.

New comment by cestith in "Don't put aria-label on generic elements like divs"

cestith — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:21:49 +0000

Which platform is this on? I usually read hn on a desktop browser, and it works fine well above 110% there.

New comment by cestith in "Museum of Pocket Calculating Devices"

cestith — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:31:43 +0000

I have a few pocket computers not on that page. I guess I have a new option where to donate them if I ever decide to part with them.

New comment by cestith in "OpenBSD 7.9"

cestith — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:32:04 +0000

OpenBSD does support some older hardware already not supported by, say, most Linux distributions. As an example MacPPC has’t had support from most Linux distributors since IBM Power went little-endian, but OpenBSD runs fine on it.

NetBSD is, however, the gold standard for an OS that runs on just about anything. Their (maybe unofficial) slogan has been “Of course it runs NetBSD!”. Their logo has a flag in it because they “plant their flag” on so many platforms.

https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/

New comment by cestith in "CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on GitHub"

cestith — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:12:26 +0000

It looks like CISA should employ a CISA.

https://www.cisa.gov/

https://www.isaca.org/credentialing/cisa

New comment by cestith in "Leaving the Physical World"

cestith — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:36:13 +0000

That’s probably the best reason to want to quit.

New comment by cestith in "Trade Dollars with other startups. Book it as revenue"

cestith — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:31:34 +0000

Not profit taxes, if you made $0 profit. There are other taxes though. Sales and use taxes. Gross receipts taxes some places. Stuff like that, yes, you pay taxes.

New comment by cestith in "New Nginx Exploit"

cestith — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:14:25 +0000

Apache actually has had multiple modules for its concurrency for many years. The event and worker multi-processing modules use threading rather than forking.

New comment by cestith in "New Nginx Exploit"

cestith — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:10:23 +0000

PHP? You mean that little language behind WordPress?

New comment by cestith in "Leaving the Physical World"

cestith — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:12:31 +0000

There’s a very powerful question to be asked when one hears about someone wanting to quit Adderall.

Are you on it because you need it for who you are, or are you on it because you need it to meet the expectations of your employer?

New comment by cestith in "The Emacsification of Software"

cestith — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:56:40 +0000

There’s an old saying in the software industry. When you’re a product manager or business analyst, the hard part is building the application. When you’re a developer, the hard part is knowing the customer’s needs.

I think what we’re seeing quite a bit lately is developers are stepping back a bit from the development themselves because the AI does much of that part. So they’re managing the products for themselves, even when they are the only customer. The best people at doing this are going to be people who really understand what needs to be done, because that’s what the product manager/product owner/business analyst/customer liaison type of role has always been.

New comment by cestith in "Scorched Earth 2000 – Web"

cestith — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:25:40 +0000

This might make a nice top-level Ask HN.

New comment by cestith in "Scorched Earth 2000 – Web"

cestith — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:11:26 +0000

Discussion of the genre’s legacy is not complete without Artillery Duel for the Atari VCS 2600.

https://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-2600-vcs-artillery-due...

New comment by cestith in "Haiku"

cestith — Wed, 13 May 2026 20:01:21 +0000

That’s sometimes a handy diagnostic if it’s a remote, headless system.

New comment by cestith in "What if there was no BASIC in EndBASIC?"

cestith — Wed, 13 May 2026 15:05:17 +0000

This would be great (and wildly cool) as a backend with pluggable language frontends. EndBASIC. EndObjectivePascal. EndLisp. EndOCAML. EndForth. EndMicroPython.

New comment by cestith in "eBay Rejects GameStop's $56B Takeover as Not Credible"

cestith — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:17:14 +0000

If eBay really wanted to sell itself, I’d propose a no reserve auction with the bids starting at $420.

New comment by cestith in "Houses are for living, not for speculation"

cestith — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:01:58 +0000

Let’s try to keep productive and extractive to their economic meanings, and not talk about the exploitative practices with natural resources for a moment.

A farmer puts products that people buy into the marketplace. Many actors in the financial sector make their money by micro-timing trades in securities and commodities markets that are already liquid enough they don’t need the additional activity. Others buy up stock of housing just to control enough to raise the prices. They are literally just taking other people’s money out of the economy for their own gain, and the economy does not function any better due to their activity. In fact, when housing is overly tight the economy suffers.