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New comment by codewritinfool in "Margaret Hamilton has died"

codewritinfool — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 13:13:06 +0000

Certainly that could be described as "error handling", but I would describe what saved the landing as priority scheduling combined with restart protection.

New comment by codewritinfool in "Show HN: Find local farms near you with raw dairy, pasture eggs, and more"

codewritinfool — Fri, 15 May 2026 19:02:40 +0000

Doesn't work for arbitrary zip codes for me.

New comment by codewritinfool in "Nobody Reviews Compiler Output"

codewritinfool — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:49:54 +0000

I work in embedded and I absolutely review it. If nothing else, for learning.

New comment by codewritinfool in "Ask HN: Distributed data centers in our basements"

codewritinfool — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:08:08 +0000

hot water doesn't need to be heated.

New comment by codewritinfool in "Free static site generator for small restaurants and cafes"

codewritinfool — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 21:20:05 +0000

Link at the bottom of your example page results in 404. For me, anyway.

New comment by codewritinfool in "NASA Successfully Acquires GPS Signals on Moon"

codewritinfool — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 14:46:51 +0000

I'm surprised that any useful accuracy can be obtained. Maybe an additional input to the solution would be to watch when various GPS satellites are occulted by the Earth.

New comment by codewritinfool in "Bit-banging a BASIC Birthday"

codewritinfool — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 17:54:29 +0000

>And the ones with built-in CRTs had issues wherein the cathode of the CRT was DANGEROUSLY CLOSE to the main PCB. If you weren't careful cracking that puppy open -- zappo! Fried motherboard, possibly fried you!

I'm curious which model this was. The Model III was the first all-in-one model I had experience with, and the between the motherboard and the CRT neck was a piece of flat aluminum. The biggest danger was potentially snapping the neck off, but there was no danger of touching the mother board. Model 4 was the same configuration. Even the Model II had a metal plate between the CRT and any circuit boards.

New comment by codewritinfool in "Weird Test for Boeing's Starliner Uncovered Likely Cause of Failed Thrusters"

codewritinfool — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 17:15:04 +0000

>IMO, both Boeing and NASA are under quite a lot of pressure to not require further tests from Boeing because there are just enough Atlas Vs (the rocket that Starliner launches on) for Boeing to complete it's contractual obligations.

>Any further tests would deplete that stock.

I hear what you are saying and it likely affects their decision, but lack of hardware in the future should not be a consideration in this decision at all. If there is any concern, safety of the crew should be priority one.

IIRC, Aerojet is the sub on this system. Surely they understand propulsion well and it is unfortunate that Boeing's name is taking the hit.

New comment by codewritinfool in "C++Builder 11 Community Edition"

codewritinfool — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 14:58:55 +0000

Delphi 7 was / is fantastic. Soon after that, they went .NET and the wheels came off.

New comment by codewritinfool in "Assembler on Raspberry Pi"

codewritinfool — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 16:37:26 +0000

Minor nit (for me, at least): An assembler is a tool. Assembly is a language.

Though not assembly language, I think that www.ultibo.org is a cool embedded development environment for the Pi.

New comment by codewritinfool in "A guided intro to the Free Pascal language"

codewritinfool — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 16:09:13 +0000

Age of Wonders is a great Delphi-produced game too, if I remember correctly.

New comment by codewritinfool in "Demystifying the LFSR"

codewritinfool — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 13:34:27 +0000

This is awesome. Schneier has an excellent chapter on LFSRs for generating pseudorandom sequences with varying lengths.

New comment by codewritinfool in "Ask HN: Remote work credit? I built an app that the company thinks my boss built"

codewritinfool — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 21:38:31 +0000

You can always code in easter eggs.

New comment by codewritinfool in "Ask HN: Digital Nomads: What's Your Setup?"

codewritinfool — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 17:04:31 +0000

Mathematics for the Million is a really good book.

New comment by codewritinfool in "Silent Running: The sci-fi that predicted modern crises"

codewritinfool — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 16:14:28 +0000

Well yeah, but it goes even deeper than that, IMO, since the domes could have just stayed on Earth. Why launch them into space and return them later? They're terrariums with all of the life support and lighting that they need.

New comment by codewritinfool in "Ask HN: What is your trick to do deep work or study?"

codewritinfool — Sun, 04 Oct 2020 13:52:01 +0000

Ozric Tentacles for me. With the exception of two songs that I can think of in their 30-album catalog, there are no vocalizations. Just trippy psychedelic space rock. It may not work for everyone, but it puts me in the zone and I can code without lyrical distraction.

New comment by codewritinfool in "Z80, the 8-bit Number Cruncher (2011)"

codewritinfool — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 18:52:38 +0000

I would recommend "But How Do It Know?" by J. Clark Scott.

New comment by codewritinfool in "Show HN: Would you have survived the Titanic?"

codewritinfool — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 19:18:20 +0000

"Perishes and Survives" labels change places when you adjust the sliders. This threw me off for a while until I realized that the data wasn't making sense.

New comment by codewritinfool in "Understanding Daemons"

codewritinfool — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 20:32:16 +0000

like demon.

New comment by codewritinfool in "Ask HN: What non-obvious tech/market may take off in the next few years?"

codewritinfool — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 16:18:13 +0000

I came here to write basically this. I agree, and by the way, "wantrepreneur" is perfect.