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New comment by cubix in "Ada, its design, and the language that built the languages"

cubix — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:32:21 +0000

I took a course exactly like that. I wonder if we went to the same school, or it’s due to curriculum standardization. The professor was particularly enthusiastic about Ada, so I had assumed the course was largely his creation.

New comment by cubix in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

cubix — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:26:54 +0000

Although, they also said, "Because the patches appear to be written by humans".

New comment by cubix in "Do dyslexia fonts work? (2022)"

cubix — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 22:08:48 +0000

I prefer to read on screen if it can set to “night mode” (white-on-black), large font, and full screen. For one, I find it’s more ergonomic to look at a well-positioned monitor than bending my neck to read a book.

New comment by cubix in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

cubix — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 11:06:53 +0000

I asked ChatGPT for a succinct definition, and I thought it was pretty good:

“Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud computing platform that provides on-demand access to computing power, storage, databases, and other IT resources over the internet, allowing businesses to scale and pay only for what they use.”

New comment by cubix in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

cubix — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 10:26:36 +0000

Non-techies don’t. Here’s how CNN answered, what is AWS?

“Amazon Web Services (AWS) is Amazon’s internet based cloud service connecting businesses to people using their apps or online platforms.”

Uh.. yeah.

New comment by cubix in "Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage"

cubix — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 04:04:33 +0000

They’re not buried around here for the most part. I think the population density is just too low to justify the cost.

New comment by cubix in "Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage"

cubix — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 08:18:29 +0000

And if you live a rural, mostly wooded area like I do, fallen trees are constantly taking out the fiber services for days at a time.

New comment by cubix in "Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office"

cubix — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 07:32:12 +0000

> sometimes it rains ash

When the sky turned orange in 2020, my wife and I were just done. Also, there's something to be said for living in a place with four seasons, and a sense of time passing by.

New comment by cubix in "I watched Gemini CLI hallucinate and delete my files"

cubix — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 19:59:46 +0000

That was my thought. More keystrokes with less certain results.

New comment by cubix in "The forgotten war on beepers"

cubix — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 01:40:49 +0000

I was carrying a pager as late as 2009 because a customer's data center was two stories underground in one of the older tower blocks in downtown Toronto.

New comment by cubix in "Two More Cases of Hallucinated Citations in Court Filings Leading to Sanctions"

cubix — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 22:53:13 +0000

Having had to recently deal with a prosecuting attorney in a small rural county, even hallucinating AI would be a significant improvement.

New comment by cubix in "Plastic bag bans work"

cubix — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 17:09:29 +0000

I suspect it’s more about cost savings than environmental concerns, but the grocery store we frequent doesn’t provide bags at all. However, you can take boxes from the pile they have set aside that usually contained produce originally. So, the boxes are used at least twice, and then we drop them into recycling. On top of that, I find the boxes more convenient to load and unload since it only takes 2 or 3 versus handling dozens of bags. Obviously this won’t work if you don’t have a car, or perhaps a cart, when you go grocery shopping.

New comment by cubix in "Why don’t Americans eat mutton?"

cubix — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 05:41:51 +0000

I've found that quail is often available frozen in many Asian grocery stores.

New comment by cubix in "Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share"

cubix — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 05:44:01 +0000

They seem to be popular with retirees who don't need to do much more than use Facebook, email, and watch YouTube videos.

New comment by cubix in "How to build a Linux-based wireless router out of spare parts (1998)"

cubix — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 03:21:33 +0000

I rigged up something similar in my first corporate job in 2000, plugging an ORiNOCO into the PCMCIA slot of my corporate laptop and a spare at my desk. My boss, an old mainframe guy, was blown away that I could check email during the team meeting in the conference room without going back to my desk. Now wifi is so ubiquitous we don't even think about it.

New comment by cubix in "Do we live in a society without a counterculture?"

cubix — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 17:37:15 +0000

"The leftist of the over-socialized type tries to get off his psychological leash and assert his autonomy by rebelling. But usually he is not strong enough to rebel against the most basic values of society. Generally speaking, the goals of today’s leftists are NOT in conflict with the accepted morality. On the contrary, the left takes an accepted moral principle, adopts it as its own, and then accuses mainstream society of violating that principle.” --Theodore J. Kaczynski

New comment by cubix in "Grandpa’s Basement House"

cubix — Mon, 23 May 2022 02:19:14 +0000

You might also enjoy The Geography of Nowhere by James Howard Kunstler.

Grandpa’s Basement House

cubix — Sun, 22 May 2022 17:09:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.granolashotgun.com/granolashotguncom/hp5pmb0n95ut9hyeatewotgd2n1ebr

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31470400

Points: 378

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New comment by cubix in "Mavis Beacon was the top typing teacher in the US, then she vanished"

cubix — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 16:48:58 +0000

I guess now I know the story behind this flyer I saw in a Bay Area shop window a little over a year ago: https://files.catbox.moe/48giot.jpeg

New comment by cubix in "The case for induction cooking"

cubix — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 14:10:13 +0000

We have a gas well on our property, so we come pretty close to getting a free lunch.