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Least convenient location in Los Angeles

dima55 — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 18:27:22 +0000

Article URL: https://notes.secretsauce.net/notes/2015/08/16_least-convenient-location-in-los-angeles-from-koreatown.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49579283

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by dima55 in "A look under our trunk: what's in our compute"

dima55 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 23:43:28 +0000

That's exactly what this is, a marketing blurb. Was this unclear?

New comment by dima55 in "OpenLogi"

dima55 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 04:25:58 +0000

Not being open source is the thing that the program in the article fixes. You want the goal of the software-writer to be producing a good tool, not using the software as a means to turn a profit. That's how you get the turd being replaced by the tool in the article

New comment by dima55 in "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"

dima55 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:14:35 +0000

I want org-mode markup support for the wikis and readmes. Github supports this, and gitlab sorta does. You should hook up pandoc to it, and support everything it can handle.

New comment by dima55 in "The deep history behind the Road to Nowhere inside the Great Smoky Mountains"

dima55 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 18:30:26 +0000

Great writeup. Along similar lines, the East fork of the San Gabriel river is a bit outside Los Angeles. It has a dead-end road with two tunnels to nowhere, abandoned in the 1960s. Below that is a massive bridge to nowhere that connected to an under-construction road that was abandoned in the 1930s, with all traces of the road largely gone; except the bridge, which is huge and is very much still there. Much more obscure is the PL&P trail, a bit above the bridge. Built and abandoned in the 1910s. All in the same canyon!

New comment by dima55 in "Poles of Inaccessibility in the San Gabriel Mountains"

dima55 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:45:49 +0000

There's a link at the top of the article for that too: https://notes.secretsauce.net/notes/2017/09/25_pole-of-road-...

Poles of Inaccessibility in the San Gabriel Mountains (2015)

dima55 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 17:03:06 +0000

Article URL: https://notes.secretsauce.net/notes/2015/05/06_poles-of-inaccessibility-in-the-san-gabriel-mountains.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49146240

Points: 36

# Comments: 21

New comment by dima55 in "Is it time for a new Embedded Linux build system?"

dima55 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 03:22:25 +0000

ARM boards need a custom kernel and bootloader. These aren't things managed by the distro. The userspace IS managed by the distro and IS standard. Using yocto to manage userspace maybe made sense 15 years ago, but it has long since become far more trouble than its worth. Debian supports most architectures out of the box, has good cross-building infrastructure, many thousands of ready-to-use packages, and is non-weird.

New comment by dima55 in "Is it time for a new Embedded Linux build system?"

dima55 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:22:25 +0000

Modern SBCs are just normal computers and not "embedded" in the traditional sense. You can generally just use Debian, and spend time on the actual project, instead of wrestling with the system

New comment by dima55 in "What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000"

dima55 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:21:10 +0000

Hear hear. That was has been thoroughly lost.

New comment by dima55 in "I love my Bluetooth keyboard"

dima55 — Mon, 25 May 2026 07:19:36 +0000

At least with android devices, you can plug in any usb keyboard, and have it work. Those are free, in the garbage all over the place

New comment by dima55 in "My I3-Emacs Integration"

dima55 — Sun, 24 May 2026 00:41:50 +0000

A dedicated key for all window-manager things is what people that have thought about it do (I use the "windows" key). But keyboard manufacturers haven't thought about it, so sometimes reasonable things aren't possible. I don't know.

New comment by dima55 in "BLAS, Lapack and OpenMP"

dima55 — Mon, 11 May 2026 05:06:04 +0000

It sorta looks like they're trying to reinvent Debian, and kinda failing?

New comment by dima55 in "Ubuntu 26.04"

dima55 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:04:18 +0000

Debian has their own nvidia driver packages (it's nvidia's drivers repackaged in a nice way that integrates with the system well). I can't say if they're "outdated" or how different they are from what ubuntu ships, but they've always worked very well for me.

New comment by dima55 in "Ubuntu 26.04"

dima55 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 05:34:10 +0000

Debian is great, and is where the distro development actually happens. What doesn't it do that you want?

New comment by dima55 in "Show HN: I built a Cargo-like build tool for C/C++"

dima55 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:39:25 +0000

GNU Make has a debugger. This alone makes it far superior to every other build tool I've ever seen. The cmake debugging experience is "run a google search, and try random stuff recommended by other people that also have no idea how the thing works". This shouldn't be acceptable.

New comment by dima55 in "Show HN: I built a Cargo-like build tool for C/C++"

dima55 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:05:53 +0000

I'm suggesting that people creating build systems read the make manual. Surely this isn't controversial?

New comment by dima55 in "Show HN: I built a Cargo-like build tool for C/C++"

dima55 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:25:22 +0000

If you think cmake isn't very good, the solution isn't to add more layers of crap around cmake, but to replace it. Cmake itself exists because a lot of humans haven't bothered to read the gnu make manual, and added more cruft to manage this. Please don't add to this problem. It's a disease

New comment by dima55 in "NASA Artemis II moon mission live launch broadcast"

dima55 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:23:41 +0000

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4g4ygw0r02t

New comment by dima55 in "Log File Viewer for the Terminal"

dima55 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 06:34:26 +0000

I use vnlog and feedgnuplot to massage and plot data on the console all the time. It's even less than a tui, but might be what you want.