Hacker News: fleeno

New comment by fleeno in "OS9Map"

fleeno — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:11:37 +0000

I believe from Apple officially it would be the dual 1.25ghz MDD G4. I had one new, and still have it running today!

New comment by fleeno in "Telescope Ranchers"

fleeno — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 01:33:36 +0000

I have a small scope down there, and it's great! I get a lot more use out of it being permanently setup in a dark sky site, rather than use it at my suburban house.

I'm currently doing observations of variable stars just for fun. Going to load up an observing plan for tonight shortly!

New comment by fleeno in "SDF Public Access Unix System"

fleeno — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:02:07 +0000

I know I just made it up! I have an 11/23+ and I'm guessing I was thinking of that 3!

New comment by fleeno in "SDF Public Access Unix System"

fleeno — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:20:25 +0000

I had access to a VMS system in my BBS days, and I had no idea it wasn't just some hard to use BBS software. When it clicked that it was a real operating system on a giant machine (I believe 11/380) it changed everything for me!

New comment by fleeno in "Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS"

fleeno — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:57:30 +0000

Why does it need to talk to facebook.com, ntp.org, aws.com, cloudflare.com, google.com, and windows.com?

New comment by fleeno in "OpenBSD on SGI: A Rollercoaster Story"

fleeno — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:28:49 +0000

Thanks, that looks promising!

New comment by fleeno in "OpenBSD on SGI: A Rollercoaster Story"

fleeno — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:10:16 +0000

I wish it was still supported, but I'm sure I was one of very few that was actually using it! Even then it was just for fun.

New comment by fleeno in "The QNX Operating System"

fleeno — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 00:51:59 +0000

That looks great even now! Do you still have your dotfiles somewhere?

New comment by fleeno in "Show HN: An open source Launchpad for macOS 26"

fleeno — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 18:14:16 +0000

One easy thing I've been doing for years is just dropping the Applications directory onto my dock. Instant launcher. Otherwise I just use spotlight if I want to launch by typing.

New comment by fleeno in "Advent of Code 2024"

fleeno — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 14:21:22 +0000

I usually get stuck about halfway through and give up.

Doing it in a Lisp I’ve been writing in Ruby will have me giving up even sooner, but it will be fun!

New comment by fleeno in "My fake job in Y2K preparedness"

fleeno — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 03:13:56 +0000

I spent so much time updating IRIX and Ultrix systems for Y2K... And it was not fun, but now I play with those systems for fun. So I guess I'm weird!

New comment by fleeno in "Ask HN: Are we at the start or the peak of a boom cycle in tech?"

fleeno — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 13:23:43 +0000

I've found it to be very good and accurate at these sort of tasks. I use it all the time to turn some weirdly formatted data into CSV or something else with structure.

New comment by fleeno in "MacRelix – Unix-like features for classic Mac OS"

fleeno — Mon, 13 May 2024 14:30:19 +0000

This! I've probably said it here before, but Apple won the Unix workstation wars in the most awesome way possible. You can now buy an insanely powerful RISC Unix workstation at the mall! How awesome is that?

New comment by fleeno in "Slimming Down Windows 3.1/3.11 (2002)"

fleeno — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 14:26:30 +0000

I recently slimmed down Windows 3.0 to run it from a 1MB SRAM card on a MS-DOS 5.0 palmtop. I just did it by trial and error, and I think I can slim it down further from this guide, though they're using Double Space, which I won't have.

I'm always sort of amazed how well Windows 3.x runs on hardware that would have been a bit old even when 3.0 was released.

New comment by fleeno in "Usborne 1980s Computer Books"

fleeno — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 14:25:11 +0000

I had one of their electronics books too, and it was great! That book got me going on a lot of what I still work on today!

New comment by fleeno in "Electric Car Owners Confront a Harsh Foe: Cold Weather"

fleeno — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 14:46:39 +0000

I just did a long mile road trip in my 2023 Model Y LR, and it wasn't a lot of fun. Even in the 30Fs I would get around 200 miles of range. I tried to get to the next charger with at least 15-20% just in case.

One example leg was 156mi using 84% of battery in 30F weather. The stats said I lost 13.1% due to a 9.5mph wind, and 1.3% for low tire pressure. I topped the tires up after that one. When it was well below 0 I was doing less. I still got where I was going, but I spent so much time charging, and it's not cheap enough that the time cost made any sense.

Some of my legs really did need close to 100% to get to the next charger with any margin for error. That means sitting at a charger for 30-60 minutes at times. Several of the chargers were in locations that didn't feel safe, so I actually took a longer route back to hit different chargers.

Keep in mind that probably like most people, long road trips are infrequent. In daily use it's charged every morning (at cheap rates) and ready to go, no matter the temperature. Plus I warm it up without needing to open the garage! I will take another car for a long trip now, but I still like having an EV for daily driving.

New comment by fleeno in "How Lego builds a new Lego set"

fleeno — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 17:23:34 +0000

Lego has got to be the lowest on the list for me as far as concern about plastic use. Who throws away Lego? Post a couple pounds of Lego on FB marketplace and see how fast it sells.

Some of our Lego is from the 1950s, and my daughter is the third generation playing with it. Surely 60+ years of use is a pretty good run for something made of plastic.

New comment by fleeno in "Tesla Recalls 2M Vehicles over Autopilot Software Issue"

fleeno — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 19:37:26 +0000

From my Model Y manual:

"Autosteer is intended for use on controlled-access highways with a fully attentive driver. Do not use Autosteer in construction zones, or in areas where bicyclists or pedestrians may be present."

GM and Ford both restrict their systems to controlled access highways, and are hands free when doing so. I wish Tesla would do something similar.

New comment by fleeno in "Tesla Recalls 2M Vehicles over Autopilot Software Issue"

fleeno — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 19:31:57 +0000

That wasn't my comment, but I happened to have the source already open: https://twitter.com/Tesla/status/1734374558105293081?s=20

New comment by fleeno in "An aborted experiment with server Swift"

fleeno — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 19:19:47 +0000

I have like messing with server-side Swift, and I asked it at the WWDC Swift table. I was pretty much met with blank stares. Either they just have no interest in it, or I ran into the wrong engineers.