<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: flopsamjetsam</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=flopsamjetsam</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:47:32 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=flopsamjetsam" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by flopsamjetsam in "Spanish traders set the standard for GnuCash database design"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's fascinating, I remember my Dad telling me you would pay for something in guineas as a sort of tip, but I never knew it was for horses (this is in Australia).</p>
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<p>I loved Swaine's Flames from DDJ.  Shame I missed his revival.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 22:35:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48252269</link><dc:creator>flopsamjetsam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48252269</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48252269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by flopsamjetsam in "Map of Metal"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Great map!<p>No Opeth?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 05:28:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48218267</link><dc:creator>flopsamjetsam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48218267</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48218267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by flopsamjetsam in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For those wondering: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unstructured_Supplementary_Service_Data" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unstructured_Supplementary_Ser...</a></p>
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<p>You'd think they'd just ban repeat offenders.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 19:56:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48172668</link><dc:creator>flopsamjetsam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48172668</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48172668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by flopsamjetsam in "Scientists “bottle the sun” with a liquid battery that stores solar energy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, you'd think they'd include that.<p><a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec6413" rel="nofollow">https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec6413</a><p>"Upon treatment with acid, that bond breaks to release more than a megajoule per kilogram of the compound, enough to rapidly boil water from a solution."<p>That's from the editor's summary (I haven't had time to read the paper).</p>
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<p>From the Wikipedia article:<p>> However, it is possible to implement saturating addition and subtraction in software without branches, using only modular arithmetic and bitwise logical operations that are available on all modern CPUs and their predecessors, including all x86 CPUs (back to the original Intel 8086) and some popular 8-bit CPUs (some of which implement the Z80 instruction set) are still in production.<p>Does anyone know what the implementation of this is, without conditional moves?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 21:34:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48164019</link><dc:creator>flopsamjetsam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48164019</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48164019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by flopsamjetsam in "Do teachers need advanced degrees?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do you mean for a teaching job, or just any job?  Certainly in fields like biology, you can only be taken seriously by others in the field by having an advanced degree (which is really only the beginning).<p>In computing, in the commercial field, you can of course get by with no degree.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 01:50:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48143576</link><dc:creator>flopsamjetsam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48143576</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48143576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by flopsamjetsam in "Bankruptcies increase 11.9 percent"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> And for sports, the level at which you have to be competitive is getting younger and younger. So much more sports science/nutrition going in at the middle school/high school level.<p>For endurance-based sports, online coaching has really accelerated this as well.<p>For skills, you still really need in-person coaching.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:25:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47940189</link><dc:creator>flopsamjetsam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47940189</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47940189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by flopsamjetsam in "Martin Galway's music source files from 1980's Commodore 64 games"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Plenty of music was developed in the form of source files.<p>That's fascinating.  I came in during the Amiga era, and everything was SoundTracker etc. files.  I had no idea that music was hand-coded like this.</p>
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<p>I loved the Circuit Cellar columns.  It was all very over my head, but I loved the descriptions and the writing, and the process.</p>
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<p>BYTE mag and Creative Computing were the first computing magazines I read, and really kick-started my excitement with computers, even though everything was out of my reach (either too expensive as a kid, or running on computers that were too expensive for me to contemplate).  I remember there was a library catalogue system written for the Apple II that I tried to "cargo cult" rewrite for my MicroBee (an Australian Z80-based computer).  I had no idea what all the "CHR $4" calls were for, but loved the process of typing in the listings.</p>
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<p>I don't know much about him, only that he was in the same party.  I have heard that he is pro-EU and anti-Russia though, is that true?</p>
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<p>I clicked on this fearing it was a "256 bytes of JS" (plus X GB of browser), and was pleasantly surprised it was actually 256 bytes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:02:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47681917</link><dc:creator>flopsamjetsam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47681917</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47681917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by flopsamjetsam in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I checked out some subreddits on the mission, and left pretty quickly for that reason.  It's nice to find some positivity and wonder at it.  I love what Artemis II is doing, found the launch very exciting and a little nerve wracking, and can't wait until they get even closer to the Moon.</p>
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<p>Game making is like film making in this regard: it's often a "passion job."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:42:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47509832</link><dc:creator>flopsamjetsam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47509832</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47509832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by flopsamjetsam in "Arm AGI CPU"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A^2I^2 or (AI)^2</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:47:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47508035</link><dc:creator>flopsamjetsam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47508035</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47508035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by flopsamjetsam in "How BYD got EV chargers to work almost as fast as gas pumps"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> 2026 BMW i3 - 900km WLTP from a 108kWh battery.<p>I had to do a double take: remembering the i3s as the little almost SmartCar-sized EVs.  Great cars, I still see a few around here, but I couldn't imagine them extending the range of those to 900km!<p>Turns out they just released the i3 sedan, which is like a 3-series.  And good to see they're making the design similar between the new 3-series and the new i3.  I like the i4, but really need something more 3-series in size.</p>
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<p>> When money is gone, the military is gone.<p>I feel like the lesson from other countries is that the military will be the last thing to go.  Public funding of everything else will be sacrificed to keep the military powerful, and leaders will be from the military.  That will be a complete breakdown of democracy of course.</p>
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<p>An absolute mess of cords!</p>
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