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The Leader of NASA's Artemis II Mission Is Still Moonstruck

fortran77 — Sun, 24 May 2026 19:31:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/the-leader-of-nasas-artemis-ii-mission-is-still-moonstruck

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48260288

Points: 1

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New comment by fortran77 in "Schlitz Is Gone, but First It's Getting One Last Hurrah"

fortran77 — Sun, 24 May 2026 13:48:14 +0000

Jews don't eat hare. Hasenpfeffer is not a "Yiddish" word.

New comment by fortran77 in "Schlitz Is Gone, but First It's Getting One Last Hurrah"

fortran77 — Sun, 24 May 2026 13:47:39 +0000

As a native Yiddish speaker (it was my first language!) I can assure you that "Hasenpfeffer" is not a Yiddish dish, it is rabbit and most definitely _treif_. Yiddish speakers would not eat it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasenpfeffer

Shleimiel and Shlmazal are yiddish, via Hebrew.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%9...

and

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%9...

New comment by fortran77 in "Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date""

fortran77 — Sun, 24 May 2026 13:29:00 +0000

My college used them for PL/I and IBM Assembly language programming classes until 1982. Cards were used well into the mid-80s.

New comment by fortran77 in "80386 microcode disassembled"

fortran77 — Sat, 23 May 2026 20:29:49 +0000

And was it a bad design? It was very succcessful and enabled a lot of progress.

New comment by fortran77 in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"

fortran77 — Sat, 23 May 2026 13:04:10 +0000

Well, maybe I shouldn't have assumed the harness wasn't a big deal. When Microsoft changes its pricing on 6/1 I'll try some of the others.

New comment by fortran77 in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"

fortran77 — Sat, 23 May 2026 12:10:04 +0000

I use copilot cli and I can pick Anthropic models. The Microsoft interface seems fine to me, and equivalent. Not sure what the big deal is.

The Prehistory of A.I. Slop

fortran77 — Sat, 23 May 2026 00:53:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/05/25/the-prehistory-of-ai-slop

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48243418

Points: 3

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New comment by fortran77 in "SpaceX's Ambitions Are Intergalactic. Its Business Is Selling You Internet"

fortran77 — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:44:23 +0000

https://www.wsj.com/business/starlink-spacex-ipo-elon-musk-9...

SpaceX's Ambitions Are Intergalactic. Its Business Is Selling You Internet

fortran77 — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:44:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/business/starlink-spacex-ipo-elon-musk-967fba39

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48236627

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by fortran77 in "OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO in the Coming Days or Weeks"

fortran77 — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:45:15 +0000

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-ipo-filing-date-0ec95af5?...

New comment by fortran77 in "Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit"

fortran77 — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:38:40 +0000

I voted for Trump. I fail to see how the meme here is a threat. And I also think that telling Democrats they can vote by text message is an attempt to undermine the election.

There are no double standards. Take my downvote.

New comment by fortran77 in "Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit"

fortran77 — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:36:51 +0000

It doesn't remind me of this at all. That person may have been "joking" but it could reasonably be construed as an attempt to subert or manipulate an election.

New comment by fortran77 in "Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit"

fortran77 — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:35:38 +0000

I'm still not seeing how that "meme" could in any way be a threat. I've dissected it every possible way. It would never have occurred to me that the point that meme was trying to make was to threated violence. What am I missing?

New comment by fortran77 in "Meta Begins Laying Off Thousands of Employees as It Transforms Around AI"

fortran77 — Wed, 20 May 2026 12:49:40 +0000

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-begins-laying-off-thousands...

Meta Begins Laying Off Thousands of Employees as It Transforms Around AI

fortran77 — Wed, 20 May 2026 12:49:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-begins-laying-off-thousands-of-employees-as-it-transforms-around-ai-3c31a9eb

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48206838

Points: 4

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New comment by fortran77 in "Anyone on the Internet Can Ring Your Doorbell"

fortran77 — Tue, 19 May 2026 06:27:54 +0000

I could train a crow to fly over and peck it.

New comment by fortran77 in "The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam"

fortran77 — Tue, 19 May 2026 05:10:05 +0000

There's a lot to like about AI, but there's so much slop and everthing is getting so shitty, if I had to choose a side, it would be "against it."

I had to suffer through taling to Sutter Heath's AI three times today before I could get through to a person to tell them about a billing mistake. I finally decided to send a formal demand letter via FedEx (written with the help of AI) rather than deal with all this AI slop they've put between me and customer service.

New comment by fortran77 in "Jury Sides with OpenAI, Sam Altman in Case Brought by Elon Musk"

fortran77 — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:37:22 +0000

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/jury-sides-with-openai-sam-altma...

New comment by fortran77 in "Apple Is Making Hit Products and High Profits from Imperfect Chips"

fortran77 — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:05:24 +0000

https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-is-making-hit-products-and-hi...