Hacker News: fredsmith219

New comment by fredsmith219 in "The Rise of SQL:the second programming language everyone needs to know"

fredsmith219 — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 01:29:15 +0000

I agree and have taken the same path.

New comment by fredsmith219 in "Perl's decline was cultural"

fredsmith219 — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 20:38:08 +0000

My client uses IBM servers with it’s hobbled version of Unix (AIX). Perl and access to copilot have really helped me out. I don’t love Perl but I’m damn glad I have acres to it.

New comment by fredsmith219 in "Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available"

fredsmith219 — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 02:36:38 +0000

Wow. Maybe backups would have been a good idea.

New comment by fredsmith219 in "Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources"

fredsmith219 — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 22:17:13 +0000

If a musician doesn’t want them to do this, why do they upload their music to the free site?

New comment by fredsmith219 in "An end to all this prostate trouble?"

fredsmith219 — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 12:34:12 +0000

It does. I suffer for almost 20 hours of I miss a dose. I’m very sure that doesn’t happen.

New comment by fredsmith219 in "Show HN: Resurrecting Infocom's Unix Z-Machine with Cosmopolitan"

fredsmith219 — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 09:03:15 +0000

Absolutely amazing. Good work. It downloaded and ran on Arch with no problem.

New comment by fredsmith219 in "The polar vortex is hitting the brakes"

fredsmith219 — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 22:20:55 +0000

I’m amazed that climate.gov hasn’t been taken down yet.

New comment by fredsmith219 in "Rivian is opening its charging network to other EVs"

fredsmith219 — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 21:02:21 +0000

The have a charger very near to where I go in Michigan, and 30 miles from the nearest supercharger. They announced earlier this year that they would open up the RAN “near the end of the year” so I’ve been waiting for this announcement. The fact that they will only gradually modify existing chargers to work with other vehicles is a disappointment. It’s all CCS so it should just be a software update. I am really looking forward to charging my model Y at the Rivian charger. I’m guessing that that will be a long time coming now. Oh well, I guess the Red E charger gets my business for the foreseeable future. They have excellent customer service and they just upgraded the charger to be much faster.

New comment by fredsmith219 in "My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback"

fredsmith219 — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 10:14:26 +0000

This is very cool. I’ll have to read his blog. My 9yo just picked up a book on coding from the library, I hope he gets interested as well.

New comment by fredsmith219 in "Stephen King to shut down his 3 radio stations in Maine"

fredsmith219 — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 20:31:44 +0000

The song needs to be updated to reflect our current reality.

New comment by fredsmith219 in "Evidence of the use of silk by Bronze Age civilization"

fredsmith219 — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 18:30:06 +0000

Great for assassins, but not terribly useful in a large battle.

New comment by fredsmith219 in "AI progress stalls as OpenAI, Google and Anthropic hit roadblocks"

fredsmith219 — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 21:06:42 +0000

Apparently OpenAI can’t ask the AI to design a better AI. Perhaps the singularity isn’t as close as people thought.

New comment by fredsmith219 in "Quincy Jones has died"

fredsmith219 — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 18:05:02 +0000

An amazingly talented person.

New comment by fredsmith219 in "Pragtical: Practical and pragmatic code editor"

fredsmith219 — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 17:55:20 +0000

Yup, it is your works crazy policy of making sure everyone gets a one size fit all VS code Configuration. I’ve loaded VS code on a 10 year-old Lenovo and it runs just fine with only basic Python plug-ins. Five minute startup time is crazy.

New comment by fredsmith219 in "People Behind “The Print Shop” (1985)"

fredsmith219 — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 17:37:59 +0000

My mom’s hard and fast rule when buying a new computer: It had better run Print Shop. She was barely computer literate but that program was soooo useful to her. You guys did a great thing.

New comment by fredsmith219 in "More Than Half of Teslas Are Being Traded in for Gas Cars"

fredsmith219 — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 14:15:46 +0000

FSD is revolutionary. There isn’t anything as good on the market yet. Other than that I agree, their competitors have caught up.

New comment by fredsmith219 in "Floppy8 – A Tiny Computer, in a Floppy Drive (2023)"

fredsmith219 — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 16:37:33 +0000

I am reminded of Rana systems, who used to make disc drives for Apple II Systems. They announced the new product that was basically an IBM PC built into a disk drive so you could run IBM PC applications on your Apple. They sank the company trying to make it work. At least that’s how I remember it through the fog of memory. The 80s were a while ago.

New comment by fredsmith219 in "Majority of sites and apps use dark patterns in the marketing of subscriptions"

fredsmith219 — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 11:52:19 +0000

I use virtual card and lock the card as soon as I’m done. The company will send a few nag notices then cancel for me.

New comment by fredsmith219 in "Gordon Bell has died"

fredsmith219 — Wed, 22 May 2024 00:20:46 +0000

The same day he dies, Microsoft announces version control in Windows Explorer, which he originally bought to the file system in VMS. I know he worked on NT, I wonder why they didn’t introduce version control before now.

New comment by fredsmith219 in "Grace Version Control System"

fredsmith219 — Fri, 10 May 2024 02:51:02 +0000

Does anybody else see the irony of storing a new version control system on GitHub?