Hacker News: frrlpp

New comment by frrlpp in "Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights"

frrlpp — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 22:44:32 +0000

No and no. Rural != suburban

New comment by frrlpp in "An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy"

frrlpp — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 23:09:18 +0000

Freesco router floppy disk distro in 386 with 2MB of RAM and no hard disk. You could pull the floppy for a secure read only router.

New comment by frrlpp in "Looking Forward to Postgres 19: It's About Time"

frrlpp — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:44:55 +0000

Una breve historia del tiempo. J. L. Borges, cool subtitle.

New comment by frrlpp in "NASA had to train Apollo 11's astronauts to not use profanity (2019)"

frrlpp — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:34:34 +0000

That's a moral frame were you belong. In mine, swearing does not preclude someone to be the best human because her swearing.

New comment by frrlpp in "How Motorola’s 2N2222 and 2N3904 transistors became the default NPNs"

frrlpp — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 01:16:29 +0000

BC547? 337? I think they are Texas devices, much popular too.

New comment by frrlpp in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

frrlpp — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:40:29 +0000

Panama's canal, anyone?

New comment by frrlpp in "Random numbers, Persian code: A mysterious signal transfixes radio sleuths"

frrlpp — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:48:54 +0000

Cannot believe they didn't write the frequencies. Incompetents.

New comment by frrlpp in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

frrlpp — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 22:12:56 +0000

Three: Turkyie comes next.

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

frrlpp — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:32:02 +0000

More or less, logs are text.

New comment by frrlpp in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

frrlpp — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:14:18 +0000

Open aerial wiring can shortcircuit two phases, bringing a low impedance surge that can damage most electric and electronic equipment.

New comment by frrlpp in "U.S. Navy turns down Hormuz escort requests because of high risk"

frrlpp — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 22:23:32 +0000

No. Large industrial oro marine diesel engines are not truck engines.

New comment by frrlpp in "What if the Hormuz closure will not be brief?"

frrlpp — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:52:54 +0000

Israel bombed. US merely is merely a Buffon.

New comment by frrlpp in "Avoiding temptation beats building willpower"

frrlpp — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:29:27 +0000

Yeah... I can resist everything, but temptation.

New comment by frrlpp in "Ask HN: How many of you hold an amateur radio license in your country?"

frrlpp — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 23:51:03 +0000

I do.

New comment by frrlpp in "The Lighthouse: How extreme isolation transforms the body and mind (2020)"

frrlpp — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:49:11 +0000

Alone in the wilderness is a great film too.

New comment by frrlpp in "The lottery ticket hypothesis: why neural networks work"

frrlpp — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 23:29:04 +0000

What are LLMs for?

New comment by frrlpp in "Bring Back Shortwave"

frrlpp — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 01:31:40 +0000

Wow, that would be a National HRO receiver. Quite capable radio.

New comment by frrlpp in "The origins of 60-Hz as a power frequency (1997)"

frrlpp — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 00:52:04 +0000

DC high voltage (200v) is very dangerous and pernicious, and mores difficult to switch on and off because of arcs.

New comment by frrlpp in "Cameras of 1930s Era"

frrlpp — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 01:32:54 +0000

Contax I with the 5cm f/1.2 should be there.

New comment by frrlpp in "AnandTech Farewell"

frrlpp — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 23:17:53 +0000

Que te vaya bien!