Hacker News: frrlpp

New comment by frrlpp in "Magic eye tube"

frrlpp — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 22:56:52 +0000

Not that easy, AGC works both ways, if you disable it you need to provide a manual control to not blow your speaker or your ears or both. AGC controls the screen voltage of some tubes with a big factor of amplification. A typical remote cutoff pentode like a 6sk7 can change some 30-40 dB for stage. 70-80 dB AGC action is not rare.

New comment by frrlpp in "Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (2025)"

frrlpp — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:46:18 +0000

"Esta poronga no sabe lo que está haciendo", aunque parezca femenino , en realidad no tiene género .

New comment by frrlpp in "In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices"

frrlpp — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 01:03:01 +0000

I think you never been near a natural gas heather.

New comment by frrlpp in "Choose Boring Technology (2015)"

frrlpp — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 22:40:12 +0000

You are confusing software with technology. Choose boring technology, not choose old software.

New comment by frrlpp in "Costco is the anti-Amazon"

frrlpp — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 16:26:09 +0000

You clearly have no family

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.