Hacker News: incanus77

New comment by incanus77 in "Building and Shipping Mac and iOS Apps Without Ever Opening Xcode"

incanus77 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:55:31 +0000

One time?! That's amazing.

New comment by incanus77 in "Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July"

incanus77 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 05:59:06 +0000

> Next year I'll definitely be planning an out-of-town vacation for the 4th to some location with firework restrictions.

Then like me you can just worry about whether some dipshit is going to burn your house down while you're away.

New comment by incanus77 in "The Vespa at 80"

incanus77 — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 18:23:14 +0000

I've had a 2016 150cc LXVie in silver with maroon leather since new; have put about 6,000 city miles on it. It's a wonderful machine. I bought it when my wife died after we had taken the motorcycle certification together in anticipation of getting one someday soon. I'm in the process of selling it now, though, as it's time. But it's such an iconic brand and I constantly get thumbs up and even notes left on it.

New comment by incanus77 in "My favorite keyboards"

incanus77 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:09:20 +0000

I have one! It's fun for retro PCs that don't have speakers or a mic, as it provides everything you need right there without having to setup the Altec Lansings.

Also LOL:

> it has the advantage of packing the best sound system I have ever come across on a keyboard

New comment by incanus77 in "WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996)"

incanus77 — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 07:19:59 +0000

USB floppy drive on the modern computer side. I do this for old machines.

New comment by incanus77 in "(How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (In Python)) (2010)"

incanus77 — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:20:35 +0000

How do you mean “these kind”?

New comment by incanus77 in "Want your images back? That'll be $5"

incanus77 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 04:04:58 +0000

Tried it today. Don't think it will have my comments, but I'd probably have to write a custom thing to fetch those anyway. I have about 6,000 photos on there so I'll see what happens.

New comment by incanus77 in "Want your images back? That'll be $5"

incanus77 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:13:21 +0000

No, because I am dealing with this right now. I stopped paying for Flickr Pro after 20+ years and can only download my photos in bulk as 1024px resolution in order to get back under the free plan limits unless I pay for Flickr Pro… which is $82/year. My photos are held hostage unless I pay.

New comment by incanus77 in "'Wow, it really worked ': 70s TV show causing worldwide panic today"

incanus77 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:02:17 +0000

I too learned about 9/11 on the radio. I was driving to work, had stopped to get breakfast, and when I got back in the car and started it up, my in-dash CD hadn’t re-started yet and NPR was tuned in and the news came on. Was most of the way in, so headed in and read about things online the rest of the morning. There was no decent web video to watch, so only when I got to a TV later did I get the full picture.

New comment by incanus77 in "Teenagers Stayed Overnight at Their School and Found Hidden Ancient Roman Ruins"

incanus77 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:48:34 +0000

I visited Athens in 2006 shortly after the Olympics were held there and the city had been refreshed. The Syntagma Square subway station did exactly this, with layers of archaeology revealed behind glass as you descended the stairs. It was magnificent!

New comment by incanus77 in "Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter"

incanus77 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 07:05:25 +0000

I'm reading on that resolution right now! MacBook Air 11" running Linux that I use as a quick hacking/reading machine in bed.

New comment by incanus77 in "Car headlights don't have to be this blinding"

incanus77 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:19:25 +0000

This scourge is so bad.

I drive a 40 year old vehicle and a friend created an aftermarket adjustable headlight frame allowing it to move from all-in-one rectangular headlight/high beam sealed units to modern LED bulbs and then an accessory of choice on the inner spaces left over. I chose a classic-looking LED that does regular, high beam, DRL, and amber turn signal all in one and then put off-road fog lights on the inner spaces. But I would not leave the house after night with the vehicle until I adjusted them to DOT spec. Because they are so much brighter and sharped-edged than factory, I can see that they don’t go above oncoming windshields and are aligned properly horizontally.

The excellent guide that I used to align my lights:

https://www.danielsternlighting.com/tech/aim/aim.html

New comment by incanus77 in "'Sloppenheimer:' Amazon employees mock the company's AI on Slack"

incanus77 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:23:56 +0000

The more time goes by, the more wondrous the recollection of my grandfather (1909-2006) telling me about growing up living across the street from a livery stable (i.e. horse commuter parking). Men would come into town to work at the steel mill and leave their horse for the day. He would say that after about 1922, cars were much more common, which in retrospect given the relative cost makes me think more that they crowded out horses, rather than the common mill worker upgraded from a horse to a car.

New comment by incanus77 in "'Sloppenheimer:' Amazon employees mock the company's AI on Slack"

incanus77 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:44:08 +0000

Ok, anyone care to gather at a coffee shop so that we can discuss the print version?

New comment by incanus77 in "Chuwi Minibook X"

incanus77 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:03:54 +0000

Still using mine for occasional hacking, running Mint. Gets about two hours of battery. Great keyboard.

New comment by incanus77 in "I keep bouncing off the Scheme language"

incanus77 — Sun, 24 May 2026 22:02:13 +0000

I've been trying to learn Scheme lately by way of schemesh[1], which strikes me as a very clever integration of Scheme into a shell. My favorite parts are that you mix Scheme and shell using () or {} directly, as well as shebang right into one or the other fully as the default when needed.

[1] https://github.com/cosmos72/schemesh

New comment by incanus77 in "The two oldest printing presses"

incanus77 — Wed, 20 May 2026 05:04:55 +0000

I visited this museum in Antwerp in late 2023 as part of a trip there and to the Amsterdam area. The museum is fantastic and fascinating. You can also operate a real printing press, inking it and turning the crank, taking home your print. We have it framed on the wall. It's not as "good" as the ones you can buy there, as the inking is not even, but we made it from blank paper, which is pretty special.

One of the highlights of the museum was the foundry, where they made type. As in, hired people to design fonts and create the lead type to print with them. Folks like, you know, Garamond.

New comment by incanus77 in "Magical Realism: “Northern Exposure” 25 Years Later (2015)"

incanus77 — Sun, 17 May 2026 21:17:48 +0000

Rosyln.

New comment by incanus77 in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

incanus77 — Sat, 16 May 2026 20:52:42 +0000

You're right, ever since we developed trucks, trains, and ships that run on pure atmospheric air, we haven't had to worry about pesky price fluctuations on every physical object that we buy or sell!

New comment by incanus77 in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

incanus77 — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:32:44 +0000

AI is pretty good at pulling from the body of existing solutions of what the right thing to do is.