Hacker News: jaskerr

New comment by jaskerr in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

jaskerr — Sun, 03 May 2026 11:57:53 +0000

Would you tell us which provider/client you switched to?

New comment by jaskerr in "GitHub to Codeberg: my experience"

jaskerr — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 14:47:29 +0000

Splitter!

New comment by jaskerr in "The longest baseball game took 33 innings to win"

jaskerr — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 20:16:32 +0000

I still have a couple of those commemorative cups. They live in the cupboard, used only occasionally.

New comment by jaskerr in "The longest baseball game took 33 innings to win"

jaskerr — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 20:13:23 +0000

It was dumber than that. Governor Raimondo worked out a loan with the Fenway group that bought the franchise that would keep the team in Pawtucket. The speaker of the House wouldn’t let the bill come to a vote, so the deal died. (I don’t remember his name; I do remember he was from West Warwick.)

New comment by jaskerr in "Smalltalk, Haskell and Lisp"

jaskerr — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 16:52:03 +0000

I know of one: the U.S. Naval Observatory near Flagstaff, Arizona. I lived in Flagstaff in 1979. I knew the astronomer and visited him at the observatory at night. He showed me a terminal running Forth that could control the telescope.

I’m sure there were many other sites.

New comment by jaskerr in "Canada's First Pirate Site Blocking Order Expires"

jaskerr — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 14:25:10 +0000

For $70 a month? Holy guacamole! Where are you, that you get such good rates? We’re lucky to have fiber, but we pay $60 for 100 mbps. (Edited to correct cost of fiber as part of telecom bill.)

New comment by jaskerr in "SICP Goodness – The Environment Model"

jaskerr — Sun, 21 Oct 2018 23:58:55 +0000

What does "kernel" lisp refer to? Is it cl-jupyter, a kernel for Jupyter notebooks?

New comment by jaskerr in "Is Vertical Farming Really the Future of Agriculture?"

jaskerr — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 00:17:53 +0000

I don't have data, but I do have anecdotal evidence to contradict #1.

I live in upstate NY, where farm land is cheap (in relative terms). We are seeing an influx of Amish, who can no longer afford land in Ohio and Pennsylvania. (To be clear, they might be able to afford land, but at such a cost as to risk the enterprise and family. The Amish won't do that.)

We are also seeing new farmers moving here from states such as Wisconsin. They have family in those states, but they can't afford the startup costs including land. Here they can.

I think land costs are more complicated than you make out.

New comment by jaskerr in "How to Run Your Own Mail Server (2017)"

jaskerr — Sat, 27 Jan 2018 02:02:02 +0000

Unfortunately, mail and mail-related services are being deprecated in macOS Server:

Prepare for changes to macOS Server https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208312

The services deprecated include davmail, dovecot and postfix. They say the changes are "to focus more on management of computers, devices, and storage."

New comment by jaskerr in "Radical diet can reverse type 2 diabetes, new study shows"

jaskerr — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 02:36:33 +0000

Care to back up that claim? Can you point/link to research papers that demonstrate the misinterpretation?

New comment by jaskerr in "How the sandwich consumed Britain"

jaskerr — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 01:34:33 +0000

Amen, brother, sing it!

Therein lies the problem: the texture of GF breads at room temp. No matter the incantations, or the application of chemical ingredients, no one has conquered the problem of dry, crumbly GF bread. The only solution seems to be the application of heat, whether it be by oven or microwave.

Of course, asking your sandwich vendor to 'wave your sandwich for 45 seconds is to be met with a blank stare.

Oh, well.

New comment by jaskerr in "An Economic Geography of the United States: From Commutes to Megaregions (2016)"

jaskerr — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 04:18:26 +0000

Don't forget to include Joel Garreau's "The Nine Nations of North America". The theme is similar, but the outcome is slightly different.

New comment by jaskerr in "Backblaze's Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2017"

jaskerr — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 01:00:15 +0000

Which Seagate drives? With your reports, it seems Seagate can be good or terrible.

New comment by jaskerr in "Facebook's tentacles reach further than people think"

jaskerr — Sat, 27 May 2017 00:06:09 +0000

Which "Dictator's Handbook"? There are two on Amazon.

[1] The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics

https://www.amazon.com/Dictators-Handbook-Behavior-Almost-Po...

[2] The Dictator's Handbook: A Practical Manual for the Aspiring Tyrant

https://www.amazon.com/Dictators-Handbook-Practical-Manual-A...

New comment by jaskerr in "1Password Travel Mode: Protect your data when crossing borders"

jaskerr — Wed, 24 May 2017 00:22:35 +0000

Any recommendations for a "burner android" phone?

New comment by jaskerr in "OfflineIMAP: sync and backup tool for IMAP"

jaskerr — Sat, 29 Apr 2017 01:26:13 +0000

The fdm project is dead. The Sourceforge project page returns 404, and the Github repository hasn't been updated since 2014. (And the Sourceforge mailing list returns 404 as well.)

The code probably works, but don't expect any help or updates.

New comment by jaskerr in "Programs that have saved me 100+ hours"

jaskerr — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 00:49:38 +0000

The OS X* equivalent is A Better Finder Rename: http://www.publicspace.net/ABetterFinderRename/

When installed, you can use the app or call it as a service.

Not sure if it's as full-featured as Bulk Rename Utility, but it's close. [regex replace is hidden under Advanced & Special, which will tell you a bit about their target market.]

* Available for OS X 10.[12]-11, and macOS 10.12

New comment by jaskerr in "The Polyamorous Christian Socialist Utopia That Made Silverware"

jaskerr — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 05:35:00 +0000

Ah, OK. Tho', I never took Andelson's class ... Learned about the Amanas through independent research.

As for the Amish, they're here in NY. Not what you would think. A good start is Amish Society, by Hostetler.

New comment by jaskerr in "The Polyamorous Christian Socialist Utopia That Made Silverware"

jaskerr — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 04:02:22 +0000

Did you live in Grinnell, or go to the college? If you weren't a student I could understand. If you were a student, why didn't you ask Prof. Andelson? He did his PhD work in the colonies.

The colonies are definitely a good place to visit. Tho' you have to travel a bit further and look carefully to begin to pierce the veil they put up for outsiders. Even then, you are still an outsider.

New comment by jaskerr in "My Pixel has a manufacturing defect"

jaskerr — Sat, 10 Dec 2016 20:14:52 +0000

That has not been my experience with Dell. My new UP2516D kept going black several times a day, with no apparent cause. I couldn't replicate the problem using the laptop with same DP cable, same laptop port on my wife's U2311H.

Dell customer support was hostile from the get-go, claiming "compatibility" problems with my MacBook. Compatibility? What could cause my laptop to be incompatible with the UP25 and yet compatible with the U23? Hogwash.

They finally agreed to exchange the monitor. They sent a refurb.

Since then, I've read multiple stories of people having problems with Dell monitors, using Windows or OS X. A common thread is the DisplayPort connection.