Hacker News: jejones3141

New comment by jejones3141 in "Microsoft plans to build 100% native apps for Windows"

jejones3141 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:45:01 +0000

Gotta keep that applications barrier to entry going...

New comment by jejones3141 in "The Origins of Wokeness"

jejones3141 — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 20:33:48 +0000

Yes. I suspect that the term "Latinx" was invented by some gringx.

New comment by jejones3141 in "The return of pneumatic tubes"

jejones3141 — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 13:33:50 +0000

Growing up in Moore, Oklahoma in the 1960s and 1970s, my mother frequented the C.R. Anthony's store in the City of Moore Shopping Center. They used pneumatic tubes; the person at the check-out counter would put a receipt and money tendered into a tube and off it would go to somewhere, I figured some office in back, where they made change and sent the tube back. You could hear it rattle around a bit as it went on its way, and the way it would come back, zip out onto a open curved "landing strip" and slam into the stop was impressive.

New comment by jejones3141 in "Canada imposes 5% tax on streaming to fund local news, diverse content"

jejones3141 — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 13:57:24 +0000

CanCon 2.0?

New comment by jejones3141 in "X.ai's Grok-1 Model Is Officially Open-Source and Larger Than Expected"

jejones3141 — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 01:12:01 +0000

What kind of hardware would one need to use the model with reasonable performance?

New comment by jejones3141 in "There's a Concorde Engine Complete with Afterburner for Sale on eBay"

jejones3141 — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 15:26:18 +0000

Darn. Now nobody can attach it to a car, like in the urban legend.

New comment by jejones3141 in "COBOL for GCC Development"

jejones3141 — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 19:24:12 +0000

How does one debug with GnuCOBOL?

New comment by jejones3141 in "Ask HN: Why did Python win?"

jejones3141 — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 00:43:36 +0000

I can only speak for myself, but Python struck me as much simpler to learn and understand than Perl. Also, my hatred for sigils burns with the heat of a million suns, going back to the $ suffix for string variables and functions in BASIC.

New comment by jejones3141 in "A clock where the time is in a song title"

jejones3141 — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 00:51:02 +0000

12:30, the Mamas and the Papas

New comment by jejones3141 in "The Authors Whose Pirated Books Are Powering Generative AI"

jejones3141 — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 09:14:04 +0000

Libraries bring author $$$/reader down considerably.

New comment by jejones3141 in "AMD Ryzen APU turned into a 16GB VRAM GPU and it can run Stable Diffusion"

jejones3141 — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 22:19:12 +0000

True. We'll see. I run VMs on the computer, so it's nice to have the RAM anyway and I might as well max it out.

New comment by jejones3141 in "AMD Ryzen APU turned into a 16GB VRAM GPU and it can run Stable Diffusion"

jejones3141 — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 17:16:13 +0000

Nice. Just ordered the 64 GB of RAM to max out my computer w/5600G at 128.

New comment by jejones3141 in "The complex simplicity of my static websites"

jejones3141 — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 01:07:05 +0000

Ah. Thanks. Yes, "accolade" in English is an award or privilege, or the tap you get with a sword when you become a knight.

New comment by jejones3141 in "The complex simplicity of my static websites"

jejones3141 — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 17:19:12 +0000

I'm curious. What is "accolade-free code"? It's referenced and highlighted as if it had a link but it doesn't, and Google appears to think it's a hapax legomenon (or whatever the equivalent is for phrases instead of words).

New comment by jejones3141 in "Turns out lowly thymus may be saving your life"

jejones3141 — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 00:55:36 +0000

Sigh. Now I have to track down a copy of The Memluks' album Partida, so I can listen again to their classic "Joe's Thymus" (inspired, I'm sure, by the Readers' Digest "I am {Joe's, Jane's} [name of organ]" articles).

New comment by jejones3141 in "The Hacker's Dictionary"

jejones3141 — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 21:22:29 +0000

Perhaps the thing to do is put it in a git repository, so people can retrieve the version they want.

New comment by jejones3141 in "Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity"

jejones3141 — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 17:28:27 +0000

To schools that have motivation to actually educate children?

New comment by jejones3141 in "Johnny Decimal"

jejones3141 — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 17:45:39 +0000

If you refactor, how does that affect email searches including pre-refactor subject lines?

New comment by jejones3141 in "Functional Python Programming"

jejones3141 — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 22:17:25 +0000

It's the difference between evaluating all the elements of a list, consing them, and returning it all at once and evaluating the elements one at a time (i.e. lazy evaluation). Saves memory and time and it gives you a chance to quit early.

New comment by jejones3141 in "Harry Belafonte has died"

jejones3141 — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 17:44:26 +0000

Whoa, man, that's too sharp, too piercing...