Hacker News: jhgorrell

New comment by jhgorrell in "Processing in Memory: DRAM Is About to Do Math"

jhgorrell — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 02:19:36 +0000

I have been reading about this for the last 25 years. So, yea, in another 25 years "this will be a thing".

New comment by jhgorrell in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

jhgorrell — Mon, 04 May 2026 04:38:32 +0000

"you are already rebooked" -- they were fab.

New comment by jhgorrell in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

jhgorrell — Mon, 04 May 2026 03:29:42 +0000

When your flights are delayed/resechduled there is a world of difference. "Get in line" vs "you are already rebooked". (my Air Canada experince.)

New comment by jhgorrell in "Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'"

jhgorrell — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 02:54:21 +0000

Stock install, no tuning.

  $uname -r
  6.8.0-107-generic
  $ollama --version
  ollama version is 0.20.2
  $ollama run "gemma4:31b" --verbose "write fizzbuzz in python."
  [...]
  total duration:       45.141599637s
  load duration:        143.633498ms
  prompt eval count:    21 token(s)
  prompt eval duration: 48.047609ms
  prompt eval rate:     437.07 tokens/s
  eval count:           1057 token(s)
  eval duration:        44.676612241s
  eval rate:            23.66 tokens/s

New comment by jhgorrell in "U.S. Chemical Safety Board could be eliminated"

jhgorrell — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 02:52:05 +0000

Think you might like to read "Adrift: America in 100 Charts" by Scott Galloway. He covers the impact of babyboomers on America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Galloway_(professor)#Bib...

New comment by jhgorrell in "Curate your shell history"

jhgorrell — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 15:56:07 +0000

I have most of my shell history back to 2005(?). Each terminal gets its own new history file.

99% of the time, I never look at it, but when I do need to look at it, it has been great. My boss once asked me: "What args and screening file did we use when we made that one-off DB 4 months ago?" Was able to check and confirm it was correct. Or for personal use: "Where did I move that folder of pictures?"

New comment by jhgorrell in "Invisible Electrostatic Wall at 3M plant (1996)"

jhgorrell — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 18:57:28 +0000

Extremely powerful fields can levitate a frog - so yes.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/04/how-did-you-g...

New comment by jhgorrell in "The Internet Is Full of AI Dogshit"

jhgorrell — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 17:11:57 +0000

I have been happy with Kagi -- Like that I can change the site rankings on the results.

New comment by jhgorrell in "Putin signs law to seize funds of officials that exceed declared income by $100"

jhgorrell — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 19:12:44 +0000

For those who would like to read more about staying in power as a dictator, or for that matter any kind of political leader, I found "The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics" [1] a good read on the topic.

Of note is the required number of supporters can be quite low when you have a government supported by resource extraction.

[1] https://www.amazon.ca/Dictators-Handbook-Behavior-Almost-Pol...

New comment by jhgorrell in "What Went Wrong?"

jhgorrell — Sun, 18 Jul 2021 01:38:02 +0000

Believe this is the report referred to. I enjoyed the read.

https://www.bea.aero/uploads/tx_elyextendttnews/F-HPJE_TECHN...

New comment by jhgorrell in "Valve Steam Deck"

jhgorrell — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 22:57:05 +0000

I think this is why starlink will sell well.

Rural users are sick of slow speeds, and in low density areas there should be enough bandwidth for starlink to work well.

Dont know how starlink would handle a city-full of users; Think that is something we are looking forward to finding out.

New comment by jhgorrell in "How many robots does it take to run a grocery store? [video]"

jhgorrell — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 20:05:25 +0000

In one of the other videos, you can see a 3 by 3 sized platform with the same wheel setup - it has a platform for 1-2 people and a crane.

I imagine they set some sort of exclusion zone around the broken robot, then drive out in the large platform and pick it up.

New comment by jhgorrell in "Ask HN: You have one shot to redesign the Internet – what do you change?"

jhgorrell — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 20:07:59 +0000

Isnt it "127.0.0.1/8" which is allocated, not "127.0.0.1/24"?

New comment by jhgorrell in "Guix: Unifying provisioning, deployment, and management in the age of containers"

jhgorrell — Sat, 12 Jun 2021 02:10:47 +0000

I, for one, would be happy to see that package. Took a try at it awhile back and found it rather bumpy.

New comment by jhgorrell in "OpenBSD Adds Support for Coordinated Mars Time (MTC)"

jhgorrell — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 21:06:24 +0000

In the novel "A Deepness in the Sky" by Vernor Vinge, the characters tell time this way. I had to do some math early in the book to get a feel for what 1Msec & 1Gsec was.

In addition, they also keep track of their cold sleep time, because if you want to meet your spouse 50 years from now, you want to try and keep the same relative age.

New comment by jhgorrell in "Ultra-weak gravitational field detected"

jhgorrell — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 18:30:41 +0000

But we only need to make one of them!

More virus-zapping robots are coming, and they’re here to stay

jhgorrell — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 22:07:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/08/lg-uv-robots/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25691149

Points: 2

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New comment by jhgorrell in "The ZedRipper: Part 2"

jhgorrell — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 18:52:33 +0000

I ended up getting an Arty-A7 as I wanted to have an ethernet port. It arrived a couple weeks ago. Still getting the build and toolchain built.

My goal is an array of 6502s - It was when I was researching that idea and dev boards I found your posts.

New comment by jhgorrell in "The ZedRipper: Part 2"

jhgorrell — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 18:11:15 +0000

Thank you for writing this up - as someone who is getting started with FPGAs, it is an inspiration.

New comment by jhgorrell in "Nearly 12M Square Feet of Vacant Office Space in S.F"

jhgorrell — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 23:45:29 +0000

I would agree that "people who care" are a good thing; However, I dont agree term limits achieve that.

Better than term limits would be an informed electorate who would vote for a new person once the old one stopped caring or being effective. I think limits are a poor bandaid.