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New comment by joleyj in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

joleyj — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:14:37 +0000

FYI 4699 OS is based on Concurrent DOS 286 and runs worldwide to this day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4690_Operating_System?wprov=sf...

New comment by joleyj in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"

joleyj — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:32:44 +0000

It seems to me to be saying that the person finds Elon Musk’s behavior problematic. What else are you reading into it?

New comment by joleyj in "Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19"

joleyj — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 12:25:14 +0000

I guess I wasn't aware that Wine pivoted from trying to be a general purpose, drop-in replacement for Windows to being a platform for games that only supports a subset of Windows functionality.

It's much more difficult to keep current and support the full functionality of a much larger competitor's offering when you have to support everything. In my experience it was an all or nothing proposition. Either you emulated it 100% or you had nothing. I think Asahi is more in this realm maybe than Wine. It really needs to support all the hardware, 100%, or it's value is greatly diminished.

New comment by joleyj in "Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19"

joleyj — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 11:49:23 +0000

Most of my software development career was spent working at a small company that sold a product that emulated the operating system developed and sold by a much, much larger company. The work was interesting and when you had a breakthrough or a small victory, it sure felt good. The challenge of keeping up was exhilarating and kept folks motivated to keep pressing forward.

But eventually it wears you down. It's nearly impossible to keep up in the long-term. Normal product evolution, the sheer size of the behemoth and sometimes even malice on their part to thwart the little guy make it really tough to stay current.

Think of Wine vis-a-vis Windows. They will never catch up.

New comment by joleyj in "The next steps for Airbus' big bet on open rotor engines"

joleyj — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:33:59 +0000

Most modern engines have two turbines. A low pressure turbine and a high pressure turbine. The low pressure turbine is connected directly to the fan.

New comment by joleyj in "The 70% AI productivity myth: why most companies aren't seeing the gains"

joleyj — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 20:55:54 +0000

I really don't mind boilerplate nearly as much as most people here on HN seem to. To me it's really no biggie if it helps structure things and make them explicit. I think it kind of goes along with the idea that typing code is not what takes the largest amount of time when you're doing software development. But the fact that I prefer explicit over implicit is another area where I think I diverge from the HN herd.

New comment by joleyj in "Engineering dogmas it's time to retire"

joleyj — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 11:49:50 +0000

The ad was deceptively inlined in the article IMO. I read most of the ad before I realized it was an ad. I don’t begrudge anyone who wants to monetize with ads but I do think it should be clear what is sponsored. I felt fooled and I stopped reading right now.

New comment by joleyj in "Ford kills the All-Electric F-150"

joleyj — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:17:48 +0000

Transmission coolers and suspension kits are great but one of the things that’s really even more important is the ability to stop it comfortably. I think it’s prudent to build in a safety margin of at least 25%. More is better here.

New comment by joleyj in "Ford kills the All-Electric F-150"

joleyj — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 11:07:51 +0000

What’s the towing capacity of your van. How do you think it would do pulling a 6000 pound trailer?

New comment by joleyj in "Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools"

joleyj — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 13:36:13 +0000

Have a Stoolap https://github.com/stoolap/stoolap

New comment by joleyj in "NTSB Preliminary Report – UPS Boeing MD-11F Crash [pdf]"

joleyj — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 19:50:31 +0000

The airforce retired the KC-10 in 2021.

New comment by joleyj in "Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Tutorial (2024)"

joleyj — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 16:55:32 +0000

>> This is not true for most so-called Engineers in the US. >> Anyone can declare themselves an engineer with no exam, >> no sponsor, no assermentation and no real legal ties >> to their shoddy work.

I don't think that's correct. While there are exemptions, each state requires anyone offering engineering services to the public to be licensed.

https://educatingengineers.com/blog/pe-license-requirements-...

New comment by joleyj in "Ask HN: Tools for Crossword Puzzle Generation?"

joleyj — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:04:02 +0000

I’m pretty sure this is what the pros use. No AI though https://www.crossword-compiler.com/

New comment by joleyj in "Replacing tmux in my dev workflow"

joleyj — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 10:57:33 +0000

> “every app can be command tabbed to and therein each app has its own subwindow management”

This is so, so annoying. Your Mac app’s window is minimized? No alt-tab for you!

New comment by joleyj in "4-7-8 Breathing"

joleyj — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:36:31 +0000

There should probably be an audible cue to go from exhaling to inhaling no?

New comment by joleyj in "LLMs get lost in multi-turn conversation"

joleyj — Thu, 15 May 2025 18:36:38 +0000

So it is hard? Not easy? I would agree with that position. I think the analogy with automatic transmissions misses though. Programming actual intelligence into a computer seems orders of magnitude more complex and difficult than building the gearbox for a car.

New comment by joleyj in "LLMs get lost in multi-turn conversation"

joleyj — Thu, 15 May 2025 15:28:13 +0000

If the solution were easy or obvious the problem would likely have already been solved no?

New comment by joleyj in "Retailers will soon have only about 7 weeks of full inventories left"

joleyj — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 14:39:56 +0000

... says Bill Maher.

New comment by joleyj in "Show HN: Nash, I made a standalone note with single HTML file"

joleyj — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 23:22:13 +0000

Is this similar to TiddlyWiki https://tiddlywiki.com/ ?

New comment by joleyj in "Lessons from a year of AI research"

joleyj — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 12:57:39 +0000

That site hijacks the CMD+LEFT and CMD+RIGHT Mac hotkeys for browser BACK/FORWARD and also has very strange behavior when scrolling with the keyboard. Why? Why? Why?