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New comment by jsymolon in "Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?"

jsymolon — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 23:23:18 +0000

Sorry, i was out of a spare scratch monkey.

https://madned.substack.com/p/always-mount-a-scratch-monkey

New comment by jsymolon in "Fine, I'll build my own text editor"

jsymolon — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:29:46 +0000

I have a few minor quibbles about sublime, but I still use it for the bulk of stuff.

New comment by jsymolon in "Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail"

jsymolon — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:56:36 +0000

god forbid if you got a parahydrogen vs a orthohydrogen hydrogen. That reverse spin really messed up the 1's.

New comment by jsymolon in ""Parse, don't validate" through the years with C++"

jsymolon — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:46:22 +0000

First thought, assuming that birth year starts at 1900 is bad for a number of reasons; one of which, "process this list of authors and ..."

What about everyone born before 1900?

New comment by jsymolon in "A 40-line fix eliminated a 400x performance gap"

jsymolon — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 11:56:43 +0000

I use them all the time on Perl code.

https://metacpan.org/pod/Devel::NYTProf

New comment by jsymolon in "Don't Say Velcro (2017)"

jsymolon — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 14:03:15 +0000

Going to have to xerox this for my wall.

New comment by jsymolon in "i386 Assembly Language trick for storing data in .text"

jsymolon — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 11:47:28 +0000

Apple II, DOS and PRODOS calls do that too.

https://prodos8.com/docs/techref/calls-to-the-mli/

New comment by jsymolon in "The leap second’s time is up: world votes to stop pausing clocks"

jsymolon — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 20:00:40 +0000

Nope, just explosive rapid deconstruction.

New comment by jsymolon in "The Perl Foundation will now be known as The Perl and Raku Foundation"

jsymolon — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 13:50:59 +0000

>stuck on an old OS release (i.e. RHEL?) and/or they don't build their own version and use the "system" Perl.

I build my containers and put Perl right in them. Makes the container a little chubbier but no outside dependencies.

New comment by jsymolon in "Time is an illusion, Unix time doubly so"

jsymolon — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 14:08:45 +0000

And would be awesome if it gave out the current time.

New comment by jsymolon in "Amazon’s Kindle Scribe is an E Ink tablet for reading and writing"

jsymolon — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 20:06:51 +0000

I have a SuperNote that is a decent PDF viewer and notetaker.

https://goodereader.com/blog/reviews/supernote-a5x-digital-n...

New comment by jsymolon in "Closing a 30 pixel gap between native and web"

jsymolon — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 12:08:28 +0000

> window snapping/tiling

Put me in the camp that hates window snap/tiling.

I have a certain workflow that needs this window there, and this one here ... don't snap to a location or go full screen.

New comment by jsymolon in "How far can you go without a message queue?"

jsymolon — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 12:55:47 +0000

> We use IBM MQ at work and I wouldn't exactly call it simple.

2nd'd & 3rd'd ...

You hired a 50 man lumberjack crew to cut down a sapling.

I've been spending a some time to remove IBM MQ out and going to "simpler" queuing solutions. First of all, cost. Guess what, we're not getting anything out of licensing per year to justify the cost.

With improving the end points, we don't need all that complexity. With 5 9's uptime on the network and smarter end points, retrying messages isn't expensive.

As always, YMMV.

New comment by jsymolon in "Quest 2 no longer requires a Facebook account starting today"

jsymolon — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 18:32:13 +0000

Woof.

MSRP: $3,499.00 USD Regular price$2,699.00 USD

New comment by jsymolon in "The Story of Mel (1983)"

jsymolon — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 10:58:06 +0000

>not only did the address wrap around to 0, ...

Very reminisce of the 6502 "issue" of jumping with an address on a page boundary.

Per Wikipedia:

the processor will not jump to the address stored in xxFF and xxFF+1 as expected, but rather the one defined by xxFF and xx00 (for example, JMP ($10FF) would jump to the address stored in 10FF and 1000, instead of the one stored in 10FF and 1100). This defect continued through the entire NMOS line, but was corrected in the CMOS derivatives.

New comment by jsymolon in "Byte Magazine: The Forth Language (1980)"

jsymolon — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 23:02:20 +0000

In my AVR phase, I build a FORTH interpreter using the jonesforth page.

Nice introduction to threaded interpreters.

https://github.com/nornagon/jonesforth/blob/master/jonesfort...

New comment by jsymolon in "Unix didn't use to support '#!', a brief history"

jsymolon — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 10:47:11 +0000

With all the shabang, shebang, splatping going on ... someone might stumble upon the magic word and turn into Captain Marvel.

New comment by jsymolon in "Bill Watterson’s refusal to license Calvin and Hobbes (2016)"

jsymolon — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 10:05:55 +0000

I feel the same way about music licensed to shows or commercials. Due to the amount of airplay a show or commercial gets, the music becomes overused.

The USPS use of "Fly like an Eagle", and overplayed CSI: X shredded The Who songs.

Although, "Love and Marriage" used in "Married with Children" (90's) doesn't have the same tiredness, probably because that Sinatra really wasn't in my listening list.

New comment by jsymolon in "Ford CEO says EVs will be sold 100% online with nonnegotiable price"

jsymolon — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 14:05:52 +0000

The ICE is one of the minor items; still needs oil and fluids but are mostly maintenance free for a long while.

All of the other components still need maintenance. Tires, alignment, suspension etc.

New comment by jsymolon in "Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM"

jsymolon — Mon, 30 May 2022 14:18:38 +0000

Interesting story on how it could go.

Unauthorized Bread, Cory Doctorow

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-...