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New comment by jumpkick in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

jumpkick — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:45:30 +0000

I had a similar thought at first, and then remembered the steady technical progress of the Shuttle era (at least from my recollection).

New comment by jumpkick in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

jumpkick — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:19:10 +0000

This seems to be a distinction without a difference. The buck stops with them.

New comment by jumpkick in "Mystery jump in oil trading ahead of Trump post draws scrutiny"

jumpkick — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:25:22 +0000

Since you've drawn the comparison, it's worth pointing out that a notable difference is that Nancy Pelosi was not (nor was running to be) POTUS and could not have unilaterally gotten the US into a war in the middle east.

New comment by jumpkick in "Asian governments roll out 4-day weeks, WFH to solve fuel crisis caused by war"

jumpkick — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:37:15 +0000

A place where We all work. Call it a WeWork maybe.

New comment by jumpkick in "SoundCloud has banned VPN access"

jumpkick — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:45:23 +0000

iCloud Private Relay (at least for Safari).

New comment by jumpkick in "Heroku Support for .NET 10"

jumpkick — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 14:33:54 +0000

Do people say .net in some way other than "dotnet"? Or did I misunderstand?

New comment by jumpkick in "ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web"

jumpkick — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 11:58:25 +0000

Brain/computer interface that completely simulates inputs which drive perceptions which are indistinguishable from reality. At least, that’s what is portrayed in the movie. I’m not OP but this to me seems far off.

New comment by jumpkick in "HP SitePrint"

jumpkick — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 18:33:17 +0000

I wonder how it avoids pipes stubbed up through the slab, or electrical EMT, etc. or how it avoids mistakes made during the rough-in.

What if the plumber missed a drain or supply by an inch? Guessing the robot doesn't adjust its outline. I.e. if a sewer stub is wrong by a few inches, the wall needs to be moved to fit the toilet, or the slab needs to be busted up and the sewer line relocated.

I suppose if it gets some of this wrong, it'll be obvious, and a human can correct it.

New comment by jumpkick in "Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations"

jumpkick — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 20:47:57 +0000

> because you almost certainly weren't watching those shows on linear television anyways.

I'm just one person, but I definitely am watching the local PBS over an antenna, and so do several members of my family (living in different households).

The local broadcast is excellent quality, I get a good signal to it, never any glitches, and I enjoy the local news and other programming too.

New comment by jumpkick in "Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations"

jumpkick — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 17:38:18 +0000

It's 15% for PBS, and CPB != PBS and CPB != NPR.

New comment by jumpkick in "“No tax on tips” is an industry plant"

jumpkick — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 12:03:39 +0000

As an American, having traveled in Europe a few times and dined out a lot, I much prefer the culture of just leaving me alone and letting me signal the waiter to come over when I need something.

New comment by jumpkick in "Plastic bag bans and fees reduce harmful bag litter on shorelines"

jumpkick — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 11:59:55 +0000

I’ve been to the beach more times than I can count, over a lifetime living in Florida . Loud music, yes, cars and especially big trucks, yes. But I’ve never seen people just pack up and leave their trash when they’re done. There are ample trash cans and they get used. Take this anecdote for what it’s worth.

New comment by jumpkick in "Tesla seeks to guard crash data from public disclosure"

jumpkick — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 11:57:19 +0000

Deleting USAID may have escaped “cultural war” containment and gone on to becoming something with real, material impact.

New comment by jumpkick in "SQLook – A free online SQLite database manager with a Windows 2000 interface"

jumpkick — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 04:45:29 +0000

If I remember right, win2k had the dog. It would appear during Explorer search.

New comment by jumpkick in "Build It Yourself"

jumpkick — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 15:00:49 +0000

I recently revived a web app I wrote in 2006, my first startup. It was a social media site focused on media sharing. A pretty simple LAMP stack for the time. PHP 5, MySQL 3.2, but it has all of your typical (for the time) social media features. I revived this app because I wanted some hands-on time with new CI/CD tech that I don't get to use at my day job, so I'm working to extremely over-engineer the app's deployment process as a learning project. I could have used Wordpress or some other Hello World app, but this is a lot more fun.

I had written nearly all of the PHP from scratch. I wrote libraries for authentication/authorization, templating, form processing etc. I used one PEAR library for sending email. The frontend was vanilla HTML and there was barely any JavaScript to speak of. We used Flash for media playback. In other words, myself and my small team built nearly all of it ourselves. This was just how you did most things in 2006.

It only took me about an hour to get the 19-year old app up and running. I had to update the old PHP mysql drivers to mysqli, and update the database schema and some queries to work in MySQL 8 (mostly wrapping now-reserved words with backticks and adjusting column defaults which are now more strict). The only thing that didn't work was the Flash.

An hour to revive an app from 2006. Contrast this with my day job, wherein we run scores of Spring Boot apps written in Java 8 that have pages of vulnerabilities from tens of dozens of dependencies, which are not easy to update because updating one library necessitates updating many other libraries, and oh my goodness, the transitive dependencies. It's a nightmare, and because of this we only do the bare minimum of work to update the most critical vulnerabilities. There's no real plan to update everything because it's just too tall of an order.

And the funny thing is, if you compare what this PHP app from 2006 did, which had truly, barely any dependencies, to what these Spring Boot apps do, there is not a lot of difference. At the end of the day, it's all CRUD, with a lot more enterprise dressing and tooling around it.

New comment by jumpkick in "Ask HN: Do You Have a Copy of IBM "Logo: Programming with Turtle Graphics"?"

jumpkick — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 21:20:20 +0000

I have two Commodore 64 Logo books, sadly none for IBM.

New comment by jumpkick in "Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced"

jumpkick — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 16:57:17 +0000

I think the Xbox naming is all because the PlayStation came out before the Xbox and if Microsoft would have used a similar version-incrementing naming convention they would have always been one version behind Sony. Thus the second generation of the Xbox being the 360, which competed with the PS3: the 360 had a “3” in its name, so to a consumer’s mind they were comparable.

New comment by jumpkick in "Elizabeth line: Central stations now boasting 4G phone coverage"

jumpkick — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 18:29:41 +0000

Solitary thinking and reflecting, I guess.

New comment by jumpkick in "Mass producing the most expensive rice cooker [video]"

jumpkick — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 04:40:47 +0000

I do. Usually I’m cooking rice as a component of a meal. So I’m already at the range cooking other things and I can’t leave to do something else anyway. Since I’m already there, I may as well set a timer for 20 minutes to let the rice cook.

New comment by jumpkick in "Right turn on red? With pedestrian deaths rising, US cities are considering bans"

jumpkick — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 04:33:25 +0000

I recall that scene from Rainman.