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New comment by kwk1 in "To study how chips work, MIT researchers built their own operating system"

kwk1 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 11:16:11 +0000

What you are talking about is sometimes called "basic research":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_research

New comment by kwk1 in "FreeCAD v1.1"

kwk1 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:57:58 +0000

There is promising news on the development of OpenCASCADE front:

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/QQRAAF-occt3d-8-kerne...

New comment by kwk1 in "FreeCAD v1.1"

kwk1 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:30:05 +0000

Yes, the OpenCASCADE 8.0 release is very promising. There's a FOSDEM presentation from this year by one of their developers which shows what's in the works.

New comment by kwk1 in "MeshTNC is a tool for turning consumer grade LoRa radios into KISS TNC compatib"

kwk1 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 23:17:17 +0000

In the LLM space, it's LoRA, not LoRa. Not great!

New comment by kwk1 in "Notes on Clarifying Man Pages"

kwk1 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:13:36 +0000

I've seen it elsewhere, but it's definitely annoying. For example KDE's build assistant tool:

  $ kde-builder --help
  ...
    Supported command-line parameters:              https://kde-builder.kde.org/en/cmdline/supported-cmdline-params.html
  ...

New comment by kwk1 in "Gentoo on Codeberg"

kwk1 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 05:26:47 +0000

This is supported on Codeberg (and Forgejo instances in general) via the "AGit workflow", see https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/user/agit-support/

New comment by kwk1 in "So you want to build a tunnel"

kwk1 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:32:54 +0000

> Basically nobody ever died from leaky pipes

I know you're probably intending to only remark on leaky water pipes, but:

The New London School explosion was caused by a leaky pipe. It killed 295 students and teachers, and led to the inclusion of smelly thiol in natural gas, as well as the Texas Engineering Practice Act.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_London_School_explosion

New comment by kwk1 in "GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor"

kwk1 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:34:39 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerba_mate

New comment by kwk1 in "Polis: Open-source platform for large-scale civic deliberation"

kwk1 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:12:28 +0000

It's not meant to be a link, rather "X (formerly Twitter)"

New comment by kwk1 in "Goblins: Distributed, Transactional Programming with Racket and Guile"

kwk1 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:26:14 +0000

Yep! Shepherd × Goblins

https://spritely.institute/news/shepherd-goblins-update.html

https://shepherding.services/

New comment by kwk1 in "Guix for Development"

kwk1 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 04:19:27 +0000

I checked and it looks like the root-required issue has been addressed with a --relocatable flag, and there are a few options as well for needing to untar, e.g. producing an appimage format output.

New comment by kwk1 in "OpenFlexure Microscope"

kwk1 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 01:35:14 +0000

If I may jump in, here's a neat one:

https://www.braillerap.org/en/

New comment by kwk1 in "Guix for Development"

kwk1 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:56:57 +0000

Is `guix pack` not sufficient for this?

https://guix.gnu.org/manual/1.5.0/en/html_node/Invoking-guix...

New comment by kwk1 in "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"

kwk1 — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 12:11:20 +0000

They are the ecosystem shapers, let them figure it out.

New comment by kwk1 in "GNU Unifont"

kwk1 — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 18:23:10 +0000

Often I've seen font websites have a sort of "font hello world" preview image, and adding something like that here would be great. Apparently they're called "type specimens".

New comment by kwk1 in "Living my best Sun Microsystems ecosystem life in 2025"

kwk1 — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 22:13:11 +0000

I recently learned those have a name based on their dimensions:

https://88x31.nl/

New comment by kwk1 in "Incus-OS: Immutable Linux OS to run Incus as a hypervisor"

kwk1 — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 17:41:20 +0000

Incus is specifically an LXD fork.

New comment by kwk1 in "These Men dove to the Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck decades ago. Their stories"

kwk1 — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 04:01:25 +0000

From Moby Dick, on the Great Lakes:

> they are swept by Borean and dismasting blasts as direful as any that lash the salted wave; they know what shipwrecks are, for out of sight of land, however inland, they have drowned full many a midnight ship with all its shrieking crew.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page%3AMoby-Dick_(1851)_US_ed...

New comment by kwk1 in "Ask HN: How to deal with long vibe-coded PRs?"

kwk1 — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 05:04:23 +0000

"Inversely proportional" for what it's worth

New comment by kwk1 in "EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages"

kwk1 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 21:34:01 +0000

A term for that concept, by the way, is "endonym":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endonym_and_exonym