Hacker News: linksnapzz

New comment by linksnapzz in "A 1969 camera operators' strike created Upstairs Downstairs multiverse"

linksnapzz — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 10:52:54 +0000

“The Waltons”; I think. Unclear how rural Virginia in the 1930s translates into Bulgarian, must’ve been interesting.

New comment by linksnapzz in "Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics"

linksnapzz — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:13:20 +0000

Of the important life-lessons to have before one turns 18; "don't ever be the third or fourth owner of a Hyundai" is right up there with not eating the yellow snow.

There's no shame in being broke, of course-it is merely a catastrophe. The fourth owner of a '11 Sonata is gonna have a different outlook than the fourth owner of a '73 Mercedes 600 Pullman.

New comment by linksnapzz in "Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics"

linksnapzz — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:27:34 +0000

Who told you that? Unless you buy your Hyundai new, or CPO from a dealership, the powertrain warranty is 5/50.

New comment by linksnapzz in "Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics"

linksnapzz — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:15:39 +0000

...which AFAIK isn't transferable. IOW, used Hyundais are cheap for a reason.

New comment by linksnapzz in "What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes"

linksnapzz — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:06:33 +0000

Ahem:

“Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.” ― Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

New comment by linksnapzz in "What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes"

linksnapzz — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:37:21 +0000

This so isn't true, that it's not even wrong.

New comment by linksnapzz in "Huawei executive credits bans for accelerating domestic chip independence"

linksnapzz — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:48:16 +0000

Least surprising result ever.

New comment by linksnapzz in "Castor: CERN Advanced STORage Manager"

linksnapzz — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:49:44 +0000

I imagine that an ancient roman would think "Oleum Castorum? It's either oil you get from rendering beavers, or oil you use to lube your beaver..."

New comment by linksnapzz in "Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story (2023)"

linksnapzz — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:36:13 +0000

Did you know anyone who owned a building that had been tagged?

New comment by linksnapzz in "Castor: CERN Advanced STORage Manager"

linksnapzz — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:23:38 +0000

If it's Oracle Tape, it's proprietary T10000-series 1/2in linear tape and associated drives, that they got when they absorbed Sun (and Sun got when they bought StorageTek). Multiple vendors made tape media for these, but they were not compatible w/ LTO tape nor the IBM 3590-series enterprise tape format.

New comment by linksnapzz in "Castor: CERN Advanced STORage Manager"

linksnapzz — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:11:15 +0000

You could use tape as a backing for Venti arenas; don't know if anyone ever did so. The original Bell Labs fileserver used an MO jukebox for WORM archives, which today LTFS tape is a pretty close approximation of.

New comment by linksnapzz in "DNS Is for People – Not for IT Infrastructure"

linksnapzz — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 02:25:56 +0000

Counterpoint: DNS isn't used enough; consider replacing sssd/AD with Hesiod.

New comment by linksnapzz in "Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD"

linksnapzz — Tue, 26 May 2026 21:13:56 +0000

Yeah, I almost had a heart attack the first time I saw someone do a 'cfgadm unconfigure' && 'cfgadm disconnect'; then pop open the side of a prod box, press a button and pull a card out.

"See, oracle's still running!"

Things like that used to be how one distinguished enterprise hw & sw vs. PCs w/ delusions of grandeur.

New comment by linksnapzz in "Schlitz Is Gone, but First It's Getting One Last Hurrah"

linksnapzz — Sun, 24 May 2026 19:11:05 +0000

Hasenpfeffer is a German dish; per Leviticus rabbits aren't kosher.

Also see Fritz Freleng's work in 1962's "Shishkabugs": https://youtu.be/SK-cmtYrVuo?si=s4sI84cbb25J9K7F

New comment by linksnapzz in "Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada"

linksnapzz — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:49:08 +0000

I'm not enough of an expert in 12er Shia fiqh to say how credible they are-but they are there.

New comment by linksnapzz in "Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada"

linksnapzz — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:22:19 +0000

Iran also has a functioning court system w/ both qadi & mufti offering opinions.

New comment by linksnapzz in "Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD"

linksnapzz — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:35:55 +0000

Hot swapping the failed half of a bonded NIC pair on a v880 was a treat…

New comment by linksnapzz in "Going full AI engineer, not touching code anymore"

linksnapzz — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:51:27 +0000

The move to HLLs created new classes of problems that assembly programmers didn't face; so while the # of problems that necessitated understanding hw didn't shrink, it did relative to the list of things that could now go wrong.

New comment by linksnapzz in "High-Entropy Alloy"

linksnapzz — Sun, 17 May 2026 18:48:42 +0000

Fascinating! Where is this written up?

New comment by linksnapzz in "At least 25 Flock cameras have been destroyed in five states since April 2025"

linksnapzz — Sun, 17 May 2026 18:43:40 +0000

>People who rush to using violence as an answer frequently do not consider the outcome if they've misjudged their opponents' capacity for it.

It's part of the fun of being an internet revolutionary. Eventually, though, most end up thinking things through.