Hacker News: maztaim

New comment by maztaim in "32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building"

maztaim — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:21:15 +0000

AI first "hardware."

New comment by maztaim in "32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building"

maztaim — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:06:34 +0000

If the industry had a say, we will be priced out. Look at the nvidia dgx spark. This is going to be the new norm if they have their way.

New comment by maztaim in "LotusNotes"

maztaim — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:33:54 +0000

I had a not great experience with Notes. It was slow and cumbersome. I had become used to Outlook for e-mail, plain simple e-mail. It was fast, light and didn't treat everything as a note. Notes is this heavy app that was slow to load anything with an early 90's aesthetic.

I worked for a large financial (~80,000 employees) that decided to move to Notes from in-house exchange servers well after it was obvious Microsoft had won the productivity wars. Rumor mill suggested it was brought in at the direction of a board member who just so happened to have close interests with IBM.

It set overall productivity back by at least 5 years before executives were forced to make a very decisive and quick move to O365. The reason given were scalability issues, the overwhelming cost of purchasing P-Series hardware (6-digits for one server) by the rack to keep up with demand along with the cost of developers attempting to make something useful for all of the different business needs.

Last I checked they are still stuck with some small, but essential work being diverted through Notes despite the move back to Microsoft.

New comment by maztaim in "A new Oracle Solaris Common Build Environment (CBE) release"

maztaim — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:14:54 +0000

What are your needs that it would fit? Oracle have you by the database?

New comment by maztaim in "Local Journalism Is How Democracy Shows Up Close to Home"

maztaim — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 14:24:20 +0000

Block Communications just closed two papers in Pittsburgh this year. The Post Gazette has been around since 1786. There are fewer and fewer[1] options available and I suspect this is a disturbing trend across many locations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Newspapers_published_...

New comment by maztaim in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

maztaim — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 14:04:36 +0000

I'm horrible at reading between the lines, but this just smells of oil related concerns. It's not about a bad leader, it's not about drugs.

New comment by maztaim in "Principles of Slack Maximalism"

maztaim — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 13:31:16 +0000

Nope to all of this. It’s impossible to get everyone to follow the rules. I also dislike Salesforce and what Slack has become. Less slck if you please.

New comment by maztaim in "Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business"

maztaim — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 14:02:29 +0000

For me they were always the reasonable choice from a cost, speed, and reliability perspective.

New comment by maztaim in "Let's Unify Linux Desktops"

maztaim — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 16:25:52 +0000

I'd rather not. I like choice. You can disagree with my choice, but isn't it great that you can disagree?

New comment by maztaim in "Choose Your Own Adventure"

maztaim — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 20:42:29 +0000

My summer camps were spent buried in the Lone Wolf book series. The smell of the books. Keeping all my fingers at all the choice points so I could cheat my way back to the book end.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Wolf_(gamebooks)

New comment by maztaim in "Zig Software Foundation 2025 Financial Report and Fundraiser"

maztaim — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 10:37:53 +0000

The transparency and clarity is something others should attempt to model in my opinion. If a child can understand it, then what does it hurt to be childish in the report? As a professional I wish more would report in like fashion.

New comment by maztaim in "Starship: The minimal, fast, and customizable prompt for any shell"

maztaim — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 12:58:08 +0000

Same here, that's what prompted my search. I felt I could get closest with oh-my-posh.

New comment by maztaim in "Starship: The minimal, fast, and customizable prompt for any shell"

maztaim — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 12:27:15 +0000

I found https://ohmyposh.dev/ works for me. There’s something about transient prompts that (at the time?) was a problem for starship. There are several other alternatives I’ve tried with meh results.

New comment by maztaim in "Being fat is a trap"

maztaim — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 13:14:44 +0000

Truth, but I also argue that I am not addressing the underlying emotional traps that I attempted to escape using tobacco and alcohol. Those same mental/emotional traps just shifted/intensified with my eating. Perhaps it is that simple, but I also feel it’s important to address the root factors, which I haven’t, admittedly.

New comment by maztaim in "Being fat is a trap"

maztaim — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 13:03:05 +0000

For me, quitting tobacco was simple, don’t use. Quitting alcohol was simple. Don’t drink. I cannot simply abstain from eating. I can relate to the struggles and feelings from this article.

New comment by maztaim in "Judge orders Trump administration to return deported Maryland man to US"

maztaim — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 20:31:48 +0000

Like all the other times things came to a head?

New comment by maztaim in "MacBook Air M4"

maztaim — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 15:25:23 +0000

Does a framework laptop not meet some of these asks?

New comment by maztaim in "It's unlikely that there will be any further releases of mt32-pi"

maztaim — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 23:47:26 +0000

FWIW: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar

New comment by maztaim in "The Ribbon Microphone"

maztaim — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:40:01 +0000

One of my favorite winter fireside poems as a child.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45081/the-cremation-o...

New comment by maztaim in "Are Immutable Linux Distros right for you?"

maztaim — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:31:33 +0000

Somehow I managed to answer no to all the questions…