Hacker News: mianos

New comment by mianos in "ESP32-S31: Dual-Core RISC-V SoC with Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and Advanced HMI"

mianos — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:37:10 +0000

That native sdk and the vscode plugin are very professional. There is a bit of a learning curve to get into it, but once you do, it's very functional and the developers are super supportive. They have fixed bugs for me in days.

New comment by mianos in "Gzip decompression in 250 lines of Rust"

mianos — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:39:12 +0000

Chose to paste the C into an LLM and said 'make it rust'?

New comment by mianos in "Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia"

mianos — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:35:01 +0000

Yes. To have to do a certification to drive on the apron. There are all sorts of rules about being careful to cross the runway. I imagine they were rushing to the 'emergency'. To hit a plane there must have been multiple mistakes. The swiss cheese thing.

New comment by mianos in "C++26: The Oxford Variadic Comma"

mianos — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:48:01 +0000

I do this and my C++ is really like python to code in. But, if you work in a team, there will always be a bunch of people who come in and start using all sorts of exotic shit for their resume or hobby interest.

New comment by mianos in "Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis"

mianos — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:46:21 +0000

I feel something like this. All the popular movies are very similar, like all cars look the same. They have optimised it for efficiency to the lowest common buying denominator.

I have started watch movies and series in foreign languages, particularly Korean and some Thai that have very novel story lines.

New comment by mianos in "Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death"

mianos — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:10:04 +0000

Masses of speed cameras and a 30kph speed limit. We have this here in Sydney, but it's mixed 30/40/50 between every intersection and most of the major intersections have red light cameras as well as speed cameras. It's godammned utterly horrible to drive in. Most people I know, who when they were young never got a ticket, have now a few fines.

If you try and drive somewhere unfamiliar here you are pretty much guaranteed to get some sort of ticket as half the roads are one way, and you can't turn into the other half for random reasons.

Oh, most left hand red arrows in the city, start red when the main light goes green, and they have cameras on them too. You can literally see the camera lights flashing non stop when you walk along.

Add to this, zero rules for pedestrians, no one waits for the lights if they can see a break in the traffic.

New comment by mianos in "Looks like it is happening"

mianos — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:50:35 +0000

This title should have been editorialised. It's like a headline from the daily mirror.

New comment by mianos in "I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed"

mianos — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 23:48:05 +0000

Why do people use the ' — ' all the time now? It's not a proper English separator.

New comment by mianos in "Setting Up a Cluster of Tiny PCs for Parallel Computing"

mianos — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 02:48:02 +0000

No I have not. Changing my base image is a hassle but next time I set up another NUC or such, I will for sure.

New comment by mianos in "Setting Up a Cluster of Tiny PCs for Parallel Computing"

mianos — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 02:38:15 +0000

If you want to do the same thing, build a cluster of complete machines, in a ligh-weight manner, just for the learning experience, you can use incus to create containers in the same manner. As they are all complete machines and you bridge them, you get DHCP allocation identical to running a little PC on the local LAN. If you have ssh set up in the image, as described, you can run the identical scripts.

As a plus, if you run them on ZFS with de-dup, even the disk cost for new machines is miniscule.

New comment by mianos in "How London cracked mobile phone coverage on the Underground"

mianos — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 15:08:23 +0000

.. and in 1mS it travels 300km. Maybe they just want to sound technical, somewhat to match the rest of the article. They certainly didn't use chat gpt, so maybe that's a good thing.

New comment by mianos in "Oh My Zsh adds bloat"

mianos — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 08:28:45 +0000

If you want vi history editing like you are used to in bash for the last 20 years it's subtly different in a manner that makes it insanity inducing. If you use the traditional emacs like editing it's much the same.

New comment by mianos in "Finding the grain of sand in a heap of Salt"

mianos — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 07:28:02 +0000

I never had ansible scale through more than 100 servers. Its design assumes things will mostly work. Above a few hundred servers, things will fail all day every day. Whereas I have seen salt easily manage 6000+ servers.

New comment by mianos in "Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model"

mianos — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 22:58:51 +0000

Yes, I am also talking about a Cardo. If it didn't used to work near 100% of the time this time last year it might not be so incredibly annoying, but to go from working to complete crap with no choice to be able to go back to the working system is bad.

It's like google staff are saying "If it means promotion, we don't give a shit about users".

New comment by mianos in "Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model"

mianos — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 21:06:31 +0000

I sure hope this is better than pathetically useless. I assume it is to replace the extremely frustrating Gemini for Android. If I have a bluetooth headset and I try "play music on Spotify" it fails about half the time. Even with youtube music. I could not believe it was so bad so I just sat at my desk with the helmet on and tried it over and over. It seems to recognise the speech but simply fails to do anything. Brand new Pixel 10. The old speech recognition system was way dumber but it actually worked.

New comment by mianos in "Earth was born dry until a cosmic collision made it a blue planet"

mianos — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 01:35:30 +0000

A probability distribution describes how likely different outcomes are. It requires multiple observations or an assumed model that can represent variability.

New comment by mianos in "Ask HN: Why did COM/SOAP/other protocols fail?"

mianos — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 22:46:25 +0000

This another reason why COM and CORBA failed. A whole lot of people telling everyone else the way they are doing it is all wrong and their 'proper' way is the only way. Maybe proto became popular because google didn't actually care that much. I remember the ACE/Tao people who did a lot of work around CORBA. They did good stuff but such painful religious fervor vibed everyone out.

New comment by mianos in "Docker Was Too Slow, So We Replaced It: Nix in Production [video]"

mianos — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 22:26:35 +0000

No joke, it's already there, systemd-nspawn can run OCI containers.

New comment by mianos in "Why leather is best motorcycle protection [video]"

mianos — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 22:03:06 +0000

As a motorcyclist myself, I always felt drivers should be forced to do a certain number of hours on a motorcycle to make them more aware. But, those atrocious drivers would probably get injured so quickly that the idea would never fly. Now they are just driving.

New comment by mianos in "Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption"

mianos — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:48:57 +0000

I am in the 'post older generation'. It's the brainless commies in the middle that we all hate.