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New comment by mixmastamyk in "Some more things about Django I've been enjoying"

mixmastamyk — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 21:09:35 +0000

I think you can do that with querysets, Q, and F. The kwargs are a limited convenience.

New comment by mixmastamyk in "Why Los Angeles Stopped Repaving Its Streets"

mixmastamyk — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:04:23 +0000

Have the corners been updated? We had a big update to four or more corners in the neighborhood last year and it did feel a bit excessive. The old corners weren’t the ancient ones that require a step, they were already ramped.

SPAM – a System PAckage Manager, for folks who use multiple platforms

mixmastamyk — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:09:36 +0000

Article URL: https://codeberg.org/aol/spam

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49006209

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mixmastamyk in "It's a shame what's happened to radio"

mixmastamyk — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 06:42:10 +0000

Some names I haven’t heard in a long time. I’m just old enough to remember KMET and Dr. Demento back then. ;-)

New comment by mixmastamyk in "It's a shame what's happened to radio"

mixmastamyk — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 06:35:34 +0000

Thought it was that executives decided that forcing you into the media store was much more lucrative.

New comment by mixmastamyk in "It's a shame what's happened to radio"

mixmastamyk — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 04:19:45 +0000

I was still listening to Jim Ladd and Uncle Joe on Sunday nights… maybe 15-20 years ago. They’d play a whole album, say Dark Side of the Moon and tell all the stories about it, sometimes even with recorded interviews they’d done.

Today there’s KCRW locally and it’s good though getting blander.

New comment by mixmastamyk in "It's a shame what's happened to radio"

mixmastamyk — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 04:15:23 +0000

How much would an additional frequency cost to add to a sophisticated radio?

New comment by mixmastamyk in "ECC and DDR5"

mixmastamyk — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 04:11:21 +0000

Even with the desktop I want to see “ECC guaranteed” on the box, not a pile of parts that “should” work.

New comment by mixmastamyk in "It's a shame what's happened to radio"

mixmastamyk — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 04:09:07 +0000

I skipped ’em. Hassle is kinda strong and doesn’t bother me that much, don’t expect more for free.

New comment by mixmastamyk in "It's a shame what's happened to radio"

mixmastamyk — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 02:52:04 +0000

Unskippable? I turned the station at the first sign of commercial, and still do. If one of those "radio-wide commercial minutes" per hour, I'd try the public station, or made a selection from the ten-disc changer. ;-)

Nowadays I have a USB drive, though I understand that's rare. Can hardly find a (car) radio that supports modern sizes these days, probably by design.

New comment by mixmastamyk in "Yubikey 5.8: Verified Authorization for the New Era of Identity and AI"

mixmastamyk — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:39:36 +0000

What does the word “pin” mean in this sentence? Looks like a typo.

New comment by mixmastamyk in "My USB Drive Has a Hidden Encrypted Vault"

mixmastamyk — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:30:53 +0000

Hmm, a partition of any sort has mapped the territory.

New comment by mixmastamyk in "ECC and DDR5"

mixmastamyk — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:15:27 +0000

Theoretically, though I’ve not seen any certified builds. At least advertised. Do tell who offers an ECC laptop PC at a reasonable price.

New comment by mixmastamyk in "Firefox Containers Preview"

mixmastamyk — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:05:12 +0000

I hope they improve the UI, it has been difficult to use. Several menus with different random functionality that don’t have the options I’m looking for. Many times I have to hunt through the extension preferences to do simple things.

Also the “temporary container” extension is quite useful and closer to what I need in the first place.

Trusty Boot Key, a Ventoy Alternative

mixmastamyk — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:38:52 +0000

Article URL: https://codeberg.org/aol/trusty-boot-key

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48994703

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mixmastamyk in "Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now"

mixmastamyk — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:54:27 +0000

Yup, Andy giveth what Bill taketh away.

New comment by mixmastamyk in "Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now"

mixmastamyk — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:07:06 +0000

My Turbo Pascal programs could calculate and print to the screen faster than could be read, on a 486. With DOS however.

I picked the P90 because I remember running Linux ~1.0 and/or NT on it, with real multitasking and services etc. Those soaked up many of the cycles.

Another story, around Y2k/Win2k was asked to write a C program to record all the files/sizes on the C: in to file. Then something would be installed, my program run again, and the results diffed. Despite thousands of files the program was done before the enter key came back up. Boss told me that he thought the program was cheating.

That’s just how fast modern computers are these days, I said. When running C code anyway. That perf is still available today, compare astral’s uv to slow competitors. Just takes some investment, though probably less when boosted by VC bionics.

New comment by mixmastamyk in "A new Intel Itanium (IA-64) emulator that boots Windows"

mixmastamyk — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 22:05:55 +0000

Neat I did this on real hardware twenty plus years ago. Also tried Debian, iirc. My memory is that the workstation perf was decent but the thing was loud and used a lot of power. x86 emulation was slow. The nick, Itanic was mostly deserved.

New comment by mixmastamyk in "Blender 5.2 LTS"

mixmastamyk — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 21:55:30 +0000

Can’t render a scene from a command line? Should be doable for anything running on Unix. Need to have the assets available however.

New comment by mixmastamyk in "Blender 5.2 LTS"

mixmastamyk — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 21:45:41 +0000

UI standardization, CUA, X11, Motif date from the late 80s.