Hacker News: mproud

New comment by mproud in "Warm up your MacBook (2019)"

mproud — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:59:50 +0000

Or just add an ampersand at the end and execute the command 8 times or so:

    yes > /dev/null&

New comment by mproud in "Noroboto: Lying Fonts and Mitigation in Rust"

mproud — Sun, 24 May 2026 18:22:17 +0000

Someone could also just make a font file that swaps all of the characters around. So like an A looks like a Z, and a Z looks like an A.

New comment by mproud in "An Apple (II) for Teacher"

mproud — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:02:30 +0000

As a kid who grew up in the public schools in Minnesota, MECC was amazing, and Apple II’s were everywhere. Each classroom had a computer, and our school had an entire computer lab. We had access to every piece of MECC software — history, math, spelling, social studies, and many other titles like Print Shop. All of the software was very, very good.

There are a few stories about Oregon Trail, one of the most popular games that was originally written by a few Carleton students for the public schools on older computer hardware that was then rewritten for the Apple II. (It’s so iconic, Xennials in America are sometimes nicknamed the “Oregon Trail Generation” because of how pervasive the game was in schools to help teach about the westward migration in the mid-19th century.) Supposedly, Apple put in a bid at the last minute with the state and won the school contract, and they had a virtual monopoly in the public schools in Minnesota.

New comment by mproud in "MacBook Neo Review: The Laptop for the Rest of Us"

mproud — Thu, 14 May 2026 06:06:56 +0000

I think the writer got the prices wrong, unless these are Canadian prices or something. It’s $599 and $699, not $599 and $799.

New comment by mproud in "How to make your text look futuristic (2016)"

mproud — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:44:13 +0000

Very tongue-in-cheek

New comment by mproud in "Killed by Apple"

mproud — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:33:06 +0000

A lot better than Google’s track record:

https://killedbygoogle.com/

New comment by mproud in "Days without GitHub incidents"

mproud — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:52:32 +0000

Supposedly commits on GitHub are up 14x YoY.

New comment by mproud in "Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs"

mproud — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:31:07 +0000

https://archive.ph/ubWba

New comment by mproud in "Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API"

mproud — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:43:05 +0000

Let’s ask AI

New comment by mproud in "Neanderthals survived on a knife's edge for 350k years"

mproud — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:22:07 +0000

How ironic that the science.org website wants to verify I am a human!

New comment by mproud in "Nanobrew: The fastest macOS package manager compatible with brew"

mproud — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:13:07 +0000

My brew update/upgrade takes forever

New comment by mproud in "The MacBook Neo"

mproud — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 05:29:39 +0000

More of a testament to Apple device longevity.

New comment by mproud in "Lego's 0.002mm specification and its implications for manufacturing (2025)"

mproud — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:14:33 +0000

They’ve been around over 90 years and have been making plastic bricks since the 1950s and are arguably the most successful children’s building toy product in history. They have amazing brand recognition, and beyond the toys, they have successful video games and movies.

According to my local news outlet, they’re up 12% in revenue growth in the last year (which outpaces the rest of the toy industry) and up 1,200% since 2004.

New comment by mproud in "I don't know Apple's endgame for the Fn/Globe key–or if Apple does"

mproud — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 03:21:20 +0000

Any Mac with the globe on the key is Apple Silicon.

New comment by mproud in "A party balloon shut down El Paso International Airport; estimated cost –$573k"

mproud — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 05:13:38 +0000

99 Decision Street, 99 ministers meet

To worry, worry, super scurry

Call out the troops now in a hurry

This is what we've waited for

This is it, boys, this is war

The President is on the line as 99 red balloons go by

New comment by mproud in "Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings"

mproud — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 04:25:45 +0000

Top one having some Fallout vibes.

New comment by mproud in "Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings"

mproud — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 04:24:11 +0000

Just insert random transformer boxes and manhole covers.

New comment by mproud in "1000 Blank White Cards"

mproud — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 05:32:01 +0000

Fluxx is based on this.

New comment by mproud in "Scott Adams has died"

mproud — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 02:51:11 +0000

I love that guy. Never having been an avid reader, I’m trying to read more, and my mission now is to read through most of his books.

New comment by mproud in "The $14 Burrito: Why San Francisco Inflation Feels Higher Than 2.5%"

mproud — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:31:16 +0000

Yes, but I think some of this is also the increase in food worker minimum wage in California.