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New comment by mrlonglong in "The Bra-and-Girdle Maker That Fashioned the Impossible for NASA"

mrlonglong — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:35:09 +0000

After an “incident” with the first astronaut fitted for the device, the UCD’s designations were changed from “Small, Medium, Large” to “Large,” “Extra Large,” and “Extra-Extra Large.”

I knew it. Serious issues that still persists to this day.

New comment by mrlonglong in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

mrlonglong — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:23:21 +0000

Just a few drops of mercury on aluminium kills it.

New comment by mrlonglong in "Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989"

mrlonglong — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:28:39 +0000

And of course, support for this venerable processor will be dropped in Linux kernel 7.1 in a couple of months time.

New comment by mrlonglong in "US carmakers say proposed EU rules could block large pickup trucks from Europe"

mrlonglong — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:40:54 +0000

Our UK roads are not designed for oversized pickups.

New comment by mrlonglong in "Is Germany's gold safe in New York ?"

mrlonglong — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:39:04 +0000

There's different grades of fine. What may be acceptable in the US is probably not what the EU's idea of what purity it should be.

New comment by mrlonglong in "Is Germany's gold safe in New York ?"

mrlonglong — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:29:39 +0000

Nah. Sell this rather suspect gold and buy better quality gold on the European market. Did you even read the article?

New comment by mrlonglong in "Is Germany's gold safe in New York ?"

mrlonglong — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:45:19 +0000

Pull it.

The French sold theirs and bought new stock on the European market.

New comment by mrlonglong in "There Is a RAM Shortage"

mrlonglong — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 08:57:07 +0000

Yet another reason why it needs to be socially unacceptable to be a billionaire. Their power and greed needs reining in and inequality is on the rise.

Billionaires should not exist.

If they didn't, would we be in this situation with an illegal war raging in the Middle East, and many other things?

New comment by mrlonglong in "Mercurial Dyson – a plan for the disassembly of planet Mercury"

mrlonglong — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:22:07 +0000

"Shellworlds". With just two shells. As described in his books by Iain M. Banks.

New comment by mrlonglong in "Show HN: NASA Artemis II Mission Timeline Tracker"

mrlonglong — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:20:07 +0000

Works just fine on my laptop, it's got a RTX5000 Ada GPU w/16GB VRAM in it.

New comment by mrlonglong in "SpaceX files to go public"

mrlonglong — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:08:47 +0000

If it goes public, does that means Musk won't own any of it? Can we rip it out of his filthy hands?

New comment by mrlonglong in "Say No to Palantir in Europe"

mrlonglong — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:56:40 +0000

You said it better than I could have.

New comment by mrlonglong in "Say No to Palantir in Europe"

mrlonglong — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:23:04 +0000

Yes whoever decided to let them do this has a lot of explaining to do. This data should never have left the UK.

New comment by mrlonglong in "Say No to Palantir in Europe"

mrlonglong — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:21:22 +0000

I've had a look and this probably is where their thinking is at.

https://www.ft.com/content/2d2b1af1-edea-4fd0-a081-3811e34bc...

New comment by mrlonglong in "Say No to Palantir in Europe"

mrlonglong — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:47:44 +0000

The UK has decided to terminate Palantir contracts when they become due for renewal. Not before time.

New comment by mrlonglong in "What came after the 486?"

mrlonglong — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:28:24 +0000

I loved the 486DX/4 at 120MHz. That thing was fast.

New comment by mrlonglong in "John Bradley, author of xv, has died"

mrlonglong — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:20:28 +0000

Xv! A true blast from the past. A much unappreciated piece of software

New comment by mrlonglong in "90% of Claude-linked output going to GitHub repos w <2 stars"

mrlonglong — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:50:02 +0000

Codeberg if you hate AI.

New comment by mrlonglong in "Cyberattack on vehicle breathalyzer company leaves drivers stranded in the US"

mrlonglong — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:35:39 +0000

Why do people drink drive?

New comment by mrlonglong in "Meta's Omnilingual MT for 1,600 Languages"

mrlonglong — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:41:23 +0000

It can't even do decent Welsh to English translations.