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The Soul of an Old Machine

mskalski — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:30:49 +0000

Article URL: https://skalski.dev/the-soul-of-an-old-machine/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47674273

Points: 78

# Comments: 20

New comment by mskalski in "HHKB Studio: The New Happy Hacking Keyboard with TrackPoint"

mskalski — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 09:39:18 +0000

> I saw my roomate already having it 10 years ago

and could use it to this day I guess. Like carpenter may use proven tools then you can be accustomed to the feeling and layout of the tool you use everyday. I still have my first hhkb which I bought almost 10 years ago, works like on day one, even I am usually using newer hhkb wireless model these days. If I am not mistaken before buying first model I read article about someone who had similar experience like I now.

New comment by mskalski in "Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately?"

mskalski — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 08:18:56 +0000

I am reading it now too and i enjoy it a lot. Drawing the dots between all of those science discovery, which led to conduct chain reaction, compressing it to almost suspenseful, detective story and decorate it with events in which the whole world and individual people lived was great achievement of the author.

New comment by mskalski in "TV series about startup failures"

mskalski — Sun, 07 May 2023 17:45:55 +0000

I will check Showstopper, thank you for recommendation. It was definitely a fruitful time, a lot of meaningful job was done. I envy you that you could work with those folks.

New comment by mskalski in "TV series about startup failures"

mskalski — Sun, 07 May 2023 13:06:59 +0000

Re watched recently HaCF, supplementing it now with book "The soul of the new machine" which also enjoy. The book also appeared in last episode.

New comment by mskalski in "TV series about startup failures"

mskalski — Sun, 07 May 2023 12:59:40 +0000

I love this show, re watched it recently, but did not know this site. Thank you for sharing!

New comment by mskalski in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2021)"

mskalski — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 23:23:16 +0000

Location: Poland

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: yes

Technologies: Linux, k8s, OpenStack, DevOps tools, Go, Python

Résumé/CV: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/michalskalski/Awesome-CV/m...

Email: michal@skalski.org

Looking for interesting project were I could connect my background as system administrator with joy of programming.

New comment by mskalski in "Parabola on ReMarkable: A Guide [pdf]"

mskalski — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 15:44:32 +0000

I guess something similar not possible/very hard for onyx boox as they not publish kernel sources.

New comment by mskalski in "Show HN: Zectl – ZFS Boot Environment Manager for Linux"

mskalski — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 09:02:40 +0000

Looks cool. Currently only one machine which I have with zfs is NixOS, which has it own mechanism to handle such versioning, or do you see some advantages of using zfs approach?

New comment by mskalski in "ReMarkable’s redesigned e-paper tablet is more powerful and more papery"

mskalski — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 21:29:10 +0000

I guess that using safari online on remarkable is not possible or at least difficult with exporting chapter by chapter. Any recommendation for 10 inch e-ink which works with safari online?

New comment by mskalski in "My 2020 Hackintosh Hardware Spec"

mskalski — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 11:31:18 +0000

In my case I'm running macos in kvm VM on my home server based on SuperMicro X10SDV-6C-TLN4F. Seems to work ok but with some exceptions. First is the graphic card which I pass through to VM, it is geforce gtx 1060 and unfortunelty it limits me to use only high sierra, which seems to be the last version of macos for which nvidia web drivers are available. Both video and sound goes through hdmi cable connected to my tv. Other is network card, if you are ok using kvm emulated nic like e1000-82545em then you are set, if you are trying to pass physical interface, or sr-iov vf you may have to deal with bunch of kexts or flashing NIC eeprom to been seen as a card supported by drivers like the one provided by smalltree.

If someone want to try, here is with what I started https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM

New comment by mskalski in "I Nearly Lost All of My Data"

mskalski — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 21:47:09 +0000

Thanks, I have node 304 with 3 HDDs, there is no vibration that's true, but I hear spinning plates when there is no other source of sound. It does not look like there is acoustic management available for wd red.

New comment by mskalski in "I Nearly Lost All of My Data"

mskalski — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 14:31:29 +0000

Do you spin down disks? In my case WD Reds generates more noise than cpu and case fans when there is no workload on system.

New comment by mskalski in "Limecv – A LaTeX CV Document Class"

mskalski — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 23:07:19 +0000

Looks nice. I also like https://github.com/posquit0/Awesome-CV