Hacker News: mwaitjmp

New comment by mwaitjmp in "Melvyn Bragg steps down from presenting In Our Time"

mwaitjmp — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 07:14:49 +0000

There is an episode on the Epic of Gilgamesh which is absolutely fascinating. Highly recommended.

New comment by mwaitjmp in "Possible new dwarf planet found in our solar system"

mwaitjmp — Thu, 22 May 2025 05:59:16 +0000

Does anyone know if this has its PE in alignment with the other Sedna type objects found?

I think there is a tendency for them to have their PE out to one side and the AP out to the other giving a fairly obvious pattern indicating another larger object is shepherding the others into their orbits.

New comment by mwaitjmp in "Switching from Pyenv to Uv"

mwaitjmp — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 07:02:05 +0000

Currently known as red-knot:

https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/milestone/20

New comment by mwaitjmp in "A lost X-Files song"

mwaitjmp — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 09:01:46 +0000

It’s quite impressive how good xfiles looks today when you compare it to other shows around the same period.

Space above and beyond in comparison looks pretty terrible from what I have seen. It’s not even wide screen.

I think X files was shot on film perhaps?

I’m not sure if what we have now on say Disney plus for example is a remastered version but certainly it holds up very well.

Ask HN: Has the CSS Changed for Mobile?

mwaitjmp — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 06:56:21 +0000

I browse on an iPhone and it seems now the text is much bigger… I tend to view in horizontal mode.

Much prefer now it used to look. Has anyone else noticed a change?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35397875

Points: 1

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New comment by mwaitjmp in "KiCad 7.0"

mwaitjmp — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 07:22:43 +0000

I followed this to make a very basic PCB and had it shipped to me, worked fine. Guides you through all the basic steps with KiCad.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3bNyZYHcRSUhUXUt51W6nKvx...

New comment by mwaitjmp in "Microsoft announces new Bing and Edge browser powered by upgraded ChatGPT AI"

mwaitjmp — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 19:39:38 +0000

From what I’ve seen chatgpt is able to generate a list of links for a topic you are discussing. They seemed very relevant to me when I tried this.

Obviously it won’t have anything post 2021 but for some subjects it’s fine.

New comment by mwaitjmp in "LastPass user vaults stolen in recent hack"

mwaitjmp — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 09:18:58 +0000

Can anyone explain how shared folders work with lastpass?

How is the data encrypted at rest? Who’s master password is used to store that data?

New comment by mwaitjmp in "Valve is paying open source developers to keep Steam Deck playable"

mwaitjmp — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 07:40:31 +0000

I ended up playing Elden ring on Linux rather than windows as it seemed to stutter a little. Hard to believe how far gaming on Linux has come.

New comment by mwaitjmp in "Disputing a Parking Fine with ChatGPT"

mwaitjmp — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 08:17:12 +0000

From memory I think this takes place in Schild's Ladder by Greg Egan, but in real time. People have personal AI’s wired into their brains that can be asked to converse with others.

One of many great ideas in that book.

New comment by mwaitjmp in "Experimentally Inventing a Programming Language Using Chat GPT"

mwaitjmp — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 17:40:21 +0000

It’s very clever in how you can tell it that it was wrong and it admits this mistake. Has it been written in such a way that the operators instructions are given a higher weight compared to what it knows?

I’ve asked it to generate python code and then format it with black. It reproduced the original code and then what was supposed to be the formatted code, but it was identical.

When told of this it admitted it had made a mistake and this time correctly outputted the formatted code.

New comment by mwaitjmp in "Bitcoin is now the fifth-biggest wipeout of all time"

mwaitjmp — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 15:11:47 +0000

The dot com bubble is mentioned. Despite the mania leading up to the crash, I think all here would agree that ultimately the attention was justified, it was just perhaps a little premature.

Apple discloses serious security vulnerabilities for iPhones, iPads and Macs

mwaitjmp — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 07:21:36 +0000

Article URL: https://news.sky.com/story/apple-discloses-serious-security-vulnerabilities-for-iphones-ipads-and-macs-12676245

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32518337

Points: 1

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Tesla sells most of its Bitcoin holdings

mwaitjmp — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 04:56:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62246367

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32175917

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

Record bacterium discovered as long as human eyelash

mwaitjmp — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 20:15:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-61911817

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31854594

Points: 2

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New comment by mwaitjmp in "Don't use Kubernetes yet"

mwaitjmp — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 12:04:31 +0000

Is docker swarm still maintained?

New comment by mwaitjmp in "Wasmer – Universal WebAssembly Runtime"

mwaitjmp — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 18:56:14 +0000

Slightly off topic what would people recommend to use to compile Java to wasm? Is what’s currently available still fairly experimental?

New comment by mwaitjmp in "Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?"

mwaitjmp — Tue, 31 May 2022 19:48:16 +0000

Any soulsborne game for that matter. They are all a long enjoyable slog. Recommended for sure.

New comment by mwaitjmp in "Square-Enix sells all of its Western game studios and their games to Embracer"

mwaitjmp — Mon, 02 May 2022 18:19:09 +0000

The wii u tablet controller is actually pretty comfortable to use.

New comment by mwaitjmp in "The temptation of writing shell scripts, illustrated"

mwaitjmp — Sun, 24 Apr 2022 09:42:06 +0000

If you don’t feel comfortable writing shell scripts, or even for people who do :-), shellcheck especially when used as a vscode plugin will hold your hand and catch any potential problems with your shell script before it’s even run.