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New comment by mwcremer in "Tesla Roadster"

mwcremer — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:15:44 +0000

What, no Trixie or Chim-Chim?

New comment by mwcremer in "A better SQL in 11 lines of code"

mwcremer — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 20:27:30 +0000

Thanks, I had not spotted that. I guess "better SQL" claim makes it seem like it is something more novel.

New comment by mwcremer in "A better SQL in 11 lines of code"

mwcremer — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 19:28:29 +0000

Looks a lot like 6NF (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_normal_form)

New comment by mwcremer in "PM Carney announces largest clean energy investment in North American history"

mwcremer — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 01:25:17 +0000

Lakes Powell and Mead would like a word...

New comment by mwcremer in "Decker, a platform that builds on the legacy of Hypercard and classic macOS"

mwcremer — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 22:46:41 +0000

Appears so: https://beyondloom.com/decker/lil.html

New comment by mwcremer in "Systems and Delays"

mwcremer — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 02:05:11 +0000

Reminds me of The Beer Game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_distribution_game

New comment by mwcremer in "United Wizards of the Coast recognized by NLRB"

mwcremer — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 23:14:38 +0000

Might also be a reference to the Homestead strike et al. Pinkertons were often employed as strikebreakers.

New comment by mwcremer in "How the Government Deceived Congress in the Debate over Surveillance Powers (2013)"

mwcremer — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 01:16:30 +0000

“I work hard to avoid ~~even~~ only the appearance of impropriety.” —-Not Rep. Richard Hanna

New comment by mwcremer in "Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board"

mwcremer — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 22:06:52 +0000

Sorry, did you mean "Summers unironically wrote" or "capitalist economist types unironically believe" ?

New comment by mwcremer in "Trump pardons convicted Binance founder"

mwcremer — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 01:56:46 +0000

Proclamation 4311.

New comment by mwcremer in "Mister Macintosh (2004)"

mwcremer — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 21:42:20 +0000

And the baby food jars of Parmersan and chili flakes, with nail holes poked in the lid.

New comment by mwcremer in "Mister Macintosh (2004)"

mwcremer — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 21:38:47 +0000

To point 2, even regular user interface can be hazardous: https://www.folklore.org/Do_It.html

New comment by mwcremer in "Infinite Mac: Resource Fork Roundtripping"

mwcremer — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 22:42:22 +0000

https://folklore.org/The_Grand_Unified_Model.html

New comment by mwcremer in "Six months into tariffs, businesses have no idea how to price anything"

mwcremer — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 05:21:54 +0000

At least it gets you out in the fresh air.

New comment by mwcremer in "Service members deserve the right to repair"

mwcremer — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 16:50:01 +0000

For the record, the movie was comedic but the book was not.

New comment by mwcremer in "Show HN: unsafehttp – tiny web server from scratch in C, running on an orange pi"

mwcremer — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 03:07:34 +0000

Reminds me of Jef Poskanzer’s micro_http: https://acme.com/software/micro_httpd/

New comment by mwcremer in "The Two Ideals of Fields"

mwcremer — Sat, 31 May 2025 22:31:17 +0000

I had a calc prof who was in the middle of a lecture, "...and as any fool can see, X is..." He stopped, turned around, and said, "You know, sometimes when I say, 'It is intuitively obvious', or, 'As any fool can see', I realize it may not be intuitively obvious, and any fool may not be able to see. But as any fool can see, X is..."

New comment by mwcremer in "How to professionally say (2022)"

mwcremer — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 06:10:31 +0000

Reminds me of https://collinpark.blogspot.com/2009/06/east-coast-to-west-c...

New comment by mwcremer in "When will we fix the tools that run the world?"

mwcremer — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 01:33:15 +0000

Maybe it is harder than it seems: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

New comment by mwcremer in "The Parker Solar Probe will make its closest approach yet to the Sun"

mwcremer — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 06:33:44 +0000

The title refers to the distance the _Nautilus_ traveled while submerged, not the depth it reached.