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New comment by mynameajeff in "Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux"

mynameajeff — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:31:37 +0000

> lacks support for "new" features like C99 compatibility

This made me laugh. It reminded me of course work I did in university that was clearly written many years before I took the course as it recommended we manually enable the "new" c99 standard in our compiler, which I guess survived in the documentation up through when I took the course, at which point it was still relevant since GCC was otherwise defaulting to C11 by the time I was using it.

New comment by mynameajeff in "Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer"

mynameajeff — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:22:08 +0000

Many thanks for sharing, I'll have to check it out this weekend. Do you have much hands on with it? Curious how much fiddling is required when using it. Haven't had a chance to run OP's either but my dream is to find something that's as intuitive to use as the older games. Even modern karaoke software you'll get at karaoke bar usually requires me or my wife to operate it for the entire rest of the group with how complicated everything is haha.

New comment by mynameajeff in "CVE-2026-3888: Important Snap Flaw Enables Local Privilege Escalation to Root"

mynameajeff — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:25:12 +0000

We have notifications set up at my job for criticals and I quickly have learned how many 10.0 CVE's are related to random IoT devices that I can't even find via google.

New comment by mynameajeff in "Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer"

mynameajeff — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:34:42 +0000

My wife is a huge karaoke fan. I'm especially interested in the pitch scoring since we usually play the karaoke games on older consoles for that exact feature. Nobody really makes games like that anymore without a subscription (and most of these good modern karaoke platforms are exclusive to east asia anyways). If this works well this could make for some really fun social events, looking forward to trying this.

New comment by mynameajeff in "Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores"

mynameajeff — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:57:33 +0000

The bag weight sensors was something I was very happy to see go away. I hated self checkouts for years because it was a miserable experience of it freezing every third item and requiring someone to come get it working again. I only realized this tech had changed when COVID forced me to try self checkout again and it was suddenly a very pleasant experience, though one I have to imagine causes a lot of shrink for stores.

New comment by mynameajeff in "Why some clothes shrink in the wash and how to unshrink them"

mynameajeff — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:29:59 +0000

If you don't mind me asking how do they fit around your shoulder to bicep area? I tend to need to size up a lot not just for height but for space in that area for myself. A lot of more slim fitting stuff fits me nice overall but basically strangle my armpit and surrounding area. I've resorted to an extremely baggie style to get better space around the sleeve, especially on t-shirts.

New comment by mynameajeff in "Portland's gas-powered leaf blower ban goes into effect"

mynameajeff — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 14:00:46 +0000

Yeah outside of areas with very light precipitation a pretty hefty snowblower is definitely required. In my experience the weaker models are enough of a waste of energy to where I questioned if I'd save effort just hand shoveling. Everyone I know with a nice gas powered one has had the same one for years and can clear out the entire block with relative ease.

New comment by mynameajeff in "Portland's gas-powered leaf blower ban goes into effect"

mynameajeff — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 13:57:54 +0000

My last apartment had the basic unending sound of a leafblower from Spring to late Fall, nearly every morning, unending. Never once did I find myself thinking "wow I sure do hate sight of fall leaves" or "this grass really needs the mm of grass every meter removed", yet they were paid to come multiple times a week year round and blow things around for hours on end. Felt like such a waste in an otherwise neglected apartment complex as far as maintenance.

I get the use of leafblowers for some. I lived in the deep woods and we'd have to clear a pretty large swath of area every fall to not swim through shin-deep leaves for half the year, but if you already are in an area with light enough tree density to grow nice grass I just personally don't understand the utility of some 1000CFM gas leafblower. I got my parents a relatively cheap electric leafblower and it's been excellent for clearing their driveway and paths.

It's definitely a more personal gripe, but those obnoxious droning leafblowers are one of the worst sources of noise pollution in suburban areas by a large gap.

New comment by mynameajeff in "The Tor Project is switching to Rust"

mynameajeff — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 14:48:08 +0000

> Godot to Lumberyard Do you remember what project(s) this was? I'd be super curious on the motivations of the developers. I guess I could see it when it first went open source and Godot wasn't all it was today.

New comment by mynameajeff in "IKEA launches new smart home range with 21 Matter-compatible products"

mynameajeff — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 16:52:54 +0000

I housesitted at a very nice house with an induction stove and it was one of the most anti-human designs I've ever experienced in a stove. If I wasn't being as clean and tidy as possible for the sake of the homeowners I couldn't imagine how much worse it could've been as the entirely touch based interface added a whole other layer of frustration on top of the extremely confusing UX. I thought this was maybe unique to this stove but every other induction stove I've seen sold at appliance stores has had the exact same layout. I truly don't understand it.

New comment by mynameajeff in "Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret 'wink' to sidestep legal orders"

mynameajeff — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 18:59:24 +0000

Could you elaborate on what specifically details regarding cn-northwest-1/similar are remotely similar to what's being described in the article?

New comment by mynameajeff in "Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account"

mynameajeff — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 14:03:38 +0000

Thanks for mentioning WMR. I was genuinely struggling to remember why I didn't install LTSC previously and that reminded me. Half the reason I'm stuck on 10 even if I wanted to go to 11 is WMR. LTSC would be perfect for me if it wasn't for that little caveat (and a few more if my memory serves correct).

Awesome that they created and then gutted a standard that just bricks my $400 device that they barely even seem to care to support on launch. There's patches that exist for 11 but they're just that, patches, and my WMR experience is already very jank. Nvidia also seems to be the target for most development so I'm not sure where I'll go once this all settles as I have my gaming PC in a nice position where I can just hop on after work and everything just works with no interruptions or issues currently.

11 is a hot mess and I already know that linux/proton simply won't work for the games I tend to quickly hop onto with friends.

New comment by mynameajeff in "I should have loved electrical engineering"

mynameajeff — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 12:36:07 +0000

The build part was really helpful for me when I really struggled with EE. My program only ever made us build things for very first semester "build a circuit to light up the LED" type labs. Once we got to even the most basic of components it all became on paper. I really struggled with some of the mental models to the point where I made a habit of going out of my way to build a lot of circuits that I was just supposed to solve on paper. Getting everything correct felt no different to getting things completely wrong in a paper problem until I actually built out the circuits and suddenly "correctness" actually became a real thing that I was tangibly experiencing. I wish my program would've at least taught SPICE a little more to at least scratch the ability to simulate things a little better.

New comment by mynameajeff in "I should have loved electrical engineering"

mynameajeff — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 12:28:59 +0000

Yeah I had a magic-rules-first style experience in my EE program and it really didn't work for me at all. The nebulous reasoning made it for me where I just really couldn't internalize the pretty basic "rules" because I couldn't help but mess myself up overthinking the more abstract modes of conceptualizing everything which just confused me more. I'm thankful because it gave me the opportunity to quickly learn that I was a lot better at code than circuits, I probably would've been screwed if it took me that long to get to that point in my educations, but I will say the magic rules just did not work for me personally as a way to understand things. I'm sure others would do a lot better at just jumping right in though.

New comment by mynameajeff in "I should have loved electrical engineering"

mynameajeff — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 12:24:22 +0000

I did a lot of CS out of passion as a child but leading up to high school I was around such uniquely skilled group of friends in the field that I felt that I should pursue EE as I felt so out-skilled as a programmer. It only took me a single year of university to realize that EE was NOT my calling. I've never had so much completely fail to instinctively "click" in my brain compared to my peers. Meanwhile I was practically teaching the CS courses to my peers. I found that computer engineering was the perfect intersection for me because it let me explore so much more hardware and low level stuff without requiring analog dark magic that for whatever reason even the simplest of principles my mind couldn't grasp. I still really wish I could have gone on to make super clean headphone amps and all that but it turns out there really are just some things you can be "naturally" good and bad at, and for me it clean code not clean circuits.

edit: +1 on the "I just started bruteforcing" part of getting frustrated with everything. It was not a good way of learning but even after switching programs I found myself preferring to just bruteforce problems I had lost hope in thinking through to completion without running into a mistake that'd require me start back over from the top when I have 200 of the same type of problem to do after. So much mental effort would be wasted trying to "get" things I just wasn't getting that I started to getting more satisfaction mentally from just managing to get the solution without doing the effort of doing it "right" (ignoring that my methods of bruteforcing would probably still take far more time and energy, it was at least something that didn't hurt me spiritually on every failure).

New comment by mynameajeff in "Wttr: Console-oriented weather forecast service"

mynameajeff — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 12:14:36 +0000

This is cool but I can't seem to find the best way to give a better location closer to my area when I live in a rural enough location that I don't have a good city (with a name that isn't overshadowed by a more popular version elsewhere) or airport nearby

Edit: for some reason upon trying again coordinates work, first time I tried the same url I kept getting "unknown location"

New comment by mynameajeff in "Guess I'm a rationalist now"

mynameajeff — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 13:08:58 +0000

It's a lot like how every "interesting"/pop scientific field (think quantum) has a niche community of Free Thinkers that the "establishment" just won't listen to. If you hear from the actual core scientific community you'll find out that they just already went over this 40-400 years ago and nothing being argued as groundbreaking is new or groundbreaking like it's being pitched as. That indifference can feel like rejection to the highly-excited outsiders which can develop into animosity which just further isolates them.

New comment by mynameajeff in "I'm starting a social club to solve the male loneliness epidemic"

mynameajeff — Fri, 30 May 2025 13:12:18 +0000

I agree that's definitely the main culprit for many adult men but given this is the first mention I've seen of this idea after scrolling past dozens of comments above this one either attempting to re-invent the country club or immediately ascribe the problem to laundry list of imagined cultural enemies, I have to conclude we're either describing a different issue entirely or people generally have no idea why they're actually lonely

New comment by mynameajeff in "Show HN: Semantic Calculator (king-man+woman=?)"

mynameajeff — Thu, 15 May 2025 16:26:33 +0000

"car + house + door" worked for me (interestingly "car + home + door" did not)

New comment by mynameajeff in "A M.2 HDMI capture card"

mynameajeff — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 13:17:36 +0000

I'm not saying this is the most practical or affordable solution compared to a more specialized product, but if you definitely want a hardware solution, I do know (depending on your HDMI spec requirements) this would be achievable with any FPGA dev board that has HDMI In/Out. I can't say I've worked on this exact solution, but I did some basic development with a Xilinx (Z7?) board years ago that involved overlaying and modifying an incoming HDMI signal. What you're looking for should be achievable by the same means assuming there's no signal issues I'm failing to account for.