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New comment by nereye in "The APL programming language source code (2012)"

nereye — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 04:59:38 +0000

A lower cost option is to buy a set of sticker overlays (e.g. similar to the ones you can buy to make it easier to type Korean or Japanese, etc. on a US (or generally, non-native) keyboard).

For example (no affiliation):

https://www.tindie.com/products/russtopia/apl-keyboard-symbo...

New comment by nereye in "CIA to Sunset the World Factbook"

nereye — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:41:02 +0000

Over 30 years ago, was working on a presentation software that shipped with a bunch of (vector) clip art and remember using the (raster) graphics from the CIA World Factbook as a base to create vector (WMF) versions of the flags of various ‘new’ countries at the time (following the breakup of Yugoslavia) that were missing from the set that our art vendor provided to us.

The Croatia flag in particular took quite a while to trace/draw (by hand).

New comment by nereye in "Apple-1 Computer Prototype Board #0 sold for $2.75M"

nereye — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 04:00:08 +0000

For folks who are in the area (or might be visiting), the recently opened Interim Computer Museum has quite a collection of vintage systems:

https://icm.museum/?faq

New comment by nereye in "Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?"

nereye — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 23:27:33 +0000

Which Seattle library (am assuming you're referring to SPL/Seattle Public Library system) has a maker space?

There is no maker space listed at https://www.spl.org/programs-and-services/a-z-programs-and-s....

Within KCLS, there are two public libraries that have maker spaces (AFAIK): Bellevue, Federal Way.

PS this is not meant to be confrontational, would love it if there were more maker spaces in libraries (when have asked in the past, the usual answer is that they do not have enough space for it).

New comment by nereye in "Japanese electronics store pleads for old PCs amid ongoing hardware shortage"

nereye — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:45:55 +0000

couple more: Off House (household goods) Garage Off (car stuff)

Also: mode off (fashion).

See https://www.hardoff.co.jp/shop/brand/offhouse/

New comment by nereye in "I know you didn't write this"

nereye — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:21:34 +0000

Also, in some countries (e.g. Germany) applications explicitly do not track that information (such as how long a documented was edited) for legal reasons related to privacy laws.

New comment by nereye in "EA Announces Agreement to be Acquired by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners"

nereye — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 15:51:52 +0000

[1] “ The Glazer family’s acquisition of Manchester United remains controversial to this day.

Their £790m takeover in the summer of 2005 came by way of a leveraged buyout: when a significant amount of borrowed money is used to fund the acquisition of a company, with the debt secured against that company itself.”

1 - https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/manchester-unit...

New comment by nereye in "RPi 500 arrives with mechanical switches, RGB LED backlit keys"

nereye — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 03:05:27 +0000

The Pi 5 does support OTG mode, e.g. see:

https://www.foxipex.com/2024/10/26/virtual-keyboard-over-usb...

New comment by nereye in "Microsoft PowerToys"

nereye — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 16:07:48 +0000

About PowerToys’ Text Extractor, there’s equivalent functionality in Windows now, from [1]:

It's recommended to use the Snipping Tool instead of the Text Extractor for capturing screenshots.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/text-ext...

New comment by nereye in "Trade in War"

nereye — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 10:19:21 +0000

FWIW, USA buys uranium from Russia, e.g. see: https://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/analyses/2025-06-18/rus...

New comment by nereye in "Berry Script: lightweight embedded scripting language for microcontrollers"

nereye — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 17:11:18 +0000

Adding to the list, DeviceScript, which affords running TypeScript on embedded devices:

https://microsoft.github.io/devicescript/intro

New comment by nereye in "Backyard Coffee and Jazz in Kyoto"

nereye — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 21:43:43 +0000

If you’re in the mood for an almost unbearably moving one, would recommend Nobody Knows.

New comment by nereye in "Cray versus Raspberry Pi"

nereye — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 07:44:49 +0000

The memory in the Cray was external and there are RP2350 boards with 16MB of QSPI flash, here’s one of them:

https://www.olimex.com/Products/RaspberryPi/PICO/PICO2-XXL/o...

New comment by nereye in "Cray versus Raspberry Pi"

nereye — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 07:34:24 +0000

Early 80s (1982), according to Wikipedia:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Automatic_Mouth

New comment by nereye in "Interferometer Device Sees Text from a Mile Away"

nereye — Wed, 14 May 2025 21:28:33 +0000

Applied Science YT channel has an interesting video showing this at work:

Dramatically improve microscope resolution with an LED array and Fourier Ptychography

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KJLWwbs_cQ

New comment by nereye in "Show HN: Open-Source Windows AI assistant that uses Word, Excel through COM"

nereye — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 20:45:29 +0000

See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/overvie....

Note: this is in the context of 'programmatically extending Office/M365', I don't think the OP was referring to COM in general.

COM is at the base of WinRT, which is pretty much _not_ deprecated.

New comment by nereye in "Oliver Heaviside and the theory of transmission lines (2021)"

nereye — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 19:16:43 +0000

Am partial to the following vintage video on transmission lines from Tektronix:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9m2w4DgeVk

New comment by nereye in "Nanoimprint Lithography Aims to Take on EUV"

nereye — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 15:45:31 +0000

With exceptions, was reading recently an interesting die analysis/estimate of the costs and margins of manufacturing of the AD9361 chip (a 65nm, digital radio transceiver, introduced 12 years ago and still selling at retail today for $300/$400):

https://zeptobars.com/en/read/AD9361-SDR-Analog-Devices-DAC-...

Relevant quotes (and the current retail price if anything is higher now then when the article was written):

“ Retail price of AD9361 at distributes is 275$, volume price from manufacturer is 175$.

That is quite an impressive added value! For 1,68$ of manufacturing cost we are getting 173,32$ of added value! Even Intel with their x86 or drug cartels could NOT do business like that.”

Of course, the actual margin needs to take into account NRE and other costs (and the above link does get into that) but, in this case, the manufacturing is a tiny sliver of the costs.

New comment by nereye in "Liberating Wi-Fi on the ESP32 [video]"

nereye — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 17:16:16 +0000

From https://octopart.com/search?q=CYW43439¤cy=USD&specs=0.

Indeed the lowest price $2.551 from Arrow has a MOQ of 5000 but Newark does have it for a promotional price of $2.73 for quantities as low as 1.

It’s not $2.5 but that’s why it was quoted as ~$2.5 in my reply, since it’s in the ballpark.

New comment by nereye in "Liberating Wi-Fi on the ESP32 [video]"

nereye — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 04:03:58 +0000

The WiFi (& Bluetooth) IC used in the Pi Pico W retails for ~$2.5, and presumably a bit less in volume (considering the Pico W is only $2 more than the base Pi Pico.