Hacker News: nineteen999

New comment by nineteen999 in "The vi family"

nineteen999 — Wed, 13 May 2026 20:23:14 +0000

I didn't say I was any good at them! Just like my text editor.

New comment by nineteen999 in "The vi family"

nineteen999 — Wed, 13 May 2026 10:36:08 +0000

That's actually funny, because I play both.

New comment by nineteen999 in "The vi family"

nineteen999 — Wed, 13 May 2026 05:13:47 +0000

I consider my vi/vim skills to be extremely minimalist subset, and probably horribly inefficient, since they were developed to work accross a broad range of UNIX systems (SCO, Solaris, HP-UX, OSF, AIX) and I rarely add anything to my vim configs on top of that other than syntax highlighting.

But I'd still rather use it than just about any other text editor, just for the simplicity of that muscle memory alone. I have way more stuff to keep in my head than I have room for and I can't afford to expend more than about 0.0001% of context on a text editor.

New comment by nineteen999 in "Fedora is now the default Linux recommendation, and Ubuntu did this to itself"

nineteen999 — Wed, 06 May 2026 10:55:40 +0000

Back in the 1990's I was fond of it for the community spirit, the attention to detail, the way things "just worked" even it had a particular take on some things. Over time it felt like it became burderned with design-by-committee decisions, maintainers leaving and abandoning packages faster than they could replace them, and just a bit too political.

New comment by nineteen999 in "Fedora is now the default Linux recommendation, and Ubuntu did this to itself"

nineteen999 — Wed, 06 May 2026 10:53:50 +0000

Fedora is upstream for RHEL, which is absolutely dominant in the server space some sectors that require enterprise support.

New comment by nineteen999 in "Bugs Rust won't catch"

nineteen999 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 06:15:09 +0000

Yeah perhaps learning UNIX API's and Rust at the same time doesn't lead to a drop in replacement ready to be shipped in major distributions. Who whould have thunk it.

New comment by nineteen999 in "Category Theory Illustrated – Orders"

nineteen999 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:11:54 +0000

This is obvious within about 3 seconds of opening the article, noticing it's filled with coloured M&M's, and closing it again.

New comment by nineteen999 in "CPU-Z and HWMonitor compromised"

nineteen999 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:33:04 +0000

A different "network-aware" concept of this was "aide", that allowed the checksums to be stored on a server, for mutiple clients. [1]

Had some drawbacks compared to using offline media of course, but in day to day operation on an air-gapped network it had its uses.

Also worth knowing is the "-V" (for very parameter) of rpm.

[1] https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_...

New comment by nineteen999 in "Women were never meant to give birth on their backs"

nineteen999 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:07:46 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFNmwFpyB3E&t=7s

New comment by nineteen999 in "Writing Lisp is AI resistant and I'm sad"

nineteen999 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 05:39:07 +0000

Oh. My. God. Will the LISP community ever stop MOANING? It is the consistently most depressing, woe-is-me wailing in the entire IT segment.

You guys are depressing.

New comment by nineteen999 in "ReactOS Shows Improved Stability and 64-Bit Support at Chemnitz Linux Days 2026"

nineteen999 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:28:01 +0000

Once you've taken most all of the other subsystems out of NT (which they pretty much have), all you're left with is is the crapload in the Windows subsystem.

New comment by nineteen999 in "Trying for 1 month but can't learn pixel art still"

nineteen999 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:57:03 +0000

Im a 3D artist not a pixel artist but I've had these Saint11 tutorial series bookmarked for a while:

https://saint11.art/blog/pixel-art-tutorials/

New comment by nineteen999 in "Ask HN: What is your dev set up like?"

nineteen999 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:15:19 +0000

My own retro 8-bit inspired VT100 terminal emulator called 8btty, mostly running Claude Code, either native build or integrated into the Unreal Engine 5 interface.

New comment by nineteen999 in "The Finest Swiss Quality Quaternions"

nineteen999 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:50:17 +0000

The "gimbal lock" on a 2D sphere didn't clue you in?

New comment by nineteen999 in "ReactOS Shows Improved Stability and 64-Bit Support at Chemnitz Linux Days 2026"

nineteen999 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:41:21 +0000

And you can also argue that that's overengineered (the original NT design docs were posted on here a while ago), that the UNIX model (while much more primitive and simplified) has proven more successful in the real world, and that the original "clean, overengineered" NT design has been buried under a progressively bigger truckload of crap year upon year and is no longer as clean as it once was.

New comment by nineteen999 in "Users say Adobe Creative Cloud rewrote hosts file to detect installed app"

nineteen999 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 09:39:56 +0000

Yeah was thinking exactly the same thing.

New comment by nineteen999 in "IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm"

nineteen999 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 09:18:18 +0000

You don't want to work for IBM unless your life is already over. Been there, done that, never again. It's depressing as hell. Your manager doesn't understand what you do, and they think that once your contract expires you'll be sitting around for weeks waiting for them to renew it.

New comment by nineteen999 in "IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm"

nineteen999 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 09:17:15 +0000

Stratus VOS ran on a bunch of non-x86 hardware, i860, PA-RISC, 68000. It wasn't Windows (UNIX admin with a modicum of Stratus VOS experience in production, back in the day).

New comment by nineteen999 in "IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm"

nineteen999 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 09:12:37 +0000

Exactly. The exact opposite of the people flogging internet widgets running on a bunch of AWS instances running Arch/Ubuntu/Cheap distro of the week. Unfortunately that contingent is massively over-represented here on HN.

New comment by nineteen999 in "IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm"

nineteen999 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 09:11:11 +0000

Im surprised how often this question is asked by people who really have no clue and refuse to do even the most basic research on a company.