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New comment by notorandit in "Love systemd timers"

notorandit — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 06:53:44 +0000

> In 2026 there are more modern options available

More modern doesn't mean any better or more powerful.

I for one hate this need for going "more modern" without having clear and factual advantages.

New comment by notorandit in "The two oldest printing presses"

notorandit — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:07:52 +0000

youtu.be is not a Belgian website!

New comment by notorandit in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

notorandit — Sun, 31 May 2026 21:24:12 +0000

And, of course, terrorist manual states that any weapon needs to be labelled as such.

New comment by notorandit in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

notorandit — Sun, 31 May 2026 20:56:19 +0000

Flight policies have always been very weird.

I remember I was not allowed to use a laptop with a CD or DVD attached.

Now you have internet on board.

New comment by notorandit in "Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC"

notorandit — Sun, 31 May 2026 20:28:50 +0000

sudo can work non-interactively via settings in sudoers and sudoers.d . I am not sure about run0, but I would bet it has something similar.

Using docker for such a task seems to me overly over-engineered. Or maybe I need more context there.

New comment by notorandit in "Matrix Multiplications on GPUs Run Faster When Given “Predictable” Data (2024)"

notorandit — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:47:05 +0000

It's the algorithm, not the GPU!

New comment by notorandit in "Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?"

notorandit — Mon, 25 May 2026 10:41:57 +0000

Money. It is always money. It has always been money. It will always be money.

New comment by notorandit in "Show HN: Rmux – A programmable terminal multiplexer with a Playwright-style SDK"

notorandit — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:48:48 +0000

Scriptable terminal multiplexer?

Interesting portable scripting thingy. But it would only work with portable tools, not just everything. Especially with Windows tools.

New comment by notorandit in "Vivaldi 8.0"

notorandit — Thu, 21 May 2026 09:39:05 +0000

A decent solution with vertical tabs!

New comment by notorandit in "I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of"

notorandit — Wed, 20 May 2026 06:34:52 +0000

The site has been HN-ed off!

New comment by notorandit in "The two oldest printing presses"

notorandit — Wed, 20 May 2026 04:45:05 +0000

It took me the entire web page to understand that the display is in Antwerpen, Belgium.

Maybe I am the one and only ignorant to not know it, but I am pretty sure I am not alone.

Nowadays we give a lot of stuff for granted.

New comment by notorandit in "Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux"

notorandit — Sat, 09 May 2026 08:14:48 +0000

What I see here is a great risk, something not immediately recognizable. A "hundreds of millions" initiative fueling a "trillions" market. I suspect that controlling the LF can lead to a really huge power over markets or, at least, a very cheap kill switch.

New comment by notorandit in "Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered"

notorandit — Fri, 08 May 2026 05:22:59 +0000

It would (maybe?) sound like an inappropriate book for children. Yes, in the 2nd half of the 20th century. Not so in either 19th and 21st centuries.

In 19th century Italian (but maybe also other countries') children had to grow quickly to cope with life and work brutalities. They often had no mother, died while giving them birth, and started working at 7 or 8 to help their families.

In 20th century, instead, they have been constantly exposed to either real life violence and harshness (like war) or fiction brutality from movies, cartoons and video games.

Nope, Pinocchio is not that weird. It is when compared to an idyllic and peaceful world that has never existed but in our wishful thinking minds.

New comment by notorandit in "Fire at Dutch NorthC data center, all personnel evacuated in time"

notorandit — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:46:55 +0000

The fire that broke out on Thursday, May 7, around 8:45 AM at NorthC’s data center on Rondebeltweg in Almere has not yet been extinguished.

Fire at Dutch NorthC data center, all personnel evacuated in time

notorandit — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:46:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.techzine.eu/news/infrastructure/141131/fire-at-northc-data-center-all-personnel-evacuated-in-time/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48055544

Points: 3

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New comment by notorandit in "Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test"

notorandit — Wed, 06 May 2026 09:16:19 +0000

> We know it holds incredibly well terrestrially and within individual galaxies

I somehow thought that this was not really holding true and that Mr. Einstein had something to say.

I thought that without Einstein's "corrections" stuff like GPS wouldn't be useful at all.

Maybe I misunderstood last 100+ years in gravitational physics.

New comment by notorandit in "San Francisco streets with confusingly similar names"

notorandit — Sun, 03 May 2026 07:27:20 +0000

Are you kidding? If you confound

> Mason St. and Masonic Ave., or Divisadero St. and Division St.

then you must be either very distracted or dyslexic.

What was the last time you gave or got an address by word of mouth?

New comment by notorandit in "CJIT: C, Just in Time"

notorandit — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 05:21:59 +0000

I wonder whether CJiT can compile itself a-la GCC and LLVM. FAQs don't mention this and maybe the next weekend I will try to boot cjit with cjit itself.

New comment by notorandit in "Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy"

notorandit — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 18:47:16 +0000

Well, the library surely is not there anymore.

New comment by notorandit in "Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy"

notorandit — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:11:29 +0000

I Hope more and more fragments of anything lost is found.

The burn down of Alexandria library was a pity