Hacker News: notorandit

New comment by notorandit in "La Cueva BBS in Mexico in 1993 (session replay)"

notorandit — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:51:36 +0000

Sorry, my bad sight tricked me.

New comment by notorandit in "La Cueva BBS in Mexico in 1993 (session replay)"

notorandit — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 05:34:33 +0000

It's a rather weird combination of year, CPU and memory.

Z80 is (still) an 8-bit CPU with 16-bit addressing. It cannot access more than 64kiB at a time. The hardware and the software needed to overcome that limit was worth more than an 8088/8086 (or compatible CPU) with MS-DOS and Telix.

In 1993,the age of 80286 and 80386, 8088/8086 were considered low-low-end CPUs, let alone the Z80, even in Mexico.

Not pointing my finger, just stating some facts.

New comment by notorandit in "Diplodocus, Long Thought Exclusively American, Turns Up in Spain"

notorandit — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 05:52:36 +0000

According to latest executive order, Spain has been renamed "Spanish Peninsula of America". So Diplodocus keeps being exclusively American.

New comment by notorandit in "Why are European countries moving their gold out of North America?"

notorandit — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 06:27:13 +0000

Because it is theirs?

Would you keep your food or car in someone else's garage?

New comment by notorandit in ".name Termination"

notorandit — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:42:32 +0000

It's just money. Nothing else. Just money.

New comment by notorandit in "ISO/IEC DIS 26791-1 – The RISC-V instruction set manual"

notorandit — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 11:46:56 +0000

135 CHF > 0 CHF

New comment by notorandit in "More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic statistical understanding"

notorandit — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 07:32:31 +0000

Basic statistical?

I have seen too many parents (i am a teacher) lacking basic mathematical and geometrical understanding.

Let alone, statistics.

Schooling is broken, society is rotting, culture is dead.

New comment by notorandit in "France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls"

notorandit — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:26:00 +0000

Useless. They tried already in Italy. Results? Unsolicited iphone calls from other EU country codes.

New comment by notorandit in "Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness"

notorandit — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:34:41 +0000

Maybe, yes "maybe" Robert got inspiration from a guy who lived two thousands years earlier.

New comment by notorandit in "Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness"

notorandit — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:33:49 +0000

If you ever wondered, those are among the things that made that single person standing out of the crowd od Humanity for more than two thousands years.<3

New comment by notorandit in "A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months"

notorandit — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:39:14 +0000

This is not the first time I see people copy-typing text by hand instead of copy-pasting it.

I am not sure why they do that, but when I see a DevOps engineer doing it I have a chilling feel.

New comment by notorandit in "Harddrive Is Probably Full"

notorandit — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 05:35:47 +0000

If my plans is to have it all invested (or spent), then yes it is ok.

New comment by notorandit in "Harddrive Is Probably Full"

notorandit — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 23:14:00 +0000

... and It is ok.

I bought 16TB disk because I needed that much storage.

If I were using, say, only 10TB, I would be wasting 6TB.

I can expand my LVM as much as I can. But I definitely want my disk to be full. Same goes for my RAM.

And I want my CPU ide time to stay as close as possible to 0% and my load average as close as possible to my no. of CPUs.

Anything else would mean oversizing and overspending.

New comment by notorandit in "Map of the world's great castles and fortresses"

notorandit — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:04:23 +0000

Italy, like Germany, Austria and maybe a few more European countries host more than 5,000 "castles".

New comment by notorandit in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

notorandit — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 22:14:06 +0000

RV64 toy/hobby kernel. No compatibility aim but rather at efficiency and speed.

New comment by notorandit in "Machine"

notorandit — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:44:28 +0000

Discuss? This is xkcd, nothing to discuss. Just kudos.

New comment by notorandit in "Lineageos Updates"

notorandit — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 08:23:49 +0000

Finally, a new post in their blog.

Lineageos Updates

notorandit — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 08:23:49 +0000

Article URL: https://lineageos.org/Infrastructure-Apps-Updates/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48829143

Points: 2

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New comment by notorandit in "Efficient C++ Programming for Modern 64-bit CPUs: Chapter 4/part 2"

notorandit — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 10:55:26 +0000

C++ CPUs?

New comment by notorandit in "The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation"

notorandit — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:47:18 +0000

Who has been validating that approach to solve their own optimization target?