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New comment by nycdotnet in "Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?"

nycdotnet — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 11:48:53 +0000

Up until a few years ago the Metrocard machines in New York City were NT4.

New comment by nycdotnet in "AI and the Destruction of the Creative Commons"

nycdotnet — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 13:38:09 +0000

I agree. The question is if they will remain legal.

New comment by nycdotnet in "AI and the Destruction of the Creative Commons"

nycdotnet — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 13:18:25 +0000

for now.

New comment by nycdotnet in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

nycdotnet — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:03:01 +0000

MIT license includes: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

The argument is that AI models trained on open source should include the copyright info for all projects blended into the weights. And since they don’t, it violates the terms of the license.

New comment by nycdotnet in "Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM"

nycdotnet — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:50:57 +0000

Unfortunately this may only start to get worse as the AIs are trained on more and more AI generated content.

New comment by nycdotnet in "Clean up Claude 5's token vomit with a separate LLM"

nycdotnet — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:08:12 +0000

Very interesting you identified “carries” as well. I have been working on a claude.md to effectively ban this as well as forms of “hold”, “spells”, “sitting”, using “where” instead of “when” (except in SQL), and “pins” other than when pinning an assumption or version of something. This has helped a bit, but Opus 5’s prose is really quite bad.

New comment by nycdotnet in "The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years (2011)"

nycdotnet — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:22:34 +0000

There is certainly precedent for this - will executors for example. How about “SCITA? Service continues in the afterlife.

New comment by nycdotnet in "98% Isn't Much"

nycdotnet — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:49:03 +0000

Space Shuttle missions returned their crew alive 98.5% of the time.

New comment by nycdotnet in "Why I'm Building a Database Engine in C#"

nycdotnet — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:47:50 +0000

In the section “Hardware-accelerated WAL checksums” he explains how the JIT compiles away the hardware support stuff depending on the exact capabilities of the system its on. With AOT you don’t get this - it’s way more coarse like x64 vs ARM

New comment by nycdotnet in "Lisette a little language inspired by Rust that compiles to Go"

nycdotnet — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:09:20 +0000

TypeScript tried to accurately model (and expose to language services) the actual behavior of JS with regards to null/undefined. In its early days, TypeScript got a lot of reflexive grief for attempting to make JS not JS. Had the TS team attempted to pave over null/undefined rather than modeling it with the best fidelity they could at the time, I think these criticisms would have been more on the mark.

New comment by nycdotnet in "Godot 4.6 Release: It's all about your flow"

nycdotnet — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 02:14:46 +0000

I am a C# dev by day and love working with it. I miss interfaces, Linq, and the nicer pattern matching features of C# when using GDScript, but overall GDScript is quite adequate for what it needs to do and the game dev loop feels faster when using it. They can interop as well without too much friction, so if you have the .NET version of Godot, it can have some code in C# where (if?) you need it and other code in GDScript when you don’t.

New comment by nycdotnet in "Godot 4.6 Release: It's all about your flow"

nycdotnet — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 23:00:45 +0000

might be geometry dash.

New comment by nycdotnet in "Why is everything so scalable?"

nycdotnet — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 12:09:04 +0000

This is Conway’s Law: You ship your org chart.

New comment by nycdotnet in "Evolving the Multi-User Spaceport"

nycdotnet — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 01:16:37 +0000

The shuttle’s solid rocket boosters splashed down in the ocean via parachute, and were recovered and reused. The main engines and thrusters/rcs were also reused. Only the external tank was disposed. The issue with the shuttle (among many) was that the reuse was not actually economical due to the maintenance required between each launch.

New comment by nycdotnet in "Cognitive load is what matters"

nycdotnet — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 21:54:19 +0000

In some software platforms, the tooling makes it really easy to use a debugger to see what’s happening, so it’s common for everyone on the team to use them all the time.

The comment you’re responding to mentioned pulling code into a function. As an example, if there’s a clever algorithm or technique that optimizes a particular calculation, it’s fine to write code more for the machine to be fast than the human to read as long as it’s tidy in a function that a dev using a debugger can just step over or out of.

New comment by nycdotnet in "Reading Neuromancer for the first time in 2025"

nycdotnet — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 21:18:36 +0000

If you want to experience the Neuromancer vibe (but not story line), in 2025, from a contemporaneous source, I can’t recommend the Commodore 64 adaptation enough.

New comment by nycdotnet in "They Might Be Giants Flood EPK Promo (1990) [video]"

nycdotnet — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 10:56:28 +0000

Saw these guys on JoCo a few weeks ago. Great set. Birdhouse in your soul was one of our wedding songs. Hard to believe Flood is 35 years old. Thanks for linking this.

New comment by nycdotnet in "Two new PebbleOS watches"

nycdotnet — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 16:29:48 +0000

Excited for this release! Have you heard from Intel yet? “Core 2 Duo” was the name of one of their processors in the early days of multicore on a single package.

Edit: preordered!

New comment by nycdotnet in "You probably don't need query builders"

nycdotnet — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 21:01:20 +0000

This is Brent Ozar's old theme.

New comment by nycdotnet in "You probably don't need query builders"

nycdotnet — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 23:06:44 +0000

Record selector to drive a data grid. Ex: Filter employees by location, or active/terminated, or salary/hourly, etc. and let the user choose one or many of these filters.