Hacker News: orbitingpluto

New comment by orbitingpluto in "Audio Decomposition – open-source seperation of music to constituent instruments"

orbitingpluto — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 21:37:22 +0000

Someone created something. Its value greatly exceeds the perceived "degradation of the environment" of a spelling mistake. Not acknowledging that says more about the pedant than the creator.

New comment by orbitingpluto in "Audio Decomposition – open-source seperation of music to constituent instruments"

orbitingpluto — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 12:41:29 +0000

If we can all hear the tiny violin, who cares?

New comment by orbitingpluto in "Victorian Glass Fire Grenades (2020)"

orbitingpluto — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 02:08:33 +0000

Available on Amazon. Usually zero reviews. But there is that screenshot circling around of a 1-star review based on someone attempting to and failing to put out a campfire.

If you rely on these and you end up dying, you can make a personal application for a full refund.

New comment by orbitingpluto in "Floppy Disk Museum on a Bootable Floppy serving from a 286 PC"

orbitingpluto — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 14:13:33 +0000

I was not including SDXC or even SHDC cards, only SD. I am trying to find a maximum capacity SD card to use in a Palm T|X, either 1 or 2 GB. Back when SDHC first came out, I often ran into issues with 2 GB SDHC cards not working on older devices. I think being difficult to find is another criteria to qualify as obsolete.

The odd thing about high capacity SD cards in general is that they are generally used as fixed storage. I have a 256 GB card that I put into a 11" laptop when I bought it and I haven't seen it since. I haven't used a CF or SD card like a floppy since storage hit 4 GB.

I agree that I spoke too hastily about optical media. Even modern gaming consoles have optical drives.

New comment by orbitingpluto in "Floppy Disk Museum on a Bootable Floppy serving from a 286 PC"

orbitingpluto — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 13:07:36 +0000

Next up is optical discs and early flash memory variants such as Sony Memory Sticks, MMCs, xDs, and SD cards.

When is the last time you used one of these formats?

New comment by orbitingpluto in "The rise of crypto laundries: how criminals cash out of Bitcoin"

orbitingpluto — Fri, 28 May 2021 17:22:54 +0000

The media is the message. Criminals don't launder bitcoin at non-profitable nail salons either.

New comment by orbitingpluto in "New Zealand struggles with plague of peacocks"

orbitingpluto — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 07:24:06 +0000

I was staying at a hobby farm and I was on the second floor in the loo when I noticed a shadow from above. It was a peacock looking at me through the skylight. They are evil evil birds.

New comment by orbitingpluto in "YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git"

orbitingpluto — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 05:26:12 +0000

"The system always works the way a rational human would expect."

We all wish, we all wish.

New comment by orbitingpluto in "YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git"

orbitingpluto — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 05:01:34 +0000

The RIAA will have to create a takedown notice to takedown their takedown notice, invalidating the former takedown notice?

New comment by orbitingpluto in "1991 Macintosh Quadra with Mac OS 8.1 as an Electron App"

orbitingpluto — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 01:09:38 +0000

As soon as you start to vary, accidentally or not, the heights of cells, you're in for a bad time.

Sorting large datasets with varying cell heights will bog down your system. Force uniform cell height and sorting can easily be twenty times quicker.

New comment by orbitingpluto in "After 10 years in tech isolation, I’m now outsider to things I once had mastered"

orbitingpluto — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 19:09:08 +0000

Windows 10 now being a rolling release is making things even harder. Even if you do learn how to do something, you have no idea how long that method will remain viable or if features will be removed.

I find myself relying more and more on Powershell in Windows and using the Terminal in Mac OS X/OS X/macOS when I have to use these operating systems so I don't feel like a bumbling fool when someone asks for help fixing something. More than once I've had someone wonder out aloud that they thought I knew how to use computers when using the GUI.

New comment by orbitingpluto in "Shhh: The Undocumented DOS Commands (1999)"

orbitingpluto — Mon, 25 May 2020 18:49:47 +0000

I remember feeling angry when I learned about the undocumented MBR switch for FDISK. There I was, beginning to learn to spell words with 6 or more letters, thinking I had to use a hex editor to clean up the MBR.

All that effort with no guidance whatsoever that could have been minimized with one extra line of documentation.

New comment by orbitingpluto in "SSH hacks – a little sanity for remote workers"

orbitingpluto — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 11:40:40 +0000

This was awhile back and was particularly nasty. No token, no check-ins, it was an unapologetic man-in-the-middle login prompt.

New comment by orbitingpluto in "SSH hacks – a little sanity for remote workers"

orbitingpluto — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 06:51:52 +0000

I used to do this all the time over port 53.

My closest coffee shop would allow people to access Wi-Fi only if you gave them full access to your Facebook account. DNS was the only port open to the outside world.

New comment by orbitingpluto in "The battle to save Canada's grain elevators"

orbitingpluto — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 01:35:59 +0000

The worn wood in grain elevators can be truly amazing from decades of grain eroding the wood and creating beautiful smooth surfaces. It would be a shame to tear it down without reclaiming it.

New comment by orbitingpluto in "EA's Tetris games will no longer be playable on iPhones and iPads"

orbitingpluto — Sat, 25 Jan 2020 04:01:48 +0000

Run Spectrum Holobyte's Tetris Classic in DOSBox.

New comment by orbitingpluto in "“I would like to maintain the floppy driver”"

orbitingpluto — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 22:03:08 +0000

I picked up a 5 1/4" floppy without the sleeve that was on the side of the road 20 years ago, sliced open another disc sleeve that had bad sectors and replaced it with the found disc. I still had a working XT at the time.

It had The Black Cauldron, PC Jr bootable version on it.

New comment by orbitingpluto in "Updated Microsoft Store App Developer Agreement: New Revenue Share"

orbitingpluto — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 07:33:51 +0000

I had to request refunds on half of the apps that I purchased because they disappeared or completely ceased functioning?

I only bought items on the Windows Store because I had a few $25 Windows Store vouchers as well.

They stopped selling Music around January 2018?

New comment by orbitingpluto in "Gmail spam-filters PayPal security messages"

orbitingpluto — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 21:53:22 +0000

All email from Microsoft ends up in my spam folders, regardless of whitelisting. I assume it is bad faith on Google's part.

New comment by orbitingpluto in "Cruel and Unusual Punishment"

orbitingpluto — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 09:18:23 +0000

As a child, I was extremely uncomfortable with Dr. Huxtable when he was in his office. I would regularly walk away from the show when he was in his at-home office alone with someone. When I later saw Philip Banks in Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, I consciously compared the two. One felt safe and nurturing, the other did not.

When a criminal's art replicates the conditions in which he committed crimes, I would hope that the commercial and artistic value of that work would diminish considerably. I hope that the Cosby show would not be able to survive continued syndication. However it should still be thrown into the bargain bin of available entertainment for posterity.

In my opinion, deleting the Cosby show erases the chance for others to obtain that same impression.