Hacker News: petesoper

New comment by petesoper in "JuiceSSH – Give me my pro features back"

petesoper — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:08:16 +0000

"I guess I'm asking for a "Convince me to try it" style review of juice" Notice this is about juicessh becoming unusable and no longer having any support. That should satisfy you.

New comment by petesoper in "The recurring dream of replacing developers"

petesoper — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 01:21:30 +0000

90 years ago there were about seven million farmers in the US. There are now less than two million.

New comment by petesoper in "Building an IoT Notification Device from Scratch"

petesoper — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 19:01:53 +0000

When I got to auto[ssid, etc in main.c it became clear the sophistication/excursion from the typical Esp32 code centerline is at many levels. Thanks for sharing!

New comment by petesoper in "The Limits of NTP Accuracy on Linux"

petesoper — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 13:52:17 +0000

The OP says early he only needs 10us.

New comment by petesoper in "JEP 483: Ahead-of-Time Class Loading and Linking"

petesoper — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 01:41:45 +0000

Sweet!

New comment by petesoper in "Robert Dennard, DRAM Pioneer, has died"

petesoper — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 13:53:51 +0000

"By the early 1970s, DRAM was standard in virtually all computers."

Perfect bullshit.

New comment by petesoper in "Jacek Karpińśki, the computer genius the communists couldn't stand (2017)"

petesoper — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 06:32:06 +0000

A manual for the K-202: http://www.zenker.poznan.pl/k-202/dokumentacja/k-202-reklama...

New comment by petesoper in "A RP2040 based DECstation 3000 emulator that can run DECWindows"

petesoper — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 07:46:51 +0000

What boggles my mind is the notion of running an RP2040 at 300mhz.

New comment by petesoper in "The t-test was invented at the Guinness brewery"

petesoper — Mon, 27 May 2024 02:18:43 +0000

54 years after I was mystified trying to parse the use of "student" for this, here is the answer. Cool!

New comment by petesoper in "Gordon Bell has died"

petesoper — Tue, 21 May 2024 23:45:13 +0000

Gordon was one of the founders of Encore Computer and my first encounter was in Mass at the point Hydra, Resolution, Foundation and the other component company acquisitions were melding together. I remember being gob smacked by Gordon having a little Vax as his PC and only later came the "well of course he does" realization. He was keen for us to get on to Arpanet and that happened before the end of 1984.

New comment by petesoper in "A floppy disk MIDI boombox: The Yamaha MDP-10"

petesoper — Sun, 19 May 2024 19:13:58 +0000

If you're in 2025 we have a few questions for you.

New comment by petesoper in "ENIAC programmer Jean Bartik's Amazon book review"

petesoper — Sun, 12 May 2024 13:30:17 +0000

Closing line was "I'm glad this book was written."

New comment by petesoper in "The cancer that some doctors don't want to call cancer"

petesoper — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 15:19:46 +0000

There is a solution for chronic cases like this: a manually operated valve that stands in for the sphincter. Some of the guys in my prostate cancer support group have described this as "life changing".

New comment by petesoper in "Hughes Elevates Rural America's Internet Experience with the New Hughesnet"

petesoper — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 21:19:00 +0000

These satellites are in geosynchronous orbits. The minimum latency of an interactive exchange with something on the internet is a major fraction of a second. One might think of something like ssh being almost perfectly unusable, and it is, but consider how much back and forth there is with web pages being rendered these days. Having lived with synchronous satellites for a couple years I'm here to tell you they absolutely stink for much beyond watching streamed content and downloading files. Something like Pi Hole to avoid wasting time with junk would be valuable in this setting and doubly so if Pi Hole's name server caches effectively. The basic principle involved with these services is statistical multiplexing with a constrained composite link speed. Translated, that means the more subscribers there are the less bandwidth during busy times. So although Hughes touts up to 100mbs down you won't see that unless you use the system when most are asleep. Finally, if this system is truly advanced it will support alternate ground stations. Without that you get the astonishing experience of blackouts when thunderstorms visit the ground station.

New comment by petesoper in "1-bit CPU for 'super low-performance computer' launched – sells out promptly"

petesoper — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 17:30:05 +0000

Because the term "central processing unit" has many connotations. This thing with the label is missing too many essential parts. It's like calling a box that slides down hill with enough incline a soap box derby car.

New comment by petesoper in "1-bit CPU for 'super low-performance computer' launched – sells out promptly"

petesoper — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 21:07:44 +0000

1-bit CPU? Bullshit.

New comment by petesoper in "Wasabi linked to "substantial" boost in memory, Japanese study finds"

petesoper — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 01:24:22 +0000

Scratch the price remark as I just caught up to the "99% is fake" data. Sigh.

New comment by petesoper in "Wasabi linked to "substantial" boost in memory, Japanese study finds"

petesoper — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 00:48:49 +0000

Real wasabi powder runs vaguely $5 an ounce. Wasabi is a different species than horseradish. The taste is quite different.

New comment by petesoper in "Wasabi linked to "substantial" boost in memory, Japanese study finds"

petesoper — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 23:53:58 +0000

The paper: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/15/21/4608

New comment by petesoper in "Ask HN: What paper/print magazine do you still buy and read?"

petesoper — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 23:56:35 +0000

I look forward to reading The New Yorker every week.