Hacker News: podunkPDX

New comment by podunkPDX in "Trump Mobile exposed customers' personal data"

podunkPDX — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:00:47 +0000

> I'm weird enough to have a keyboard shortcut to type it on my phone)

I'm not the only one‽

New comment by podunkPDX in "We do not break userspace (2012)"

podunkPDX — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 03:22:05 +0000

My best mentors in the tech field (software QA, sysadmin) have almost all been women.

New comment by podunkPDX in "The Fall of Roam (2022)"

podunkPDX — Mon, 19 May 2025 02:28:24 +0000

My strategy of dumping various notes in a semicoherently-named directory tree and then grepping through them makes me feel like a caveman, but it works for me. I feel that tools like this are overcomplicating things.

New comment by podunkPDX in "Coffee for people who don't like coffee"

podunkPDX — Wed, 14 May 2025 03:26:48 +0000

A few years back I discovered that the Ethiopian run minimart up the street sells unroasted coffee beans, $6/lb.

I bought a pound and followed the proprietor’s advice, roasting small quantities in a cast iron pan on medium high and agitating/stirring until it looked right.

This was too labor intensive to be sustainable (40m for about 100g), but the end result was breathtaking. Immediately bought a roaster from Sweet Maria’s and haven’t looked back.

I’m in the Pacific Northwest and we are spoiled for choice with artisanal roasters and coffee shops alike, but mine still tastes better since I roasted it yesterday.

New comment by podunkPDX in "A tail calling interpreter for Python (already landed in CPython)"

podunkPDX — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 06:19:34 +0000

> You won’t be writing a 3D FPS game engine in Python

While Eve Online isn’t an FPS, it is an MMORPG written in stackless Python, and seems to be doing OK.

New comment by podunkPDX in "Firing programmers for AI is a mistake"

podunkPDX — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 07:54:19 +0000

These AI tools are also not good at answering PagerDuty to fix a production problem that is a result of the code they imagined.

New comment by podunkPDX in "Should we use AI and LLMs for Christian apologetics? (2024)"

podunkPDX — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 07:55:32 +0000

Uh… no?

I replicate my community where I find it. Some of it is at a brunch spot I go to regularly. Some of it is a bar that I frequent. Some of it is in annual activities with my neighbors.

I don’t need to believe in a made up Sky Daddy to be a good person, I have plenty of examples in my communities.

New comment by podunkPDX in "We spent $20 to achieve RCE and accidentally became the admins of .mobi"

podunkPDX — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 17:50:16 +0000

PHP: an attack surface with a side effect of hosting blogs.

New comment by podunkPDX in "For the Colonel, It Was Finger-Lickin’ Bad (1976)"

podunkPDX — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 17:57:34 +0000

The McDonalds in Rome near Termini had an amazing desert bar!

New comment by podunkPDX in "IBDNS: Intentionally Broken DNS server"

podunkPDX — Thu, 30 May 2024 09:01:24 +0000

I have! BIND 9.11.x, as pairs of caching recursive resolvers advertised over BGP. We have a pair in every data center (12 dcs at last count) Each with one of two IPs (anycasting). Every time I get hit up for a “problem” with this it turns out the problem is with an authoritative AD server. I really love it as it’s been in place for almost four years and it has never been the source of any problems.

New comment by podunkPDX in "I was at the clapperboard for Orson Welles' drunk wine commercial (2021)"

podunkPDX — Sat, 11 May 2024 02:29:06 +0000

They also stream on their PBS app, and if you donate to your local affiliate you can unlock access to most (all?) of their content.

https://www.pbs.org/explore/passport/

New comment by podunkPDX in "Twitter is now blocking Matt Taibbi from search results"

podunkPDX — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 17:09:03 +0000

Apparently those businesses have positions that could be charitably called “Elon handlers,” to keep him from doing to them what he has done to Twitter.

New comment by podunkPDX in "Midjourney v5 can do hands"

podunkPDX — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 04:04:03 +0000

Tell me when meta can do legs.

#tooSoon

New comment by podunkPDX in "Ask HN: What Next After Ubuntu?"

podunkPDX — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 05:32:54 +0000

Please post links, I’ve never truly understood the systemd/init conflict, unlike the emacs/vim conflict.

I’d like to learn more!

New comment by podunkPDX in "Sergey Brin: Irate Call from Steve Jobs"

podunkPDX — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 06:43:36 +0000

Damn, do I enjoy ediscovery.

New comment by podunkPDX in "Ask HN: Why aren't there DSLs for Operating Systems? (Or are there?)"

podunkPDX — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 18:37:14 +0000

I’m presuming Domain Specific Language, as the context refers to a “target domain.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-specific_language

New comment by podunkPDX in "Ask HN: What is the thing you've built that you regret the most?"

podunkPDX — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 06:45:01 +0000

I know a life of typing has led me to this sorry fate, and yet, I blame autocarrot.

New comment by podunkPDX in "Words2Emoji"

podunkPDX — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 05:02:53 +0000

‘Sailor’ seems to have confused it, no results, just infinite(?) progress spinner.

New comment by podunkPDX in "Why I built a dictionary app"

podunkPDX — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 03:34:48 +0000

http://etymonline.com, maybe?

New comment by podunkPDX in "Google CEO tells employees productivity and focus must improve"

podunkPDX — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 03:16:33 +0000

The meetings will continue until morale improves.