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Autopatch

psim1 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 22:17:30 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopatch

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49780665

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by psim1 in "The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021"

psim1 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:59:11 +0000

Jesus was a carpenter! More appropriate for New Yankee Workshop or This Old House.

New comment by psim1 in "The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021"

psim1 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:18:42 +0000

Perhaps they consider it some kind of perk that is not "paid for" by the donation. The receipt states "No goods or services were provided."

Or maybe they're lying, but I'm going with what the receipt says.

New comment by psim1 in "The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021"

psim1 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:38:14 +0000

One of the highest-value streaming subscriptions you can get is PBS Passport. You get it with a $60 donation to either a PBS TV or NPR radio station. The donation is tax-deductible and the PBS subscription is rich with high-quality content for both adults and children.

New comment by psim1 in "Being ambitious and being a dad"

psim1 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:08:06 +0000

I felt successful before I had kids. Satisfying, upward-moving career; happy marriage; lots of travel; volunteering in multiple organizations. I liked all these things, succeeded in them, people liked me, etc.

As a dad, I feel like a total loser. All of the aforementioned are diminished or put entirely on hold (travel, most volunteering). I'm medicore at everything, except parenting, in which I am successful at keeping my kids alive and safe and healthy, but not in satisfying their desires. In that I am totally inadequate.

I expected that I would have to put "my" life largely on hold when we had kids and instead of the satisfaction I got from the pre-kid things, would enjoy the satisfaction of raising happy children. To have neither is demoralizing and I'm constantly looking for the critical thing that will improve the child-raising experience. And no, waiting it out for the kids to grow up is not the answer!

New comment by psim1 in "Bttf is a command line datetime Swiss army knife"

psim1 — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:47:26 +0000

I think I would have instead changed the name to `marty`, who, in time, learned to think fourth-dimensionally.

New comment by psim1 in "Everything in C is undefined behavior"

psim1 — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:54:37 +0000

I like the ideas of this article but would not use SPARC as a main badguy in my examples. A naive and probably popular takeaway would be, "Thank goodness I am not writing for SPARC and don't need to worry about these SPARC architectural concerns!"

New comment by psim1 in "An Apple (II) for Teacher"

psim1 — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:37:59 +0000

I went through elementary and middle school using MECC software on Apple II, and of course had no idea at the time what a treasure it was. My generation was at the beginning of the computer-education revolution; we had "gamified" learning before that was ever a thing.

An Apple II on a wheeled desk-cart was always popular in elementary school.

New comment by psim1 in "Killed by Apple"

psim1 — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:05:44 +0000

Truly, the SE was a great phone. It was not really "rolled in" to future phone models; it just ended.

New comment by psim1 in "Setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10"

psim1 — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:10:56 +0000

Tangentially related, if anyone has Sun nostalgia but only a bit, find a Sun Type 6 USB keyboard on eBay and plug it in. Great keyboard for a Mac. Unfortunately, the left-hand function keys (Stop, Again, Props, etc.) do not emit any usable keycodes. But everything else works.

New comment by psim1 in "IBM Bob"

psim1 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:15:47 +0000

I agree, it looks like an IBM-mediocre version of every other LLM coding tool that currently exists.

New comment by psim1 in "IBM Bob"

psim1 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:52:21 +0000

Definitely not the grandson of Microsoft Bob.

IBM Bob

psim1 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:51:26 +0000

Article URL: https://bob.ibm.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47935450

Points: 4

# Comments: 4

New comment by psim1 in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

psim1 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:07:24 +0000

(Please don't downvote - serious question) Are Chinese models generally accepted for use within US companies? The company I work for won't allow Qwen.

New comment by psim1 in "LibreOffice – Let's put an end to the speculation"

psim1 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:54:59 +0000

LibreOffice almost seemed irrelevant; with cheap to free (*included) tools in abundance, such as MS Office, Google Workspace, Apple Pages/Numbers/Keynote, the need for LibreOffice is not what it once was, back when StarOffice and OpenOffice were liberating people from the tyranny of Microsoft.

Now it's worse than irrelevant, it's a liability.

Mystery jump in oil trading ahead of Trump post draws scrutiny

psim1 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:25:52 +0000

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-sp-5...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47504060

Points: 570

# Comments: 392

New comment by psim1 in "Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids"

psim1 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 01:03:48 +0000

Janky is directly proportional to cost. Grandstream are the jankiest and least expensive. I like the Cisco 191; it is a fine unit but costs about $100-120.

New comment by psim1 in "Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids"

psim1 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:07:39 +0000

For three or four endpoints all within the home, you could do this with just ATAs and not even need a SIP server. Many ATAs have a configurable "dial plan" that will let you map a number to an IP address, thus giving you the ability to call the other terminals directly within the LAN.

New comment by psim1 in "It feels like Claude goes down almost daily now"

psim1 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:04:12 +0000

Yeah, this was the confirmation I needed that it's "not just me."

New comment by psim1 in "The 49MB web page"

psim1 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 01:32:42 +0000

And this! https://www.mcmaster.com/help/api/ Linked from the footer of every page!

I'm so happy to have seen their web site that I want to do business with them, even though I have no business to be done.