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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.

New comment by psim1 in "Gemini Said They Could Only Be Together If He Killed Himself. Soon, He Was Dead"

psim1 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:45:27 +0000

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/gemini-ai-wrongful-death-lawsuit... is the Gift Article link. This was what I submitted, but the query params got stripped.

Gemini Said They Could Only Be Together If He Killed Himself. Soon, He Was Dead

psim1 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:56:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/gemini-ai-wrongful-death-lawsuit-cc46c5f7

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47249381

Points: 53

# Comments: 61

New comment by psim1 in "Cell Service for the Fairly Paranoid"

psim1 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 02:02:45 +0000

Carriers both land/VoIP and wireless must attest to having fraud mitigation measures; this is the "Robocall Mitigation Database" and in Cape's record they exempt themselves from STIR/SHAKEN attestation but state they have measures to prevent fraudulent calling. (which is required for them to be permitted to operate)

What kind of measures are possible to prevent fraudulent calls when the caller is your anonymous customer? The answer is obviously "none," unless you respond to every complaint by terminating service of the offending customer and hoping they don't come back.

New comment by psim1 in "Claude Opus 4.6"

psim1 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:43:40 +0000

I need an agent to summarize the buzzwordjargonsynergistic word salad into something understandable.

Defining Moments in TV History

psim1 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:59:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/television/tv-history-usa-defining-moments-593edf50

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46722835

Points: 1

# Comments: 0