<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: pstuart</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pstuart</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2026 07:07:36 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=pstuart" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pstuart in "All US airports are currently ground stopped"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I knew someone here would have my back ;-)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2026 03:08:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50503595</link><dc:creator>pstuart</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50503595</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50503595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pstuart in "Let's Write a PostScript Interpreter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This brings to mind Don Lancaster's articles on the power of PostScript.<p>His site is still available although he reached EOF a couple years ago: <a href="https://www.tinaja.com/pssamp1.shtml" rel="nofollow">https://www.tinaja.com/pssamp1.shtml</a><p>I had the Blue and Red books and spent time spelunking in PS but ADHD made staying with that impossible.</p>
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<p>Sure, but not gonna happen with the current admin. We'll see after 2028.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2026 01:08:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50502915</link><dc:creator>pstuart</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50502915</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50502915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pstuart in "What happened to 3Com?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I remember those days, with Computer Currents' "Year of the LAN" parody predictions repeated year after year. Macs with PhoneNET definitely made it easier and cheaper in the beginning.</p>
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<p>I guess some of their floppy drives must have given out.</p>
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<p>Even with patents, copyrights, etc as mentioned in a sibling comment, it would be interesting what he could do if he had a fresh start. There might have been ideas that challenged the existing business that he could be free to pursue.<p>He'd have no shortage of talent and funding to embark on such a venture.<p>The big question is once the dust settles (including a possible divorce), he'll still have billions of dollars and need a reason to get out of bed. Being that he's a famous workaholic, I imagine he will try something new after he's done licking his wounds.</p>
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<p>Makes perfect sense. I'm guessing the exo team helped make it happen.</p>
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<p>Also the cost of the bureaucracy is eliminated.</p>
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<p>Straight out of the world of Philip K Dick.</p>
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<p>Middle management should be nervous. Plenty of people whose job it is to ask "is it done yet? when can I have it?!" -- they could be replaced today with better tooling and processes.</p>
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<p>Or a pigeon pecking at a checkerboard with randomly scattered bird feed.<p>On a serious note: all the heat and light is about AI for automating coding tasks, but a significant amount of management is just theater about deliverables. So much of that could be replaced by better product delivery pipelines that can accurately generate the "when can I expect this release?" without a layer of management that considers sitting in zoom calls all day work.<p>But maybe I'm just a little bit too jaded.</p>
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<p>Ironically, they kind of tried with New Math. Not SQL specific but the foundations of what it represents. I caught the tail end of it but it's been so long I have no memories of what I was actually taught at the time.</p>
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<p>I get the "cruelty was the point" angle -- it's absolutely part of that equation. But a <i>lot</i> of those voters were voting out of anger and feeling abandoned and unserved by the government. Ignoring the aforementioned ugly parts -- Trump made a play at populism (albeit all lies) to an electorate hungry for change.<p>Bear in mind that Harris was playing the "the economy is fine!" angle, which it technically was as far as GDP and the stock markets. But that ignored the fact that for millions it was not so great.<p>My point about "not enough people showed up to vote" as aimed at the youth vote who is apathetic about such things, and more importantly, a lot of crucial voters who were angry about the situation in Gaza. The irony on that last point is that Harris was absolutely the lesser of two evils in that regard.<p>I think a majority of voters vote based on their emotions, how their parents voted, or a specific manner of "what's in it for me". I have tempered faith in the electorate as a whole.</p>
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<p>Wouldn't the ability of a model to edit and refine the weights of another model count as <i>part</i> of the recursion if that can span any model?<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50355251">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50355251</a></p>
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<p>Apparently faxing is the preferred medium of exchange in the medical field.<p>One would think that some sort of common EDI would have come around by now.</p>
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<p>Many of us did not want this -- it was a failure of democracy: not enough people showed up to vote and many who voted were poorly informed.</p>
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<p>And it's in Go which makes for the better app experience.</p>
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<p>That's being too kind. He intentionally slow-walked it. J6 was an attempted insurrection and there was no doubt about it.</p>
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<p>Technology is now political by its use and should be discussed in a "impact on society" context rather than partisan bickering.</p>
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<p>Good point. Hard to know -- there's plenty of people in this forum who are just fine with the way things are, politically that is.</p>
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