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New comment by pvdebbe in "MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble"

pvdebbe — Thu, 14 May 2026 09:27:41 +0000

GP expressly said the wife does not code: she uses claude.

New comment by pvdebbe in "xkcd: Well 2"

pvdebbe — Wed, 13 May 2026 06:53:45 +0000

What was the original publication date for this strip #568?

Side-stepping the Secretary Problem, unwittingly

pvdebbe — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:58:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.evalapply.org/posts/side-step-secretary-problem-hiring/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47889024

Points: 1

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New comment by pvdebbe in "We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code"

pvdebbe — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:36:24 +0000

Also contrast with the busy beaver problem and how much can be done with a small handful of instructions.

New comment by pvdebbe in "Electron microscopy shows ‘mouse bite’ defects in semiconductors"

pvdebbe — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:35:25 +0000

Timepieces are a classic example of this.

New comment by pvdebbe in "Changes to OpenTTD Distribution on Steam"

pvdebbe — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 01:47:46 +0000

I really want somebody to mod this into OpenTTD because cargodist was a good step and a nice approximation for a time, it's no match to the "destination in mind" pax. I'm reduced to play commercial offerings like Transport Fever 2. But as far as I know, it would be a considerable undertaking.

Elsewhere in the thread chain:

>[OpenTTD has bad UI]

Hmm, really? It's cluttered with windows and options but I think the mechanics of windows popping and quick dismissing works out for this kind of a game really well. It scales across #n of monitors so well. I run mine on a 43" 4K television panel, no scaling, and I get all my screen estate I need. Works out so swimmingly.

New comment by pvdebbe in "The MacBook Neo"

pvdebbe — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 02:00:23 +0000

Tell me what happens if you run a Windows machine for say 12 months and decide to switch the GPU from NVIDIA to AMD (or vice versa)? Yeah.

In linux it tends to be a nonissue.

New comment by pvdebbe in "Windows: Microsoft broke the only thing that mattered"

pvdebbe — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 06:13:53 +0000

Apple's hardware is their killer business.

New comment by pvdebbe in "Eschewing Zshell for Emacs Shell (2014)"

pvdebbe — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 10:18:56 +0000

The biggest strength of Eshell, for me, is that I can maintain some sanity in Windows environments (with or without WSL). In linuxland, it's a tougher sell. Compared to term-mode and the others, Eshell hacks better and I can fine tune my tab completions. The best thing is that my keybinds integrate better across all emacs modes when I use eshell.

New comment by pvdebbe in "Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown"

pvdebbe — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:33:25 +0000

Notepad going the way of Wordpad, EDIT.COM becoming the new Notepad.

What's next, in a few years we're rocking EDLIN when we need to operate on a text file safely?

Eschewing Zshell for Emacs Shell (2014)

pvdebbe — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:04:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/eshell-fun.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47136612

Points: 45

# Comments: 24

New comment by pvdebbe in "I’m joining OpenAI"

pvdebbe — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 07:33:10 +0000

It ain't extinct shit if it can't even drive the car to have it washed.

New comment by pvdebbe in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"

pvdebbe — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 06:37:14 +0000

Common fonts are gigabyte downloads these days thanks to emoji support.

New comment by pvdebbe in "Show HN: Subth.ink – write something and see how many others wrote the same"

pvdebbe — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 20:46:20 +0000

I love this. Shouting into the void with the distinct feel, hope that if the idea was popular enough, it'd be brute forced back to existing.

I noticed that the input is not being treated any way before hashing. I'd remove all non-letter characters, and then lowercase everything before hashing to help with some unnecessary misses.

New comment by pvdebbe in "Still using Firefox – but not because of its vision"

pvdebbe — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 09:22:00 +0000

I'm still using Firefox and loving it actually. Other browser engines don't support "zoom text only" anymore so my options are limited. And to my knowledge, there's nothing as good as uBlock Origin for those webkit/blink based browsers...

Yes, Firefox constantly introduces new degradation in UX but so far they always offer opt-out mechanisms for even the most obscure things...

New comment by pvdebbe in "Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings"

pvdebbe — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 09:12:39 +0000

>just like Scorsese intended.

>before Scorsese made The Godfather

Can you let me in on the joke?

New comment by pvdebbe in "Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings"

pvdebbe — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 09:09:35 +0000

I don't know what kind of a joke you tried here, but I think a vast majority of TV screens can be put in game or PC mode, and all the input lag and stupid picture processing goes away. I run a 43" LG 4K TV as a PC monitor and never have I had a (flat screen) monitor with a faster response rate! My cinema TV is an old FullHD 42" Philips that has laughably bad black levels. I run it also in PC mode but the real beauty of this TV is that without further picture processing it produces nice and cinemalike flat color that is true to the input material that I feed it. Flashy capeshit will be flashy and bright, and a muted period drama will stay muted.

New comment by pvdebbe in "Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system"

pvdebbe — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 11:15:31 +0000

Fantastic tools you've collected here! My rationale for building own decks for my wife is that I'm intending to start slow and easy, and I'll build new cards that are closely tied to days' lessons I'm giving her. I'm hopeful that after a while she gains confidence to start going through premade decks. With anki and similar tools it's important not to just memorize words without having some handle on how to build sentences etc. I spent a lot of time learning Japanese that way, only to find that I maybe memorized words but to build sentences with them...

New comment by pvdebbe in "Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system"

pvdebbe — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 07:46:25 +0000

Don't you just put tick "know this already" or whatever mechanism is used. It'll be asked a couple of times but it shouldn't be "relearned from scratch".

New comment by pvdebbe in "Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system"

pvdebbe — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 07:43:57 +0000

Perfect timing. I just started to teach my wife Finnish so that she'll have easier time with real language lessons when she gets her paperwork sorted out to move here. And I've feverishly been looking for a self-hosted SRS system where I can feed new content to the "decks" and she can consume it on her schedule. Making micro decks that she'd import in Anki wouldn't be very convenient. This would seem perfect to me.

I'm happy to hear other suggestions too?