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New comment by pvdebbe in "Factories are just rooms"

pvdebbe — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:28:28 +0000

I disabled quiet mode and I don't know what is revealed.

New comment by pvdebbe in "Immich 3.0"

pvdebbe — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:11:26 +0000

I have realized the same.

Only it is different 100 photos every year.

New comment by pvdebbe in "A native graphical shell for SSH"

pvdebbe — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 06:14:21 +0000

I had a linguist attend a CS class and he didn't know how to copy and paste.

New comment by pvdebbe in "Are you expected to run five Python type-checkers now?"

pvdebbe — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:49:51 +0000

Will you update the list for us, a month from now?

New comment by pvdebbe in "Unicode 18.0.0 Beta"

pvdebbe — Thu, 28 May 2026 10:38:58 +0000

UTFv6

New comment by pvdebbe in "The worst job interview I ever had"

pvdebbe — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:43:49 +0000

I remember a moment in an early job interview. My resumé was all proper for this entry level junior position and everything was checking out. We turned to smalltalk to round up the interview.

"What sort of music do you like?"

(What sorta ques... you don't just throw this in without a warning. ahh I'm blanking out. What was it that I listened to last night??)

"Uhhh Mike Oldfield is one..."

"Ohh... (pause) ewww. But we won't let this hinder your application heh heh"

"hee..."

I got the position and rose to senior rather quickly. I didn't have any interactions with this guy since after this one interview. Maybe for the best. He didn't mean bad, he was just a bit out of his element 2nd-seat interviewing for devs.

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

# Comments: 0

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.