Hacker News: schlauerfox

New comment by schlauerfox in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

schlauerfox — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:24:25 +0000

"For fiscal 2025, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella earned total pay of $96.5 million, up 22% from a year earlier." -CNBC.com

and

"I also see I have 2 instances of Outlook, and neither of those are working." -Artemis II astronaut

New comment by schlauerfox in "The Los Angeles Aqueduct Is Wild"

schlauerfox — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:39:18 +0000

We're literally right now building a huge high speed rail project that is planned to link san diego to san francisco through LA, bakersfield and fresno. Progress is made on it daily. https://www.youtube.com/CAHighSpeedRail

New comment by schlauerfox in "Lost Doctor Who episodes found"

schlauerfox — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:22:00 +0000

If you have something precious on home movie film, this lab in Burbank, CA that does a lot of the movies will have sometimes deals on film transfers for holidays, or you can call them for a quote. No relationship, but I did have some done and they were very good. https://www.pro8mm.com/

New comment by schlauerfox in "The stagnancy of publishing and the disappearance of the midlist"

schlauerfox — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:30:03 +0000

It's a community called "Little Free Library" or imitators. they're all over my nighboorhood. https://littlefreelibrary.org/

New comment by schlauerfox in "Art Bits from HyperCard"

schlauerfox — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 23:34:20 +0000

now I need an emoji font in this 90s style of those 'small treasures'

New comment by schlauerfox in "Ask HN: How many of you hold an amateur radio license in your country?"

schlauerfox — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:47:58 +0000

Yes, but it's doxxing to post a callsign with a US license. Hello!

New comment by schlauerfox in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

schlauerfox — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:17:54 +0000

https://www.bls.gov/k12/teachers/posters/pdf/how-bls-collect... This says statistics, i've seen unsourced articles saying that they pull Unemployment Insurance numbers as part of it which are part of the payroll process, but BLS seems to say sampling and surveys.

New comment by schlauerfox in "No right to relicense this project"

schlauerfox — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:32:30 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput... Specifically he claimed he owned the copyright on a photo he didn't directly take. PETA weighed in trying to say the monkey owned the copyright.

New comment by schlauerfox in "C64: Putting Sprite Multiplexing to Work"

schlauerfox — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:17:10 +0000

I'm ignorant of most C64 stuff being an Atari kid, but I did find this pretty impressive (it's a cheat) with seemingly 9 sprites at once. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws4twUyt-MY

New comment by schlauerfox in "SCOTUS declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material"

schlauerfox — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:45:48 +0000

Hopefully.

New comment by schlauerfox in "NASA uses Mars Helicopter's SoC for rover navigation upgrade"

schlauerfox — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:34:44 +0000

Not that you are casting shade, but to clarify in defense of a former professor of mine who worked on the FPGA avionics at Nasa Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the helicopter was designed for 5 test flights, and completed 72 before the rotor damage. https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-2020-perseverance/inge...

New comment by schlauerfox in "Synthesizer Cartridge for the Atari 2600"

schlauerfox — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 22:04:24 +0000

Here is a gift to you, I found this on the Internet Archive. it's a cassette dramataziation of Asteroids and Yar's Revenge. I'm not sure how many other people on earth would care fellow Atari-knower, but it's a wonderful little time capsule. https://archive.org/details/AtariSciFiAdventuresInSound

New comment by schlauerfox in "Communities are not fungible"

schlauerfox — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:40:03 +0000

"Free" in English has more than one meaning. this has led to an attempt to be more clear by using 'libre' or 'gratis' loanwords to differentiate (see libreoffice, liberachat), but this isn't universally accepted.

New comment by schlauerfox in ""Anyone else out there vibe circuit-building?""

schlauerfox — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 20:20:06 +0000

Smoke Emitting Choke?

New comment by schlauerfox in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)"

schlauerfox — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:08:01 +0000

I really enjoyed this game when I played it at Ground Kontrol in 2015 and Two-Bit Circus in 2019(?). Neat data project. I'm kinda surprised they don't add something like Stern Insider app or swipe cards to it, but it's very 80s arcadey.

New comment by schlauerfox in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)"

schlauerfox — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 23:53:35 +0000

Sounds simpler than this thing https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16d...

New comment by schlauerfox in "US will overhaul childhood vaccine schedule to recommend fewer shots"

schlauerfox — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 22:34:47 +0000

You are not correct according to Reuters. "The new schedule also recommends U.S. children receive a single dose of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, rather than a two-dose course. Recent studies have concluded that a single dose is not inferior to the longer course and noted the World Health Organization also backs a single dose schedule." https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...

New comment by schlauerfox in "Linux is good now"

schlauerfox — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:01:24 +0000

Another reference, first hand account, for the later SEGA perspective. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Console_Wars_(book)

New comment by schlauerfox in "Linux is good now"

schlauerfox — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 16:59:52 +0000

This apparently is something that came about after the Atari days where games were social activities in bars and home console advertising features boys and girls. When the NES came out, it was marketed in the US as a toy so had to mold itself to the retail store layouts and pick a toy aisle and they picked boys. In the mobile era and perhaps as early as The Sims beating MYST as the bestselling game, started to develop a more balanced marketing approach.

New comment by schlauerfox in "Waymo halts service during S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams"

schlauerfox — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 23:17:31 +0000

I was in hollywood, california last night and saw a waymo come to a weird 5 way intersection, stop past the limit line on a red light in or past the crosswalk at the right turn lane and go into it's sign active attract mode. I think they have some more development to do, and don't recommend using such poorly performing software.