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New comment by seanvk in "Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training"

seanvk — Tue, 26 May 2026 05:28:27 +0000

The Welsh language getting LLM training with Nemotron

https://www.bangor.ac.uk/news/2025-09-15-reaching-across-the...

New comment by seanvk in "Some novelists are becoming video game writers – and vice-versa"

seanvk — Sat, 10 May 2025 07:27:23 +0000

Surprised that there was a lack of mention of Peter F. Hamilton's "Exodus: The Archimedes Engine" - video game "Exodus"

https://www.exodusgame.com/en-US/news/agreement-with-random-...

New comment by seanvk in "Why is the plural form of "house" not "hice"? (2016)"

seanvk — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 06:10:08 +0000

Remind me of how in modern Irish, a prefixed t- appears before vowels in masculine nominative singular nouns. It relates to Proto-Celtic masculine nominative singular article *sindos. The t- is what remains of the d and s from Proto-Celtic: an t-athair - the father an t-úll - the apple an t-each - the horse an t-ospidéal - the hospital

New comment by seanvk in "My Youtube earnings"

seanvk — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 01:16:35 +0000

I follow a runner on YouTube who just posted his channel's earnings as well:

https://youtu.be/QfkUM4hBge8

New comment by seanvk in "Gen Z workers are not tech-savvy in the workplace – and it’s a growing problem"

seanvk — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 05:52:58 +0000

I've a 18 year old and a 20 year old. Both boys in college. Despite my being an electrical engineer and they're having grown up in an environment where I've always had computers and electronics of various kinds about, they really never took an interest. They are both education majors and are taking up my wife's calling in teaching. Which is great, but they really don't have a clue about technology beyond Xbox/PS5/iPhone.

New comment by seanvk in "Knock: Convert ACSM files to PDF/EPUBs with one command on Linux"

seanvk — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 07:16:03 +0000

Calibre has supported this for some time now. Calibre is also available on Linux.

New comment by seanvk in "Midwest Developer"

seanvk — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 03:24:38 +0000

Overland Park is a part of Johnson County, KS which has a part in the history of segregation in the greater Kansas City area. [0]

[0]: https://shawneemissionpost.com/2020/08/18/johnson-countys-re...

Colin Ian King relates why he left Canonical

seanvk — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 05:39:11 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/colinianking/status/1451189309843771395

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28975262

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by seanvk in "The effects of remote work on collaboration among information workers"

seanvk — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 21:11:31 +0000

I turned down a job offer in a principal engineering role at Microsoft because they were not allowing long term remote work.

New comment by seanvk in "PalmOS on Raspberry Pi"

seanvk — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 01:15:40 +0000

At Garmin, we ran PalmOS as a process on top of our RTOS. Fun times.

New comment by seanvk in "Great Vowel Shift"

seanvk — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 05:27:50 +0000

One interesting side effect of the Great Vowel Shift occurred when the word Uisce Beatha (Whisk(e)y) was anglicized twice. It was first brought in during the Elizabethan period from Ireland as "Whiskey" and later re-brought in as "Whisky" in Scotland. I've often wondered if that is the same reason behind surname anglicization of Ceallaigh to "Kelley" and later "Kelly".

New comment by seanvk in "USB 3.0* Radio Frequency Interference on 2.4 GHz Devices (2012)"

seanvk — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 18:55:07 +0000

I wonder if this can also interfere with Ant+?

New comment by seanvk in "I almost quit caffeine in one year"

seanvk — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 20:02:55 +0000

I drink 4 shots of espresso in a latte each morning. It calms me and helps me focus on my coding tasks as I sip it through the morning. I’ve never had issues stopping or from prolonged use. It’s a net benefit for me.

New comment by seanvk in "Sources: Google plans to eventually replace Duo with Meet"

seanvk — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 05:20:41 +0000

This is the way.

New comment by seanvk in "Alphabet in bid to buy Fitbit"

seanvk — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 17:29:29 +0000

My concern would stem from them attempting to replace the firmware with Android Wear. Because Android Wear is licenced they may feel pressure to use the same os so as not to upset licensees such that any improvements to AW on Fitbit gets shared. Or they may go the Nest route with custom firmware based on Fitbit. It will be interesting

New comment by seanvk in "Telling Whiskey from Whisky"

seanvk — Sat, 26 Oct 2019 23:00:29 +0000

The difference in spelling is due to the fact the word for Uisce Beatha was brought into the English language twice. Once from Irish Gaelic before the Great Vowel shift in English and a second time from Scots Gaelic after the shift.

New comment by seanvk in "Programmers: Before you turn 40, get a plan B (2009)"

seanvk — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 17:10:45 +0000

I'm 51, an electrical engineer who has migrated over time from ASIC design, to board design, to ASIC validation, to embedded software development, to team lead, development manager, back to IC as architect and enventually principal engineer for media, real-time software development. You shape your career. You make it happen. Find what you like, and go for it.

New comment by seanvk in "SerenityOS – a graphical Unix-like OS for x86, with 90s aesthetics"

seanvk — Wed, 22 May 2019 23:46:44 +0000

BeOS is another one that comes to mind.

New comment by seanvk in "Dank-selfhosted: automated deployment of email, web, DNS, XMPP, ZNC on OpenBSD"

seanvk — Sun, 04 Nov 2018 01:58:40 +0000

Hosted our family email server and Wordpress blog running OpenBSD on an Old World Mac using DynamiC DNS from home back in 2003. Specifically, I ranOpenBSD 3.4 on my G3 Blue & White with a Sonnet Tempo ATA 133 PCI Card. That was about 15 years ago. I was self-hosting. :-)

New comment by seanvk in "Why you should not use Google Cloud"

seanvk — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 07:00:19 +0000

I think it starts with ensuring that you have staff that actually review an action before it takes place. Relying on automation can be catastrophic for someone like OP.