Hacker News: shrubble

New comment by shrubble in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

shrubble — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:11:36 +0000

What did they shut down? Aperture comes to mind, anything else?

New comment by shrubble in "Users unable to load ChatGPT, Codex and API Platform"

shrubble — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:55:06 +0000

I’m blaming DNS, unless proven otherwise

New comment by shrubble in "The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe"

shrubble — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:06:01 +0000

Adobe lost me when I got a deal on Lightroom, installed it, and edited an image.

Then I went to look at the image on my drive, and it wasn't there. LR had uploaded it and deleted it from my hard drive!

They broke faith with me with that action, I deleted LR and have never touched it since.

If you use Sony cameras, you should check out Capture One, which (last I tested) has a deft touch with Sony files.

New comment by shrubble in "Amazon is discontinuing Kindle for PC on June 30th"

shrubble — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:59:42 +0000

After Anthropic wholesale pirated millions of books, and got only a slap on the wrist and no jail time, and Meta did almost the same, I've decided that "Anna's" plus used physical books plus printed new books are the right combination.

New comment by shrubble in "The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood"

shrubble — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:46:49 +0000

I'll be generous and assume you don't read British news and are unaware of the existence of Rotherham.

There was just a big debate in Parliament over an inquiry into the subjects raised.

New comment by shrubble in "Tesla tells HW3 owner to 'be patient' after 7 years of waiting for FSD"

shrubble — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:50:43 +0000

I'm literally ready to pay cash for a Tesla, once they make one that doesn't have a steering wheel at all.

If I can't go to sleep lying down on the seat as a sole occupant, it's not yet self driving.

New comment by shrubble in "Ada, its design, and the language that built the languages"

shrubble — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:48:38 +0000

The first validated compiler for Ada that ran on the IBM PC was released in 1983.

The third validated compiler ran on the Western Digital “Pascal MicroEngine” running the UCSD p-system with 64K memory. The MicroEngine executed the byte code from the p-system natively, which was an interesting approach.

I think more research is warranted by you on this subject.

New comment by shrubble in "Ada, its design, and the language that built the languages"

shrubble — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:36:32 +0000

The GNU ADA compiler was first released in 1995: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNAT

New comment by shrubble in "The Mouse Programming Language on CP/M (2020)"

shrubble — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:41:05 +0000

Thanks for that recommendation! Checking the book out now.

New comment by shrubble in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

shrubble — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:49:32 +0000

I am aware of at least 2 telecoms, one publicly traded, that have very little to no IPv6 in their core networks and only use IPv6 when they have to.

Personally I think the design of IPv6 offers very little benefit; supposedly the Dept of Defense/Dept of War holds some 175 million IPv4 addresses, with other companies also holding large allocations - that should have been addressed 25-30 years ago as an administrative matter.

New comment by shrubble in "The Mouse Programming Language on CP/M (2020)"

shrubble — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:06:20 +0000

The author Peter Grogono is also the author of a well regarded book on Pascal https://archive.org/details/programminginpas00grog

New comment by shrubble in "40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal"

shrubble — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:58:43 +0000

There are people who for various ideological reasons hate beef.

If the market demands more chicken over beef, producers are perfectly capable of making a switch.

Cows are able to make delicious beef from grass and thistles; that they are often fed other things is not a proof that eating cows is bad.

New comment by shrubble in "Ransomware Is Growing Three Times Faster Than the Spending Meant to Stop It"

shrubble — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:34:46 +0000

I don't think there is a reasonable correlation, since stopping ransomware doesn't require that much of an increase in spending; it's a culture thing more than a money thing.

New comment by shrubble in "Show HN: Oberon System 3 runs natively on Raspberry Pi 3 (with ready SD card)"

shrubble — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:38:10 +0000

A picture of the running system is the first thing you see at the link.

On the screen is (readable to me at least) the first page of the paper "Oberon Language Report" showing N. Wirth as the author.

In the Introduction to the on-screen document it says, "Oberon is a general-purpose programming language that evolved from Modula-2."

New comment by shrubble in "An Interview with Pat Gelsinger"

shrubble — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:33:51 +0000

I always felt like they weren't properly paranoid in their decisions.

For instance, when the AI boom was heating up and they were shipping the ARC GPUs, they could have taken some business simply by making a 48GB or 64GB VRAM version.

There are some that are saying Panther Lake is a great CPU for laptops; will be a vindication of his 14A efforts if so.

New comment by shrubble in ""Negative" views of Broadcom driving VMware migrations, rival says"

shrubble — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:16:05 +0000

PepsiCo had been raising the prices on their snacks, including Doritos, far faster than their costs or the rate of inflation.

They "suddenly" realized that many less people were willing to pay $7 for a bag of Doritos and that they had priced their product higher than they should have.

There's a curve, not unlike the Laffer Curve, that applies to everything you are selling; something that Broadcom is learning (though their stock has had crazy high appreciation over the last number of years!)

New comment by shrubble in "NewTek Video Toaster Demo Reel"

shrubble — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:04:51 +0000

The Video Toaster had a simple setup in the days before digital - whatever you fed into Input 1 became the reference timing source and everything else got genlock'ed to it. This worked well enough for even TV broadcast needs, allowing public access and smaller TV stations to start using it.

NewTek Video Toaster Demo Reel

shrubble — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:04:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhQZmtHF98M

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47712739

Points: 14

# Comments: 3

New comment by shrubble in "Top laptops to use with FreeBSD"

shrubble — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:09:45 +0000

Between the RAM and the motherboard? Interesting, will try it.

New comment by shrubble in "Top laptops to use with FreeBSD"

shrubble — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:08:26 +0000

Every Raspberry Pi ships with a closed source OS, ThreadX, that boots Linux, BTW.