Hacker News: spilk

New comment by spilk in "Show HN: Stock Performance of US Senators"

spilk — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 22:37:53 +0000

does this include former senators? Al Franken shows up in the search at the top.

New comment by spilk in "Show HN: Create a custom macOS app from a group of websites"

spilk — Fri, 22 May 2020 22:53:05 +0000

Sounds similar to the old Fluid website wrapper for MacOS X ( https://fluidapp.com/ )

New comment by spilk in "HPE sets end date for hobbyist licenses for OpenVMS"

spilk — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 18:08:11 +0000

yes, there is definitely a method to gen the paks.

New comment by spilk in "My Business Card Runs Linux"

spilk — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 15:54:15 +0000

you probably have cards in your wallet right now that run (a decidedly stripped down) version of Java.

New comment by spilk in "PIA: Our Merger with Kape Technologies – Addressing Your Concerns"

spilk — Sat, 23 Nov 2019 16:44:21 +0000

the /r/pfSense subreddit also has a bunch of Netgate staff as moderators

New comment by spilk in "Ohio bill would allow students to be scientifically wrong due to religion"

spilk — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 14:00:38 +0000

I like how this basically enshrines in law that religion is factually incorrect

New comment by spilk in "Pizza Hut’s First Website"

spilk — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 17:42:07 +0000

I remember the pizza ordering scene in The Net (1995) seemed very futuristic at the time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUSqX7B5DXs

New comment by spilk in "Show HN: See a Satellite Tonight. No Telescope Required"

spilk — Sat, 21 Sep 2019 22:45:02 +0000

The Moon and ISS are pretty easy to see almost everywhere.

New comment by spilk in "Cartridge Printed Circuit Boards"

spilk — Sun, 15 Sep 2019 16:01:44 +0000

how about MAME, which has a zip-based format containing raw ROM dumps, and the "CHD" format for disk/disc based media? obviously all of the metadata is still contained within MAME itself.

New comment by spilk in "Firefox Reality"

spilk — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 15:44:15 +0000

yeah, really. Why not put it on Steam?

New comment by spilk in "Preserving Laptop Stickers on MacBooks"

spilk — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 22:12:46 +0000

I've been doing this for years with easy-to-acquire clear protective films that are specifically cut for laptops.

New comment by spilk in "Craig Wright faces tough questions over forged documents in court"

spilk — Sat, 06 Jul 2019 20:12:19 +0000

especially when proving authorship of bitcoin would be a simple matter for the actual Satoshi - just sign a message with the same key as the recipient of the genesis block. He attempted to do this and failed in a stunningly obvious way.

New comment by spilk in "Lenovo BIOS Simulator"

spilk — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 16:25:34 +0000

I used to work phone support for Dell and we had tools similar to this to help troubleshoot over the phone without having access to the exact hardware the customer had.

New comment by spilk in "Vintage video game cartridges with built-in modems"

spilk — Sun, 30 Jun 2019 05:01:33 +0000

Similar, but not solely contained in a cartridge:

Nintendo Family Computer Network

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Computer_Network_System

and the Nintendo Satellaview which did things similar to the SEGA Channel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellaview

New comment by spilk in "Introduction to Nintendo 64 Programming (1999)"

spilk — Sun, 23 Jun 2019 05:51:54 +0000

It should given the N64's relationship to Silicon Graphics

New comment by spilk in "Apple announces redesigned Mac Pro"

spilk — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 22:13:46 +0000

Then you just have to absorb $199 for the VESA mount.

New comment by spilk in "Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users"

spilk — Thu, 30 May 2019 02:04:39 +0000

Also, Mozilla is largely dependent on Google via their default-search arrangement, so even if it's not Webkit/Blink based, Google still has significant influence.

New comment by spilk in "Impossible Foods Responds to Glyphosate Allegation"

spilk — Tue, 28 May 2019 19:06:49 +0000

This sounds like when that mommy blogger raised a completely misguided stink about "yoga mat chemical" being present in Subway bread.

New comment by spilk in "Pilotwings demos act differently depending on when the cartridge was made"

spilk — Sat, 11 May 2019 02:44:58 +0000

Twitter is the worst platform for long-form content like this.

New comment by spilk in "Nest, the company, died at Google I/O 2019"

spilk — Fri, 10 May 2019 16:54:28 +0000

It's like you're purposely describing the least useful application of smarthome devices.

Setting up geofence triggers, time/event-based triggers, etc. is the real power of smart devices. I have automations set up so if I arrive home when it's dark, lights in my house turn on automatically so I don't have to fumble for light switches. I have motion sensors so if I walk into rooms, the lights turn on automatically and then turn off after I leave. I can set up schedules to turn lights on and off while I'm not at home so my house looks occupied.

Also, with Apple Homekit, there is a control center widget so you just swipe up, tap home and your "favorite" devices are very quickly accessible from anywhere in the world.