Hacker News: stooarthttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stooartHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 04 May 2026 00:35:59 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by stooart in "SFO Quiet Airport (2025)"]]>Oh really? Why pretend, we both know perfectly well what this is about. You want me to have an abortion.

]]>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:03:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47895789stooarthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47895789https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47895789<![CDATA[New comment by stooart in "SFO Quiet Airport (2025)"]]>The red zone is for loading and unloading only. There is no stopping in the white zone.

]]>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:02:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47895104stooarthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47895104https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47895104<![CDATA[New comment by stooart in "A Fresh Look at IBM 3270 Information Display System"]]>IBM's CICS has web support https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cics-ts/5.6.0?topic=fundamentals...

It does turn out that 3270 streams and web forms are similar. Transmit a form, wait for the user to fill in the fields on the form, then receive the fields when the user submits it. It is how a mainframe in the 1970s/80s can support 100s of terminals, despite being small by modern standards.

]]>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 02:10:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46930636stooarthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46930636https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46930636<![CDATA[New comment by stooart in "UK House of Lords attempting to ban use of VPNs by anyone under 16"]]>The Daily Mail is definitely tabloid, although some might describe it as a comic. There are reasons why Wikipedia doesn't allow it as a source.

]]>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 22:45:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46238384stooarthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46238384https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46238384<![CDATA[New comment by stooart in "Fred Fish"]]>I met a couple of people who knew him - he was a genuinely much loved man. I collected a few Fish disks over the years that opened up a broad world of computing to me, long before I had internet access. Raytracing, C programming, 3D graphics, database - just so many toys!

]]>Thu, 17 Aug 2023 23:04:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37169432stooarthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37169432https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37169432<![CDATA[New comment by stooart in "BOE Chief Economist Says Britons ‘Need to Accept’ They’re Worse Off"]]>Unfortunately with first-past-the-post, and the likes of Murdoch and Rothermere owning our media, democracy is not functioning at all well.

]]>Wed, 26 Apr 2023 23:19:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35721268stooarthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35721268https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35721268<![CDATA[New comment by stooart in "Particle Physicists Continue to Make Empty Promises"]]>CERN isn't an EU organisation - it is funded by its 23 member states, and collaborates very closely with its other observers.

]]>Fri, 23 Oct 2020 21:16:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24874275stooarthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24874275https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24874275