Hacker News: tejtm

New comment by tejtm in "Uncharted island soon to appear on nautical charts"

tejtm — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:06:08 +0000

With ice off they may rebound (up) nigh perceptibly

New comment by tejtm in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

tejtm — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:48:40 +0000

that would translate to three townees for janitors the rest would be durn furiners from away *

* further down east than Lewiston but, there was a time I was the damm foreigner from the big city.

New comment by tejtm in "iNaturalist"

tejtm — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:47:44 +0000

birdnet pi or go run the model locally with an option to push observations back to Cornell

https://www.birdweather.com/birdnetpi

https://github.com/tphakala/birdnet-go

New comment by tejtm in "Android Developer Verification"

tejtm — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:54:47 +0000

valid.

n.b. "you" were not considered in my statement save as an agent.

New comment by tejtm in "Android Developer Verification"

tejtm — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 01:34:33 +0000

Please call it what it is and always has been:

   I.N.S.T.A.L.L.I.N.G   S.O.F.T.W.A.R.E

"side load" is like "jay walking' seeks to stigmatize humans being human.

New comment by tejtm in "purl: a curl-esque CLI for making HTTP requests that require payment"

tejtm — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 09:22:25 +0000

  purl: persistent uniform resource locator  (at least since 1995)

[] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_uniform_resource_lo...

New comment by tejtm in "Willingness to look stupid"

tejtm — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:58:07 +0000

Over half a century later it still rings clear as a bell ...

    He who writes on bathroom walls
    rolls their shit in little balls.

    He who reads these lines of whit
    eats these little balls of shit.

New comment by tejtm in "Raspberry Pi Pico as AM Radio Transmitter"

tejtm — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:03:48 +0000

  "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet"  -- Bill

New comment by tejtm in "Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?"

tejtm — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:42:15 +0000

plugging Osh Park as a non overseas PCB alternative (no affiliation)

[0] https://oshpark.com/

New comment by tejtm in "Raspberry Pi Pico 2 at 873.5MHz with 3.05V Core Abuse"

tejtm — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:22:58 +0000

As we become acclimated to non deterministic responses from computers it may not even matter if some of that comes from the hardware.

Eventually it will be seen as a feature.

New comment by tejtm in "A flawed paper in management science has been cited more than 6k times"

tejtm — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 20:53:06 +0000

It has been a viable strategy at least since Taylor 1911

New comment by tejtm in "The recurring dream of replacing developers"

tejtm — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 20:01:16 +0000

Pre industrial revolution something like 80+ percent of the population was involved in agriculture. I question the assertion of more farmers now especially since an ever growing percentage of farms are not even owned by corporeal entities never mind actual farmers.

ooohhh I think I missed the intent of the statement... well done!

New comment by tejtm in "The Dilbert Afterlife"

tejtm — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 18:45:12 +0000

from how to be a plumber --

  Shit flows downhill, payday is on Friday.

New comment by tejtm in "Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?"

tejtm — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 06:42:56 +0000

replaced the broken spring on an ABANA style treadle hammer.

breaking it in the first place was more fun

New comment by tejtm in "The virtual AmigaOS runtime (a.k.a. Wine for Amiga:)"

tejtm — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:13:52 +0000

just carry the one back

New comment by tejtm in "The virtual AmigaOS runtime (a.k.a. Wine for Amiga:)"

tejtm — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 04:50:02 +0000

just checked and AmiNet is still up!

https://www.aminet.net/

maybe start your searching there

New comment by tejtm in "There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout"

tejtm — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 01:48:44 +0000

Those interstate highways are starting to look pretty good as the fuel guage drops

New comment by tejtm in "Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves"

tejtm — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 03:21:59 +0000

  no questions asked  
  go eat yourself now   
  or at least your own dog food

New comment by tejtm in "Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves"

tejtm — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 23:13:49 +0000

flock is a YC startup

We have met the enemy and he is us -Pogo

New comment by tejtm in "The tiniest yet real telescope I've built"

tejtm — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 10:08:33 +0000

This coming year ... if the crik don't rise (as it does with some regularity). Some of you may be able to take a picture of yourself with one of Ril ter Horst lenses as it will be launched in a 2U cubesat named OreSat1 by Oregon's Portland State University undergrads.

https://www.oresat.org/home

pictures would be captured by hand held groundstations

https://www.oresat.org/technologies/ground-stations