Hacker News: tejtm

New comment by tejtm in "My Students Can't Read"

tejtm — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:20:05 +0000

If an employer really valued the credential, they would supply it.

New comment by tejtm in "Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording""

tejtm — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:29:18 +0000

the classic

    "Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison. You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don’t anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn - you stick your hand in there and it’ll chop it off, the end. You don’t think "oh, the lawnmower hates me" – lawnmower doesn’t give a shit about you, lawnmower can’t hate you. Don’t anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don’t fall into that trap about Oracle."

— Bryan Cantrill

at about 34-39 minutes in:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2308s]

New comment by tejtm in "Why Janet? (2023)"

tejtm — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:40:38 +0000

We absolutely order more likely / preferred options before other options. Codifying that as a short circuit optimization is a feature.

New comment by tejtm in "Wi-Wi is wireless time sync at 1 nanosecond"

tejtm — Sat, 23 May 2026 18:38:19 +0000

approximately, with assumptions.

Assuming ISM band in the US.

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

New comment by tejtm in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

tejtm — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:25:43 +0000

Benny.

New comment by tejtm in "Can You Find the Comet?"

tejtm — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:07:08 +0000

Exposure time (in digital imaging) is directly related to sensor well saturation.

It does not mater how much water you pour into a full bucket.

New comment by tejtm in "College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work"

tejtm — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 21:38:44 +0000

arms race....

oh look there is a llm trained on key loggers to spew slop at your personally predicted error rate; bonus if it identifies to USB as keyboard.

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.