Hacker News: terinjokes

New comment by terinjokes in "Native ZFS VDEV for Object Storage (OpenZFS Summit)"

terinjokes — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:37:28 +0000

It doesn't look like the source has been released, nor any documentation outside this blog post and presentation. Is there a plan to open this up past what is used by MayaNAS and Zettalane's cloud offerings?

New comment by terinjokes in "Find a pub that needs you"

terinjokes — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 10:38:54 +0000

> the 9 digit US Zip+4 format where the extra 4 digits narrow location down to a block, part of a block or even a specific building.

A US Zip+4 usually identifies a specific delivery point. In some places this can mean it can even identify specific units within a building.

New comment by terinjokes in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

terinjokes — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 10:33:51 +0000

I had the 2010 version of this model, with the same symptoms starting in mid 2011. I would get 5-8 crashes a day from the GPU being on the fritz.

Apple ended up replacing the mainboard in a free out-of-AppleCare repair. I never had the problem again and I used the machine regularly until about 2018.

New comment by terinjokes in "Go.sum is not a lockfile"

terinjokes — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 14:47:52 +0000

A local cache of sums are also stored in (iirc) $GOCACHE, so even if you delete go.sum from the project, the local toolchain should still be able to verify module versions previously seen without needing to call out to the Sum DB.

Solar Slidewheel for Celestial Navigation

terinjokes — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 17:39:13 +0000

Article URL: https://trmm.net/sunwheel/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46435795

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by terinjokes in "Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks"

terinjokes — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 00:46:46 +0000

While it's true I don't see that version of Plato's complete works (in fact, I don't see any Hackett Publishing books), the book on AI[1] is available.

[1]: https://www.kobo.com/ww/en/ebook/if-anyone-builds-it-everyon...

New comment by terinjokes in "Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks"

terinjokes — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 16:42:22 +0000

And most of Europe, and the rest of the world, where the eBook is offered directly from Tor.

It looks like distribution in the UK, Australia and New Zealand (only?) is from the imprint Gollancz, who has decided to go with DRM versions.

New comment by terinjokes in "Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks"

terinjokes — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 16:28:58 +0000

If you want to be part of Kindle Unlimited you have to give worldwide exclusivity to Kindle Unlimited, and can't have ever published your eBook on another platform.

Even if I wanted to join, Kindle Unlimited is not offered here. I can't even buy the eBook from Amazon.

New comment by terinjokes in "Beets: The music geek’s media organizer"

terinjokes — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 23:49:19 +0000

I've been thinking about this recently too, mostly to figure out how to preserve indexes in tracks of "Murmurs of Earth"[0]. I think the FLAC embedded cuesheets could be used for this. While intended for CD-ready cuesheets embedded into one big FLAC, there's no reason they couldn't be used in individual files, with index 00 for pregaps.

I'm not sure it's well supported anywhere however. Maybe foobar2000?

Edit: I pulled up the RFC[1] for FLAC, and it seems like this is a use case they had in mind for the embedded cuesheet:

> A cuesheet metadata block can be used either [...] or to provide a mechanism to store locations of interest within a FLAC file.

[0]: https://www.discogs.com/release/6057232

[1]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9639.html#name-cuesheet

New comment by terinjokes in "Floppy Disk / Diskettes // retrocmp / retro computing"

terinjokes — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 13:19:44 +0000

I recently repaired an Apple II that were stored in a binder in an environment that wasn't climate controlled (for ~35 years). The 5.25" floppies had all developed a layer of stickiness, but all but one read fine once I cleaned up the drives.

New comment by terinjokes in "StageConnect: Behringer protocol is open source"

terinjokes — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 10:58:44 +0000

Yes, I only saw 3-pin XLR for DMX512, while being aware of 5-pin XLR as "correct". Everything from the lighting console, to dimmer packs and moving heads, to the aforementioned connection to house lights. This was 2009-2013. Maybe it was regional?

New comment by terinjokes in "StageConnect: Behringer protocol is open source"

terinjokes — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 09:30:56 +0000

I was a lighting designer for several years and in that time in don't think I ever saw a proper 5-pin DMX512 connector. Even in venues with millions in house lights, the connection backstage to the house was XLR.

New comment by terinjokes in "A computer upgrade shut down BART"

terinjokes — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 19:49:32 +0000

Depending on the year and day of the week it also involved a transfer at San Bruno.

Fortunately they've since reverted back to always running to Millbrae from the airport.

New comment by terinjokes in "My original Palm IIIx"

terinjokes — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 10:33:56 +0000

I remember the Zire 31 was marketed as an e-reader and came with "The Wizard of Oz" preloaded. I remember uploading "The Hacker Crackdown" to mine as it was available freely.

New comment by terinjokes in "Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down"

terinjokes — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 12:10:29 +0000

Many stations affiliated with the ABC network did, from 2001 to 2004, in primetime by airing "Saving Private Ryan" unedited for Veterans Day.

New comment by terinjokes in "Lieferando.de has captured 5.7% of restaurant related domain names"

terinjokes — Mon, 26 May 2025 13:39:58 +0000

Case in point: the sign outside the fast food establishment might say "Macca's" instead of "McDonald's", but I know little has changed otherwise.

New comment by terinjokes in "How to Get 600 EUR Flight Cancel Compensation"

terinjokes — Tue, 20 May 2025 09:14:53 +0000

My understanding is that in theory EU Regulation 261/2004 applies to bookings leaving the EU through to the final destination, including domestic connections in a non-EU country. For example, a United flight from Amsterdam to Dallas via Chicago, where a delay in Chicago resulted in a 3 hour delay in arriving in Dallas.

In practice I've never gotten an airline to agree.

New comment by terinjokes in "Apple Blocks Fortnite's Return to iOS App Store, Epic Claims"

terinjokes — Fri, 16 May 2025 11:45:55 +0000

This seems to be true for the Apple App Store, but doesn't explain the lack of notorizing the update for Epic's own EU storefront.

New comment by terinjokes in "SMS 2FA is not just insecure, it's also hostile to mountain people"

terinjokes — Wed, 14 May 2025 15:21:23 +0000

I could not use my Google Voice number (that I've had since Grand Central) for most companies that only do SMS 2FA until it became my Google Fi number. Then I guess some flag got set in the database they check against.

New comment by terinjokes in "Linux drops support for 486 and early Pentium CPUs: 20 years after Microsoft"

terinjokes — Wed, 14 May 2025 10:22:54 +0000

It was my first time installing NetBSD, but it only took a few minutes. Some bits I felt were worded a bit strange, particularly around partitioning. It seemed like one page was using CHS while others used LBA.

In any case, X worked reasonably well; 31 fps in glxgears with llvmpipe. Still a bit too slow for something like alacritty, but at least using herbstluftwm wasn't painful.