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New comment by thinkyfish in "Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived"

thinkyfish — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:56:47 +0000

If your into C++, there is U++ (Ultimate++), which is a fully featured RAD ide equivalent to Lazarus with the fastest compiler I've seen. It compiles to Win/Mac/Linux/BSD.

New comment by thinkyfish in "I fixed Windows native development"

thinkyfish — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:12:08 +0000

Guix and Nix can do that. They were built from the ground up to be able to have multiple, simultaneous versions of everything installed in separate store, and you can request on a per shell basis what you want in your environment.

New comment by thinkyfish in "Science Communications on YouTube"

thinkyfish — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 20:44:04 +0000

An who can forget Lord Nice!

New comment by thinkyfish in "Show HN: Visual flow-based programming for Erlang, inspired by Node-RED"

thinkyfish — Fri, 16 May 2025 15:25:20 +0000

I was just thinking of making something like this last night but using FLENG instead of Erlang ;) I'm really glad more people are taking inspiration from Node-RED, I will definitely be playing with this!

New comment by thinkyfish in "Station of despair: What to do if you get stuck at end of Tokyo Chuo Rapid Line"

thinkyfish — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 01:25:29 +0000

Lingering colonial attitudes. America, for the longest time was the "exploited space" for Europe and much like India, carries this beaten in attitude that "this is not the nice place". You can find nice places like this but you have to go to the richest enclaves to find it. Japan is its own "nice place".

New comment by thinkyfish in "OpenAI just put the final nail in the coffin of the open World Wide Web"

thinkyfish — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 02:18:28 +0000

And then when you find out they didn't give you the best deal, you got the sponsored pick? And you didn't even get to comparison shop? The AI tax is coming for your choices, one purchase at a time.

New comment by thinkyfish in "Laser mapping reveals oldest Amazonian cities, built 2500 years ago (2024)"

thinkyfish — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 17:34:31 +0000

You should check out the Miniminuteman series on ancient apocalypse, its pretty interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iCIZQX9i1A

New comment by thinkyfish in "U.S. appeals court strikes down FCC's net neutrality rules"

thinkyfish — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 00:40:52 +0000

"conservative administrations tend to favor cutting regulations"- citation needed. They favor looking like they do, but end up putting in punitive regulations that only the large entrenched, conservative owned companies can afford to comply with, stifling competition from below.

New comment by thinkyfish in "Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment?"

thinkyfish — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 20:00:15 +0000

I've witnessed the answer personally. Indian immigrants working physically in US call centers.

New comment by thinkyfish in "Gitlab names Bill Staples as new CEO"

thinkyfish — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 01:34:39 +0000

Forgejo jumps to mind.

New comment by thinkyfish in "A Return to Blu-ray as Streaming Value Evaporates"

thinkyfish — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 22:21:53 +0000

Why do we tolerate this? Shouldn't there be consumer protections that say that if you don't use the service, you shouldn't have to pay for that month? Where do we get our refunds?

New comment by thinkyfish in "Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork"

thinkyfish — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 04:50:47 +0000

How about EngineF?

New comment by thinkyfish in "Right to Repair: The Price Is Not Right"

thinkyfish — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 02:19:18 +0000

Some plastics melt at a certain temperature (thermoplastics like PETG/PLA) and others don't (thermosets like resin/epoxy). Its possible you just attempted to melt the type that just burns when you heat it.

New comment by thinkyfish in "VMware is now part of Broadcom"

thinkyfish — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 02:50:46 +0000

The tooling is really mature. Amazon used xen for ages. kvm wins for hardware passthrough and performance, but if your willing to sacrifice a little performance the advanced admin features are competitive.

New comment by thinkyfish in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2023)"

thinkyfish — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 02:13:44 +0000

Location: Frederick, MD

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: not possible

Technologies: Javascript, Python, C, C++, PostgreSQL, Linux, Google Script, Svelte, Scheme

Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tristan-maccrehan-321219186

Email: tristanmaccrehan@gmail.com

I have a couple years experience so I'm looking for an entry level position, ideally joining a team. I can learn anything you need. Full remote only.

New comment by thinkyfish in "When photography “produces something other than photographs”"

thinkyfish — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 11:55:01 +0000

You bring up an interesting point, not all modern art is directed at anyone other than the artist themselves. Its less likely in that framework that a particular artist just happens to create art that most people would also like and create a name for themselves and there are fewer trying to show off an absurd quantity of craftsmanship in a single work.

New comment by thinkyfish in "Ask HN: Dealing with ADHD Without Medication?"

thinkyfish — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 19:53:53 +0000

The personally confounding thing was that I assumed there would simply be a withdrawal period and I would start to feel normal at some point. That never really happened, even years later. After hearing rumors I started looking at articles like this https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-adhd-drugs-tak... and this https://www.acnp.org/g4/GN401000166/CH162.htm and I started to think that perhaps taking these drugs as a child over a period of 8 years might actually have had a much deeper impact that I realized and after trying various things over the years I found some that seemed to help. The causality was a little funny. I started lions mane, it helped. Herbals usually don't do much and I started doing research into why it might help so much. Lion's mane increases nerve growth factor, and that led me down the rabbit hole.

New comment by thinkyfish in "Ask HN: Dealing with ADHD Without Medication?"

thinkyfish — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 16:49:49 +0000

I went down this path and after much struggle, I learned the hard way that amphetamines can damage your nervous system. My current routine is to use samatha (calmness) style meditation to promote parasympathetic activity and taking Lion's Mane mushroom to promote nerve healing. It's been a decade since I stopped taking amphetamines and its the first thing that actually seemed to make a difference in restoring what was lost. Your not alone in struggling after going off medication.

New comment by thinkyfish in "Sam Zeloof and Jim Keller start a new semiconductor fab"

thinkyfish — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 15:00:37 +0000

EUV can expose a whole chip image in a single shot. Raster scanning electrons takes about 4 hours to do the same image.

New comment by thinkyfish in "Tesla Terminated Dozens in Response to New Union Campaign, Complaint Alleges"

thinkyfish — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 14:27:55 +0000

By creating an environment of respect in employment terms. In a word, inertia. There is a reason employment contracts with greater than 40 hours a week are almost unheard of. Union blood was spilled to bring it down to that.