Hacker News: totierne2

New comment by totierne2 in "Iran says it will target US tech companies in Middle East"

totierne2 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:38:34 +0000

Aim aim aim..

New comment by totierne2 in "Do your own writing"

totierne2 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:12:34 +0000

Cut everyone. Paste er posters. Its 80s agi pop. Shoot in all directions. Twice.

New comment by totierne2 in "IronGlass Brings Legendary Soviet Cinema Lenses to Mirrorless Cameras"

totierne2 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:58:07 +0000

Swan and b1.. which came 1st...

New comment by totierne2 in "15 Years of Forking"

totierne2 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:53:00 +0000

20 years a forker?

New comment by totierne2 in "If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos"

totierne2 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:15:27 +0000

There is always other peoples ftp servers as Linus used to say.

New comment by totierne2 in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

totierne2 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 06:53:55 +0000

Next country to invade is monopoly/risk for 10 year olds inside 70 year old presidents.

New comment by totierne2 in "Thinking Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI Is Reshaping Human Reasoning"

totierne2 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 08:51:45 +0000

My mind is already going, old age. You only really try anything when you are already losing it. Especially if you had it once.

New comment by totierne2 in "We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness"

totierne2 — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 13:37:09 +0000

Before the nuralink singularity.

New comment by totierne2 in "RFK Jr. Set to Launch Disease Registry Tracking Autistic People"

totierne2 — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 05:28:31 +0000

There was a doing something about the slightly ill, or healthy at the edge of the overton window, taking away from the extreme cases getting treatment or attention angle. The sceptic might say there is no clear useful additional treatment or attention!

Extreme autism may different. Treated more by Labour rather than chemicals.

New comment by totierne2 in "RFK Jr. Set to Launch Disease Registry Tracking Autistic People"

totierne2 — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 05:25:00 +0000

I am in a similar situation. Mental health issue: bipolar as a spectrum not an on/off. It also often has comorbidities. But bipolar is treated first!

New comment by totierne2 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2024)"

totierne2 — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 23:47:36 +0000

Location: Dublin, Ireland

  Remote: yes

  Willing to relocate: no

  Technologies: Java C Oracle Linux Git Docker Javacc(parsing)

  Résumé/CV:

28 years Oracle Dublin Java.

2 years Oracle partner C (telecommunications)

  Email: turloch@gmail.com

New comment by totierne2 in "EU Cyber Resilience Act: What does it mean for open source?"

totierne2 — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 23:48:59 +0000

Why care. Shoot for Mars. Attacks. Shoot from the hip ask questions later. #righttobarearmalite

New comment by totierne2 in "Math Team"

totierne2 — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 23:42:10 +0000

I was in the British system (3 subjects, interview, effectively CV/Resume for top University, but mostly school exams, I academically stuck rigidly to the syllabus plus minor extracurricular).

My 17 year old son is in the Irish system. Top 6 subjects count for points, nothing else. Plus some minor need to pass requirements on other subjects. i.e. you cannot just specialise in science and maths at the end. (His 6th best subject will be Irish, English or French, all hard to get very top marks in.)

With dumbing down/grade inflation the skill to get ahead into a good degree is be pretty good at everything. Rather than absolutely brilliant at a couple of things.

He did a tiny bit of computers and maths extra classes, but we could not keep the maths classes going when it went back to in person after COVID, as we are on the poorer side of Dublin. Small chance he goes to Britain for undergraduate, which will be weird as he would suddenly have interviews/CV/Resume, whereas no interview/CV/Resume in Ireland.

New comment by totierne2 in "A guide for people who want to self-study the basics of computer science"

totierne2 — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 14:41:18 +0000

I am looking for a bottle of computer science motivation for my 16 year old. I do an hour a week coding with him. It is not enough, he does no coding in between times. There are other things he prioritises ahead of coding. (School, music, YouTube videos, and chess.)

New comment by totierne2 in "Red Hat RHEL 9 release"

totierne2 — Sat, 14 May 2022 20:14:14 +0000

I thought 8 was relatively recent, I only started moving on to it. I am out of the loop, I do not know what I am missing out on in the latest 9 update and kernel. I moved on to mac/brew on the desktop 5 years ago. I use it as UNIX with supported hardware.

New comment by totierne2 in "Master at Arms Badge for Boy Scouts (1925) [pdf]"

totierne2 — Wed, 11 May 2022 22:33:41 +0000

Border poll?

New comment by totierne2 in "Master at Arms Badge for Boy Scouts (1925) [pdf]"

totierne2 — Wed, 11 May 2022 22:31:36 +0000

Quickly?

New comment by totierne2 in "How to get rid of gerrymandering: the math is surprising"

totierne2 — Wed, 11 May 2022 22:29:24 +0000

Swiss canton? We prefer blood than clocks...

New comment by totierne2 in "Red Hat RHEL 9 release"

totierne2 — Wed, 11 May 2022 22:24:07 +0000

I like the number 8.

New comment by totierne2 in "Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class"

totierne2 — Tue, 04 May 2021 00:03:54 +0000

Back in 1992 I was using a neural network library in Pascal. I did not know the admins were killing long running nohup tasks, rather than the program failing, so I could not run it on the UNIX boxes in the background, hence lots of foreground and usenet reading. The neural network use was applied, 'how did number of nodes, number of layers matter?' to analysing fetal heart rate data. Backpropagation was built in. I was recovering from a nervous breakdown, so my virtual neural network having breakdowns was a little bit strange. I got a 2:1 for the project i.e. good, but a 2.2 for the whole final year, i.e. very average.