Hacker News: trbleclef

New comment by trbleclef in "Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s"

trbleclef — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 01:08:37 +0000

I bowled some in the 90s. Back then these were still common:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1tMSdAswo4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGhSoGizjxo

New comment by trbleclef in "A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)"

trbleclef — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:22:29 +0000

What's that quote about essential Liberty and temporary Safety again...

New comment by trbleclef in "The Letter S, by Donald Knuth (1980) [pdf]"

trbleclef — Thu, 21 May 2026 13:51:48 +0000

How would Knuth opine on consummate Vs, I wonder...

New comment by trbleclef in "SDF Public Access Unix System"

trbleclef — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:33:13 +0000

But where am I gonna run my eggdrop bot??

New comment by trbleclef in "Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-UI (TUI). Anybody else?"

trbleclef — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 16:04:03 +0000

I noticed Guitar Center also using a TUI when I was in there last.

New comment by trbleclef in "Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-UI (TUI). Anybody else?"

trbleclef — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 16:00:02 +0000

My dad recently retired but his company was still using Pick as of a year or two ago. They also had a one-dude maintenance plan. I wonder if it was the same dude.

New comment by trbleclef in "Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-UI (TUI). Anybody else?"

trbleclef — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 15:59:14 +0000

Just the fact that you can use the keyboard is brilliant. I teach high school and most of my computing tasks are in lowest-bidder web GUI messes (lousy UX, no hotkeys) and take so much longer than a keyboard interface would. Even taking roll takes a minute or two longer than it used to.

New comment by trbleclef in "Florida lawmaker floats ban on HOAs amid growing backlash"

trbleclef — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 13:05:13 +0000

In Florida, condominium associations (COA) and homeowners associations (HOA) are not legally the same thing, but in discussions like this people often refer to them interchangeably. There is a big difference between an HOA requiring mowed lawns and paint colors and a COA that maintains roofs, pools, playgrounds, common elements, etc. People will refer to Surfside as a reason HOAs are important but the Champlain Towers was a condo.

New comment by trbleclef in "Getting a Cease and Desist from Waffle House"

trbleclef — Thu, 29 May 2025 01:01:11 +0000

If McBroken.com can stay up...

New comment by trbleclef in "Open Source Society University – Path to a free self-taught education in CS"

trbleclef — Mon, 26 May 2025 14:22:43 +0000

I've been using IRC for almost 30 years. We communicate pretty easily

New comment by trbleclef in "Mark Zuckerberg says social media is over"

trbleclef — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 16:44:05 +0000

*** Ja mata!

New comment by trbleclef in "Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over"

trbleclef — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 16:00:44 +0000

Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Are* Over

New comment by trbleclef in "John Cage recital set to last 639 years recently witnessed a chord change"

trbleclef — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 21:13:49 +0000

I'm driven by all four. That's why I'm here! My point is that current culture as a whole allows for a large deficit in individuals' understanding the humanities. Especially around here, you will see comments suggesting that the humanities are not necessary, or are not viable career paths, etc.

It's not that one drive is more important than the other. It is that we as a contemporary society often treat arts that way. Your drive is vital too!

New comment by trbleclef in "John Cage recital set to last 639 years recently witnessed a chord change"

trbleclef — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 20:39:45 +0000

Your comment will rattle a few cages here but I honestly think about this all the time, as one of the minority of music educators around HN. The blind spots (or perhaps a STEM vs STEAM upbringing) are unfortunate. We are possibly the only — or one of an incredibly small number of — species that even makes sounds solely for enjoyment and aesthetics. The humanities are what make us us.

New comment by trbleclef in "John Cage recital set to last 639 years recently witnessed a chord change"

trbleclef — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 20:35:03 +0000

One of HN's few(?) music appreciation professors here: in fact, I start every term posing this question. It's hard to teach music appreciation before a group of humans can agree where music begins and ends :) At the end of the day, like everything else it's a certain degree of statistics and a certain degree of subjectivity.

New comment by trbleclef in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell"

trbleclef — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 05:26:32 +0000

Many are probably already in HMDB.

https://www.hmdb.org/

New comment by trbleclef in "Warner Brothers Cartoon Companion (1998)"

trbleclef — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 12:37:19 +0000

Just remember, you can't watch a Warner Bros. movie without a Warner Bros. ball cap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSMj5M9w2qA

New comment by trbleclef in "Tesla worker killed in fiery crash may be first 'Full Self-Driving' fatality"

trbleclef — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 16:28:59 +0000

This all feels very MCAS to me.

New comment by trbleclef in "Someone stole a Jasper radio station’s 200-foot tower, owner says"

trbleclef — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 16:40:56 +0000

The one in the article looks like a stripped down Long Lines[0] microwave tower, not anything at all like a radio broadcasting tower.

[0]https://long-lines.com/

New comment by trbleclef in "Sudo for Windows"

trbleclef — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 14:08:47 +0000

They'll be sent directly to -- MARK --.