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New comment by usermac in "1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)"

usermac — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:10:24 +0000

Having seen this image since inception, I never noticed Mt. Fuji in the background.

Ask HN: Local small LLM with retries vs. STOA Frontier, will it work?

usermac — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:21:19 +0000

I would just like to know, most machines don't have a ton of memory. If I put a super small LLM, and if I were to have unit test, do a loop until it passes this unit test. Is that a real possibility or is it just out of the question?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47445380

Points: 1

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New comment by usermac in "LG UltraFine Evo 6K 32-inch Monitor Review"

usermac — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:39:38 +0000

For an org I worked for not long ago, I had them buy many of the previous incarnations of this monitor. They all died of an internal power supply issue within a year each. Even the replacements I got died within a year.

New comment by usermac in "GitHub to Codeberg: my experience"

usermac — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 01:50:32 +0000

I spent some time last week adding Forgejo/Git to my local NAS via docker and tailscale.

New comment by usermac in "UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport"

usermac — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 16:04:59 +0000

Relative of mine is a real estate agent in the Louisville area. This year she sold two homes to two UPS pilots. One of them, his first day was yesterday. The day of the crash. He was bumped from that very flight.

Ask HN: Any US based PCB makers?

usermac — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 14:22:18 +0000

When I search using the search engines, they lie and tell me about a maker who I know is not US based or am I wrong and they have a plant here in the US?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43611869

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by usermac in "Apple Reveals ‘Lisa’, Its $50M Gamble (1983)"

usermac — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 11:37:50 +0000

I recall Macs being AppleTalked together to move anything anywhere—it was magic.

New comment by usermac in "Introducing a new HTML element – welcome "

usermac — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 11:30:24 +0000

I read it—hilarious. Thanks. "move fast, break things" really got me.

New comment by usermac in "Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002 (2015)"

usermac — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 11:41:28 +0000

I, for one, welcome our dark background.

New comment by usermac in "Apple’s $1000 monitor stand is a massive and unnecessary PR fail"

usermac — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 12:36:01 +0000

With all the press, I'm thinking about just buying the stand, putting it on my desk... alone.

New comment by usermac in "macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including Python, Ruby, and Perl"

usermac — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 12:34:05 +0000

And I have a 4+ year old Perl script I use daily. Yeah, yeah, I know I can install Perl myself but when I distribute it I was expecting it, Perl, to be there—never mind that it is an out-of-date version—I wrote it accordingly.

Author Brian Shul on Piloting the SR-71 – Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

usermac — Sun, 02 Jun 2019 00:49:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=brian+shul+lawence+livermore&&view=detail&mid=3F5CB67FA93A1CD19F0D3F5CB67FA93A1CD19F0D&&FORM=VRDGAR

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20072758

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by usermac in "I Grew Up Gifted, but My Life Didn’t Turn Out the Way I Expected"

usermac — Fri, 31 May 2019 11:48:54 +0000

The first two lines, wow—You very clearly wrote what I've struggled to think of how to convey. Thank you.

New comment by usermac in "Microsoft Edge preview builds for macOS"

usermac — Tue, 21 May 2019 13:37:03 +0000

I installed it an noticed they have their own App Store.

New comment by usermac in "Boeing Resisted Pilots’ Calls for Aggressive Steps on 737 Max"

usermac — Wed, 15 May 2019 13:25:14 +0000

How do I find A220 and E190 flights just to see if I have them available to me?

New comment by usermac in "A napalm attack, an orphan, and a message three decades later"

usermac — Tue, 14 May 2019 14:37:16 +0000

Two things... one personal and one technical. I was in that war. I was a silent conscientious objector (I thought the war was about oil and money.) I went because I had an obligation to go. I have many stories but the best one is this. When the war ended, we sold our portable hospital to the Kuwaitis. We went to Kuwait City to deliver it and saw the destruction; the six miles of death. When I jumped off the truck and the people, families rushed up to me(us) and kissed my cheek, bowed and kissed my feet—I could not make them stop. They would raise up and say in cryptic English "We thank The United States, President Bush and you." I was touched and changed—it changed my opinion of the cause. What if I was sent back home directly after the war? To this day I would have said what I thought before.

Technically, this website is well done. Just scroll down and down. It's a little long but I like some of it.

New comment by usermac in "IT Runs on Java 8"

usermac — Fri, 10 May 2019 17:01:31 +0000

Now that you put it that way, I am a "dark" employee. ha ha

New comment by usermac in "IT Runs on Java 8"

usermac — Fri, 10 May 2019 16:59:10 +0000

It's pretty sweet. I just fielded a full online order system and did it in 30 calendar days flat. It wins five-star reviews from my users and raving compliments.

New comment by usermac in "Ask HN: What was your experience starting a tech consultancy?"

usermac — Fri, 10 May 2019 16:55:54 +0000

When you run out of work simply go visit an old client—not to ask for business, not to ask for anything, just a visit to see them. Within about two weeks, that client is calling me with a project to do. It is magic. I did this many times.

New comment by usermac in "IT Runs on Java 8"

usermac — Fri, 10 May 2019 16:35:47 +0000

That was an enjoyable read. Just funny. Alright, I might not be a "dark" employee but we do run our shop on... FileMaker! Since 1993 as best I can tell.