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New comment by whatusername in "IBM Intellistation 185 AIX workstation (2016)"

whatusername — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 09:58:53 +0000

From memory there was LPAR "Logical Partitions" - which were effectively like a VM. and there was WPAR "Workload Partitions" - which had a shared OS and were more like a container.

I had some "interesting" experiences getting stuff to work on WPAR's.

New comment by whatusername in "My bank keeps on undermining anti-phishing education"

whatusername — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 14:00:19 +0000

That is less of a problem in the consumer space where the OIDC Auth providers have giant long lived sessions (google/FB/etc).

In the government/banking/etc space - there is at least FIDO/WebAuthn/Passkeys which also resolves it. But it's a fair criticism.

New comment by whatusername in "Inside the box: Everything I did with an Arduino starter kit"

whatusername — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 08:09:21 +0000

And the next step down that rabbit hole is xlights: https://github.com/xLightsSequencer/xLights

New comment by whatusername in "‘Bluey’s World’: How a Cute Aussie Puppy Became a Juggernaut"

whatusername — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 12:11:09 +0000

I'll echo this for anyone else in the comments -- You can watch the cricket episode with 0 knowledge of the show and 0 knowledge of cricket. If you haven't ever seen Bluey - it's a great example as to why so many speak so highly of it. If you haven't seen bluey but want to see what the fuss is (and especially if you have any interest in sports) -- it's only 7 minutes long and absolutely worth watching.

New comment by whatusername in "Ask HN: Why did consumer 3D printing take so long to be invented?"

whatusername — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 21:35:39 +0000

I'm not sure how true that first statement is anymore. Most of the recommendations I see now are "just get a Bambu labs one". We are much closer to 3D printing as a utility as opposed to 3D printing as a hobby than we were ~3 years ago.

New comment by whatusername in "Buy payphones and retire"

whatusername — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 08:34:36 +0000

Fun thing with payphones - at least in Australia -- Telstra is investing in upgrading them (at least the ones in the cities). They aren't very useful as phones - but they are incredibly well situated billboards that you can plaster ads on top of.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/first-came-the-giant-adv...

New comment by whatusername in "Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?"

whatusername — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 07:04:39 +0000

As someone mentioned - the "Arena Starter Kits" worked for us as an intro to the game.

The basic rules around commander aren't particularly additionally taxing beyond that. (This is your special card that you can play every time. When it dies it goes back to its special spot and it gets more expensive each time you cast it). What I like about the commander format (in the few pre-constructed decks I've bought over the last few years) - they can really lean into a theme/strategy more - and the commander really guides you in how to play this deck.

Start with those arena kits - they are cheap and handle the rules. But if your son sees a commander deck that resonates with him (in theme or mechanics) -- I'd recommend giving it a shot.

New comment by whatusername in "Apple Vision Pro review"

whatusername — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 07:47:10 +0000

yeah. But a high number of pixels and a high number of minutes of battery life work against each other here.

New comment by whatusername in "Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft"

whatusername — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 10:45:39 +0000

Loopt, OpenAI, WorldCoin.. how many do you need to be serial?

New comment by whatusername in "Sam Altman and Greg Brockman Joint Statement"

whatusername — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 06:35:26 +0000

This is hacker news. Sam was the founder of a startup in the very first round of YC. He then later became president of YC. I expect news of him to resonate more around here.

And OpenAI have been the most exciting tech company of the last 12 months.

New comment by whatusername in "Keystroke timing obfuscation added to ssh(1)"

whatusername — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 21:16:12 +0000

Lotus Notes used to have that. (Might still do?)

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/41247/changing-...

New comment by whatusername in "Ask HN: Best Practices Guides You're Aware Of"

whatusername — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 11:56:39 +0000

I've seen a few "Best Current Practise" RFC's around standards implementation. eg: here's one still in draft form for OAuth: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-oauth-secur...

New comment by whatusername in "Passkeys now support external providers"

whatusername — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 13:46:12 +0000

So you're covered for "forgotten" - but "lost" is still an issue. What happens when a user loses their passkey? (stolen phone, no backups, house fire, etc).

New comment by whatusername in "Nvidia DGX GH200: 100 Terabyte GPU Memory System"

whatusername — Wed, 31 May 2023 13:23:45 +0000

If I'm reading the docs right (TBH - I'm probably not) it looks like on a z16 you can get 200 cores and 40TB of Memory on a single "VM" (LPAR).

So 1/100th of the CPU and 40% of the RAM. (I suspect the RAM comparison is reasonable - I'm not sure about how to compare the CPU's).

New comment by whatusername in "The long road to recover Frogger 2 source from tape drives"

whatusername — Thu, 25 May 2023 04:28:29 +0000

As someone who used to administer an ADSM server back a long time ago -- I'm curious what the gap between spectrum protect or whatever it's called now and commvault/netbackup? I've haven't really looked at that space for at least a decade.

New comment by whatusername in "Why is OAuth still hard in 2023?"

whatusername — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 21:21:22 +0000

So make sure you are doing PKCE for public clients.

With that, and the redirect URL (and therefore trusting DNS), and the other browser security model stuff…. You’re in fairly good shape.

There’s newer standards coming like DPoP - but it’s probably not worth it yet.

New comment by whatusername in "ChatGPT Plugins"

whatusername — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 21:29:50 +0000

> When in human history have we ever intentionally not furthered technological progress?

Nuclear weapons?

New comment by whatusername in "France's baby bust"

whatusername — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 12:01:33 +0000

Scott Morrison (as a Pentecostal) had religion as a minor part of his platform at least. (I know you probably weren't looking at Australian PM's - but he stands out more so than any of the UK/CA/NZ examples that come to mind. I might be biased though)

New comment by whatusername in "How to store your app's entire state in the url"

whatusername — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 22:55:20 +0000

No - but they have been referred to as "cool" before. Gotta love the early 90's.

https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI

New comment by whatusername in "WLED Project"

whatusername — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 05:58:41 +0000

I’ve got a pair of these: https://pixelcontroller.com/store/products/70-f16v4.html on either side of the house - local to where the bulk of the pixels are (2 x megatrees and a matrix). And a couple of recievers out from there to other points.