Hacker News: xen2xen1

New comment by xen2xen1 in "Origin of the rule that swap size should be 2x of the physical memory"

xen2xen1 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:31:08 +0000

It's old enough that I'd put money on DEC. Any takers on that.

New comment by xen2xen1 in "4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025)"

xen2xen1 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 01:08:08 +0000

Do you have your own api key? Been a while, but that's the most common problem.

New comment by xen2xen1 in "Commodore 64 Ultimate"

xen2xen1 — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 17:30:14 +0000

And if that happened, you might not get back on. The line might be busy, you might have run out of time or logins for the day..

New comment by xen2xen1 in "Chatbots Becoming More Sexually Explicit in a Bid to Attract Paying Customers"

xen2xen1 — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 05:09:04 +0000

They always end up using vitamin P to get profitable.

New comment by xen2xen1 in "AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions"

xen2xen1 — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 22:41:25 +0000

The real question is: how long will it take to go from a sign of low quality to a sign of high quality?

New comment by xen2xen1 in "StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers"

xen2xen1 — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 13:30:50 +0000

Lots of non native to English speakers around here too, lowers the odds.

New comment by xen2xen1 in "CP/M creator Gary Kildall's memoirs released as free download"

xen2xen1 — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 16:49:08 +0000

Gates had a version of DOS ready in 6 weeks, while DR was still planning DOS. MS got things going much faster.

New comment by xen2xen1 in "Congress moves to reject bulk of White House's proposed NASA cuts"

xen2xen1 — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:28:17 +0000

I've done IT a long time, and I once was sent to a gleaming new building.. In an Indiana corn field. In the middle of nowhere, for Indiana. They made very small number of parts (or mostly one) for the military. It was probably an F35 part. An entire bespoke business for a part...

New comment by xen2xen1 in "At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work"

xen2xen1 — Mon, 26 May 2025 23:55:06 +0000

I have people skills damnit!

New comment by xen2xen1 in "Linux Kernel Exploitation: Attack of the Vsock"

xen2xen1 — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 21:52:03 +0000

Rust, the new "I use Arch, BTW"

New comment by xen2xen1 in "Linux Kernel Exploitation: Attack of the Vsock"

xen2xen1 — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 21:51:05 +0000

Would not be a surprise if AI brought this back.

New comment by xen2xen1 in "The hospital where staff treat fear of death as well as physical pain"

xen2xen1 — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 13:06:43 +0000

The Ship of Theseus has questions.

New comment by xen2xen1 in "The hospital where staff treat fear of death as well as physical pain"

xen2xen1 — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 13:02:28 +0000

My dad chose hospice over dialysis and constant potassium problems. I feel you there.

New comment by xen2xen1 in "Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal"

xen2xen1 — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 11:49:33 +0000

Always picture someone with a big can of diesel filling up a generator. Experience says it could be a genny running on natural gas. Had that at work before.

New comment by xen2xen1 in "The Bitter Prediction"

xen2xen1 — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 14:46:34 +0000

People like to see everything as self expression. In reality, a job is a job, and you're there to make money for someone else.

New comment by xen2xen1 in "The Bitter Prediction"

xen2xen1 — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 14:16:53 +0000

Interesting point, does that mean AI with favor startup or startup like places? New tools often seem to favor less established and smaller places.

New comment by xen2xen1 in "Radiocarbon: The Lifetime Battery Solution for Cellphones?"

xen2xen1 — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 21:03:54 +0000

Isaac Asimov has entered the chat.

New comment by xen2xen1 in "The Insecurity of Telecom Stacks in the Wake of Salt Typhoon"

xen2xen1 — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 17:35:15 +0000

Phase 1 and Phase 2.

New comment by xen2xen1 in "Netboot Windows 11 with iSCSI and iPXE"

xen2xen1 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 14:04:14 +0000

Also interesting using it as an EFI executable. Remind me to start adding that to the menu of ... well, everything.

New comment by xen2xen1 in "Netboot Windows 11 with iSCSI and iPXE"

xen2xen1 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:53:48 +0000

God bless you for this sir. I've been wanting to get Windows iscsi boot working, but there's always one more thing. Did you get anything else fun working with ipxe? all the exampled online seem so outdated.