Hacker News: ycom13__

AWS DeepRacer at the AWS Summit New York City 2023 [video]

ycom13__ — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 14:43:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9iULmgXaAE

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39001503

Points: 2

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New comment by ycom13__ in "We used to build steel mills near cheap power. Now we build datacenters"

ycom13__ — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 14:21:33 +0000

There was this underwater datacenter https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54146718 see also here: https://natick.research.microsoft.com/

New comment by ycom13__ in "A skyscraper that could have toppled over in the wind (1995)"

ycom13__ — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 14:06:54 +0000

I remember buying a Visual Basic 4 (Oreilly) book in the Barnes and Noble that was in that building

New comment by ycom13__ in "Source code for Quake 2 rerelease"

ycom13__ — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 13:43:08 +0000

I had to laugh at this https://github.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-archive/blob/mast...

----------------------------------------- John Carmack's .plan for Jan 31, 1997 -----------------------------------------

I went down to the ferrari dealership today with Ann and American with the intention of buying a new f355 as a "sensible" car (in contrast to my other twin turbo monstrosities).

There was an F40 sitting out front.

Umm. Sensible car. F40. Sensible car. F40. Hmmmm.

American played the evil conscience and Ann played the good conscience. For a while. Then Ann got infected by the Dark Side. :-) I bought the F40.

Ok, I now have too many ferraris. I have a plan to fix that. This hasn't gone through all the legal crap necessary yet, but it is my intention to give away my first ferrari as the grand prize of a Quake tournement.

Yes, I am serious.

DO NOT SEND ME ANY MAIL ABOUT THIS! When we have more to say about it, we will make a formal announcement. This would be a good time to start a heated debate in the newsgroups about what the fairest tourney rules would be, though.

The specs:

1987 328 GTS with turbocharged engine. Feature in the january, 1994 issue of Turbo magazine. Made 360 HP at the rear wheels on a chassis dyno. New engine (I melted the first one...), new paint. The interior could use a little work.

I plan to also include enough cash to cover tax and insurance.

New comment by ycom13__ in "Watch Windows 95 crash live as it exceeds 49.7 days uptime [video]"

ycom13__ — Sat, 28 Aug 2021 22:06:34 +0000

I had Windows NT 4.0 with SQL Server 7.0 running for 6 years... never restarted (or patched)... This was our dev/qa server. Uptime from 1999 till October 2005.... then some fool shutdown the power to the whole dev cage....

Still remember the credentials too... sa and password Nimda

No issues ever... HP hardware....

How to connect to SQL instance on a different domain and non default port number

ycom13__ — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 14:18:48 +0000

Article URL: https://sqlservercode.blogspot.com/2021/08/how-to-connect-to-sql-server-instance.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28036833

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

July 31st in Stamps: Columbus Discovers Trinidad, Franz Listz, Balkan Entente

ycom13__ — Sat, 31 Jul 2021 13:20:11 +0000

Article URL: http://www.stampio.org/2019/07/july-31st-in-stamps-columbus-discovers-Trinidad-Franz-Listz-Balkan-Entente-Baudouin.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28017888

Points: 1

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New comment by ycom13__ in "The Miami condo collapse is a reminder of America's artificial land problem"

ycom13__ — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 20:11:27 +0000

Same is true in the Netherlands

May 21st in Stamps Albrecht Dürer, PC Hooft, Otto von Guericke, Daniel Defoe

ycom13__ — Fri, 21 May 2021 12:14:26 +0000

Article URL: http://www.stampio.org/2021/05/may-21st-in-stamps-albrecht-durer-pc.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27233051

Points: 1

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May 16th in Stamps Vauquelin, Tesla, Django Reinhardt, Tito

ycom13__ — Sun, 16 May 2021 11:26:40 +0000

Article URL: http://www.stampio.org/2021/05/may-16th-in-stamps-vauquelin-tesla.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27172911

Points: 1

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New comment by ycom13__ in "Discord's new UX design is harmful to the visually impaired and colorblind"

ycom13__ — Tue, 11 May 2021 15:06:48 +0000

Was it the Windows Plus! feature pack or was that 98 as well?

May First in Stamps: Penny Black, Columbian Exposition, Antonín Dvořák (2020)

ycom13__ — Sat, 01 May 2021 12:06:03 +0000

Article URL: http://www.stampio.org/2020/04/may-1st-in-stamps-penny-black-columbian.html?HK

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27005599

Points: 9

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Rimac EV hypercar completes quarter mile in under 9 seconds

ycom13__ — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 17:00:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXe4X3rYIPw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26944906

Points: 1

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PostgreSQL Adds Fetch First with Ties.. Just Like Top N with Ties in SQL Server

ycom13__ — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 15:41:55 +0000

Article URL: https://sqlservercode.blogspot.com/2020/05/postgresql-adds-fetch-first-with-ties.html?hk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26661910

Points: 2

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Microsoft wins $21.9B contract with U.S. Army to supply AR headsets

ycom13__ — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:34:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-army/microsoft-wins-21-9-billion-contract-with-u-s-army-to-supply-augmented-reality-headsets-idUSKBN2BN36B

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26652003

Points: 214

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After 20 years in IT –. I finally discovered this

ycom13__ — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 13:42:11 +0000

Article URL: https://sqlservercode.blogspot.com/2019/02/after-20-years-in-it-i-finally-discovered-this.html?hk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26602228

Points: 3

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March 27th in stamps Alfred de Vigny, Wilhelm Röntgen, Henry Royce

ycom13__ — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 13:32:14 +0000

Article URL: http://www.stampio.org/2021/03/march-27th-in-stamps-alfred-de-vigny.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26602170

Points: 1

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New comment by ycom13__ in "Ask HN: What are some “10x” software product innovations you have experienced?"

ycom13__ — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 15:36:02 +0000

These came to mind

On Demand tv

DVR

SSDs versus regular hard drives

windowing functions in databases

MP3s vs CDs or minidisks. (Suddenly I could hold 1000 songs in my pocket)

Columnar databases (Sybase IQ, SQL Server, Redshift)

20 tools on 1 device in your pocket.. replaced flashlight, magnifying glass, calculator, maps, notepad etc etc

Multicore CPUs.. Oh I can do 2 or more things while stuff is compiling in the back ground.. and of course async

Ajax.. no more refreshing the whole page

Automated tests and builds..

After 20 years in IT –. I finally discovered this useful command

ycom13__ — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 13:29:13 +0000

Article URL: https://sqlservercode.blogspot.com/2021/03/after-20-years-in-it-i-finally.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26465840

Points: 3

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New comment by ycom13__ in "Ask HN: Best Book you read in 2015"

ycom13__ — Fri, 25 Dec 2015 16:01:29 +0000

My 5 favorite ones I read this year

  In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
  Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
  To the Last Man: A Novel of the First World War by Jeff Shaara 
  Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
  The Wright Brothers by David McCullough

All 21 books I read are here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10785428