Hacker News: zorobo

New comment by zorobo in "Logo Programming"

zorobo — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 21:04:58 +0000

My favorite logo on macOS is https://www.alancsmith.co.uk/logo/ First dabbled with logo on my apple ][, attracted by turtle graphics like many others.

New comment by zorobo in "Hot coffee could cause oesophageal cancer"

zorobo — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 20:57:16 +0000

Katakana (the above character set representing syllables) is used for words of foreign origin, which this pastry is. In turn it stems from French « langue de chat ».

New comment by zorobo in "Please don't rearrange our shoes when we turn up, paramedics in Japan urge"

zorobo — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 08:50:34 +0000

When we shifted houses and used a Japanese moving company, I was very surprised as movers removed their shoes every time they stepped into our places, both old and new. Oh, they also had gloves on when packing our plates and utensils!

New comment by zorobo in "Tiny satellite will use the dark side of the Moon as a shield"

zorobo — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 08:14:01 +0000

Would a satellite positioned at Earth Moon L2 be stable enough? It would also need a relay to communicate with earth…

New comment by zorobo in "Thanks to social media, canned sardines are a scarcity on the supermarket shelf"

zorobo — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:16:16 +0000

I used to eat rabbit often until the 2000’s. Most butcher shops in France had rabbit, presented skinned, gutted and whole. Pretty good meat!

A colleague was even including rabbit in the «poultry» category …

New comment by zorobo in "Memo-1: A 6502 computer built from scratch, using a Minitel as its terminal"

zorobo — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:24:43 +0000

Computer to Minitel ttl yes. However the modem part was limited to those paltry figures.

I still have mine in the basement. Maybe its capacitors are all busted…time to give it a spin !

New comment by zorobo in "Memo-1: A 6502 computer built from scratch, using a Minitel as its terminal"

zorobo — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:41:41 +0000

The Minitel can be used as a modem too, albeit a cumbersome and very slow one: 1200bps down, 75bps up. Bps as in bits per second. That’s how I connected to bbses and nntp before I finally got a 2400bps real modem.

Nice project, and how far we’ve come !

New comment by zorobo in "Memory safety absolutists"

zorobo — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:01:13 +0000

Ada from day 1: Subtype with checks: https://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content/standards/05rm/h...

`type Shoe_Size is new Integer` defines a type incompatible with `type Age is new Integer`

New comment by zorobo in "Making"

zorobo — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 06:54:28 +0000

Old as time itself → https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1595733.Who_Built_the...

New comment by zorobo in "Does creatine make you smarter?"

zorobo — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:38:45 +0000

When I stopped taking it, I went from 12 reps to 10, and slower recovery.

My level at tennis dropped too, but bicycle endurance remained the same.

I stopped because of high blood creatinine, and wanted to see what baseline was

New comment by zorobo in "The last Romans are still around"

zorobo — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 04:59:50 +0000

> Heck written Latin didn't even have punctuation marks, not even spaces.

Without spaces, Japanese could never develop a great civilization. Pfff

New comment by zorobo in "Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation"

zorobo — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:18:12 +0000

> If you doubt the thesis, consider the extreme examples of Musk and Trump. they have infinite wealth and power and are demonstrably, publicly miserable.

Trump/Musk without money would be more miserable I surmise.

New comment by zorobo in "Ask HN: Are you still using a Vision Pro?"

zorobo — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:48:31 +0000

Still using the AVP but not exclusively, about 3 hours a day, with a hardware Bluetooth keyboard.

Mostly multiple safari windows opening on servers via webterm, cli and emacs.

It’s especially great when traveling.

Only problem, I cannot share a window when presenting…

New comment by zorobo in "Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?"

zorobo — Tue, 26 May 2026 09:09:07 +0000

I am spending about three hours a day using my AVP. Not getting headaches or anything like that. I don’t have a suitable MacBook or Mac mini so no virtual display. For development work, I use webterm (webified ghostty) via Safari to connect to servers. Then it is emacs all the way. It’s a real treat and I can use it anywhere.

New comment by zorobo in "Comparing the Z80 and 6502 to Their Relatives"

zorobo — Tue, 05 May 2026 19:30:51 +0000

I could hold the whole 6502 instruction set (and their cycles) in my mind while programming, it was that simple.

I acquired a Z-80 softcard for my Apple ][ (for trying out CPM) and was flabbergasted by the expanded register set, the complexity of some instructions (e.g. DJNZ) and the fact it ran at 4MHz vs 1MHz for the 6502 (got a speed demon 65C02 card later). However I couldn't keep all instructions and timings in my head. Speedwise the 1MHz 6502 and 4MHz Z80 were on par. I preferred, however, the fact that I/O was memory mapped on the 6502.

New comment by zorobo in "French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data"

zorobo — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:27:57 +0000

Hollande? Exemption for capital gains on investment property pushed from 15 to 30 years retention. Repelled sarkozys state financing tuition for French schools abroad. Many other examples that no self respecting right wing politician would promulgate. Hollande was (is) socialist.

New comment by zorobo in "French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data"

zorobo — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:20:14 +0000

> It's 3 different right-wing administrations (Sarkozy, Hollande, Macron)

So now socialists are right wing? Who isn’t then? Kim Jong Un maybe?

New comment by zorobo in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

zorobo — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:31:01 +0000

It is necessary to have a control group, just as in trials for new drugs.

New comment by zorobo in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

zorobo — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:45:33 +0000

Takeover of half of Papua New Guinea, now called irian Jaya. Transmigration, that is, moving Java people there and to Borneo (Kalimantan)in order to flood local populations with Malays.

But this did not make the news that much. Not that interesting I guess…

New comment by zorobo in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

zorobo — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:14:38 +0000

In the 75 years of their existence it seems like they suck at expansion.

They should take a page from Indonesia’s book for example. Or turkey.