Viewing profile — readingnews

"I keep coming back to this topic for two reasons. First, I think these components are usually explained poorly, making them a major stumbling block for folks trying to learn the c…

Totally agree, I went to fiber years ago, and the decrease in latency makes it _feel_ so much faster than 10G copper, it is not funny. Besides, if you put in the "good stuff" them …

The real problem is his example, "you start off with 2 million dollars and 95% growth rate". Fine, show me the average person who can come up with 2 million dollars. I sure as hell…

Dropped in to say this. The Marzoccos are good, but dang the Kees van der Westen are downright amazing... I know a lot of cafe owners who threw the Marzocco out and purchased a Kee…

On the flip side, a really good bag, and these have lasted so long I can not recall when I purchased them, are really expensive [ https://www.tombihn.com/ ]. What is really irritat…

Completely agree with this comment. Had to cut / paste it into vim and q! when done, was getting a headache.

Not sure if they were the first, or whatever, but this really seems like a breakthrough technology / methodology. How many cardboard boxes do we use a day? The mind boggles. Totall…

I thought your blog sofware was interesting, and you have a blog on it from last year. The Git link on this page: https://elliotbonneville.com/building-a-blog-in-90-minutes/ howeve…

Heh, I made myself laugh. Literally clicked on that link thinking I had read _asteroids_, as in a remake of the 1979 game. Total disappointment ensued.

I will admit, I type exclusively on 40% keyboards. I used to have a Happy Hacking Keyboard, (in fact, the original Happy Hacking Keyboard (HHKB) with separate PS/2, Sun and ADB cab…

I worked at 5 universities, two of them in the top 50, and I do not know of one tenured professor that "does nothing" and "publishes next to nothing". Some of them teach very littl…

I have an old HP 15C RPN scientific calculator. - I know where the buttons are without looking. - It has functions my Android calculator does not have (directly or that I know of).…

Not sure why you have to read 3/4 of the article to get to a _link_ to a pdf which _only_ has the _abstract_ of the actual paper: N. Benjamin Murphy and Kenneth M. Golden* (golden@…

Thanks for the links, that is a company I did not know existed, and the woofers are interesting. Really makes you wonder if they have overcome the traditional problems of large woo…

Unpopular opinion: What does this have to to with hacker news, technology, computers, combinatorics??

It is hard to put into words how so many people "out there" can print things, have people read them, and they are so worded that the average person is probably reading this as "the…

Wow, I read your informative link. Where are these jobs? I went through a round of interviews last year for Sr. positions, across a number of locations in the U.S., and quite frank…

I have indeed lived life wrong. I work in HPC as a Systems Engineer (right now, in 2025, with graduate degrees in engineering, and 25 years of systems admin / engineering experienc…

"Graduate degrees" listed as a reason. Yes, designing chips is hard, it takes a lot of knowledge. This is why medical doctors need to go through all that schooling... designing a t…

Thanks for posting, I thought the same thing... my (useless data point of one) results showed 100% accuracy except the last four, which I thought "wow, I am just guessing now, can …

No, OP is correct. I was teaching CS at a uni two years ago... files, directories, filesystem hierarchy, but yes, even just a file, this is a strange concept to them. It is not a i…

>> be able to understand and empathize with the various (and often opposing) groups involved in a topic Interestingly, I have seen Elon (DOGE) and others outside of politics (that …

I am not sure, and it may be this persons culture/background, but I do know that at a college/uni, your advisors/reviewers would tell you not to do the adjective/drama stuff, as it…

I have not actually heard that argument. It has always been noted that Benz invented the car, and Ford invented the assembly line, for cars.

Since about 1999, I have maintained my own mail servers, and probably have too many email accounts to mention (my own domains, of which there are several, gmail, work, which is O36…