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cylinder714on A site that tracks the price of a Big Mac in every US McDonald's

Don't you have an identical site with Taco Bell prices?

cylinder714on A site that tracks the price of a Big Mac in every US McDonald's

- If you ever find yourself in Reno, Deli Towne U.S.A. is locally known for making amazing sandwiches in a Chevron station at the corner of Lakeside and Moana.

- Maverik stations in the western U.S. are about the nicest convenience stores I've ever visited, and their onsite kitchens prepare pretty decent gas-station food. Lately, they've rolled out premium pizzas in their larger locations; I had a thick-crust Detroit-style slice recently and it was absolutely restaurant quality.

- I understand Wawa stations in the eastern U.S. are known for their food; can anyone here comment?

cylinder714on GitHub has too many hidden features

Via YouTube Shorts, of all things, changing "github" in the URL to "github1s" opens up the repo in something that looks like VSCode. gitlab1s.com and npmjs1s.com work in the same fashion.

It's provided by https://github.com/conwnet who appears to work for Tencent, so be advised. More about this at https://github1s.com/

cylinder714on Non-PC compatible x86 computers (2007)

The LiveJournal article hijacked the back button, so that instead of returning me to HN it jumped to a random spot in the article. I had to long-press the back button to get back to HN. This on Firefox Mobile on Android with no adblockers.

cylinder714on OpenBSD KDE Plasma Desktop

About grml-debootstrap:

https://grml.org/grml-debootstrap/

cylinder714on OpenBSD KDE Plasma Desktop

The trick is, figuring out the names of the packages you want. :-\ Experiment, and take notes, I guess.

I had a fun experience playing with `grml-debootstrap', GRML¹ being a command-line-oriented LiveCD built upon Debian. Once you’ve booted up, that app installs a minimal Debian instance on your computer. I haven't tried using the stock Debian `debootstrap' utility.

1: https://grml.org/

cylinder714on About Your Handle on HN

In high school I toured Oakland Center, the regional air-traffic control center for much of the U.S. west coast. The controller with whom I sat had the big circular display we've all seen, and I noticed one contact labeled "NASA 714" moving away from the coast to the southwest, and I asked what it was.

It was the Gerard P. Kuiper Airborne Observatory¹, a converted C-141 transport with a telescope inside, en route to Hawaii on a mission. (Nice!)

"714" is also the badge number of Detective Joe Friday from the "Dragnet" TV series², and is a telephone area code serving part of Southern California³.

The "cylinder" part came when I was casting about for an HN handle, and it sounded good in combination with 714.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuiper_Airborne_Observator 2: https://www.perfessorbill.com/misc/badge714.htm 3: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_codes_714_and_657

cylinder714on Hylang, a Lisp dialect embedded in Python

Another Lisp that integrates with Python:

"Hissp is a modular Lisp implementation that compiles to a functional subset of Python—Syntactic macro metaprogramming with full access to the Python ecosystem!"

https://github.com/gilch/hissp

cylinder714on Ideal monitor rotation for programmers (2021)

I checked this morning, and LG is selling it for USD$600, $100 off:

https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-28mq780-b-dualup-monitor

And Google is showing prices from other retailers as low as $500.

cylinder714on Ideal monitor rotation for programmers (2021)

Eizo made a 1920x1920 display that I think has been discontinued; a very good review:

https://youtu.be/gJG9HOQITrg

The LG DualUp is an almost-square 16:18 monitor, higher resolution than the Eizo and almost half the price.

cylinder714on Chinese villagers capture video of falling Long March rocket booster [video]

I think we all would like to hear your story.

cylinder714on Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming (2009)

Oh! Good to know.

cylinder714on Chinese villagers capture video of falling Long March rocket booster [video]

Ignition! is back in print, happily.

cylinder714on What's making airline passengers act out on planes? Travelers are stressed out

I've long wondered if some people are sensitive to the fairly rapid change in oxygen levels (sea level to 8000 feet/2438m cabin altitude) on board an airliner. Might that constitute mild hypoxia or hypoxemia? Combine that with alcohol, cannabis or psych medications and perhaps that may explain why people act out.

cylinder714on SymbOS Z80 multitasking operating system

Don't get me started on game consoles....

cylinder714on Barbed and Dangerous [pdf]

I'm posting from rural Nevada and barbed wire is absolutely a thing.

cylinder714on Ask HN: Seeking lost gems of the web: what have you been unable to find again?

A paper on the Microsoft Research site, with a technique for implementing high-definition TV, now obsolete with the adoption of ATSC. It had a discussion of how sampling works, that I thought was interesting.

cylinder714on Lazarus IDE 3.0

Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than

https://prog21.dadgum.com/116.html

cylinder714on Merry GNUsmas, Friends

Ha! Merry Christmas, Kaz, to you and all!

cylinder714on Par: Paragraph reformatter, vaguely similar to fmt, but better

Yes, that's it exactly.

cylinder714on Par: Paragraph reformatter, vaguely similar to fmt, but better

#muchlove! Native Windows builds of Par, Vim and the Pine email client (now Alpine) made using Windows bearable.

cylinder714on Par: Paragraph reformatter, vaguely similar to fmt, but better

Thank you for that. I figured Emacs would permit use of external filters, glad to know the actual incantation.

cylinder714on Terminal Emulators Battle Royale – Unicode Edition

Par homepage: http://www.nicemice.net/par/

cylinder714on Becoming a go-to person gets you promoted

From the article: "I helped my first report at Google get promoted from Eng 1 to Eng 2 within 9 months, by advising her to find something that she can become the “the go-to person” for."

cylinder714on "CSS is dramatically more difficult than learning assembly language" [audio]

Please forgive me for straying off topic a bit, but:

- I just picked up Jeff Duntemann's newest Linux assembly book, x64 Assembly Language Step By Step —get it from your local indie bookseller

- I want to get Dennis Yurichev's book Reverse Engineering for Beginners, a.k.a. Understanding Assembly Language, at https://www.beginners.re/

cylinder714on ed(1) mastery is a must for a real Unix person

vi is painful over slow lines, maybe that was it? When I started at SCO in '86 my terminal connected at 9600 baud to a VME 68000 box named "scotty" running Xenix. (All our servers had names containing "sco". Over the years I think we had to settle for just having the letters somewhere in the name.) 9600 baud was luxury after university, where all our terminals connected at 2400 baud.

cylinder714on ed(1) mastery is a must for a real Unix person

It has a prettier cover, too.

cylinder714on Ask HN: What browser are you using?

Firefox! From the day it was released, on Windows, OpenBSD and Android, so that's 19 years? Because I know that everything else, with the exception of textual browsers like elinks and w3m, send telemetry to their masters.

cylinder714on The mysterious second parameter to the x86 ENTER instruction

https://github.com/ianopolous/JPC

"JPC is a fast modern x86 PC emulator capable of booting Windows up to Windows 95 (and windows 98 in safe mode) and some graphical linuxes. It has a full featured graphical debugger with time travel mode along with standard features like break and watch points."

cylinder714on Show HN: I Remade the Fake Google Gemini Demo, Except Using GPT-4 and It's Real

Snader's Law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo."