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fortran77

40,921 karma · joined June 16, 2019

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Tel Aviv, Israel / St. Charles, Missouri

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fortran77··on Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week
I would think that most people in a courtroom (defendants, jurors, lawyers, members of the public) would be prohibitied from filming most court proceedings with any sort of audio/video recording device. So this "ban" is really just a clarification.
fortran77··on The sudden fall of Sora
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-sudden-fall-of-openais-most-...
fortran77··on The People Who Are Using AI at Home to Free Up Their Time
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-people-who-are-using-ai-at-h...
fortran77··on Automatically generate all 3D print files for organizing a drawer
Yes. Just use gridfinity. This adds no value
fortran77··on Why so many control rooms were seafoam green (2025)
> "The Manhattan Project created the nuclear bomb that caused extreme devastation in Japan and ended the war. There’s a lot of U.S. history that’s awful and indefensible."

That's one hell of a non-sequitur. In the immortal words of Inigo Montoya, I do not think that word means what she thinks it means. "The US ended the worst war in human history. Indefensible!"

fortran77··on Why so many control rooms were seafoam green (2025)
I'm with you.
fortran77··on Why so many control rooms were seafoam green (2025)
Wait, what? Ending the war in Japan was "indefensible"?
fortran77··on Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events
This is not completely true. (Not saying I agree or disagree with it.) Trans athletes can compete under the sex indicated by their chomosomes.
fortran77··on Gov. Newsom's Office Claims Grindr Provides to Them Opponent's Usage Data
Why is Grindr providing data about specific users to Newson's campaign? Unless Newsom is lying!?
fortran77··on Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars
Why are you so hostile towards someone who's experiment with an interesting computer? What's wrong with you?
fortran77··on California Billionaires Are Spending Big in Costly Wealth-Tax Fight
Gift Link: https://www.wsj.com/business/california-billionaire-tax-ball...
fortran77··on Data centers are transitioning from AC to DC
Do you want your house to burn down? Lower voltages for LED lights mean higher current.
fortran77··on Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11
I have the same experience. I'm on a Windows Surfuace 7 Arm laptop right now. There's no Copilot icon next to the start menu. I press the start icon and I don't see a single ad anywhere. There are no ads on my screen. I use Edge and I don't see anything odd while I shop. Granted, I run "Pro." Maybe the home edition has more of this?

I pay for a 365/OneDrive subscription and it works well. I get the apps on desktop/laptop/phone and 1 TB storage for a decent yearly rate. I log into the PC and laptop on the same account and useful things sync.

I've done mild tweaking to turn a few things off, like the icons in the "search" bar, but nothing's been "hacked". On Macs you're pretty much have to make an Apple account too, but somehow that's not evil?

fortran77··on Dune3d: A parametric 3D CAD application
I've been "vibe coding" with OpenSCAD with good results! OpenSCAD will automatically detect changes in the current open file and reload it, so I can use VS Code (with the OpenSCAD extension) to vibe code with Claude, and watch the changes appear on the OpenSCAD screen
fortran77··on LaGuardia Airport Closed After Runway Collision That Killed Two Pilots
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/faa-issues-ground-stop-at-laguar...
fortran77··on Show HN: We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto client written in Fortran
I still make a living from Fortran77 work, though much of it is converting it to Matlab.
fortran77··on Show HN: We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto client written in Fortran
Finally! Some relevant news here. I wondered where all the other Fortran people were hiding. I thought I knew all the other BlueSky Fortraners.
fortran77··on America Now Has More Spas and Gyms Than Stores Selling Actual Stuff
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/commercial/service-economy-r...
fortran77··on The Trillion Dollar Race to Automate Our Lives
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/claude-code-cursor-codex-vibe-co...
fortran77··on Tech Exec Accused of Smuggling Nvidia Chips to China Resigns from Board
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/tech/super-micro-computer-employees-arre...
fortran77··on Chuck Norris has died
His estate? While he was still alive?
fortran77··on Elon Musk's X teases new dislike button on replies
What tracks?
fortran77··on Elon Musk's X teases new dislike button on replies
Now if only we can get one on Hacker News (for posts).
fortran77··on Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild
Apple was always defeated in every pwn2own competition. I'm not sure if their security is any better or worse than anyone else.
fortran77··on She Hoped Ketamine Would Rewire Her Brain. She Didn't Live to See It Work
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/ketamine-telehealth-dang...
fortran77··on States Went All in on Sports Gambling – and Young Men Are the Losers
Gift link: https://www.nationalreview.com/2026/03/states-went-all-in-on...
fortran77··on The emergence of print-on-demand Amazon paperback books
Pressfield’s War of Art is one of my favorite motivational books.
fortran77··on Waymo Fun: The Self-Driving Car Revolution
Gift link: https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2026/04/waymo-fun-th...
fortran77··on A New Bigfoot Documentary Helps Explain Our Conspiracy-Minded Era
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/film/a-new-bigfoot-document...
fortran77··on The Dirty, Dystopian World of AI Data Centers
Gift link: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/04/ai-data-centers...
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