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tenken··on Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982
We had one when i was growing up.

I only did a very little Basic on it, my mom used GEos (writer)? to write up her masters degree thesis. In fact, I think it and a bunch of floppies are still up in our Attic ... i really doubt it still works if I were to plug it in someplace :D I don't think we had the first generation c64. I enjoyed alot of the video games, I would go to our local Target store and buy games on floppies, especially when they were on sale for like $4.99....

Edit: sorry I said Target, I think I ment Gemco (which is now the building the Target is in) :D

tenken··on Show HN: OffChess – Offline chess puzzles app
You attribute chess.js as MIT license ... But I'm curious where you sourced 1,000 addon puzzles for $3.99.

.... As I doubt you thought them all up yourself. You may want to attribute your non-derivative assets.

tenken··on Durable execution should be lightweight
I have never used it, but a predasessor of mine talked about Clipper alot and I believe it allowed remote execution blocks tied to a storage backend, in this case I'm talking about xBase languages ...

I think also Rebol supports remote execution blocks ...

tenken··on Clay – UI Layout Library
This UI library can be re-targeted to Raylib, Canvas, HTML from its markup ... Good luck doing that with just CSS.

Put another way, this library is a step into writing an agnostic UI layer for your application which it just invokes from its business logic. If you can decouple your UI from your application code ala MVC or MVP architecture, as a developer you can find the right tool for the components that compose the sum of your project.

tenken··on Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users
Why?! ... I've had 404 pages on Amazon, but never a captcha...
tenken··on Jelly Star – The Smallest Android 13 Smartphone
Would Google Fi support it? ... Interesting that they say it has "Google Certification" but no Fi support, which imho has International support (I live in the USA, but have traveled internationally with Pixel phones on Fi service with 0 issues for me )...
tenken··on Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?
Spent the last 1-2 years building a survey tool for a campus in-house using a CMS. Did so using CI pipelines which aren't trendy at my campus.

2 quarters (4 months) from release campus decides to buy an Internet SaaS product. And the in-house project was shelved completely never to be touched now.

Imma really the integration lead for the campus with the SaaS vendor. But it turns out the SaaS product cannot create the Reports we want, nor is it granular enough in other aspects for our needs compared to our in-house legacy offering.

Se la vi.

tenken··on Soupault: A static website management tool
also php driven https://getgrav.org has a webui admin panel which can replace it's CLI admin tool chain.
tenken··on Fluorite lenses: Corrective capabilities beyond ordinary optical glass
Do you mean "High Index" lenses? ... I have strong prescriptions of -9.x and -11.x and I have had 1.66 index lenses. I've always noted to doctors light sources move around or float around alot with the lenses. I haven't necessarily noticed a difference with contacts (but I did see sharper with hard contacts) but my eyes cannot tolerate hard or soft lenses.

I have tried even higher index lenses, but anything above 1.66 and the distortions and optical aberrations get too annoying ...

tenken··on Fluorite lenses: Corrective capabilities beyond ordinary optical glass
And here I thought they meant Eyes Glasses .... Darn.
tenken··on High myopia is now the leading cause of blindness in Japan, China, and Taiwan
Hi thanks so much. I also hope your issues are manageable!

I don't mean to pry, are the shots for macular degeneration or do you have retinopathy of diabetes? My mom has macular degeneration and has had some shots already (she is stable at the moment)... And the doctor says the MD could be hereditary.... Oh joy, but there's essentially little I can do about that. So (I figure) take an over the counter eye vitamin and basically try to stay away from more surgeries if possible ... Rarely are surgeries a better result (for anything) than yourself prior to the surgery; there are always tradeoffs to lens implants, replacement knees etc.

tenken··on High myopia is now the leading cause of blindness in Japan, China, and Taiwan
Meh. I have retinopathy of prematurity and -9.25 and -11.23 single vision lenses. My ROP was scored at level 3 of 5 generally speaking (I am a twin, my twin does not have ROP), my rop is considered stable. I get retina checkups every 6mo.

I've also had 2 retinal holes and 1 horse shoe tear across both eyes in the last 3-4 years... And cataract surgery in my worst eye last year implanting a mono-vision IOL. I am 43 years old now.

Everyone in this thread worrying about your -2 and -3 myopia can just go sit down ... Lol.

My biggest concern at the moment is the slow moving cataract in my "good" eye, I'd rather not get surgery for ~10 years if it can be avoided.... I write code for a living ...

Everyone's eyes age and deteriorate as we get older. My eyes are simply more prone to complications due to the ROP as they never fully developed correctly due to the incubator I was placed in at birth (born 2mo early)...

tenken··on Some Pixel owners still can't dial 911 during an emergency
I had a Bluetooth keyboard in a backpack turned On in the trunk of my car while driving .... random key presses while driving from bumps in the road managed to dial 911 ... or make the phone think it was an emergency and 911 was called. Not fun.

The keyboard was spamming gibberish, eg NN nZzz1457_+-5hhhsvb .... etc

It took me a while to figure out why the phone appeared possessed...

tenken··on 90% of “eco-friendly” paper straws contain traces of toxic forever chemicals
My uncle has Parkinson's disease attributed (in part) by Veterans Affairs due to Agent Orange exposure in Vietnam.

He can only drink out of a cup using a straw due to the trembling and shakes.

Also, straws are fun.

tenken··on RedHat found a way to get around the GPLv2 license intention with contract law
To me it seems similar to sharing Netflix account passwords... which Netflix is now cracking down on.

You're allowed to use the service/software but not allowed to take away new business clients from us by re-sharing the source yourself.

tenken··on SQLite-based databases on the Postgres protocol? Yes we can
Damn my dyslexia I read marmot and thought you meant this unrelated project https://github.com/synopse/mORMot
tenken··on The Elasticsearch Rant
I've installed and used Apache Solr for projects alot ... With 6-digits of indexed documents. So i have experience with search indexes.

I've not had the pleasure yet of using Elastic Search. Having read the article I wonder if using a Go based library/tool was the real pain point? Are there no Java based libraries/tools that are less of a square hole round peg situation as encountered in the article?

tenken··on Ask HN: How do you approach a problem you are not sure has a solution?
I take a huge project that could takes weeks or months. And try to break down the task into 3 pieces for delivery.

Then I take each piece to work on and daily make a list of 3-5 tasks i feel I could complete in the day towards the overall goal. Sometimes task #1 is super simple, eg put name on top of paperwork today, or cleanup stale files, etc. But the goal is to always be able to say I completed a task towards the overall current piece of the whole project I'm building.

The stress is still there but everyday I can say ... See how far you've come, little by little it's coming together; the "process" is reassuring.

Keep reviewing the overall project plan, and biting off little pieces. It helps to manage the anxiety in this way.

tenken··on Infosec company pwned by 4chan user
... guess that's why it's comprehensive ^_^
tenken··on Navigating the world when your senses conjure up phenomena others can’t perceive
ah thanks for the clarification.

I suppose I was unclear, i ment in the article they mention some breathing techniques to try to help hearing... But i was curious if any other steps were taken? And if they helped whatsoever.

I asked because their brief discussion on vision quality was " i lied to my doctor as a kid, and in my 30s got eye surgery that was scary and messed with my perceptions!"..... Yet they seemed to skip just using plain old glasses to aide their vision throughout their formative years or even young adult years .... Or maybe that was just a narrative omission.

I was born premature at 2 lbs which caused retinopathy of prematurity. I've used glasses since age 2 and my eyes are prone to complications; having just had cataract surgery in my early 40s .... It seemed to me from the writing the author has an aversion to doctors throughout their life and seeking informed treatment ... But maybe I read the piece wrong...

tenken··on Navigating the world when your senses conjure up phenomena others can’t perceive
Have doctors not been able to help with the authors ear issues? .... Hearing aids don't help?...
tenken··on Lightweight SQLite Editor for Windows
No mention of https://sqlitestudio.pl/ in the comments which is cross platform ...
tenken··on MailCrab
I have used the Java smtp test email server FakeSMTP which has been around since around 2015. It can run via CLI as a service with no GUI, or with a GUI interface via Swing:

http://nilhcem.com/FakeSMTP/

tenken··on Earth’s innermost layer is a 644 kilometer wide ball of iron, new study finds
So what you're telling me is that 1 of my favorite movies, The Core (2003), is waaaay off on Science :D

:(

tenken··on yq: command-line YAML, JSON, XML, CSV and properties processor
yup. this. It's portable! ... But nerfed.
tenken··on A corrupt file led to the FAA ground stoppage – also found in backup system
> They should be testing their databases before backing them up blindly.

Oh you mean they should be testing/validating the generated backup db file before replicating it to long-term archive ...

tenken··on SQLite 2022 Recap
In the application layer
tenken··on Github.com Down Again?
I guess you don't use GitHub Actions or a CI build workflow ...
tenken··on Building a Budget Homelab NAS Server
Yes, i typed the reply on my phone and it autocorrected to that. :(
tenken··on Teleforking a Process onto a Different Computer
Doesn't Erlang support these ideas of distributed computing .... And if I recall correctly Clipper supported remote execution of objects, or sharing object code in a distributed fashion.
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