mrspuratic

一昨日議論

My uni had an original 1800s style beam engine (from a whiskey distillery) as a feature in the Engineering faculty building foyer. It did move, but driven by electricity, and only a couple of times a year AFAIR.

https://forum.irishwhiskeysociety.com/viewtopic.php-p=12194....

mrspuratic

4 日前議論

My technophile uncle gave me one in the late 80s when he upgraded, even came with a monster of a daisy wheel printer. Can't remember what the WP was, but I remember being amused with V1.0 Microsoft Basic which came on a cartridge.

mrspuratic

先月議論

This feature has been part of bash since 5.1 (ca 2020), though it may not be enabled in all distros.

  cd src/bash-5.3/examples/loadables
  make accept
  enable -f ./accept accept
  (accept -r RHOST -v SOCKETFD -b 127.0.0.1 8000; 
    read -u $SOCKETFD SOCKETDATA; 
    printf "%s: %s\n" "$RHOST" "$SOCKETDATA";
    printf "goodbye, world\n" 1>&${SOCKETFD} ) &
  nc 127.0.0.1 8000 <<< "hello, world"

For real use you may need to add "exec {SOCKETFD}<&-" to close the FD.

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39369749 (2024)

mrspuratic

先月議論

Plus /actual/ flywheels to compensate for non-synchronous generation: https://www.esbinternational.ie/case-studies/details/moneypo...

mrspuratic

2 か月前議論

Land grab strategy 101.

mrspuratic

2 か月前議論

Not as long as there's money to be made schilling and selling "qualifications" in prompt engineering.

mrspuratic

3 か月前議論

This is how it works. Ireland was a net beneficiary until 2018, and now it is a net contributor (one of only 10 net contributors). These are decades long investments, Poland joined in 2004. Per capita Poland is not the "greatest" beneficiary but I don't think that will help win any arguments for those already resistant to facts or reasoning. https://www.euronews.com/business/2024/12/09/eu-budget-who-p...

mrspuratic

3 か月前議論

\usepackage{comicsans}

mrspuratic

3 か月前議論

"updoc" is still my favourite joke name. A long time ago (predating E lang's updoc afaict) I wrote a toy markup for semi-technical docs, named so with the specific intention of dropping it casually into conversation. Still funny :D

mrspuratic

3 か月前議論

showdead=no in user settings hides flagged & moderator killed posts

mrspuratic

5 か月前議論

Smoke yes, but you're also turning a carbon sink into a carbon source. At ~16% of the island's surface area, peatland stores an estimated 53% of soil based carbon. (source: Irish Peatland Conservation Council)

mrspuratic

5 か月前議論

[dupe^2], previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46897340

mrspuratic

6 か月前議論

Robert Frank Tinney, artist for over 100 Byte magazine covers 1975-1990, passed away peacefully on February 1st, 2026, at the age of 78.

Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28607038

mrspuratic

6 か月前議論

I grind my teeth every time I hear "I need an urgent DNS change" :/

mrspuratic

6 か月前議論

Hydro can help a lot with that. Grid stability is a big issue with non-synchronous power sources (SNSP).

mrspuratic

6 か月前議論

> I couldn't quickly find a way to decompress them

    pdftk in.pdf output out.pdf decompress

mrspuratic

6 か月前議論

Although it's not mentioned in those, it's going away at the end of the month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46701733 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46678710

mrspuratic

6 か月前議論

I got a Foxydry (Italy) wall-mounted rack a few years back, best €100 I spent that year. Bottom rack folds up flush to the wall, top rack raises nearly to the ceiling. Towels dry fine spread over extra bar or three to allow for better air circulation.

mrspuratic

6 か月前議論

No fridge? That's a heat pump.

mrspuratic

7 か月前議論

This. I have that type (regenerative MHVR) installed in the attic for upstairs, and a synced pair of in-wall ceramic (recuperative) types on opposite sides of main living area downstairs (eliminating ducting, albeit with reduced efficiency). I haven't attempted any energy/ROI calculations but fresh filtered air, lower humidity and good nights sleep are well worth the claimed single-digit watt power usage to me.

mrspuratic

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Departures at OpenSSL

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