fortranfiend's comments

On: Ask HN: Do you still use physical calculators?

[fortranfiend]

Electrical engineer, ti89 in the desk. Also how else am I going to maintain my brick breaker dominion.

On: A judge gave the FBI permission to attempt to bypass biometrics

[fortranfiend]

Don't use biometrics a pin has been shown to have more 5th amendment protections. Have your phone automatically reboot at a regular time every day. When your phone reboots a lot of the exploits that can get into your phone are locked out because they rely on reading the active memory.

On: Office app has changed to copilot and now I can't open files

[fortranfiend]

Did you remember to say please and thank you to copilot..../s

For a single user error, pbkac.

On: Landlords are using automated services to monitor tenant promotions

[fortranfiend]

I use it to see what restaurants are open on holidays or late at night then I just go to the restaurant.

On: Grok turns off image generator for most after outcry over sexualised AI imagery

[fortranfiend]

Hmm it just let me put Keir Starmer in a bikini.

On: OneDrive just deleted all of my files

[fortranfiend]

I put all my cloud file sharing into the same local folder and let them fight it out, but also have a bitorrent sync of my monthly disk image as the backup.

On: Windows 11 Outperforming Linux on an Intel Arrow Lake H Laptop

[fortranfiend]

Have some oe on something similar, we created two laptops that ran Linux to mimic something in our plant, the issue with them though was drivers, we got the bleeding edge and components like the network card and graphics card just didn't work for a month or two until new drivers came out. It was red hat from maybe 2020 time frame.

It could be that they chose something bleeding edge and the hardware drivers were built for windows but might be a couple revisions behind for the Linux equivalents. It could be the development cycle for windows vs that of Linux and how they integrate with new hardware. Just a hypothesis.

On: Learning Fortran (2024)

[fortranfiend]

I still have to use Fortran 77 on vax machines at work. It's... Fun. Hope it lasts long enough for this replacement project to finish.

On: A supersonic engine core makes the perfect power turbine

[fortranfiend]

Hmm curious as to how loud it will make the data center.

On: Project Euler

[fortranfiend]

fake frustration yet another thing named after euler.