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momoraul

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momoraul··on A tale of two path separators
Oof, cd silently staying on the wrong drive and then del /s is the worst possible version of this. /d the hard way.
momoraul··on A tale of two path separators
Ah, fair. On modern Windows it's really cmd.exe faking it with env vars, not the API. Didn't know NT reserved space for per-drive CWDs and then never used it.
momoraul··on A tale of two path separators
Another Windows oddity: each drive letter has its own current directory. D: doesn't mean the root of D:, it means "wherever you last were on D:". Same with C:foo, which is relative to C:'s current directory. DOS baggage that's still around.
momoraul··on 16-year-old SATA II SSD survives 1 petabyte of writes, 25x the drive's rating
TBW ratings are notoriously conservative. People have been writing well past a petabyte to consumer drives for years before they give out.
momoraul··on I Stored a Website in a Favicon
The browser already asks for the favicon on every page. Might as well put it to work.
momoraul··on Show HN: Brain Frog – Can you be random enough for 11 lines of JavaScript?
46 and that was my ceiling. frogs smarter than me.
momoraul··on Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died
At Doom's Gate has been stuck in my head for decades. RIP.
momoraul··on Zenzizenzizenzic
Just "zenzi" stacked three times. They really committed to the bit.
momoraul··on So You Want to Define a Well-Known URI
Fair, the drawer's the good part. Beats having every spec squat its own root path.
momoraul··on So You Want to Define a Well-Known URI
.well-known started tidy and quietly became the junk drawer of the web root. security.txt, ACME, app-site-association, and counting.
momoraul··on Ice water drowning survival of young patient (2025)
147 minutes under and they brought him back. Every time I read a cold-water survival case I'm amazed all over again at what the body can pull through.
momoraul··on Storied Colors – A catalogue of named colors
Lost a solid 20 minutes to this. Something about a weird, evocative color name makes you picture the shade before the swatch even loads.
momoraul··on Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD
Surprised Gemini 3.1 Pro beat Claude in your evals for code-gen. Any intuition why - spatial reasoning, or just cleaner OpenSCAD output?
momoraul··on Show HN: We built an 8-bit CPU as 2nd year EE students
the rom-to-ram bootstrap is a nice touch. after it hands over, what stops the bootloader from writing to I-SRAM again? a mode flag in the control matrix?