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New comment by 0xfeba in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"

0xfeba — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:26:31 +0000

I separated around the same time, and at about the same age, also in a new city. It was rough. A city I never wanted to be in. I'd never find friends there.

A few years later, I have a couple friends that like you, I can just call them up or text and they're available. There are great places to meet, eat, and clubs to join.

New comment by 0xfeba in "“Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server"

0xfeba — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:30:08 +0000

Or, when I have fingerprint and PIN enabled but my lid closed, whenever it asks for escalation it shows the PIN entry for a moment, then I look away and start typing but fingerprint had loaded up and steals focus. Then I have to click back on PIN, and retype.

New comment by 0xfeba in "FVWM-95 (2001)"

0xfeba — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:17:46 +0000

I use this on my work machine, with Cortile for tiling.

New comment by 0xfeba in "Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright"

0xfeba — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 03:14:10 +0000

> I might just be getting old, but more and more I see people not using indicators and not understanding the rules of junctions. Tail gating also really annoying.

Same. I've also noticed that people entering the interstate seem to _expect_ that cars already on the interstate move over, or change speed to let them merge. Usually at 10-15 MPH slower than the speed of traffic.

I've made a point to, when I cannot move over, remain in my lane at the same speed. And I've had people just absolutely wait until the last moment of a long on-ramp to speed up, or slow down to merge. It's bizarre.

New comment by 0xfeba in "Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright"

0xfeba — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:25:08 +0000

> Lately, I see a lot of drivers who turn on their brights and just leave them on and this includes cars with the older halogen and even incandescents. This is a change in behavior.

This is one of my pet peeves.

I've categorized it into what I believe are the main causes:

1. People just don't know as well today that the blue indicator means you're blinding people

2. People with newer cars which will automatically turn off the headlights, including the brights, when you turn off and leave the car.

3. People with older cars where the low-beams are burned out or broken

I've been tempted to purchase digital billboard space to raise awareness. Eg., "If this blue indicator is on, you're blinding everyone".

And/or, get a mirror on my trunk that I can adjust the angle of from inside the cabin to reflect back high-beams at the driver.

Mostly I'm hoping that automatic high-beams, like some Ford trucks I've seen do well, proliferate more!

New comment by 0xfeba in "No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive"

0xfeba — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 11:56:41 +0000

I have Win 10 LTSC, and it came with none of that. But it is behind on feature updates.

New comment by 0xfeba in "It's OpenAI's world, we're just living in it"

0xfeba — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 18:24:44 +0000

Intersection of cloud compute power being plentiful combined with existing LMs. As I understand it, right now, it's really just throwing compute power at existing LMs to learn on gigantic datasets.

New comment by 0xfeba in "CDC File Transfer"

0xfeba — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 14:07:52 +0000

the name reminds me of Microsoft's RDC, Remote Differential Compression.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Differential_Compressio...

New comment by 0xfeba in "Emailing a one-time code is worse than passwords"

0xfeba — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 14:50:27 +0000

> And even if proper passwords are used, many sites/apps use this pattern for account recovery if the password is forgotten so effectively this is the only security as an attacker has “forgotten” the password and just uses this flow to login.

Was about to post just this. This is the flow they use for account recovery so it's the weakest link in the chain anyway.

New comment by 0xfeba in "The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source"

0xfeba — Mon, 19 May 2025 18:11:51 +0000

> Forscan for Ford vehicles also has to run under Windows.

I've successfully run it with WINE. Thought, my Forscan executable was 3 years old or so and that may have changed, but I doubt it.

New comment by 0xfeba in "High tariffs become 'real' with our first $36K bill"

0xfeba — Thu, 08 May 2025 17:17:11 +0000

Companies aren't going to invest 4+ years to get a supply-chain setup in the US when they can just wait for the next administration to roll these back. It's just needless economic turbulence.

New comment by 0xfeba in "Costa Rican supermarket wins trademark battle against Nintendo"

0xfeba — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 03:56:28 +0000

Reminds me of Nissan dot com lawsuit:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Motors_v._Nissan_Comput...

New comment by 0xfeba in "Allstate used GasBuddy and other apps to track driving behavior: lawsuit"

0xfeba — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 19:38:03 +0000

> The speed limit is a LIMIT not a requirement.

But after traffic analysis by engineers, the final number is set by politicians.

New comment by 0xfeba in "Seer: A GUI front end to GDB for Linux"

0xfeba — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 16:22:35 +0000

I've had logging slow down a concurrency issue enough to cause the race condition to never appear when logged, but setting a breakpoint (and stopping all threads) prevailed.

New comment by 0xfeba in "AI makes tech debt more expensive"

0xfeba — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 19:23:25 +0000

It acquires bugs, security flaws, and obsolescence from the operating system itself.

New comment by 0xfeba in "Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction"

0xfeba — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:43:13 +0000

hey gotta do something on the toilet

New comment by 0xfeba in "MP3 to EXE (1999)"

0xfeba — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 14:31:58 +0000

Wow! I had a copy Cool Edit from a CompuServe CD, IIRC. That got me into audio editing and making my own ringtones and whatnot.

New comment by 0xfeba in "Why does man print "gimme gimme gimme" at 00:30? (2017)"

0xfeba — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 19:43:27 +0000

I just made one last week that cracks me up still:

// We are liiiiiving in a material world, and I am a ma-ma-material org.

const materialOrgs = await db_read(organizations, { type: 'materials' });

New comment by 0xfeba in "Show HN: Facad – A colorful directory listing tool for the command line"

0xfeba — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:48:13 +0000

How do you pronounce the name?

New comment by 0xfeba in "Julia Child's Kitchens"

0xfeba — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 15:26:34 +0000

as someone who divorced and didn't want to be the 'mac and cheese dad', I found an older edition of "Williams Sonoma Cooking at Home" a really good beginner book. It goes over basic ingredients, seasonality, cooking methods, cooking tools, proper measuring, and complementary sides before hopping into recipes. I found all of these very valuable as _tons_ of recipes assume basic knowledge of it.

A lot of the recipes are quite involved though so now I tend to go for simpler ones, or pick-and-choose.