Hacker News: 7jjjjjjj

New comment by 7jjjjjjj in "The IRS Moved IT and HR Staff to Process Taxes. It's Not Going Well"

7jjjjjjj — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:47:32 +0000

Congress doesn't spend to 2-3x what they collect. It's closer to 1.4x. Please don't spread misinformation.

New comment by 7jjjjjjj in "Full Reverse Engineering of the TI-84 Plus Operating System"

7jjjjjjj — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:34:32 +0000

There's actually a hidden lowercase feature, you can use an assembly program to enable it.

New comment by 7jjjjjjj in "Moving beyond fork() + exec()"

7jjjjjjj — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:00:05 +0000

>It feels crazy that we don't have a way to directly express the latter thing

Isn't that what posix_spawn is for?

New comment by 7jjjjjjj in "The desperation of NYTimes"

7jjjjjjj — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:54:25 +0000

You can also install Bypass Paywalls Clean on mobile Firefox.

New comment by 7jjjjjjj in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"

7jjjjjjj — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:43:19 +0000

If you have a composite video adapter it's pretty easy to dub a YouTube video to VHS.

New comment by 7jjjjjjj in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

7jjjjjjj — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:22:24 +0000

Or just straight up point the camera at a computer monitor, without even trying to hide it. Most of the security camera footage online is already uploaded this way.

New comment by 7jjjjjjj in "What is a Demand Coop"

7jjjjjjj — Fri, 22 May 2026 04:47:50 +0000

A kingdom and a republic are also both structures, but I think there are some salient differences.

New comment by 7jjjjjjj in "Hindenburg’s Smoking Room"

7jjjjjjj — Mon, 18 May 2026 05:53:15 +0000

Recirculated air is still a thousand times cleaner than air with cigarette smoke in it.

New comment by 7jjjjjjj in "Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California"

7jjjjjjj — Sun, 17 May 2026 01:17:38 +0000

You need to authenticate to download the game, but then you can play it as much as you want even offline. This is true for Prism Launcher, anyway. I haven't used the official launcher in years.

New comment by 7jjjjjjj in "California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws"

7jjjjjjj — Sun, 03 May 2026 05:24:04 +0000

Banning someone from driving is basically a nonpunishment as driving on a suspended license is barely enforced. Most people with suspended licenses keep driving.

New comment by 7jjjjjjj in "Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI"

7jjjjjjj — Sat, 02 May 2026 00:12:55 +0000

Isn't that what FM radio is for?

New comment by 7jjjjjjj in "Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI"

7jjjjjjj — Sat, 02 May 2026 00:08:46 +0000

Both of those options are better because they don't involve giving your money to Spotify.

New comment by 7jjjjjjj in "State of Kdenlive"

7jjjjjjj — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 02:00:24 +0000

No, I use Blender a lot and don't even know what they have mapped to the numpad.

New comment by 7jjjjjjj in "NeoGeo AES+: SNK announces reissue of retro console without emulation"

7jjjjjjj — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:08:43 +0000

>transparency-layering effects on things like Sonic the Hedgehog

That only worked because they expected to run over composite. Arcade cabinets used RGB which doesn't have the bandwidth limitations of composite.

New comment by 7jjjjjjj in "Big-Endian Testing with QEMU"

7jjjjjjj — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:08:11 +0000

It goes without saying that all binary network protocols should document their byte order, and that if you're implementing a protocol documented as big endian you should use ntohl and friends to ensure correctness.

However if designing a new network protocol, choosing big endian is insanity. Use little endian, skip the macros, and just add

  #ifndef LITTLE_ENDIAN
    #error

Or the like to a header somewhere.

New comment by 7jjjjjjj in "Big-Endian Testing with QEMU"

7jjjjjjj — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:02:00 +0000

Assuming an 8-bit byte used to be a "vendor specific hack." Assuming twos complement integers used to be a "vendor specific hack." When all the 36-bit machines died, and all the one's complement machines died, we got over it.

That's where big endian is now. All the BE architectures are dying or dead. No big endian system will ever be popular again. It's time for big endian to be consigned to the dustbin of history.

New comment by 7jjjjjjj in "Make macOS consistently bad unironically"

7jjjjjjj — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 02:45:34 +0000

I hate rounded corners. I use stylus to apply "*{border-radius: 0 !important;}" to a bunch of sites, including YouTube.

New comment by 7jjjjjjj in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

7jjjjjjj — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:43:29 +0000

Not the person your were talking to but at work the Windows machines have a bunch of MDM garbage on them that screws up the OS and requires reimaging every few months. For that reason I have a Powershell script to automatically set up a machine.

New comment by 7jjjjjjj in "Passengers who refuse to use headphones can now be kicked off United flights"

7jjjjjjj — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:06:52 +0000

Playing music on the street is acceptable if and only if the music is good.

New comment by 7jjjjjjj in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

7jjjjjjj — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:25:06 +0000

We already have an extremely complicated system of farm insurance and commodity futures for that.