Hacker News: Arrath

New comment by Arrath in "I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone"

Arrath — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 06:40:12 +0000

The added scrutiny at some border crossings can be problematic too. Explaining to the inspectors at the Turkey/Bulgaria border why I had two phones and two laptops (and dissuading them of the suspicion that I was smuggling electronics to friends/family) through language barriers was a pain.

New comment by Arrath in "Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction"

Arrath — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:15:02 +0000

I had assumed the practice started to die off when installing games became dominant over streaming from the disc even on consoles. Seems I was wrong!

New comment by Arrath in "Valve is about to win the console generation"

Arrath — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 20:27:49 +0000

If anything the Tarkov ban treadmill is a way to drive sales. Even if some of them get disputed as fraudulent due to stolen card numbers, BSG may still come out ahead.

New comment by Arrath in "Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure"

Arrath — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:02:36 +0000

Maybe so, but I would contend it is worth considering the broader implications of those investments and the effects that new and upgraded infrastructure could have on the greater economy.

Speaking only for myself, I would be okay with a lower return if it also means we as a society have good public transit, roads that aren't more pothole than asphalt, water that doesn't have to be boiled on occasion, reliable power, modern internet, and so on.

New comment by Arrath in "Judge denies request to exempt Flock footage from Public Records Act"

Arrath — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 07:50:25 +0000

> Such records shouldn't exist in the first place.

Oh I agree 100%

New comment by Arrath in "The modern homes hidden inside ancient ruins"

Arrath — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 03:49:04 +0000

Oh man I would love to see pictures of this.

New comment by Arrath in "Judge denies request to exempt Flock footage from Public Records Act"

Arrath — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 01:47:32 +0000

Good, such records shouldn't be exempt. So what if they were gathered by a third party, it was a service carried out under request of the local government/law enforcement, and paid for by public money.

New comment by Arrath in "NoLongerEvil-Thermostat – Nest Generation 1 and 2 Firmware"

Arrath — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 05:57:31 +0000

How absurd, that official, first party addons would flatly void the warranty. Shouldn't be legal.

New comment by Arrath in "Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not"

Arrath — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:12:23 +0000

>The previous comment was not talking about the browser viewer, it was talking about various website viewers, like the one by Jira.

Which tend to be, imo, even worse! I think I'd rather have a toner container explode on me than try to suffer through the experience of using Aconex's PDF utility ever again.

New comment by Arrath in "Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not"

Arrath — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 18:45:44 +0000

Seriously. I have a featureful PDF viewer I am intimately familiar with. I want it to be the default for all PDFs, ever. This gimped viewer in the browser is not what I want.

New comment by Arrath in "New South Korean national law will turn large parking lots into solar farms"

Arrath — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 05:36:49 +0000

>Poorly executed parking solar could reduce sightlines and escape routes by crowding ground level

There's certainly no need for the support superstructure to need more pillars and members than your typical multi deck parking structure and while yes some have bad sightlines a majority are totally fine.

New comment by Arrath in "Printed circuit board substrates derived from lignocellulose nanofibrils"

Arrath — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 20:30:31 +0000

Good point but perhaps coatings or impregnated fire retardant compounds can be utilized?

New comment by Arrath in "You can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's facial recognition app, DHS document say"

Arrath — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 19:45:36 +0000

Bullshit! The alternative is mentioned in the article, trust the official documents presented by the 'suspect', as that's the purpose of the documents. As in OP's quote:

“ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien,”

"Trust the word of the black box" is pure technocratic dystopian nonsense.

New comment by Arrath in "Estimating the perceived 'claustrophobia' of New York City's streets (2024)"

Arrath — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 16:10:12 +0000

Its funny for me, born and raised in the endless river valleys of the PNW, that I am so used to this topology that I'm much more comfortable in cities with an "opposite valley wall" (even if it's a building facade on the other side of the street and not the next row of hills a couple miles distant) in sight, than I am in Florida, on islands, or other big flatlands areas with nothing at all to break up the great sweep of the horizon.

New comment by Arrath in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

Arrath — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 19:53:06 +0000

"They'll learn their lesson and be rock solid after this! I better invest now!"

New comment by Arrath in "How the brain's activity, energy use and blood flow change as people fall asleep"

Arrath — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:20:16 +0000

I can confirm that anecdotally, taking those big 10mg pills did help me get to sleep, but also gave me some of the most fucked up dreams I've ever had the mispleasure of experiencing.

New comment by Arrath in "10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea"

Arrath — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 15:41:52 +0000

Nah just an unremarkable subdivision development in middle america.

New comment by Arrath in "10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea"

Arrath — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 04:51:11 +0000

Oh man, reminds me of one project where theives rolled up with a truck, hotwired a forklift and loaded up 3 of these boxes.

New comment by Arrath in "Cheap DIY solar fence design"

Arrath — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 18:34:38 +0000

I have the privilege of being licensed and insured for such and have a working relationship with the county fire marshall who issues the permits, so I used a rock bar to open a little hole to the right depth and then sprung the hole with a small binary explosive charge. Covered with matting hung from a borrowed tractor's bucket, so no danger of launched projectiles.

Saved a whole lot of backbreaking digging, do recommend.

New comment by Arrath in "Iceland reports the presence of mosquitoes as climate warms"

Arrath — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 18:15:42 +0000

My record is 51 with one slap of the hand.

That camping trip suuuuuuucked