Hacker News: Bombinator

New comment by Bombinator in "The Birth of Standard Error (2013)"

Bombinator — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 13:19:15 +0000

You can set the buffering mode of any file stream with setvbuf. For example, setvbuf(stderr, NULL, _IOLBF, BUFSIZ) sets stderr to line buffered I/O.

New comment by Bombinator in "Ask HN: What Are You Learning?"

Bombinator — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 14:22:19 +0000

rust

New comment by Bombinator in "Framework Laptop 16 Review"

Bombinator — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 11:53:01 +0000

Click on + for Fedora and Ubuntu and check "Stability"

New comment by Bombinator in "Will scaling work?"

Bombinator — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 12:26:49 +0000

People have been killing each other for their entire history, I don't think that has changed. It's just that you hear about and see it more often now.

New comment by Bombinator in "Show HN: Rem: Remember Everything (open source)"

Bombinator — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 20:25:45 +0000

Oh, well I think what he meant is that some malicious program could read and transmit this unencrypted recorded data which is normally stored in an encrypted form

New comment by Bombinator in "Show HN: Rem: Remember Everything (open source)"

Bombinator — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 18:36:50 +0000

> Like say from my password manager? Or API keys in my terminal?

New comment by Bombinator in "Show HN: Rem: Remember Everything (open source)"

Bombinator — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 18:13:50 +0000

> The demo is showing recording a web-browser He said it's not recording but taking a screenshot every 2 seconds and I assume it's not just for a browser but all text on the desktop.

> I also don't understand the chatGPT component You give it context from the "recording" and it answers questions you give it with that context info.

New comment by Bombinator in "Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS"

Bombinator — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 07:14:07 +0000

It's usable if you can live with some small annoying inconveniences last I tried. I can't remember if there were more inconveniences but what bugged me the most was that the touchpad was too sensitive compared to MacOS, it seemed to register accidental touches on the edges more and accidental taps were easier. I tried figuring out if this is fixable with libinput or hwdb but eventually gave up. Also the shortcuts with Command key are way more convenient than the ctrl ones but this probably is configurable somehow. Some Java programs had scaling issues but that can be configured to work properly. Battery life was a bit worse I think, this is with the GPU drivers and no video playback, just regular browsing. Oh and external monitor support isn't there, I do use this sometimes on MacOS.

New comment by Bombinator in "Show HN: I spent 6 months building a C debugger as a 17-year-old"

Bombinator — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 18:45:47 +0000

Isn't that implying OP is a script kiddie? I don't think writing a debugger is a script kiddie project.

New comment by Bombinator in "Text editing on mobile: the invisible problem"

Bombinator — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 07:32:48 +0000

I saw Unexpected Keyboard recommended here, turns out it can do this as well among other things. Just tap Shift and drag left/right on spacebar. The main feature though is that you can enter the characters that aren't used commonly by swiping insted of holding on a key or switching to a different key view. You can also get Ctrl and Alt and you can like lock them as well which is useful in Termux.

New comment by Bombinator in "Improving sleep"

Bombinator — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 01:22:11 +0000

I don't understand going cold turkey. You said it had a difference for you. What was it? I've tapered off before, it probably took like a week at most and I experienced no headaches.

New comment by Bombinator in "Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99"

Bombinator — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 10:54:39 +0000

From what I understand it was discovered in 1999, hence LK99. Doesn't seem very quick to me in that case.

New comment by Bombinator in "Systemd 254 released, deprecating sysvinit scripts"

Bombinator — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 15:12:00 +0000

Don't you think it does a bit too much as an init system?

New comment by Bombinator in "When did people stop being drunk all the time?"

Bombinator — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 07:30:28 +0000

Distill

New comment by Bombinator in "Ash HN: How can I make my idle CPU time useful to others?"

Bombinator — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 13:31:14 +0000

> [1] https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/

That link says " We encourage you to keep crunching for science." with a link to https://scienceunited.org/

Ask HN: Startup for RISC-V?

Bombinator — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 13:19:09 +0000

I think I'm in a good position to start a startup. I have a family member that is good with business management stuff and legal aspects of all of this, I'm very young (19), have some disposable income but I would need to get some more for a startup and I have no expenses (living with family).

SiFive has been pretty successful but I it's not a realistic goal to compete with them. Is there something involving RISC-V that could be made profitable without an upfront investment that is > 100'000 EUR? From what I understand, Mikrotik, a company from my home country Latvia, became successful because they didn't limit their devices behind a license. I just don't know how to find opportunities like that to take advantage of. Why I'm asking about RISC-V specifically? Because it's something that interests me, the benefits of that ISA look promising and I assume there's less competition.

In summary, how do I find problems that could be solved by or technologies, services that could be improved upon by using RISC-V?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36771692

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by Bombinator in "How many people have ever lived on Earth?"

Bombinator — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 11:01:57 +0000

dude... whether it's jesus or eternal nothingness, it takes faith to believe in both. There's no evidence for any of this so the only correct answer is we don't know.

> All empirical evidence from thousands of years of scrutiny

Yes, I'm very curious to see empirical evidence of what happens post-death and someone who lived to tell us.

New comment by Bombinator in "Reddit makes it impossible to delete PII, refuses to do it itself violating GDPR [video]"

Bombinator — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 08:55:23 +0000

> Since reddit also appears to keep edits

How do you know this?

New comment by Bombinator in "Show HN: Bing Chat sidebar ported from Edge to Chrome"

Bombinator — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 04:49:46 +0000

You can just change the user agent but it's still dumb that you have to.

New comment by Bombinator in "OpenAI checked to see whether GPT-4 could take over the world"

Bombinator — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 10:48:23 +0000

Same, he's so friendly.