Hacker News: ChristianJacobs

New comment by ChristianJacobs in "FreeCAD v1.1"

ChristianJacobs — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:21:14 +0000

Thumbs up for both of them, but I must say that DeltaHedra has become my new favourite FreeCAD content creator. Especially after he started using his own voice. His old content was good, but his current his magnifique! The quality of the content he pushes is above and beyond.

New comment by ChristianJacobs in "Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?"

ChristianJacobs — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 11:11:54 +0000

Next FIFA peace price for you!

New comment by ChristianJacobs in "A Day in the Life of an Enshittificator [video]"

ChristianJacobs — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 10:05:03 +0000

I don't think this is off-topic for HN at all. They point fingers at what's a clear issue in the tech industry with the endless subscriptions model.

You'll own nothing, and you'll be happier for it.

New comment by ChristianJacobs in "15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram"

ChristianJacobs — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:52:53 +0000

LinkedIn is a masquerade ball dressed up as a business oriented forum. Nobody is showing their true selves, everyone is either grinding at their latest unicorn potential with their LLM BFF or posting a "thoughtful" story that is 100% totally real about a life changing event that somehow turns into a sales pitch at the end...

New comment by ChristianJacobs in "15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram"

ChristianJacobs — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:41:15 +0000

You apparently did not read the article. "Morged" is a word the LLM that ripped off the article author's diagram hallucinated.

New comment by ChristianJacobs in "Jellyfin LLM/"AI" Development Policy"

ChristianJacobs — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 22:21:19 +0000

I am quite obviously blind, but I still stand by my sentiment. I would rather have a "bad" but honest PR body than a machine translated one where the author isn't sure about what it says. How will you know if what it says is what you meant?

New comment by ChristianJacobs in "Jellyfin LLM/"AI" Development Policy"

ChristianJacobs — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 22:05:31 +0000

This seems fair, tbh. And I fully agree on the policy for issues/discussions/PRs.

I know there will probably be a whole host of people from non-English-speaking countries who will complain that they are only using AI to translate because English is not their first (or maybe even second) language. To those I will just say: I would much rather read your non-native English, knowing you put thought and care into what you wrote, rather than reading an AIs (poor) interpretation of what you hoped to convey.

Building a Multi-Tenant Metrics Pipeline

ChristianJacobs — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:31:22 +0000

Article URL: https://jamesrobb.ca/projects/metrics_pipeline/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46704167

Points: 1

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New comment by ChristianJacobs in "Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash"

ChristianJacobs — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 21:21:47 +0000

That's the neat trick - it isn't...

New comment by ChristianJacobs in "Several core problems with Rust"

ChristianJacobs — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 07:20:31 +0000

Not really. It's just "unwrap(" instead.

New comment by ChristianJacobs in "Kratos - Cloud native Auth0 open-source alternative (self-hosted)"

ChristianJacobs — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:58:00 +0000

Have you tried Pocket-ID? I use it for my home server with LLDAP as the identity provider.

New comment by ChristianJacobs in "I Used Arch, BTW: macOS, Day 1"

ChristianJacobs — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 07:08:07 +0000

I switched to AeroSpace from Yabai because I had to disable parts of SIP for certain functions (such as switching workspaces with keybindings from SKHD), and that didn't feel right. Updates are also smoother since I don't need to update the sudoers file allowing the Yabai CLI to run without requiring password. Been happy as a clam ever since.

New comment by ChristianJacobs in "Using unwrap() in Rust is Okay (2022)"

ChristianJacobs — Wed, 21 May 2025 13:42:45 +0000

You're looking for `.expect()`, available on both Option and Result.

New comment by ChristianJacobs in "The Awful German Language (1880)"

ChristianJacobs — Fri, 16 May 2025 11:32:39 +0000

Same as a friend of mine who works for NAV. There's a whole lot of long-ass variable and function names because they use the Norwegian name for whatever they are calculating. It makes sense for them though, as the ones who review your code are lawyers...

New comment by ChristianJacobs in "Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]"

ChristianJacobs — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 06:49:24 +0000

Can wholeheartedly recommend swapping the sticks on the joycons with hall-effect ones from Gulikit. Made an immense difference for mine who were suffering from drift.

New comment by ChristianJacobs in "Compiling C to Safe Rust, Formalized"

ChristianJacobs — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 07:26:10 +0000

> looking to zig as a C replacement rather than Rust

Rust isn't a "replacement for C", but an addition to it. It's a tool that Torvalds et. al. has recognised the value of and thus it's been allowed in the kernel. The majority of the kernel code will still be written in C.

I'm no kernel maintainer, but I can speculate that two of the main reasons for Rust over Zig are the compile time guarantees that the language provides being better as well as the rate of adoption. There is a lot of work done by many leading companies in the industry to provide Rust native code or maintained Rust bindings for their APIs. Windows devs are re-writing parts of _their_ kernel in Rust. There's a "movement" going on that has been going on for a while. I only hope it doesn't stop.

Maybe the maintainers feel like Zig doesn't give them enough over C to be worth the change? Many of them are still opposed to Rust as well.

New comment by ChristianJacobs in "Steam releases new built-in recording feature"

ChristianJacobs — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 05:53:04 +0000

I'm not the target audience for this, given that I don't post gaming videos online or share them with friends, but I think it's very nice how Valve is continuously creating cool new stuff for the masses.

It's going to be an interesting time for developers playing with the new "events" API to find the right balance between too few and too many "events" to notify Steam about. Hope it won't carry too big a penalty for those not recording.

New comment by ChristianJacobs in "Lessons learned from a successful Rust rewrite"

ChristianJacobs — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 06:40:56 +0000

Not the parent poster, but in my experience - yes.

I mainly program in C++, and the past 5 years or so of writing Rust has drastically changed the way I write code (in general). Sometimes, if the problem is particularly hairy, I'll even write the code in a similar way in Rust first and then port it back to C++ after the compiler has helped me iron out my mistakes.