Hacker News: DiggyJohnson

New comment by DiggyJohnson in "Discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by the Hiroshima atomic blast"

DiggyJohnson — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:44:04 +0000

why would you wish for this?

New comment by DiggyJohnson in "Severance"

DiggyJohnson — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:36:30 +0000

My condolences for whatever career path led you to actually believe that

New comment by DiggyJohnson in "Multiple Mouse Cursors in Wayland"

DiggyJohnson — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 05:43:04 +0000

It’s good to see the minimal drag to border behavior coming to all the OSs and DEs these days. I’m a weirdo and use i3 so I relate to this concern and am very comfortable with tiling for lots of applications. However there’s sometimes I wish I could just tell my display manager to treat the single WH wide monitor as two separate displays with dimensions, e.g. W(H-x) and W*(H+x).

Not sure the best level to implement this. There’s probably already solutions for this now that I think about it…

New comment by DiggyJohnson in "Plasma Tunnels Reveal How Dying Satellites Fall to Earth"

DiggyJohnson — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:39:01 +0000

What do you mean? Especially by “ignorance of meteors”? Are you opposed to all launches if your preference is zero?

Please consider that I’m very familiar with natural and artificial meteor falls if you choose to respond

New comment by DiggyJohnson in "Plasma Tunnels Reveal How Dying Satellites Fall to Earth"

DiggyJohnson — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:06:03 +0000

I’m not GP but your original comment did not come across as neutral

New comment by DiggyJohnson in "Plasma Tunnels Reveal How Dying Satellites Fall to Earth"

DiggyJohnson — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:04:53 +0000

Why do you consider the ideal point for this question absolute 0 zero reentries rather than the minimal number of reentries that don’t cause damage to the atmosphere?

New comment by DiggyJohnson in "Plasma Tunnels Reveal How Dying Satellites Fall to Earth"

DiggyJohnson — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:02:43 +0000

If it turns out the junk truly disintegrates without any significant affect to the atmosphere then GP is saying that it’s not actually a problem and not actually “junk”. Space junk usually refers to stuff junking up things in the same way a rusted out sedan ruins a yard.

If the sedan disappeared it wouldn’t really be considered junk. If the sedan disappeared but left behind a puddle of poison the label would still apply.

New comment by DiggyJohnson in "Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux"

DiggyJohnson — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:57:58 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by DiggyJohnson in "Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux"

DiggyJohnson — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 08:42:00 +0000

would love to see twm get active again as well

New comment by DiggyJohnson in "Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained"

DiggyJohnson — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:33:19 +0000

I genuinely think it’s all three:

1. The cultural factor is rising expectations for children and their parents, costing both time and money;

2. The political/social factor is nanny states and academic institutions that the public expects to not only teach but raise their kids;

3. Technology. Especially the Internet, mobile devices, social media, and short form content. Technology distracts and isolates both kids and parents.

An example of the three factors at work is the all-too-common local news trope of ”Nosy neighbor calls CPS because the family next door lets their kids walk to school. Whole family traumatized as a result.”

New comment by DiggyJohnson in "Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics"

DiggyJohnson — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:22:14 +0000

Follow the guidelines

New comment by DiggyJohnson in "The computer science degree isn’t dead"

DiggyJohnson — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:22:07 +0000

As a straight male that does well with dating and relationships I am quietly fascinated by this aspect of gay culture and relationships. It changes so many dynamics.

Thankful for the group of guys at our neighborhood bar where we play gays vs straights pool and rib about this stuff. Lol, just wanted to share that anecdote tbh

New comment by DiggyJohnson in "The computer science degree isn’t dead"

DiggyJohnson — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:17:15 +0000

I don’t see how this isn’t a massive net negative to you personally other than avoiding occasional odd conversation. You can have genuine conversations both personally and professionally with all sorts of people even if you don’t “dress like shit”. The expat versus immigrant thing is interesting but I assume most can see through that. Sorry to sound critical not really my intention but this is a very interesting approach. It makes the most sense if you’re already set in a great gig or already made your money, no?

New comment by DiggyJohnson in "The computer science degree isn’t dead"

DiggyJohnson — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:13:22 +0000

Just curious what part of the world you live in? Apologies if that seems like prying

New comment by DiggyJohnson in "AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed"

DiggyJohnson — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:06:16 +0000

Please follow the HN guidelines.

New comment by DiggyJohnson in "AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed"

DiggyJohnson — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:05:51 +0000

Please follow the HN guidelines.

New comment by DiggyJohnson in "AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed"

DiggyJohnson — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:04:56 +0000

20 engineers would be incredibly aggressive growth for such a young company with that amount of capital, no?

New comment by DiggyJohnson in "The iPhone's Last Stand?"

DiggyJohnson — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:06:05 +0000

why are you censoring the word 'God'?

New comment by DiggyJohnson in "Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket"

DiggyJohnson — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:54:25 +0000

Seems minimal though in the grand scheme of things

New comment by DiggyJohnson in "More on Version Control"

DiggyJohnson — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 11:34:28 +0000

That is an issue of ignorance, not laziness. It’s not obvious at all to an average developer that only uses `add/commit/merge/fetch/push/pull/rebase/restore/reset` that they can manipulate their change history.