Hacker News: Double_a_92

New comment by Double_a_92 in "StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month"

Double_a_92 — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 10:46:19 +0000

Somehow over the last couple of years it feels more and more like screaming into a void. It doesn't feel like I'm interacting with people anymore. There are no reactions anymore...

New comment by Double_a_92 in "An ad-free Android TV"

Double_a_92 — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 06:44:56 +0000

Not sure, but I heard that special Hotel TVs are basically that. They don't seem to be more expensive.

New comment by Double_a_92 in "A Book That Will Never Be Read"

Double_a_92 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:46:57 +0000

AI is pretty capable of detecting meaningless fluff though. If anything it could actually help to find the actually promising papers.

New comment by Double_a_92 in "10 Years of the SRE book: Announcing the second edition"

Double_a_92 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:40:34 +0000

Are there any other books from Google like this?

New comment by Double_a_92 in "Hop.earth – OpenStreetMap based car racing game"

Double_a_92 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:15:02 +0000

Cursed buggy mess

New comment by Double_a_92 in "Generate parametric, manufacturable 3D models in seconds"

Double_a_92 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 09:06:15 +0000

Same. Hated it so much.

New comment by Double_a_92 in "EU Council forces Chat Control via fast-track"

Double_a_92 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 08:01:32 +0000

Just because it's criminal, it doesn't mean that every private entity has to help to prevent it at costs of your privacy.

If there are people that host parties in their homes to share CSAM, does that mean that it should be mandatory to install surveillance cameras in your house?

Also as if people that are seriously sharing CSAM, wouldn't encrypt the data before sharing it.

New comment by Double_a_92 in "Latta Java"

Double_a_92 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 06:52:03 +0000

Btw, at first sight it's unclear what the scope of this is. It seems to be one project, but then it's actually multiple smaller libraries and "Latte" is just the organisation? Also is the dependency management not it's own project?

New comment by Double_a_92 in "OpenPrinter"

Double_a_92 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 06:22:16 +0000

The issue is mainly the nozzle. Ironically 3D printers are a lot easier there, since you just need to melt a thick wire, and not worry about microscopically small droplets.

New comment by Double_a_92 in "OneDrive data now has an expiry date"

Double_a_92 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:51:23 +0000

Then the actual issue is that OneDrive syncs deactivated (empty) accounts to your system, deleting the offline files as well..?

New comment by Double_a_92 in "OneDrive data now has an expiry date"

Double_a_92 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:05:24 +0000

I'm also unsure what they wanted Microsoft to do. Just store data that apparently doesn't belong to anyone anymore forever?

New comment by Double_a_92 in "Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team"

Double_a_92 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:36:54 +0000

To make it have a different license which can be used in closed-source projects.

New comment by Double_a_92 in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

Double_a_92 — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:02:56 +0000

When they do that (e.g. in customer support) I sometimes do the same. I explain to the AI what my end goal is, and then let it deal with the answers.

New comment by Double_a_92 in "Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore"

Double_a_92 — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:57:23 +0000

It was good for finding answers. But as a community to actually participate it was horrible. You couldn't even answer questions, because if you didn't get enough likes they would block you from answering any more.

New comment by Double_a_92 in "Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?"

Double_a_92 — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:43:01 +0000

I remember reading somewhere that the highest risk is you falling off the table while you are sedated.

New comment by Double_a_92 in "Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?"

Double_a_92 — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:40:22 +0000

Can also confirm that the worst part was the prepping. You have to dring 2 liters of liquid that give you diarrea... The second liter is the worst, since the body learns that it's "poison" and triggers all the reflexes to make you not swallow it.

New comment by Double_a_92 in "Write some software, give it away for free"

Double_a_92 — Wed, 06 May 2026 10:56:58 +0000

Most programming languages and tools are free and open source. Software developers will not code you an app for free.

New comment by Double_a_92 in "Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, Polarization (2025)"

Double_a_92 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 13:03:35 +0000

Didn't work for me. It barely even show me content that my friends create. It's all reaction videos and conspiracy nonsense. Even if you block those channels, another one with a slightly different name pops up.

New comment by Double_a_92 in "LLM Inevitabilism"

Double_a_92 — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 09:54:36 +0000

Are you sure? For me they always struggle and forget code after about 300 lines.

New comment by Double_a_92 in "What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing?"

Double_a_92 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 14:17:21 +0000

In all of my school years, essays were THE WORST kind of exam there was. The grading was highly arbitrary anyway... Good that AI is killing that.