Hacker News: DreadY2K

New comment by DreadY2K in "Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES"

DreadY2K — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:50:41 +0000

Not GP but I feel like there's a continual process of the stdlib adding some new functionality to make one such crate redundant (e.g. is-terminal in 1.70), but it isn't done yet.

New comment by DreadY2K in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

DreadY2K — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:58:45 +0000

I noticed my 13 thermally handles being on a soft surface (like a bed or a couch) very poorly, it gets quite warm to the touch and runs the fans hard even at rest. Does the improved thermals of the 13 pro also help this case?

New comment by DreadY2K in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

DreadY2K — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:55:25 +0000

Similar story here. Mine is 3 years old, and the battery is about 80% of its original capacity and the touchpad occasionally drops clicks, but otherwise it's still working great! Also the charging cable frayed, but I have plenty of those cables around.

New comment by DreadY2K in "All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018)"

DreadY2K — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:29:50 +0000

> how, after 6 months' travel in deep space, will they accomplish anything at a Mars base, even mere survival?

I expect the answer is spin gravity. Have a long cable with a counterweight on the other end, spin it at some rate. We would need some studying about the exact impacts (how hard is it to learn to start/stop compensating for Coriolis forces?), but it'd be much easier than full weightlessness.

New comment by DreadY2K in "Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections"

DreadY2K — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 21:45:22 +0000

> e.g. a family member or your boss can tell you who to vote for and force you to submit that vote.

Where i live, you can show up in-person on election day to override a mailed ballot, if you're in a situation like that.

New comment by DreadY2K in "Linux Sandboxes and Fil-C"

DreadY2K — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 01:09:39 +0000

> I’m only claiming that it’s memory safe and I am defining what that means with high precision

Do you have your definition of memory safety anywhere? Specifically one that's precise enough that if I observe a bug in a C program compiled via Fil-C, I can tell whether this is a Fil-C bug allowing (in your definition) memory unsafety (e.g. I'm pretty sure an out-of-bounds read would be memory unsafety), or if it's considered a non-memory-safety bug that Fil-C isn't trying to prevent (e.g. I'm pretty sure a program that doesn't check for symlinks before overwriting a path is something you're not trying to protect against). I tried skimming your website for such a definition and couldn't find this definition, sorry if I missed it.

I typically see memory safety discussed in the context of Rust, which considers any torn read to be memory-unsafe UB (even for types that don't involve pointers like `[u64; 2]`, such a data race is considered memory-unsafe UB!), but it sounds like you don't agree with that definition.

New comment by DreadY2K in "Iowa City made its buses free. Traffic cleared, and so did the air"

DreadY2K — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 21:42:57 +0000

I don't have sources on hand, but my understanding is that there are a lot of people who come to CA without a good plan nor a social support network, become homeless, and then people misinterpret that situation as them coming here while homeless, which then gets misinterpreted as homeless people being intentionally shipped here.

New comment by DreadY2K in "WhatsApp introduces ads in its app"

DreadY2K — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 20:07:44 +0000

Maybe this isn't the case for you, but a number of creators I watch have some videos that they only upload to Nebula. So it's worth it for me to see those videos I otherwise wouldn't ever get to see.

New comment by DreadY2K in "Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++"

DreadY2K — Sat, 10 May 2025 00:07:40 +0000

There's a lint for indexing an array, but not for all maybe-panicking operations. For example, the `copy_from_slice` method on slices (https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.slice.html#method.co...) doesn't have a clippy lint for it, even though it will panic if given the wrong length.

New comment by DreadY2K in "The rule says, “No vehicles in the park”"

DreadY2K — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 20:55:51 +0000

I got 48%, so no not everyone does.

New comment by DreadY2K in "French govt. says users of uBlock Origin, Signal etc. are potential terrorists"

DreadY2K — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 17:33:04 +0000

Ah yes, because Signal is famously the app you use to be alone and not interact with anyone else

New comment by DreadY2K in "Framework announces AMD, new Intel gen, 16“ laptop and more"

DreadY2K — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 19:48:14 +0000

Will it be possible to upgrade my current framework laptop to the new 16" form factor? It feels like it should be a possible upgrade, but I haven't seen anything saying that it will be possible, so I'd like to confirm.

New comment by DreadY2K in "Framework announces AMD, new Intel gen, 16“ laptop and more"

DreadY2K — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 19:43:23 +0000

If you pick the DIY version, that is an option. I got mine with no OS preinstalled and no MS tax, and it was easy enough to install Manjaro.

New comment by DreadY2K in "EU adopts global minimum 15% tax on big business"

DreadY2K — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 00:22:08 +0000

Those things are fine, but many companies will e.g. register a separate company in a tax haven, give that company a piece of IP, and then have that company charge the original company for all of their profits. That way, the company has no profits to report, but the money wasn't reinvested in any way, just routed around profits taxes.

New comment by DreadY2K in "SPACs collapse as $11B of deals are called off within an hour"

DreadY2K — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 01:58:06 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special-purpose_acquisition_co...

New comment by DreadY2K in "Adobe now requires you to purchase a subscription to rotate PDF pages"

DreadY2K — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 19:04:32 +0000

In my experience, LibreOffice Draw usually messes up the formatting of any PDFs I open in it. Nothing entirely unsalvageable, but text gets slightly moved around and winds up overlapping other text in a way that's annoying for future readers of the document.

New comment by DreadY2K in "Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far"

DreadY2K — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 20:16:11 +0000

How does this compare to other companies that dig tunnels?

New comment by DreadY2K in "I don’t know how to count that low"

DreadY2K — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 16:54:35 +0000

I read it as "the database could increase in size by several orders of magnitude and still fit in memory"

New comment by DreadY2K in "Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea"

DreadY2K — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 22:48:45 +0000

If you run an advertising company, you could probably just pay people a small amount of money to get their browsing history and their FLoC id, and enough people would take you up on that offer that you'd get that data (and maybe also demographics), without having to do any work to reverse-engineer.

New comment by DreadY2K in "Intel Problems"

DreadY2K — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:47:20 +0000

Many people do code against some sort of VM, but there are still people writing code in C/C++/Rust/Go/&c that gets compiled to machine code and run directly.

Also, even if you're running against a VM, your VM is running on an ISA, so performance differences between them are still relevant to your code's performance.