<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: EligibleDecoy</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=EligibleDecoy</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:24:37 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=EligibleDecoy" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by EligibleDecoy in "I'm getting fed up of making the rich, richer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think a lot of English speakers use commas to emphasize a pause in speech. I don’t think a comma was needed. I think the author was slightly mixing up the relative clauses and appositives rules with commas.
 Source: native speaker, North America<p>EDIT: I like qwertox’s answer best</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://blog.hollandgibson.com/2025/01/30/we-should-have-this-by-now">https://blog.hollandgibson.com/2025/01/30/we-should-have-this-by-now</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42879798">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42879798</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2025 17:13:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://blog.hollandgibson.com/2025/01/30/we-should-have-this-by-now</link><dc:creator>EligibleDecoy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42879798</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42879798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by EligibleDecoy in "Ask HN: Has anyone tried alternative company models (like a co-op) for SaaS?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My first thought as well!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2025 04:00:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42753442</link><dc:creator>EligibleDecoy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42753442</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42753442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by EligibleDecoy in "Who Do Children Belong To?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>“Why do adults demand respect from children when they don’t earn it?” - the author’s teen.<p>This is the crux of the conflict current society has with children. Children are used as political pawns (but think of the children!) rather than being a focus of society. Even here on HN you see some posters assume a 12 year old can’t understand right or wrong (12 year olds absolutely know when to lie, thus implying they think they know when some things are wrong).<p>If society respected children for who they are I think we could get a lot further. Thankfully it seems we are going that direction with the addition of more “free range” laws and general acceptance that children are people, with vastly more agency than society currently assumes they have.[1]<p>1 - source: has kids</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Oct 2024 13:12:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41994418</link><dc:creator>EligibleDecoy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41994418</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41994418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by EligibleDecoy in "Apple Passwords’ generated strong password format"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Doesn’t adding a random salt counter rainbow tables? Then you could have fewer requirements on the users</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2024 22:50:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41884203</link><dc:creator>EligibleDecoy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41884203</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41884203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by EligibleDecoy in "Flexible RISC-V Processor: Could Cost Less Than a Dollar"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What’s interesting to me is that it loses 4% efficiency when bent. Like, I get why there’s some loss because of parasitic capacitance/inductance etc but 4% seems like… not very much?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:02:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41687868</link><dc:creator>EligibleDecoy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41687868</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41687868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by EligibleDecoy in "Mini imported Japanese vehicles may soon be banned on Massachusetts roads"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Because of a quirk of emissions controls in the US. Longer wheelbases and heavier vehicles can get by with poorer emissions. It was done, at the time, to help semi trailers and other huge trucks meet less restrictive requirements without specifically calling them out but now has led to each manufacturer making vehicles as large as possible so meeting emissions restrictions is more economical.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2024 12:40:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41255237</link><dc:creator>EligibleDecoy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41255237</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41255237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by EligibleDecoy in "Mini imported Japanese vehicles may soon be banned on Massachusetts roads"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The hypocrisy is that if safety was the overall concern, then motorcycles would have been banned a long time ago (and I say this as someone who enjoys riding my motorcycle).<p>I think the actual problem is that <i>when compared to other cars in their category</i> these kei trucks do have abysmal safety standards such as no airbags or crumple zones. Which is because there isn’t a mini truck category in the US. Basically all pick up trucks are the same category.<p>The point about older cars still on the road is a valid point though, cars made before 1998 didn’t require airbags so if they can still be registered then the kei trucks should too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2024 12:37:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41255213</link><dc:creator>EligibleDecoy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41255213</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41255213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by EligibleDecoy in "Netflix's bet on advanced video encoding"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>1080p blu ray’s 50 Mbps vs Netflix 4K 15 Mbps [1]. Hell yea blu ray is so great to watch. Plus, no random drops in quality and dts audio  basically guaranteed.<p>[1] <a href="https://help.netflix.com/en/node/306" rel="nofollow">https://help.netflix.com/en/node/306</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2024 23:43:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40782451</link><dc:creator>EligibleDecoy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40782451</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40782451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by EligibleDecoy in "No one should use the AT&T syntax (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How anyone could keep x86 assembly and AT&T’s assembly straight is beyond me. Learning the industry standard assembly was hard enough. Thank goodness there are people who like this stuff, phew!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2024 18:01:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40626231</link><dc:creator>EligibleDecoy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40626231</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40626231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by EligibleDecoy in "Show HN: Scipress.io – a Markdown writing platform like Notion Medium MkDocs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I really agree. All of our team documentation is in asciidoc. Importing diagrams from other files, variables, and vastly better tables are the best features for us. I feel like asciidoc’s weakness is that there is only 1 library, and it’s in ruby. Whereas markdown has libraries in almost all languages, making it easier to support.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2024 12:10:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40617022</link><dc:creator>EligibleDecoy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40617022</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40617022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by EligibleDecoy in "Hacking millions of modems and investigating who hacked my modem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My bet on the replays was that the attacker misconfigured their payload or something and it was meant to replay command and control requests to obfuscate where the C2 server was</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2024 14:27:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40574998</link><dc:creator>EligibleDecoy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40574998</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40574998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by EligibleDecoy in "MuckRock SCOTUS Amicus Brief: Requesting information is not a crime"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>MuckRock is just the next in a long line of broad support for Villarreal. If you are wondering about why this case has so much attention, this page[1] has a bit of a higher level view in less than 35 pages of legalese.<p>IANAL but it seems highly absurd to give qualified immunity to government officials broadly violating at least the 1st amendment and justifying the arrest using terms that violate the 5th amendment. How can you arrest someone for requesting information?!?<p>[1] <a href="https://www.theusconstitution.org/news/reporters-rights-roll-call-broad-friend-of-the-court-support-pours-in-for-citizen-journalist-priscilla-villarreal/" rel="nofollow">https://www.theusconstitution.org/news/reporters-rights-roll...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2024 13:29:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40511791</link><dc:creator>EligibleDecoy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40511791</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40511791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by EligibleDecoy in "LuaX – Lua interpreter, REPL, and useful packages"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So this lets you essentially run Lua standalone, and then compile those scripts into executables. Seems like a mix of Cython and bash. In going to give it a try, it might fill a niche of some dev tool scripts I make for the team.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2024 13:30:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40482028</link><dc:creator>EligibleDecoy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40482028</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40482028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by EligibleDecoy in "Cloudflare took down our website"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The recommendations to, basically, not keep all your eggs in one basket and have backups of config are surely good ideas. But if you have to plan on dropping cloudflare in some arbitrary 24 hour window, perhaps it’s CF that’s the problem. This sort of stuff and other recent articles about CF are so worrying that it’s now being run by the finance team (hence why every email they got in this article was from sales teams rather than any technical folks).<p>Also; if not registering domains on CF does anyone else do at-cost or otherwise super cheap pricing?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2024 13:24:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40481985</link><dc:creator>EligibleDecoy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40481985</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40481985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by EligibleDecoy in "Software bug resulted in 100 injured with 28 dead (2000)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is more a case of bad assumptions not being made clear. The software assumed the system would be rebooted every like 48 hours (so when it had been running for over 100 hours it was way past its design envelope) but if I remember, the manual did not specify why the system had to be rebooted so the soldiers left it running because, ya know, it was a war and it would suck to have the system booting when a missile is coming in.<p>All that is to say, the Iraqi guard killed those soldiers. Failing to intercept a missile doesn’t mean the software killed those people. It just failed to save them which is not the same as, let’s say, the infamous Therac-25 problem that irradiated 6 people very seriously.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2024 13:13:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40481915</link><dc:creator>EligibleDecoy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40481915</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40481915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by EligibleDecoy in "Ultra-high density battery vests give next-gen soldiers twice the energy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is a nice improvement although I hope that this results in lighter batteries rather than the same size conformal batteries with more power. The problem was always weight. It sucks to have 30lbs of batteries in addition to the 60lbs of regular gear you had. Not to mention every conformal battery I saw was a decade old and could barely hold a charge but that is a different issue.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2024 13:08:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40342909</link><dc:creator>EligibleDecoy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40342909</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40342909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by EligibleDecoy in "Solo dev makes sophisticated SIM Manor Lords using Unreal Engine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Manor lords was solo dev? That is highly impressive. I wonder what their other work was.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 18:20:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40250649</link><dc:creator>EligibleDecoy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40250649</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40250649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by EligibleDecoy in "Never struggle to give feedback again"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This obviously doesn’t help your situation but there are a few toxic personality traits that I would not hesitate to remove from a team. “Cannot take constructive criticism” is one of them.<p>Something you may try (and indeed I try before firing people) is a conflict resolution strategy (lots of good ones out there). But something like “I felt x when you did y. I need z, I believe you need a. What can I do to help you?” Can work. Sometimes feeling heard is enough for a run-of-the-mill a*hole to realize you are also a person.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2024 20:00:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40108734</link><dc:creator>EligibleDecoy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40108734</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40108734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by EligibleDecoy in "FBI Opens Criminal Investigation into Baltimore Bridge Collapse"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So the NTSB investigation won’t be good enough?<p>> Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott announced a partnership with two law firms to “launch legal action to hold the wrongdoers responsible” and mitigate harm to city residents.”<p>I’m afraid this won’t really identify the root causes and make all the stakeholders less likely to be honest.</p>
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