Hacker News: InvertedRhodium

New comment by InvertedRhodium in "US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional"

InvertedRhodium — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 06:21:29 +0000

Yeah. No idea why I wrote decant.

New comment by InvertedRhodium in "US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional"

InvertedRhodium — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 05:33:13 +0000

Anything that decants below 78.4C is going to have methanol in it, I usually separate out the first 100ml or so that decants after 78.4C to play it safe.

I've been doing it for about 20 years, no poisoning cases yet. Home distillation has been legal in NZ since 1996.

New comment by InvertedRhodium in "The Australian government has announced gambling advertising reforms"

InvertedRhodium — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:53:21 +0000

The societal downside of providing yet another revenue stream for criminal organisations seems like it might be worth taking into consideration.

New comment by InvertedRhodium in "The Australian government has announced gambling advertising reforms"

InvertedRhodium — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:51:56 +0000

We’d just end up in the same situation as Australia - where up to one third of all cigarettes consumed are purchased on the black market.

New comment by InvertedRhodium in "Fear and denial in Silicon Valley over social media addiction trial"

InvertedRhodium — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 05:11:59 +0000

I live in New Zealand, so I don't have to.

New comment by InvertedRhodium in "Fear and denial in Silicon Valley over social media addiction trial"

InvertedRhodium — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 02:38:50 +0000

More or less, yeah. There might be some nuance about the threshold for maladaptive behaviour, but if it’s all or nothing I’ll take all.

New comment by InvertedRhodium in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

InvertedRhodium — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:27:54 +0000

So if the UK gets a court to ratify these orders then you’re on board with them being globally enforced?

New comment by InvertedRhodium in "Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years"

InvertedRhodium — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 07:19:40 +0000

Well. Looks like you don’t know what to tell me, hopefully someone who does comes along.

New comment by InvertedRhodium in "Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years"

InvertedRhodium — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 05:47:11 +0000

Honestly, I look around the world and don’t see much, if any, practical difference.

The US has had two presidents that were direct relatives, I can’t believe that’s by pure chance or some kind of genetic skill at being president.

New comment by InvertedRhodium in "Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans"

InvertedRhodium — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 21:40:52 +0000

I don't see how it's fundamentally any different to mailing someone harassing messages or distressing objects.

Sure, in this context the person who mails the item is the one instigating the harassment but it's the postal network that's facilitating it and actually performing the "last mile" of harassment.

New comment by InvertedRhodium in "EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear"

InvertedRhodium — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 01:25:30 +0000

I think they misspoke - they likely meant the north atlantic ocean: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/ghana-becomes-dumping-grou...

New comment by InvertedRhodium in "LLVM AI tool policy: human in the loop"

InvertedRhodium — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 05:47:22 +0000

Personally, I’ve got fatigue at the phrase “AI slop”. It’s used as a catch all to dismiss the content due to the source, regardless of the quality or suitability when taken in context.

Just like everything else these days the responses skew towards both extremes on the spectrum and people hand waving away the advancements is just as annoying as those who are zealots on the other end.

New comment by InvertedRhodium in "Waymo halts service during S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams"

InvertedRhodium — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 09:04:23 +0000

I thought the US had a “FIFO” rule for 4 way stop signs? I had to drive through Nevada and Arizona last year so read up on the rules.

Keeping track of which cars entered at what time was kind of stressful and I’m pretty sure I didn’t do a good job of it.

New comment by InvertedRhodium in "AI agents are starting to eat SaaS"

InvertedRhodium — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 11:25:37 +0000

If I did, I likely wouldn't have access to the source code and wouldn't be able to verify the degree of AI input.

So, I ask again - how do you know that the service you're paying for is all of those things?

New comment by InvertedRhodium in "AI agents are starting to eat SaaS"

InvertedRhodium — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 09:28:30 +0000

How do you/I know that? I implemented OpenTelemetry in a project of mine recently and was shocked to see the number of AI authored commits in the git repository.

New comment by InvertedRhodium in "Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban"

InvertedRhodium — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:27:33 +0000

This is wildly unpopular, for good reasons, but if I want to get a third dog I need to apply for and get a license from the council - they’ll come round, inspect my property and ensure that it’s adequate for a number of dogs, that it’s secure and my current pets are well treated before issuing it.

The disconnect between this and children seems wild to me. Why don’t we display the same amount of concern for children?

New comment by InvertedRhodium in "Garry Tan says MCP "barely works" today"

InvertedRhodium — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 21:48:56 +0000

My most common use case for MCP servers is to wire the documentation for whatever I’m working on into the Context.

New comment by InvertedRhodium in "GNOME 50 completes the migration to Wayland, dropping X11 backend code"

InvertedRhodium — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 02:33:56 +0000

Fractional scaling is awful on Wayland if the application relies on XWayland to work. Drives me up the wall having to find the various flags to force Wayland mode.

New comment by InvertedRhodium in "Steam Machine"

InvertedRhodium — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 22:08:02 +0000

Microsoft Flight Simulator

New comment by InvertedRhodium in "Python Software Foundation gets a donor surge after rejecting federal grant"

InvertedRhodium — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 01:10:49 +0000

Constantly waking on eggshells that anything you say could be misinterpreted to be offensive and have career ending repercussions is exhausting.

Now, go on, parrot the same question again. Surely you’ll bait someone into accepting your framing of the issue sooner or later.