Hacker News: LgWoodenBadger

New comment by LgWoodenBadger in "CarPlay Is Additive"

LgWoodenBadger — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:29:02 +0000

This isn’t to whom parent is referring, but you can watch this video about wet timing belts for an idea https://youtu.be/0SASSFjIt5I

In short, it’s an awful idea because even if the belt doesn’t fail early, debris from the belt will clog oil pickups, galleries, and passages.

New comment by LgWoodenBadger in "Postgres transactions are a distributed systems superpower"

LgWoodenBadger — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 22:18:57 +0000

And if that job never runs? Or if that job runs and then fails to commit that it ran in postgres?

New comment by LgWoodenBadger in "US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections"

LgWoodenBadger — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 22:50:35 +0000

“Had acted in good faith”

Seems like there’s no point in having the constitution if a violation of it has no effect.

New comment by LgWoodenBadger in "Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors"

LgWoodenBadger — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:25:02 +0000

And the engine is behind the rear axle.

New comment by LgWoodenBadger in "Steam Machine launches today"

LgWoodenBadger — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:28:14 +0000

Idiomatically, it’s “WHAT something looks LIKE” or “HOW something looks.”

It’s never, in EFL, “HOW…LIKE”

Next up is “make” vs “take” a decision.

New comment by LgWoodenBadger in "Stop Using JWTs"

LgWoodenBadger — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:21:52 +0000

Come on, it’s not like the two are even within the same magnitude or three

“But if you have to check an identifier for revocation on every request you could just use an opaque session ID and look that up on every request instead!”

New comment by LgWoodenBadger in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

LgWoodenBadger — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:58:42 +0000

Nonsense like this reminds me of the following quote from the 1999 Thomas Crown Affair movie:

“Have you figured out what you're going to say to your board when they realize you paid me thirty million more than others were offering?”

In the span of <20 years we’re talking about a sale price 3 orders of magnitude larger than a minor plot point of a hollywood movie.

New comment by LgWoodenBadger in "Making glass-to-metal seals for homemade vacuum tubes"

LgWoodenBadger — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:12:59 +0000

Would you be able to reseal the cracked glass and regenerate the vacuum through the other end?

More glass, epoxy, or similar?

New comment by LgWoodenBadger in "The RCE that AMD wouldn't fix"

LgWoodenBadger — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:24:31 +0000

A manager somewhere made the embarrassingly wrong decision to not fix this, and they’re too egotistical to correct their mistake.

That’s my take.

New comment by LgWoodenBadger in "MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production"

LgWoodenBadger — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:54:46 +0000

I think the "keep it after 4 years" program is to eliminate a huge disposal/recycling cost from the schools. A 4 year old ChromeBook is effectively worthless, and can't (shouldn't) just be thrown in the garbage.

What better way to save than to push that cost out to your students' families, all while selling it as a positive?

New comment by LgWoodenBadger in "Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL"

LgWoodenBadger — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:48:20 +0000

Because charging for bandwidth/traffic is still a thing, unfortunately

New comment by LgWoodenBadger in "Ferrari Luce"

LgWoodenBadger — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:13:18 +0000

Ferrari has historically worked with outside designers. Pininfarina being probably the most prominent. Bertone, as well. Ferrari brought design in-house relatively recently.

New comment by LgWoodenBadger in "Power Tools Got Worse on Purpose. Who Owns DeWalt, Craftsman, and Milwaukee?"

LgWoodenBadger — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:20:02 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/@TorqueTestChannel is another great channel for more tool-specific reviews

New comment by LgWoodenBadger in "SQL: Incorrect by Construction"

LgWoodenBadger — Tue, 12 May 2026 22:34:35 +0000

What’s amusing is you’ve now stolen $10 from all of Alice’s accounts if she has more than one, or if Bob has none.

New comment by LgWoodenBadger in "Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers"

LgWoodenBadger — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:20:02 +0000

What possible type of guarantee could one ever hope to "negotiate" with someone who has just successfully blackmailed/ransomed/extorted?

New comment by LgWoodenBadger in "Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house"

LgWoodenBadger — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:45:30 +0000

One should never take a field sobriety test.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGHFpc6uiWA

New comment by LgWoodenBadger in "Not buying another Kindle"

LgWoodenBadger — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:04:14 +0000

Nearly instantaneous access to the definition of a word, usually.

New comment by LgWoodenBadger in "Haunting Photos Show the Aftermath of the Kursk Submarine Disaster in 2000"

LgWoodenBadger — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:33:56 +0000

I'm surprised 5-7 torpedo warheads detonating didn't do more damage to it. About 2750kg-4000kg of high explosive.

New comment by LgWoodenBadger in "Why are executives enamored with AI, but ICs aren't?"

LgWoodenBadger — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:02:44 +0000

Because it’s a mythical silver bullet of increased output combined with reduced costs.

It makes me think of an executive I once reported to who “increased velocity” by changing the utilization rate on a spreadsheet from 75% to 80%.

New comment by LgWoodenBadger in "A Faster Alternative to Jq"

LgWoodenBadger — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:51:43 +0000

I completely agree. I much prefer leveraging actual javascript to get what I need instead of spending time trying to fumble my way through jq syntax.