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New comment by ObscureScience in "The peril of laziness lost"

ObscureScience — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:03:37 +0000

"Value generation" is a term I would be somewhat wary of.

To me, in this context, it's similar to drive economic growth on fossil fuel.

Whether in the end it can result in a net benefit (the value is larger than the cost of interacting with it and the cost to sort out the mess later) is likely impossible to say, but I don't think it can simply be judged by short sighted value.

New comment by ObscureScience in "this css proves me human"

ObscureScience — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 10:41:32 +0000

I read it as the latter. With all the bots out there running their own blogs and making commits to projects that was the context I assumed. It reminded me of this one https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post...

New comment by ObscureScience in "Transpiler, a Meaningless Word (2023)"

ObscureScience — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:10:34 +0000

You mean point of local maximum in the mass field?

New comment by ObscureScience in "Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features"

ObscureScience — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 15:55:50 +0000

I don't get it. Why should not tickets be submitted for when a new feature worsen the usability of the product?

New comment by ObscureScience in "Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features"

ObscureScience — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 15:37:57 +0000

I didn't read malice into the post, just using a tongue-in-cheek tone.

My reading was "letting them know doing bad choices will not quitely be accepted".

But I may ofcourse read something into it that wasn't meant.

New comment by ObscureScience in "Pyrefly: Python type checker and language server in Rust"

ObscureScience — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 18:48:34 +0000

The analogy would be mandatory inspections of certain components or manufacturing processes to see that rules and specs are followed while assembling.

New comment by ObscureScience in "Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally"

ObscureScience — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:13:20 +0000

This reminds me of Perkeep, but I understand this is more focused on the presentation of the data, while Perkeep was on the data storage. But maybe they could be integrated, or at least support each other's formats.

New comment by ObscureScience in "TPDE-LLVM: Faster LLVM -O0 Back-End"

ObscureScience — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 08:44:31 +0000

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New comment by ObscureScience in "I tried Servo"

ObscureScience — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 11:56:58 +0000

How do you think Firefox is making money, since it has no payed features? Hint: it has Google search as the default search engine.

New comment by ObscureScience in "I tried Servo"

ObscureScience — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 11:49:07 +0000

While it's hard to know what comes of it, there is also https://ladybird.org/ to challenge to monopoly of Blink.

New comment by ObscureScience in "More women than expected are genetically men (2016)"

ObscureScience — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 16:58:15 +0000

I don't believe that is true (but I am certainly outside of my expertise). As far as I understand it, sex chromosomes (specifically the Y chromosome) are responsible for genitalia differentiation, but the relevant genes of the chromosome needs to be expressed for it to happen. Whether it's the Y chromosome itself that is inactive, or genes on the other chromosomes that supress it I have no clue about.

New comment by ObscureScience in "Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update"

ObscureScience — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 06:59:43 +0000

>In your Windows vs. Linux example, Linux just doesn't do a lot of things very well on the UI/UX side of things (e.g., window management, driver support, an out of the box experience).

That judgement confuses me a lot. Window management, drivers and out of the box experience has been much better in Linux for the last 10 years in my experience. Sure, there are some companies that don't ship drivers for Linux or the configuration software is not fully fledged. Window management has almost always been better in Linux, but of course depends on the WM. Windows innovated one nice feature in Vista (aero snap) which most desktop environments has implemented since.

If you install Fedora, Ubuntu or Linux Mint, what are you lacking from that out of the box experience? Generally no driver installation needed, and no cleaning up of bloatware.

New comment by ObscureScience in "I ported pigz from Unix to Windows"

ObscureScience — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 07:01:49 +0000

I don't see any relation. Pigz is a multithreaded reimplenentation of gzip (drop in replacement)

New comment by ObscureScience in "Comparison of C/POSIX standard library implementations for Linux"

ObscureScience — Sat, 10 May 2025 16:08:12 +0000

That table is unfortunately quite old. I can't personally say what have changed, but it is hard to put much confidence in the relevance of the information.

New comment by ObscureScience in "Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii"

ObscureScience — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 19:13:47 +0000

Anyone knows if the Starlet co-processor is accessible from NetBSD?

New comment by ObscureScience in "Surrealist Compliment Generator"

ObscureScience — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 22:59:35 +0000

This one was pretty reasonable: "The perils of your eyelashes torture my libido into a state of crass belief in Roman Catholicism"

New comment by ObscureScience in "Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting"

ObscureScience — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 20:24:08 +0000

Electrical safety -> not destroying your GPU does seem like something sellable.

It could probably be spinned into some performance pitch if you really want to.

New comment by ObscureScience in "A Minecraft server written in COBOL"

ObscureScience — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 16:18:39 +0000

There are actually cross play solutions such as https://github.com/GeyserMC/Geyser, there are some limitation, but not too many. Basically disabling the features that only exists in one version.

New comment by ObscureScience in "Ask HN: How do you view the merits and future of Stellar Lumens (XLM)?"

ObscureScience — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 11:28:31 +0000

I was an early user of Keybase, and at one point they started promoting this crypto currency, including giving away some starting capital. I understand it as a serious project for payments, rather than a cash grab for early adopters. After years of stable value (not even following inflation) it recently shot up in value on trading markets (Trump effect?). However it now seems to be going back down again.

What are your thoughts on this specific currency. Is it worth "betting on" (not specifically trading, but buying as a well functioning payment resource)?

Ask HN: How do you view the merits and future of Stellar Lumens (XLM)?

ObscureScience — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 11:28:31 +0000

Article URL: https://stellar.org/?1732620384222=

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42244755

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