Hacker News: Orangeair

New comment by Orangeair in "Smudging the game disc to make speedrunning 'SpongeBob' faster"

Orangeair — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:54:14 +0000

[2021]

New comment by Orangeair in "Going faster than memcpy"

Orangeair — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 06:18:10 +0000

[2020]

New comment by Orangeair in "Chomsky on what ChatGPT is good for (2023)"

Orangeair — Sun, 25 May 2025 17:56:12 +0000

[2023]

New comment by Orangeair in "Rust’s dependencies are starting to worry me"

Orangeair — Fri, 09 May 2025 21:02:39 +0000

I think that https://blessed.rs does a pretty good job of providing recommendations for things that probably can't be crammed into the standard library, but which you'll almost certainly end up needing at one point or another. I honestly like that system a lot, it makes it so that the only packages you need to worry much about are usually doing something rather specific.

New comment by Orangeair in "Rust’s dependencies are starting to worry me"

Orangeair — Fri, 09 May 2025 20:57:17 +0000

It's a long standing bug, setenv and unsetenv are not thread-safe

https://www.evanjones.ca/setenv-is-not-thread-safe.html

New comment by Orangeair in "A prank cursor resulted in an employee being fired before they started (2020)"

Orangeair — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 21:47:12 +0000

The joke is that Microsoft was truthfully able to say "the individual responsible is no longer with the company", a phrase which normally implies that someone has been fired as a direct consequence of the event, without actually firing anyone. The statement was true because the individual responsible had finished their internship, and hadn't yet been brought back as a full-time employee.

New comment by Orangeair in "Htmx become 0 clause BSD-licensed"

Orangeair — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 22:44:55 +0000

Apparently it changed from 2-clause BSD: https://github.com/bigskysoftware/htmx/commit/e16f1865a494b6...

(The zero clause license drops the requirements for preserving the copyright notice when distributing)

New comment by Orangeair in "Air Canada is responsible for chatbot's mistake: B.C. tribunal"

Orangeair — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 05:53:31 +0000

That last one was great

> In his statement, Mr. Mackoff described distinct conversations he had with each employee, provided the supervisor’s name, and submitted the diagram he drew while trying to explain to the employees how to count the 10 calendar days. As Mr. Mackoff’s witness statement includes so much detail, and as Air Canada has produced no contrary statement, I accept that Air Canada refused to transport both Mr. and Mrs. Mackoff on February 15, 2022 and so breached its contract with them.

New comment by Orangeair in "Why you've never been in a plane crash"

Orangeair — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 18:12:23 +0000

Just looked into this, so there is actually a growing movement of people doing that, interesting.

New comment by Orangeair in "Why you've never been in a plane crash"

Orangeair — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 18:08:09 +0000

I don't necessarily know that you can conclude from a few memes that people are actually out there doing this, I see it more as venting frustration. They're certainly advocating for it, though.

New comment by Orangeair in "Why you've never been in a plane crash"

Orangeair — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 17:57:14 +0000

I've seen hundreds of posts on that sub, but never anything approaching what you're describing. Do you have an example?

New comment by Orangeair in "K-Cup creator John Sylvan regrets inventing Keurig coffee pod system (2015)"

Orangeair — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 22:17:33 +0000

[2015]

New comment by Orangeair in "Ask HN: How to delete all Google photos so that I don't lose access to Gmail?"

Orangeair — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 23:12:10 +0000

This page will show you your storage quota usage by service, and it gives you some tools to clean things up: https://drive.google.com/settings/storage

New comment by Orangeair in "'Ray, this is a religion': How Bridgewater lost two top hires"

Orangeair — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 21:17:13 +0000

> No one is going to comment on some random crap you publish on what's a glorified blog.

I have no idea why the article doesn't lead with this, but it's adapted from a book:

> Dalio declined to be interviewed for the book from which this article is adapted.

New comment by Orangeair in "The oldest and most expensive rum?"

Orangeair — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 19:15:56 +0000

I think this article is simply wrong about the "most expensive" part.

> The last 16 bottles sold for a total well in excess of £100,000 making Harewood Rum officially not only the oldest, but also the most expensive rum in the world.

That only works out to 6k or 7k pounds sterling per bottle. Meanwhile:

> Jamaican distiller J. Wray & Nephew is also recognised for producing one of the world’s most expensive rums, a 17-year-old expression priced in the region of £40,000 (US$52,000) and used to create the first Mai Tai cocktail in the 1940s.

https://www.thespiritsbusiness.com/2019/05/wray-nephew-presi...

And the other bottle they mention is more expensive than this as well.

New comment by Orangeair in "Super Mario 64 – Watch for Rolling Rocks – 0.5x a Presses [video]"

Orangeair — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 18:53:37 +0000

I also watched through this recently and would highly recommend it to anyone with a passing interest. Some of the discoveries made were just insane, and the number of things that only barely work is kind of mind blowing.

Bismuth is also just a generally high quality YouTuber.

New comment by Orangeair in "Svelte 4"

Orangeair — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 22:56:31 +0000

It does say "Svelte 3+" on the page, although I don't know if the plus was there before.

New comment by Orangeair in "Apollo will close down on June 30th"

Orangeair — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 03:13:04 +0000

I'm leaning towards automated, given that it includes the article "Redditor creates working anime QR codes using Stable Diffusion".

New comment by Orangeair in "Micromouse: The fastest maze-solving competition [video]"

Orangeair — Sat, 27 May 2023 01:41:04 +0000

Did you have an prior experience with FIRST or other robotics competitions?

New comment by Orangeair in "Show HN: Trogon – An automatic TUI for command line apps"

Orangeair — Sun, 21 May 2023 17:35:18 +0000

> Command line apps reward repeated use, but they lack in discoverability.

The biggest thing preventing me from learning more CLI explained in one sentence, I'll definitely be looking into this.