Hacker News: PapaPalpatine

New comment by PapaPalpatine in "Google denies 'misleading' reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI"

PapaPalpatine — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 14:10:57 +0000

Well I don’t care that you’re on Tuta Mail.

New comment by PapaPalpatine in "Microsoft Will Preload Windows 11 File Explorer to Fix Bad Performance"

PapaPalpatine — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 03:46:32 +0000

Did you even read the blog post? It's almost a direct quote

> We’re exploring preloading File Explorer in the background to help improve File Explorer launch performance. This shouldn’t be visible to you, outside of File Explorer hopefully launching faster when you need to use it.

New comment by PapaPalpatine in "Time to start de-Appling"

PapaPalpatine — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 04:18:12 +0000

Same with me on Safari.

New comment by PapaPalpatine in "Rubygems.org AWS Root Access Event – September 2025"

PapaPalpatine — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 15:30:37 +0000

It’s only a smear if all of the public comments thus far against Shopify and Ruby Central are also smears.

New comment by PapaPalpatine in "Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available"

PapaPalpatine — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 03:31:48 +0000

That's exactly where my mind went!

New comment by PapaPalpatine in "Our stewardship: Where we are, what's changing and how we'll engage"

PapaPalpatine — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 05:26:38 +0000

I’m sorry, but how is that not a coherent train of thought?

You may not agree the conclusion, but there is a complete train of thought.

New comment by PapaPalpatine in "Windows 10 resists its end: usage share climbs while Windows 11's falls"

PapaPalpatine — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 13:42:48 +0000

Wait… Microsoft has to have boxed Windows because Windows IRL are boxed? Pretty sure I’ve seen a circular window before.

New comment by PapaPalpatine in "Taco Bell AI Drive-Thru"

PapaPalpatine — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 15:45:16 +0000

Do I win a prize?!

New comment by PapaPalpatine in "Taco Bell AI Drive-Thru"

PapaPalpatine — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 02:30:40 +0000

Or maybe you and everyone else is of a certain age that y'all need to get your hearing checked more frequently.

New comment by PapaPalpatine in "Taco Bell AI Drive-Thru"

PapaPalpatine — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 22:58:56 +0000

I drive through them at least once a week. Ordering is not hard. Talking the order is a lot harder -- I've done that too.

New comment by PapaPalpatine in "Taco Bell AI Drive-Thru"

PapaPalpatine — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 22:57:52 +0000

Yeah... that's just not the experience with drive-thrus in Central Ohio.

New comment by PapaPalpatine in "Taco Bell AI Drive-Thru"

PapaPalpatine — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 22:52:50 +0000

I have never heard someone describe drive-thrus as a “famously bad experience.”

New comment by PapaPalpatine in "Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode"

PapaPalpatine — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 12:51:25 +0000

Yeah, if it’s not sarcasm, it’s a very good indicator that their opinion should be ignored because no one in their right mind would say Teams is better.

New comment by PapaPalpatine in "It’s not wrong that "\u{1F926}\u{1F3FC}\u200D\u2642\uFE0F".length == 7 (2019)"

PapaPalpatine — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 22:05:23 +0000

I don’t know about advanced Unicode features… but I use them all the time as a backend developer to validate data input.

I want to make sure that the password is between a given number of characters. Same with phone numbers, email addresses, etc.

This seems to have always been known as the length of the string.

This thread sounds like a bunch of scientists trying to make a simple concept a lot harder to understand.

New comment by PapaPalpatine in "More assorted notes on Liquid Glass"

PapaPalpatine — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 14:05:57 +0000

I’m not a professional designer, but I like Liquid Glass. If you don’t like it, stay on iOS 18 or switch to Android.

Aside from the criticism of icons, every complaint in the article just came across as nit-picks.

New comment by PapaPalpatine in "Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more"

PapaPalpatine — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 13:47:52 +0000

I really hate all of these executives trying to shove AI our throats.

New comment by PapaPalpatine in "Ruby on Rails Audit Complete"

PapaPalpatine — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 15:53:08 +0000

No, I honestly don’t. I can emulate an Enum without having an Enum type. I rely less on a compiler and more on myself with automated tests.

New comment by PapaPalpatine in "Ruby on Rails Audit Complete"

PapaPalpatine — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 15:42:39 +0000

What an odd question lol. Yes, people like writing in Ruby. I’m one of the. Switched from C# in 2016.

New comment by PapaPalpatine in "FAA to eliminate floppy disks used in air traffic control systems"

PapaPalpatine — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 05:06:21 +0000

Let's be a little more reasonable. I don't think anyone is saying we need AI. There are numerous other technological advances between floppy drives and AI that our air traffic control system could benefit.

New comment by PapaPalpatine in "We fell out of love with Next.js and back in love with Ruby on Rails"

PapaPalpatine — Sun, 04 May 2025 12:40:36 +0000

> Rails UI integration tests took a very long time

How many integration tests do you have? I generally only test a few core flows and then leave the rest to controller/request tests.