Hacker News: RedShift1

New comment by RedShift1 in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

RedShift1 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:34:57 +0000

Does it need it?

New comment by RedShift1 in "IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember"

RedShift1 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:49:50 +0000

I don't understand how the mapping works. An address has 8 parts and produces 16 words, so each part consists of 2 words. If we take the example 2a02, that gets encoded to "how atop", but I don't see how that text helps me that "how atop" means 2a02? Am I suppose to memorize both? How does that help?

New comment by RedShift1 in "Show HN: X86CSS – An x86 CPU emulator written in CSS"

RedShift1 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 11:17:11 +0000

Definitely in the "they didn't stop to think if they should" category.

New comment by RedShift1 in "DialUp95 – A 90s inspired nostalgia hit"

RedShift1 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 19:05:19 +0000

About 15 years ago I gave some networking courses at a local education center, it was all young kids (18-20 years old). When I told them that the speed we got back in the day was 4 kilobytes per second (56k on a good day), they didn't believe me at all.

Docker Swarm vs. Kubernetes in 2026

RedShift1 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 19:20:37 +0000

Article URL: https://thedecipherist.com/articles/docker_swarm_vs_kubernetes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47039073

Points: 27

# Comments: 28

New comment by RedShift1 in "Audiophiles can't distinguish audio sent through copper, banana or mud"

RedShift1 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:07:12 +0000

Forged under blue moon light for perfect electron alignment inside the wires.

New comment by RedShift1 in "Audiophiles can't distinguish audio sent through copper, banana or mud"

RedShift1 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:05:14 +0000

I remember Technics used to advertise with amplifiers that used bamboo somewhere in the capacitors? Always wondered if there was actual bamboo in there somewhere and what the electrical effects were...

New comment by RedShift1 in "The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in USA"

RedShift1 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 07:09:47 +0000

These american news companies are so goddamn spineless.

New comment by RedShift1 in "Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking"

RedShift1 — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 11:03:39 +0000

I'm really missing something like Cisco DMVPN. A VPN mesh between different routers where all routers have a connection to each other, so that all traffic doesn't have to pass through the hub. And that runs on a router, because all these solutions only run on a regular computer with a complete OS.

New comment by RedShift1 in "DECwindows Motif"

RedShift1 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 08:55:43 +0000

points finger you son of a bitch, I'm in.

New comment by RedShift1 in "Emissary, a fast open-source Java messaging library"

RedShift1 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 11:37:35 +0000

I'm a big fan of Guava's EventBus. Easy to implement and straightforward to understand. This library does seem to require more setup and I don't see the immediate advantages, also why does it require an instanceProvider? I don't understand what that does.

New comment by RedShift1 in "Using PostgreSQL as a Dead Letter Queue for Event-Driven Systems"

RedShift1 — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 17:24:21 +0000

The point is to not take the whole server down with it. Keeps the other applications working.

New comment by RedShift1 in "TPM on embedded systems: Pitfalls and caveats to watch out for"

RedShift1 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:03:18 +0000

Even on desktop it's terrible, I wanted to protect some private keys of a Java application but there is no way to talk to a TPM using Java so handsandshouldersup gesture.

New comment by RedShift1 in "Date is out, Temporal is in"

RedShift1 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 10:11:54 +0000

What happened to me is I passed a date to an external library, and then after that library did its work, that date was changed. Super annoying even if you know that it's a mutable object.

New comment by RedShift1 in "Start your meetings at 5 minutes past"

RedShift1 — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 07:17:38 +0000

What are ICs?

New comment by RedShift1 in "Why Microsoft Store Discontinued Support for Office Apps"

RedShift1 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 11:27:23 +0000

Using the setup wizards isn't the hard part... It's creating them.

New comment by RedShift1 in "Why Microsoft Store Discontinued Support for Office Apps"

RedShift1 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 11:22:51 +0000

I'm still using it to distribute/update production apps and whilst the script language is a bit funky, it works reliably. And the tools work under Linux too, so I can easily integrate a "create setup" step in the CI/CD environment.

New comment by RedShift1 in "Text rendering hates you (2019)"

RedShift1 — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 09:08:10 +0000

> I think English is a terrible shitpile of grammar and syntax

Spoken languages are like programming languages, there are the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.

New comment by RedShift1 in "The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300"

RedShift1 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:26:01 +0000

Not just shock you across the room, but shock straight into your next life.

New comment by RedShift1 in "Upcoming Changes to Let's Encrypt Certificates"

RedShift1 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:46:32 +0000

I have the feeling that this is much more about control than it is about security.