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New comment by Sleaker in "The US tried to stop cartel money-laundering; devastated mom-and-pop businesses"

Sleaker — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:07:29 +0000

> And yes, that is literally why I don't support direct cash handouts to the homeless. You can feed them and house them, you can't throw money at them and expect a good outcome.

You maintain this despite all the research showing that this is the most effective way to help people?

New comment by Sleaker in "Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt?"

Sleaker — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:17:55 +0000

The dolby/thx stuff for headphone s is done at the software level. It's just preset filters provided by synapse. There is no hardware dolby unless you get into the PCI audio card stuff, or audiophile dedicated sound board setups. Different USB DAC might impact noise levels. If you don't have noticeable audio artifacts then there's not really any reason to use another one.

New comment by Sleaker in "Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face"

Sleaker — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:40:24 +0000

Neither, the author is pointing out the desire of the enslaver, not the actual outcome. But I don't think their logic takes into account access to means to 'outsmart' the enslaver. It's trying to frame it as a single instance equation, not a societal one to try and show the underlying contradiction of desire.

At least, that's what I'm pulling from the quote, have not read the full context.

New comment by Sleaker in "LLMs reward expertise"

Sleaker — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:38:37 +0000

That would be poisoning the test with outside knowledge. Essentially boosting their skills with some expertise, exactly what was undesirable.

You are not wrong, just that was not the intent of what the person was trying to test for.

New comment by Sleaker in "Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types"

Sleaker — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 01:29:53 +0000

And this is -exactly- one of the reasons they didn't accept or continue with a sane proposal for more ergonomic error handling. I like go, but this was the one thing that I kept feeling like I was wasting so much time dealing with.

New comment by Sleaker in "Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption"

Sleaker — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:38:56 +0000

I don't think any form of automated adoption of orphaned packages will ever work, it's just too easy to introduce malicious code into an otherwise functional but no longer maintained source.

New comment by Sleaker in "Superlogical"

Sleaker — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:28:57 +0000

I get that premise, I guess I've just been around a lot of bad engineers that use these types of tools as crutches but can't actually articulate or diagnose problems well. They just regurgitate the syntax like it's a magic spell.

New comment by Sleaker in "Superlogical"

Sleaker — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:35:57 +0000

Maybe I just missed the boat on hashicorp and similar solutioning, but I find a lot of the solutions for working with multiple systems using an intermediary shared language, such as terraform, end up obfuscating the problems they intend to solve and result in people who deal with and support those systems on a daily basis having very little understanding of how to interact and troubleshoot the core infra that is being built up with those tools.

Yes, building those solutions requires a lot of expertise, but I've never found the tools to be worth engaging with over just using what the standard platform tools they abstract away were replacing. Then you add in the economic rug-pull scenarios that have happened when utilizing software like this and I wonder why everyone hops on the bandwagon so easily.

What is the company they're building trying to solve that system maintainers can't already do? Isn't this just rebuilding OS windowing?

New comment by Sleaker in "Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word"

Sleaker — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:51:28 +0000

I think the damage/risk here isn't explicitly about exfiltration, but could also just be damage/harm to the organization through re-writing content in documents.

New comment by Sleaker in "Over 150k Flights: Airlines Just Flew the Busiest Day in Recorded History"

Sleaker — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:29:10 +0000

Im not sure airline history agrees with you. My cursory knowledge from prior posts on HN like this had mentioned regulation/deregulation played a huge part in shaping the ways that airlines competed. I've heard that airlines don't compete on price/feature as much anymore because they don't have to, and kickbacks from all the credit card offerings/deals. Anecdotally I've noticed this year major airlines pulling out of certain hubs (southwest) so there is even less competition, but prices still seemed to go down among the remaining options!

Im not sure how accurate this is, so willing to be shown differently!

New comment by Sleaker in "A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway"

Sleaker — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 08:26:04 +0000

Ahh yes, that Bourne guy is clearly incompetent....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_R._Bourne

New comment by Sleaker in "Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL"

Sleaker — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:58:06 +0000

Typically just find bindings for your language and adapt the startup/bootstrap to match your language syntax. Opengl calls are fairly agnostic especially when you move to the shader logic.

The biggest issue with c# dev is OS specific window management. CLR doesn't have good wayland support yet if you're trying to do this from a modern Linux distro.

New comment by Sleaker in "Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting"

Sleaker — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 23:15:22 +0000

Pretty sure slack enterprise has this feature for turning private chats into public channels.

Checked docks. You can convert any private chat into a private channel. Then swap the channel from private to public.

New comment by Sleaker in "Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting"

Sleaker — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 23:14:02 +0000

Pretty sure slack enterprise has this feature for turning private chats into public channels.

Edit: verified. You can do this but takes an extra step of converting to private channel first then swapping the channel mode.

New comment by Sleaker in "'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling"

Sleaker — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 23:10:14 +0000

Devils advocate question: Isn't registering an ip to name essentially advertising? You're paying a registrar to return your Internet address location when searched for.

New comment by Sleaker in "‘Asia's cleanest village’ bans tourists on Sundays"

Sleaker — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:01:44 +0000

Huh? South-asia is more than just india. Just like all of the other cardinal directions that refer to different geographical regions within asia. Why can't it be a part of Asia?

New comment by Sleaker in "Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software"

Sleaker — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:26:05 +0000

No, I think it's widely regarded as engine limitations even when people continually claim it's up to individual game devs to optimize their games.

If that were the case then why do nearly all UE5 games suffer from the same engine stutter issues. And to OPs point, even if it can be optimized away, why isnt the engine in a state where the baseline performance for realtime rendering does not exhibit these stutter issues on the majority of games.

New comment by Sleaker in "Does average person understand that all disc media dies too?"

Sleaker — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 01:25:27 +0000

Scratching discs doesn't typically render them permanently unreadable, unless the scratch gets to the metal. There are tools which resurface the discs.

New comment by Sleaker in "A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison"

Sleaker — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:57:40 +0000

Sorry, I didn't quote the relavent section. My reply was not an attempt at translating the acronym, but replying to the context of being mad at using 'unfair tactics'

New comment by Sleaker in "A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison"

Sleaker — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 02:09:45 +0000

... All's fair in love and war?