<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: Snild</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Snild</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:24:23 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Snild" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Snild in "Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Don't let Stallman hear you say that!<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversy" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversy</a></p>
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<p>Not to mention the huge amount of people who think git == github.</p>
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<p>I've never had a problem like that. People don't bother looking it up -- probably because your socioeconomic class is apparent anyway from e.g. the area you live in. AFAIK, the only ones who have ever looked mine up are banks, when I was applying for mortgages.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:33:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47657949</link><dc:creator>Snild</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47657949</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47657949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Snild in "Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What a hassle!<p>Here in Sweden, your tax filings are public information; companies can just ask the government what you made last year. I have no idea if they actually do, though, and the data will be somewhat obfuscated if you have extra income on the side.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 05:34:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47657325</link><dc:creator>Snild</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47657325</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47657325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Snild in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I bought it in late 2013, so 12 years from purchase.<p>Intel lists the launch date of the CPU (Atom D2500) as Q3'11, making it 14 years old when OpenSUSE Leap 16 was released.<p>It looks like Intel was releasing Atom CPUs without SSE4.1/4.2 up until 2013, e.g. Atom Z2420.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 05:39:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46806235</link><dc:creator>Snild</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46806235</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46806235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Snild in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> “you can’t install unless you upgrade your CPU”<p>To be fair, I recently had to switch distros for my little Atom-based server because of a similar deal:<p><a href="https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:X86-64-Architecture-Levels#Decisions" rel="nofollow">https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:X86-64-Architecture-Levels#...</a><p>Granted, I only had to convert to Tumbleweed (not trivial, but easier than reinstalling), and the open source nature means there will always be lots of other alternatives, too.</p>
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<p>Ah.</p>
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<p>I don't see a problem with that, but for the record, the title on the site is lower-case for me (both browser tab title, and the header when in reader mode).</p>
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<p>Keep Swedish out of this, you dirty Danes!<p>Edit: Checked out your profile, correcting myself: "you silly north-Danes!"</p>
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<p>It exists, hence e.g. AGPL.<p>But for most open source licenses, that example would be within bounds. The grandparent comment objected to not respecting the license.</p>
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<p>Sounds kind of like <a href="https://asciinema.org/" rel="nofollow">https://asciinema.org/</a> (which I've never used, but it seems cool).</p>
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<p>It is, except after rebasing.</p>
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<p>But that Commit-Id footer has no functional effect. I don't see how it would help me if I have a clone of the repo, and my upstream (in this case, the debian maintainer) rebases.<p>> Which you won't.<p>Why not? Doesn't it make sense to be able to track the history of what patches have been applied for a debian package?</p>
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<p>Rebasing would mean there's no continuous versioning of the "patches on top", which might be undesirable. Also, the history rewriting might make cooperation difficult.<p>Merges would avoid those problems, but are harder to do if there are lots of conflicts, as you can't fix conflicts patch by patch.<p>Perhaps a workflow based on merges-of-rebases or rebase-and-overwrite-merge would work, but I don't think it's fair to say "oh just rebase".</p>
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<p>Not necessarily:<p><a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/martyr" rel="nofollow">https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/martyr</a><p>> a person who suffers very much or is killed because of their religious or political beliefs, and is often admired because of it<p><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/martyr" rel="nofollow">https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/martyr</a><p>> 2: a person who sacrifices something of great value and especially life itself for the sake of principle</p>
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<p>Sounds interesting. Tell me more?</p>
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<p>We have that in Sweden and Finland: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_public_access_to_official_records" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_public_access_to_...</a><p>The principle says that information is non-confidential by default, rather than the other way around.<p>We can request almost any information held by government agencies, including copies of communication like email and documents.<p>One thing that has surprised European acquaintances is the fact that this includes government-held info about individuals, e.g. address and tax returns.</p>
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<p>A terminal maximized on my screen says:<p><pre><code>    ~$ echo $((2 * LINES * COLUMNS)) triangles
    34272 triangles
</code></pre>
That's nothing for a modern GPU. For example, this benchmark[1] says to expect on the order of 10-800 million tri/s. At the low end of that, you'd have a frame time of 3.427ms -- 292 fps.<p>The original Playstation could do 180 000 textured polygons per second[2], so it could've managed ~5 fps. Of course, you wouldn't render that many chars at its available output resolutions anyway. :)<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/ctsilva/triangle-rendering-benchmarks#:~:text=Expected%20Performance%20Ranges" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ctsilva/triangle-rendering-benchmarks#:~:...</a>  
[2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_technical_specifications#:~:text=180,000%20with%20texture%20mapping" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_technical_specific...</a></p>
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<p>My favorite is his email on inlining code: <a href="https://cbarrete.com/carmack.html" rel="nofollow">https://cbarrete.com/carmack.html</a></p>
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<p>Small code is easier to review, so projects with strict security requirements might be one?<p>Also, license compliance is very easy (no notice required).</p>
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