Hacker News: aardshark

New comment by aardshark in "Apple M5 chip"

aardshark — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:09:36 +0000

Explorer is not good, and finder isn't much better.

New comment by aardshark in "Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?"

aardshark — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 14:09:29 +0000

Nah, it's very annoying to be country-centric. The NYT game clues are just so fucking American sometimes and it's very irritating. It's difficult to avoid this altogether of course, but staying away from sports and politics helps a good bit.

New comment by aardshark in "Fixing left and mutual recursions in grammars"

aardshark — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 11:17:38 +0000

draw.io can do similar diagramming. You can generate diagrams programmatically through their CSV format.

Unfortunately documentation for using it programmatically is a bit lacking, but you can for example host a CSV somewhere and use their editor to load it. It's all client side so will automatically update.

New comment by aardshark in "Personal Names Around the World (2011)"

aardshark — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 12:16:59 +0000

As short as zero characters? Not the full name, surely.

New comment by aardshark in "Bypassing airport security via SQL injection"

aardshark — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 19:58:53 +0000

Yes, welcome to the rest of the world.

New comment by aardshark in "Fixing a bug in Google Chrome as a first-time contributor"

aardshark — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 16:46:12 +0000

There is an annoying bug in Chrome DevTools that people who want to impede debugging of their JS files exploit. I think it's probably related to making the regex engine use excess memory and crashing the tab.

Anyway, just mentioning it to see if someone here knows if it's a well known and difficult to fix bug, or if it's just a bit obscure to have had any fixes for.

New comment by aardshark in "Troubleshooting: Terminal Lag"

aardshark — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 02:42:48 +0000

300ms for startup still sounds slow to me. Not ridiculously so, but it won't give that snappy feeling.

New comment by aardshark in "Troubleshooting: Terminal Lag"

aardshark — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 02:42:48 +0000

300ms for startup still sounds slow to me. Not ridiculously so, but it won't give that snappy feeling.

New comment by aardshark in "Feds want to ban the Flipper Zero – Experts say it's a scapegoat"

aardshark — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 21:12:35 +0000

That's just because you're used to a US-centric view of the internet from all the other Americans who perpetuate the silliness.

New comment by aardshark in "Push notifications – What to push, what not to push, and how often"

aardshark — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 00:45:45 +0000

Buzzkill can do this on Android.

New comment by aardshark in "Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates"

aardshark — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 12:36:41 +0000

You must be able to turn this off, because I've been running many homebrewed extensions for years and never encountered these popups.

New comment by aardshark in "Some reasons to avoid Cython"

aardshark — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 20:21:18 +0000

Open up Chat GPT, paste your functions and ask it to convert them to rust. Go through them 1 by 1, see if you understand and ask questions about anything you don't recognise. Don't expect the output to be perfectly logically correct, you will have to ensure that yourself.

I've found Chat GPT to be really excellent for quickly getting myself up to speed with languages that I'm not familiar with.

New comment by aardshark in "The trouble with supermarket self checkouts"

aardshark — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 22:09:03 +0000

Self checkouts like the author mentioned, which have the "unexpected item in bagging area" component, are awful. Plus the machines are usually laggy.

When the machines are responsive and there's no irritating behaviours of the machine, then they're just fine, or even better than a cashier.

New comment by aardshark in "The Pentagon and CIA have shaped thousands of movies into effective propaganda"

aardshark — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 21:32:35 +0000

Do you live in a first world Western country and is your social circle comprised of people who do the same? In my experience when you go outside of that circle you start finding people who have personally experienced loss from COVID very quickly.

New comment by aardshark in "Your computer should say what you tell it to say"

aardshark — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 21:07:26 +0000

What does your banking experience look like if losing online banking is a minor inconvenience to you?

For me it would be as if my bank ceased to exist.

New comment by aardshark in "Larne Craigyhill bonfire: 17000 pallets (2021)"

aardshark — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 09:06:59 +0000

17000 pallets are worth much more than £20,000, which apparently covers all the associated cost of the bonfire.

They sure didn't buy all those pallets.

New comment by aardshark in "Ring is having a major outage"

aardshark — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 22:32:42 +0000

I doubt they actually do much anyway.

New comment by aardshark in "Pix surpasses credit and debit card transactions in Brazil"

aardshark — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 08:16:05 +0000

That seems monumentally stupid.

New comment by aardshark in "Internet search tips"

aardshark — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 06:09:58 +0000

But search techniques change over time. You can see that in the responses in this thread. What used to work doesn't anymore.

New comment by aardshark in "CSS findings from the Threads app"

aardshark — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 22:44:42 +0000

I think when you come across situations that only grid can solve, then you appreciate it a bit more.

Flexbox complements grid imo, it's not an alternative.