Hacker News: account42

New comment by account42 in "I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M"

account42 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 10:04:30 +0000

He did say that he read every contract he signs not that he reads every contract some company thinks applies to him without any legal basis whatsoever. You also don't have to use to top 100 websites.

New comment by account42 in "The 2-Year Apartment Rule"

account42 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:31:39 +0000

Note that in (low enough concentrations) hydrogen peroxide is also used as a wound disinfectant so its not as horrible to get on yourself as some other cleaning substances.

New comment by account42 in "The 2-Year Apartment Rule"

account42 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:20:50 +0000

Might be different but repainting your apartment is expected from renters here to the point that contracts often state you need to do it every X years and before moving out.

New comment by account42 in "I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle"

account42 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:08:30 +0000

Resolution-wise it hasn't due to the extensive use of early CGI.

New comment by account42 in "I hate compilers"

account42 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:00:21 +0000

Yes, all these kind of bot checks are essentially malware.

New comment by account42 in "RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method"

account42 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 10:34:42 +0000

Putting something in a spec does not automatically make it true. In the real world if you repeat expensive queries more than an undefined amount you get blocked or at least bot-checked.

New comment by account42 in "The forge we deserve"

account42 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 10:27:01 +0000

That might just be your observation bias. I have not seen any Tangled instances in the wild.

New comment by account42 in "Hacker News but for independent blogs"

account42 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 10:08:44 +0000

If only mouse manufacturers would use middle click buttons that are designed for more than occasional use.

New comment by account42 in "Want your images back? That'll be $5"

account42 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:52:11 +0000

How about taking some responsibility for not archiving your "childhood memories" yourself?

IMO the main damaged party here is everyone who comes to old forum threads and finds lots of inaccessible images (or images watermarked to the point of being unusable). But then again it was never reasonable to expect image hosts to provide a free service forever.

New comment by account42 in "Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability"

account42 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:32:27 +0000

It's anywhere close to open and requires vendors to seek approval from Apple for every implementation - Apple just has the market share to make everyone dance to their tune.

New comment by account42 in "Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures"

account42 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:51:19 +0000

It's always a misinformation campaign when you'd rather people be uninformed.

New comment by account42 in "Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures"

account42 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:25:31 +0000

> just the licensing issues are going to be a nightmare to solve

A lot of things are "impossible" until they become legally required, at which point it's just business as usual.

> and a lot of the time when servers start getting turned off the team that could do this work has been dissolved or are working on other things

Which is why we need a legal requirement - so that companies plan ahead for this.

New comment by account42 in "Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures"

account42 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:22:20 +0000

> Would you be happy to put a person on the street so a thousand people get to continue playing league of legends in 2060?

Yes.

The balance is that everyone's free speech has already been SEVERELY restricted in order for the game industry to have a business model at all. This is about making sure that the rest of our society actually gets a remotely fair deal. Asking that companies can't just take away what they have sold is really below the bare minimum.

New comment by account42 in "TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP"

account42 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:11:05 +0000

No, by any other logic you can implement your Wi-Fi drivers in bash.

New comment by account42 in "TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP"

account42 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:02:19 +0000

You lost faith in humanity because people disagree about an arbitrary zero offset?

New comment by account42 in "TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP"

account42 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:58:09 +0000

Compared to inefficiencies in the average payload? No, it doesn't really matter.

New comment by account42 in "Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2"

account42 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:38:39 +0000

GP isn't saying you should never have seedable random generators, just that they should not be part of the standard library because then the API promise is no longer that you get random numbers but that you get a very specific sequence of numbers which fixes the implementation as part of the API contract.

New comment by account42 in "Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2"

account42 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:25:10 +0000

> Implementing a PRNG within the codebase instead of calling the C# standard library has an additional advantage: seeds are guaranteed to be the same on all platforms. In Spire 1, seeds on the desktop version of the game were different from seeds on the mobile version of the game, because the standard library implementation of PRNG differed between platforms. It is also worth mentioning that the standard library implementation might change over time, which would break all past seeds.

This is the correct conclusion - game developers should consider gameplay-relevant random generators part of their gameplay code rather than platform code.

New comment by account42 in "Nobody clicks your share buttons"

account42 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:39:37 +0000

Nobody cares for your AI-generated hero images either.

New comment by account42 in "The ghost domain problem in DNS, and what we're doing about it"

account42 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:06:40 +0000

The point is that that TTL is appropriate for regular lookups but not necessarily for an uptime monitor which has different requirements and tradeoffs to consider.