Hacker News: acephal

New comment by acephal in "Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years"

acephal — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:47:43 +0000

The amount of em dashes in Nietzche; the amount of semicolons in Hegel

New comment by acephal in "2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web"

acephal — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 23:39:10 +0000

> My favorite thing about Napster and LimeWire was when you could find a song, and then BROWSE the hard drive of the person hosting that song.

Soulseek lets you do this and is still going

New comment by acephal in "Framework Raises DDR5 Memory Prices by 50% for DIY Laptops"

acephal — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 17:58:22 +0000

From what I've read, he's tied up RAM manufacturers through 2029. That's a lot of quartely earnings reports for many firms in the economy where they watch consumer spend come to a screeching halt.

New comment by acephal in "Framework Raises DDR5 Memory Prices by 50% for DIY Laptops"

acephal — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 17:57:01 +0000

Altman should be jailed for this. Single-handedly crashing consumer spending in an entire sector of the economy. At the very least for the reason that that was supposed to happen _after_ they had the AI in hand to supplant majority white collar labor, not before.

New comment by acephal in "DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]"

acephal — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 21:54:47 +0000

Facebook itself still has a big problem with it's lack of youth audience though. Zuck captured the boomers and older Gen X, which are the biggest demos of living people however.

New comment by acephal in "WBlock: A New Ad-Blocker for Safari"

acephal — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 16:40:28 +0000

Is there any reason to prefer uBoL over Pi-Hole/Adguard Home?

New comment by acephal in "Are you stuck in movie logic?"

acephal — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 16:14:02 +0000

The famous French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan claimed that if everyone said exactly what needs be said, language wouldn't exist or something like that. I'd wager movies are a reflection of how our psyche works, including 'main character syndrome', omissions of causality for narrative coherency, etc.

New comment by acephal in "AI isn't replacing jobs. AI spending is"

acephal — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 20:02:48 +0000

Only in America is this kind of anti-labor sentiment masquerading as "if you knew what was good for you now look what happened", as if businesses were so stupid as to be fooled by "if we don't make it apparent, they won't notice" and somehow this would shield programming from off-shoring. The actual reality is that post-WW2 exceptionalism in literacy ended; the developing world caught up. The entire premise of American labor exceptionalism was built on this faulty assumption. And rather than reconfigure your negotiation as labor, your first thought is how you can get back in the good graces of the 'big boss'.

New comment by acephal in "Dark mode by local sunlight (2021)"

acephal — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 18:49:46 +0000

I never use this. Where I live, one will require dark mode well before the calculated sunset.

New comment by acephal in "Lux: A luxurious package manager for Lua"

acephal — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 22:18:58 +0000

I've been awaiting the rocks.nvim team to migrate to this

New comment by acephal in ""Be Different" doesn't work for building products anymore"

acephal — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 16:29:41 +0000

Yes, this is why the biggest winner of LLMs is off-shoring

New comment by acephal in "macOS becomes iOS: Safari video controls"

acephal — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 01:22:20 +0000

Last I touched a Linux desktop was 10+ years ago and you had to muck about with FontConfig and third-party config packages to even come close to Windows or macOS type rendering. Has this seen significant improvement?

New comment by acephal in "Bring Your Own Agent to Zed – Featuring Gemini CLI"

acephal — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 13:02:58 +0000

Any highlights?

New comment by acephal in ""None of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of FL's Book Ban Bill"

acephal — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 05:50:55 +0000

Yes, the story I'm referring to also features veiled homosexuality (the King is only alone with the assassin cause he thinks he's gonna fuck him)

New comment by acephal in "Another reason to use expendable email addresses for everything"

acephal — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 15:24:54 +0000

iCloud is almost justified by the number of expendable email addresses one can allocate

New comment by acephal in ""None of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of FL's Book Ban Bill"

acephal — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 15:21:24 +0000

Don't forget the story in Judges where a Hebrew assasin stabs an obese Canaanite king in the gut and he shits himself but his guards outside the room were already used to him shitting himself so ignored the smell.

New comment by acephal in "Nobody knows how to build with AI yet"

acephal — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 15:05:49 +0000

I had Claude, as an agent, get into an infinite loop trying to resolve a diagnostic in Java test that any human would easily figured out and fixed in a second.

New comment by acephal in "Where's Firefox going next?"

acephal — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 14:58:58 +0000

Firefox's WebExtensions implementation still has service workers disabled and no File System API. MV3 requires service workers, so Firefox extension ecosystem is on a countdown.

New comment by acephal in "Study links mindfulness and meditation to narcissism and “spiritual superiority”"

acephal — Sun, 29 Nov 2020 20:03:55 +0000

This is also Joe Rogan and his "just eat mushrooms" ideology

New comment by acephal in "Manifesto of the Silent Minority"

acephal — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 20:38:45 +0000

High likelihood most of these responses are from well-placed SREs