<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: aclindsa</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=aclindsa</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:49:18 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=aclindsa" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aclindsa in "March, 19-21: God is a comedian"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As a Christian, I feel compelled to point out that much of what passes for "Christianity" today does not align very well with the recorded teachings and actions of Jesus. Historical Jesus was quite vocal that what mattered most was caring for the poor and the outcast, and he spent much of his time with the sick and powerless. He avoided traditional power structures, even though the people of the time expected their "messiah" to act like a powerful king - instead of dying the most shameful death as he did.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:08:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47504820</link><dc:creator>aclindsa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47504820</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47504820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aclindsa in "Emails to Outlook.com rejected due to a fault or overzealous blocking rules"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Funny, my email server started being blocked on Feb. 23. I assumed it was just me, but maybe they block a bunch of people all at once?</p>
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<p>I think it's important to consider the intent of those laws, too. They are primarily or even exclusively to prevent you from hurting others with knives. They are not really intended to protect you from cutting yourself in your own home. So I think the parent's comment still holds weight.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:41:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47140864</link><dc:creator>aclindsa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47140864</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47140864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aclindsa in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am organizing an academic branch prediction championship: <a href="https://cbp-ng.bpchamp.com/" rel="nofollow">https://cbp-ng.bpchamp.com/</a><p>This is not the first championship in branch prediction, but real-world design constraints have never been seriously considered before (How long does it take to produce a prediction? How much energy does it consume?). We wrote a new C++ library which uses operator overloading to track the latency/energy used by math operations as the predictor predicts. In addition to computation, this library models registers, RAMs, etc. The championship is open to everyone - documentation, a tutorial, etc. are on our website/repository to help you get started!</p>
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<p>What spacecraft is your spacecraft?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:54:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46695283</link><dc:creator>aclindsa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46695283</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46695283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aclindsa in "µcad: New open source programming language that can generate 2D sketches and 3D"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just yesterday I had an LLM write an openscad module for generating a 2d rounded rectangle. It worked great! I then tried to get it to write a module to extrude a 2d shape into a 3d shape and it failed spectacularly several times before I gave up.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 01:22:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46029252</link><dc:creator>aclindsa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46029252</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46029252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aclindsa in "µcad: New open source programming language that can generate 2D sketches and 3D"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One of the best things about openscad is the ability to immediately see the results of a code change in the 3D view (all I do is save the file with :w in neovim and openscad re-renders it). Being able to interact like this makes it much quicker and easier to iterate on a design.<p>I read through the ucad website and book for 10 minutes and haven't been able to figure out if there is an analogue to this for ucad?<p>There are several things that look neat about ucad's language, but I would need to recreate something like openscad's workflow to consider switching.</p>
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<p>I didn't dig too deeply, but saw a commit message written by Claude</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:28:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45933873</link><dc:creator>aclindsa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45933873</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45933873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aclindsa in "Why aren't smart people happier?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My experience is that intelligence is not one-dimensional or a cure-all. It is possible for someone to be able to solve a difficult math problem much quicker than their peers, but still have a really hard time managing emotions or dealing with everyday life.</p>
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<p>With a battery how fast you charge it, how "full" you charge it to, how deeply you discharge it, the temperature at which you keep it, etc., all affect the degradation rate of the battery. So, because charging a battery from 68-75% is better on the battery than charging from 93-100%, storing the battery full is worse, etc., it isn't necessarily true that "7% charging is the same as 7% charging".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 16:38:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45618764</link><dc:creator>aclindsa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45618764</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45618764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aclindsa in "Branch prediction: Why CPUs can't wait?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> As a rule of thumb, no extra information/context is used for branch prediction.<p>As you'll find in the results of the recent branch prediction competition, global branch history (a record of which branches have recently been taken) is a piece of context critical to achieving the high accuracy of modern branch predictors: <a href="https://ericrotenberg.wordpress.ncsu.edu/cbp2025-workshop-program/" rel="nofollow">https://ericrotenberg.wordpress.ncsu.edu/cbp2025-workshop-pr...</a></p>
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<p>Why is this (I've probably just missed it, but this is the first I'm hearing this)?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2025 16:43:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44562213</link><dc:creator>aclindsa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44562213</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44562213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aclindsa in "Thiings"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Only half of all wall outlets need the ground prong: <a href="https://www.thiings.co/things/wall-outlet" rel="nofollow">https://www.thiings.co/things/wall-outlet</a><p>And this decidedly is not a square not: <a href="https://www.thiings.co/things/square-knot" rel="nofollow">https://www.thiings.co/things/square-knot</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 21:38:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44272527</link><dc:creator>aclindsa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44272527</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44272527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aclindsa in "Why Koreans ask what year you were born"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I won't claim this as the one true answer, but one potential reason is that it is encouraged by many religions, including Christian denominations, to have a personal relationship with God. To put it another way, it is exactly God's power which enables God to have a personal relationship with each of us while we, constrained by our own humanity, are only capable of maintaining familiarity with a relatively small number of people.</p>
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<p>I assumed your parent meant "smallest" when they said "largest", and just got the sort order mixed up when commenting.</p>
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<p>I think you're missing the part that from the surface of the Earth, we can never see that whole plane at once. So the special part here is that all the planets are simultaneously in one half of a partition of the plane by a line going through Earth.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2025 14:04:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42645612</link><dc:creator>aclindsa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42645612</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42645612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aclindsa in "Make a "Magic Eye" image using Excel"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Could we... make a gif of these?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Dec 2024 13:10:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42356919</link><dc:creator>aclindsa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42356919</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42356919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aclindsa in "Brainfuck Enterprise Solutions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I admit I was slightly disappointed that it looked more like a primitive shell than the advertised OS. "Baby steps" though!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2024 11:01:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41624695</link><dc:creator>aclindsa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41624695</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41624695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aclindsa in "Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon users"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Interesting. I'm also using an AT&T MVNO, but I am affected.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2024 14:53:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39467945</link><dc:creator>aclindsa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39467945</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39467945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aclindsa in "Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon users"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yep: my partner's iPhone has service while my Pixel doesn't, both on same plan.</p>
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