Hacker News: aduitsis

New comment by aduitsis in "A Faster Alternative to Jq"

aduitsis — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:22:55 +0000

...and because it's going to burn a million times the energy of what jq would require.

New comment by aduitsis in "Thoughts on slowing the fuck down"

aduitsis — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:27:44 +0000

And maybe it's dangerous for one to think they're doing engineering when in reality they're doing craft work.

New comment by aduitsis in "Monosketch"

aduitsis — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:38:40 +0000

+++ Monodraw is awesome!

New comment by aduitsis in "Just the Browser"

aduitsis — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 13:46:41 +0000

For Firefox, I think that disabling the telemetry and the studies is not going to help Mozilla improve the browser.

New comment by aduitsis in "Don't Download Apps"

aduitsis — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 22:26:22 +0000

IIUC, contactless payment via apple pay does have a secondary card number of sorts that's linked to your original card.

I once accidentally paid for AppleCare with apple pay (a mistake), so when at some point I switched phones I had to get new secondary card numbers tied to my physical cards. The old secondaries went away when I wiped my old phone, so AppleCare was no longer able to draw the monthly payment. The number in the invoice was likewise not the original physical card number, but some other number.

Whether the secondary numbers are easier or impossible to track is certainly a question, but I believe there's always a number.

New comment by aduitsis in "Cool-retro-term: terminal emulator which mimics look and feel of CRTs"

aduitsis — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 20:33:54 +0000

Yes, correct! If you check out https://ghostty.org/docs/config/reference, the iPreviousCursor is available, so it can be used against the iCurrentCursor to produce a fading effect. But I think the entire previous framebuffer isn't there (yet).

New comment by aduitsis in "Cool-retro-term: terminal emulator which mimics look and feel of CRTs"

aduitsis — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 19:28:21 +0000

It can only apply shader(s) to the current frame I think. To produce the crt ghosting you'd probably need access to the previous frame (not an expert).

New comment by aduitsis in "Ask HN: How does my school block DoH?"

aduitsis — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 21:01:36 +0000

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/configuring-networks-di...

(You need to setup your DNS to respond in a certain way for a canary domain)

New comment by aduitsis in "Moving objects precisely with sound"

aduitsis — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 14:02:42 +0000

One step closer to the sonic screwdriver from Doctor Who.

New comment by aduitsis in "Rete algorithm"

aduitsis — Mon, 27 May 2024 14:40:42 +0000

Hey! I was using CLIPS in my network management PhD work, but life happened and I was absorbed by my profession. Maybe one day I'll dig up the half finished material and continue, who knows.

CLIPS is one of those definitely underrated gems, many many thanks for what you are doing!

New comment by aduitsis in "Ancient City Found in the Amazon"

aduitsis — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 15:16:45 +0000

Why is this downvoted? It's 100% relevant.

David Grann is a well known New Yorker contributor and, before the book, has also written an article named "Lost City of Z": https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/09/19/the-lost-city-...

New comment by aduitsis in "Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max"

aduitsis — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 01:10:15 +0000

Mac Mini with the M2 Pro can drive 3 monitors, Macbook Pro with the M2 Pro only 2.

New comment by aduitsis in "We are beginning to roll out new voice and image capabilities in ChatGPT"

aduitsis — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 13:40:40 +0000

Fortunately it's not like StackOverflow has been used as training data for LLMs, right?

New comment by aduitsis in "Why Perl?"

aduitsis — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 09:54:18 +0000

If you feel more comfortable with Python for the task at hand, why not use it?

That's good and it's actually the Perl way, Perl was always about helping getting stuff done.

New comment by aduitsis in "Why Perl?"

aduitsis — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 09:40:15 +0000

Programming language police, pull over.

New comment by aduitsis in "LHC experiments see first evidence of a rare Higgs boson decay"

aduitsis — Tue, 30 May 2023 00:00:51 +0000

Our future technological improvement hinges on basic research. We can certainly iterate and improve technology, but the amount of improvement is always bound to hit a physical limit sooner or later. Doing basic research will actually move the physical limit.

New comment by aduitsis in "Google Pixel Fold"

aduitsis — Wed, 10 May 2023 23:10:52 +0000

For some of us that are not in the US, this product doesn't even exist. 2023 and still somehow the Pixel doesn't sell in several countries in the EU.

New comment by aduitsis in "Ancient Greek terms worth reviving"

aduitsis — Tue, 09 May 2023 13:52:51 +0000

Totally, it's actually harder for Greeks that already speak modern Greek to pronounce Ancient Greek using Erasmian pronounciation :).

New comment by aduitsis in "The tug-of-war over server-side WebAssembly"

aduitsis — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 18:55:20 +0000

Deep respect to the CloudABI folks, a project which inspired the WASI ideas:

> CloudABI is no longer being maintained. It was an awesome experiment, but it never got enough traction to be sustainable. If you like the idea behind CloudABI, please consider looking into the WebAssembly System Interface (WASI). WASI's design has been inspired by CloudABI.

https://github.com/NuxiNL/cloudlibc

edit: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/blob/main/docs/... is a good reference and also mentions the Capsicum framework (https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/capsicum/). Which is present in FreeBSD for several versions btw.

New comment by aduitsis in "The Shit Show"

aduitsis — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 23:28:29 +0000

At this point the signal to noise ratio on Mastodon is amazingly good. Who would have thought that just displaying the timeline would be so refreshing.