Hacker News: albedoa

New comment by albedoa in "New iPhone age and identity checks restrict internet freedom in the UK"

albedoa — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:03:16 +0000

The comment that you are replying to is saying that it's not exclusive to Apple and gives a non-Apple example. Your link has zero instances of the string "Apple". What am I missing.

> The law is about platforms that deal in pornography, self harm, etc

So...not exclusive to Apple.

New comment by albedoa in "Generative art over the years"

albedoa — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 03:35:05 +0000

> An early phyllotaxis spiral, circa 2016.

What a strange claim. How late is too late to be considered early?

New comment by albedoa in "Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?"

albedoa — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:23:09 +0000

I would love to hear the excuse that the mods have for this title change. Good luck to them!

New comment by albedoa in "Moving from WordPress to Jekyll (and static site generators in general)"

albedoa — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:27:47 +0000

Let the man try to feed his family with *checks notes* internet points.

New comment by albedoa in "Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?"

albedoa — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:16:39 +0000

This is some real title gore, and I don't know who is to blame. As it appears:

> Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?

That Microsoft is employing dark patterns is neither surprising nor a question. Can you explain this gross departure from the actual title jpmitchell[1]? Here is the original for reference:

> How Microsoft abuses its users

This is much more interesting and accurate.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jpmitchell

New comment by albedoa in "Claude mixes up who said what"

albedoa — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:17:05 +0000

The comment that is being responded to describes a behavior that has nothing to do with determinism and follows it up with "Given this, you can't treat it as deterministic" lol.

Someone tried to redefine a well-established term in the middle of an internet forum thread about that term. The word that has been pushed to uselessness here is "pedantry".

New comment by albedoa in "OpenAI says its new model GPT-2 is too dangerous to release (2019)"

albedoa — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:58:17 +0000

The comment that you are replying to does not mention a ratio.

New comment by albedoa in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

albedoa — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:48:28 +0000

> Is that really your best argument?

(That is your argument.)

New comment by albedoa in "'Backrooms' and the Rise of the Institutional Gothic"

albedoa — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:25:21 +0000

It is not where the concept originated.

New comment by albedoa in "Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, reduced the number of cars"

albedoa — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 04:38:54 +0000

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New comment by albedoa in "Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, reduced the number of cars"

albedoa — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 02:59:10 +0000

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New comment by albedoa in "PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading"

albedoa — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 02:56:35 +0000

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New comment by albedoa in "PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading"

albedoa — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 04:47:20 +0000

> trust me, they are going to be livid about this.

Just as soon as...what? How are two of the top three people named on the "Meet the team" page simultaneously oblivious to the half gig of ad downloads and on the verge of caring?

Forgive us for not trusting you on this.

New comment by albedoa in "The three pillars of JavaScript bloat"

albedoa — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:02:18 +0000

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New comment by albedoa in "Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, reduced the number of cars"

albedoa — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:11:32 +0000

Do we have to admit that in this sub-thread? Your sentiment is better placed where we are not currently deriding the absurd take that "both can kill you easily". There is no recovery to be had here.

> whether or not the level of injury is the same

It is not the same.

New comment by albedoa in "Molly guard in reverse"

albedoa — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:33:49 +0000

No, your behavior is weird and hostile actually. Does Marcin even know that you lifted the content?

A traditional link blog would highlight a short excerpt so that the reader might be encouraged to click through to the full piece.

New comment by albedoa in "Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m"

albedoa — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:09:30 +0000

> "Deleted" and "dead" are separate columns.

Yes, we know!

> If that was the intention, it would seem like a bad design decision to me. And actually what you assume to be the reasoning, is exactly what should be avoided. Which makes it a bad thing.

That is should be avoided is what makes it a bad thing? I am probably on board with the idea that it is bad design, I just don't know what reasoning you are referring to here. How would you design it?

> This is a limitation not because of having the bool value be represented by an int (or rather "be presented as"), but because of the t y p e , being an integer.

What bool value? As designed, it is an int. I'm sure that I am just missing what you are saying.

New comment by albedoa in "Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents"

albedoa — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 03:44:23 +0000

?? How in the world is it splitting hairs to point out that those numbers don't make sense. It is directly relevant to the question of how many Americans want to rent. You don't need to be like this :(

New comment by albedoa in "The 49MB web page"

albedoa — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 03:38:08 +0000

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New comment by albedoa in "Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m"

albedoa — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:12:35 +0000

By "to do this" do you mean to not use booleans? It's because the value does not represent a binary true or false but rather a means by which the item is deleted or dead. So not only would it not make sense semantically, it would break if a third means were introduced.