Hacker News: anArbitraryOne

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "Companies Are Just a Graph of Algorithms"

anArbitraryOne — Mon, 25 May 2026 06:57:43 +0000

Wow, things operate according to lists of instructions. What a concept.

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "Chess puzzle I found in my dad's old book"

anArbitraryOne — Thu, 14 May 2026 05:44:06 +0000

I got it down to one, and then remembered I'm not a great chess player

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "What's a mathematician to do? (2010)"

anArbitraryOne — Mon, 11 May 2026 03:04:46 +0000

Good question, but I'm offended by the egregious misuse of a semicolon. My JIT compilation is throwing an error.

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

anArbitraryOne — Mon, 11 May 2026 02:58:38 +0000

Just let me turn it off to preserve battery life

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "Maryland to ban A.I.-driven price increases in grocery stores"

anArbitraryOne — Sun, 03 May 2026 09:29:45 +0000

What about just setting the stores in high income areas to have higher prices?

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "It's OK to abandon your side-project (2024)"

anArbitraryOne — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:49:04 +0000

What if your side-project has a side-project?

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS"

anArbitraryOne — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:03:44 +0000

I made this acct to hate on MacOS but this is like shooting fish in a barrel

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "Filing the Corners Off MacBooks"

anArbitraryOne — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:52:41 +0000

Try exfoliating your wrists with square virtual windows

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

anArbitraryOne — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:49:05 +0000

It's great how apple makes everything so customizable

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

anArbitraryOne — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:46:54 +0000

If only they'd round the edges/corners of the body instead of the screen and the UI

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"

anArbitraryOne — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:06:56 +0000

I love it. I mean I hate MacOS, but great project

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "Cocoa-Way – Native macOS Wayland compositor for running Linux apps seamlessly"

anArbitraryOne — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 11:57:53 +0000

Absolutely. I went through great lengths to install Asahi on my work M1, only to have most things not work (RTFM). So when one is forced to use MacOS, may it round corners in hell, for work…

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "Cocoa-Way – Native macOS Wayland compositor for running Linux apps seamlessly"

anArbitraryOne — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 11:49:29 +0000

Now if we could switch MacOS to use Win/Linux keyboard commands, MacOS wouldn't be so insufferable

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "Ordered dithering with arbitrary or irregular colour palettes (2023)"

anArbitraryOne — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:47:31 +0000

I love dithering in a platonic way

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords"

anArbitraryOne — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 10:26:31 +0000

I can't believe there's an easy way to revert - that's just bigotry toward MacOS

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "AirPods Max 2"

anArbitraryOne — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 02:55:42 +0000

still can't play doom on them

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

anArbitraryOne — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 02:24:43 +0000

Cool, make me one without MacOS

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "From Tobacco to Ultraprocessed Food: How Industry Fuels Preventable Disease"

anArbitraryOne — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 10:55:00 +0000

I'm glad consumers have a choice. Unlike the ultraprocessed crap they fed us in school.

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC"

anArbitraryOne — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 02:28:52 +0000

Not to mention much of long island and the bronx

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports"

anArbitraryOne — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 12:36:51 +0000

Nice. But it deters people like me who aren't totally confident in sending reports, trading false positives for false negatives