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New comment by antod in "French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies at 56"

antod — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:08:41 +0000

My attitude is Fuck Optimisation, it's just so exhausting and boring.

New comment by antod in "U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model"

antod — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:51:50 +0000

I'm guessing you meant 10k m^2 (ie 1 hectare) rather than 10km ^2 (10,000 hectares if I mathed correctly)

New comment by antod in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

antod — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 01:16:42 +0000

I much preferred Diamond Age to Snow Crash. It's been a while though, so can't fully remember why - but I think Snow Crash tried to be too cute or something and kinda seemed disjointed.

New comment by antod in "Usborne 1980s Computer Books"

antod — Sun, 24 May 2026 22:30:46 +0000

I also had one of their intro books before having a computer available. But it had a paper based simulator of the program counter and variables so you could run through without a computer (I was saving up for one though, but that took years).

New comment by antod in "Usborne 1980s Computer Books"

antod — Sun, 24 May 2026 22:23:28 +0000

Same with me. As a 12yr old I failed learning Z80 on my spectrum with the one book I could find. I had a bunch of other Usborne BASIC books, but their machine code book(s) would've been the link I needed to bridge the gap to where I could understand other material.

New comment by antod in "Deno 2.8"

antod — Fri, 22 May 2026 22:18:33 +0000

Python containing type hints doesn't get transpiled the way typescript does. The transpiling rewrites the TS to varying degrees depending on the target and the extra TS features being used.

Python "just" (that word is doing a lot of work) updated the interpreter to ignore the type hints. It still runs the same way as code without hints.

There's a bit more going on with TS that you couldn't just have the runtime ignore the types.

New comment by antod in "Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired"

antod — Wed, 13 May 2026 22:04:09 +0000

I'm on my third job since COVID. None have dedicated desks, and this ranges across startups, corporates and large govt agencies.

Every job I had before COVID back to when I started back in the early/mid 90s had dedicated desks.

New comment by antod in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

antod — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:04:45 +0000

Yeah, thats 20 Opus 4.7 prompts.

New comment by antod in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

antod — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:03:11 +0000

It recently went up to 15x in our org.

New comment by antod in "CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq"

antod — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:58:29 +0000

Are you saying this is Arthur Dent's fault? (again)

New comment by antod in "Show HN: Mochi.js: bun-native high-fidelity browser automation library"

antod — Sat, 09 May 2026 19:50:23 +0000

Off topic, but the name reminds me of mochikit and early JS library in the JQuery kind of area.

Mochikit got bundled with Turbogears an early Rails like Python framework. Rails inspired a lot of frameworks back then. Must be over 20yrs ago.

New comment by antod in "Grok 4.3"

antod — Sat, 02 May 2026 00:41:26 +0000

Just personally I tend to regard retort as short and reactive while rebuttal as a longer and more considered disagreement. A retort could be defensive and wrong or it could be sharp and insightful - it doesn't imply one or the other. A rebuttal is mostly an attempt to correct something while a retort doesn't need to be a correction (although it could).

Even something like "piss off!" could be a retort, but usually never a rebuttal :)

New comment by antod in "I spent years trying to make CSS states predictable"

antod — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 01:41:31 +0000

I agree. I taught myself CSS1 by reading the spec (it was limited, small and simple). CSS2 was a lot bigger and way more complex but Eric Meyer's Salmon book helped a lot.

One problem (20yrs ago at least) was that for a long time the specs weren't supported very well by common browsers. So everyone just prodded at hacks using trial and error instead of learning it. That approach never really went away even after support improved.

New comment by antod in "Tactical Success, Strategic Failure? Washington Walks the Path to Defeat in Iran"

antod — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:27:42 +0000

The revolutionary guard probably view it as a win for them. No more clerics or civil bureaucracy to argue with now they are fully in charge. They don't need their navy or airforce to assert even more control over the civilian population. Bombing them further will probably be about as successful as it was with the North Vietnamese (another chain of tactical successes while failing strategically).

There was regime change, just not in the direction anyone else wanted.

New comment by antod in "What is RISC-V and why it matters to Canonical"

antod — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 03:39:49 +0000

People also forget or don't realize that before systemd Redhat shipped and supported upstart in RHEL too.

New comment by antod in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

antod — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:17:56 +0000

git's replacement won't be there because it was better at being what git is (too entrenched), but because git became redundant as the world changed around it. As agentic development takes over and people stop caring about source code, all the tooling (including languages themselves) and approaches to assist humans will be ripe for replacing with those for machines.

New comment by antod in "Modern Generic SVGA driver for Windows 3.1"

antod — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:15:39 +0000

Can you install Office 4.3 from floppies faster than installing the latest Windows updates? Not being a recent Windows users, I'm actually kinda curious. I'm sure the CD version would install faster.

New comment by antod in "Build123d: A Python CAD programming library"

antod — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:54:31 +0000

I did that back in the 90s too. A modern IDE like set of features for lisp would've been awesome. Notepad on NT4 didn't cut it :)

New comment by antod in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

antod — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:31:14 +0000

Just to clarify for other readers, sword fighting while riding office chairs is not slacking.

New comment by antod in "What came after the 486?"

antod — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:01:29 +0000

Didn't the Celeron 333 (easily overclockable to 450) also have a similar pencil short hack to enable SMP in a dual slot mb?