<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: arzig</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=arzig</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 00:42:25 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=arzig" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arzig in "Life During Class Wartime"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes. And so we have the IRS whose enforcement measures fall disproportionately upon the disadvantaged and which is the only law enforcement agency permitted to open proceedings against citizens without evidence of wrong doing. I would hold this up as the archetypal bad example.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 21:57:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042424</link><dc:creator>arzig</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042424</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arzig in "Life During Class Wartime"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For the vast majority of human history, only the ultra wealthy had any money. And then, just as now, taxing only those people would not yield sufficient resources to fund the state.<p>The problem is, and always will be, what happens to me is I am out of work. No one wants to force people to liquidate assets they might need to work, live, etc in order to pay an asset tax.<p>Then you get to the dividing line of, but what about the ultra wealthy? Well, sure, but then you write an insanely obtuse tax code to try and capture that wealth while leaving everyone else alone and the targets are highly motivated to find loopholes.<p>Progressives intuitively understand that it’s not worth the hassle to try and means test entitlements yet seem to miss the fact that trying to manage a confiscatory bureaucracy would have the same issues.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 21:29:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042129</link><dc:creator>arzig</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042129</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arzig in "BYD is seeing a flood of new EV buyers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>All the EV tariffs are staying place past the end of the Trump administration because protectionism is now bipartisan.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:22:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47459372</link><dc:creator>arzig</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47459372</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47459372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arzig in "BYD is seeing a flood of new EV buyers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s been a month. Not long enough for a trend. Every time gas prices spike these celebratory pieces come out and then when gas prices drop at the end the consumer markets revealed preferences are made bare again. Let’s find out if this can sustain for more than a year after gas prices drop.</p>
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<p>It’s not even running tests. Test extensions usually have to run something to even populate the tests panel in my first place and provide the ability to run à la carte. Thus opening a folder will cause the test collector binary to run.</p>
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<p>Quite delayed, however windows phone link can show me notifications and notice incoming calls while the phone is locked so I can only assume there is some set of magical entitlements they need.</p>
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<p>It’s not that bad if you configure it. Much like much of Linux…</p>
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<p>You always get that last golden egg out when you kill the goose.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2026 23:17:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46482809</link><dc:creator>arzig</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46482809</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46482809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arzig in "iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unfortunately the integration is really quite weak with Apple. KDE Connect cannot remain active while the application is not in the foreground. It’s possibly a packaging issue but pairing from fedora is also quite flakey.<p>As absurd as this sounds windows -> iPhone via their phone link is actually almost as good as apples built in ecosystem to the point where I can make phone calls and send texts on my computer. It’s not quite as seamless especially the setup but that is a well done wizard and it mostly works.</p>
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<p>I’ve started seeing tabs that weigh in at multiple gbs. Cloud provider consoles are particularly egregious examples here.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 13:29:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46301729</link><dc:creator>arzig</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46301729</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46301729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arzig in "1M Downloads of Zorin OS 18"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I like the gnome paradigm. The gnome implementation is bad though. I was promised that xwayland would be the bridge to a glorious future yet stuff like pointer confinement just doesn’t work and their implementation of refresh rate doesn’t play nicely with vscode. So, the reality is I still use KDE even if it’s not quite as visionary.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2025 21:44:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46027629</link><dc:creator>arzig</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46027629</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46027629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arzig in "1M Downloads of Zorin OS 18"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I find Fedora hits a nice sweet spot between compatibility/updates and random breakage, especially since they backport KDE versions along with kernels.</p>
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<p>So you’re saying the solution since Republicans control congress they should do away with the filibuster, pass a check funding bill and then continue governing under bare majorities with no filibuster?<p>I don’t particularly like that outcome and I think the public understands that democrats have at least some leverage or they wouldn’t be acting in this way.</p>
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<p>Texas does this. They have lots of deals with data centers to consume additional base load where they basically get load shed first in the summer. Presumably these crypto miners are happy with the arrangement or they wouldn’t have entered into it.</p>
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<p>What happens when you add 200+1 in a situation where the compiler cannot statically prove that this is 201?</p>
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<p>Honestly the only use I’ve found for AI so far is for executing refactorings that are mechanical but don’t fit nicely into the rename/move or multi-cursor mode.<p>I’ll do it once or twice, tell the llm to do it and reference the changes I made and it’s usually passable. It’s not fit for anything more imo.</p>
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<p>There’s a non trivial chance this interacts with credit card processing. There is also app the legal liability of you tell someone meet are cancelled and continue charging them. So probably so not something you trust an intern to do.</p>
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<p>Is this close enough? <a href="https://github.com/lima-vm/lima">https://github.com/lima-vm/lima</a></p>
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<p>Isn’t pop_os shipping ancient components at this point due to their hate brained idea to try and create their own de and pinning their next release to it?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2025 10:37:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44039958</link><dc:creator>arzig</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44039958</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44039958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arzig in "The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You use distrobox (<a href="https://distrobox.it/" rel="nofollow">https://distrobox.it/</a>) and move on with your life. At work I use multiple versions of Ubuntu seamlessly without messing with VMs on a host fedora box without issue. That includes building things like .deb packages.</p>
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