Hacker News: atkailash

New comment by atkailash in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"

atkailash — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 16:06:36 +0000

This is why I swear by Rectangle. Lots of options for snapping them and keeping windows nice and organized.

New comment by atkailash in "Amazon One palm authentication discontinued"

atkailash — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 22:04:45 +0000

I used it at Whole Foods cause it did my prime code and charged me at the same time without digging my phone out of my pocket but also my Whole Foods has bad reception so it’s annoying to use

New comment by atkailash in "OpenAI and Nvidia announce partnership to deploy 10GW of Nvidia systems"

atkailash — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 22:38:16 +0000

I wouldn’t call a $100-270 electric bill a “fraction” when it’s about 5% post tax income. I use a single light on a timer and have a small apartment

Especially since these sorts of corporations can get tax breaks or har means of getting regulators to allow spreading the cost. Residential shouldn’t see any increase due to data centers, but they do, and will, supplement them while seeing minimal changes to infrastructure

When people are being told to minimize air conditioning but then these big datacenters are made and aren’t told “reduce your consumption” then it doesn’t matter how big or small the electric bill is, it’s supplementing a multi billion dollar corporation’s toy

New comment by atkailash in "Apple Photos app corrupts images"

atkailash — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 00:14:16 +0000

Maybe when something is done to prevent school shootings this can be a discussion

New comment by atkailash in "Who Owns, Operates, and Develops Your VPN Matters"

atkailash — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 19:51:09 +0000

Times Square at one point was practically half full of Mullvad ads. I already distrusted it but the sheer amount of money they spent to do that made it shadier to me

New comment by atkailash in "If you have a Claude account, they're going to train on your data moving forward"

atkailash — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:10:52 +0000

I’ve found Gemini argumentative and maybe condescending too.

Mistral feels like a good balance between haughtiness and sycophantism.

New comment by atkailash in "U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel"

atkailash — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 18:04:52 +0000

How is this not a regulatory conflict of interest? Or strong arming them to change practices under threat of pulling all the stock out?

New comment by atkailash in "Cerebras Code"

atkailash — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 02:12:22 +0000

I use regular cerebras for plan stage in cline, so I’m very excited to try this out

New comment by atkailash in "Emacs: The macOS Bug"

atkailash — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 21:08:57 +0000

I liked emacs, still use it for a lot of things, but the instantly tinkering and changing got to me. Took longer to set something up to work how I wanted than to do the thing.

New comment by atkailash in "Jujutsu for busy devs"

atkailash — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 06:04:53 +0000

I tried it out on one of my personal repos and I need to give it more time. I do like the way it tracks work, it feels like it would help me to make more commits as I work, cause I’m really bad about that

New comment by atkailash in "The Tech Job Meltdown"

atkailash — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 07:40:42 +0000

It does but guess what? You’re not middle class or bourgeois,, so not sure what point you’re trying to make.

You sell your labor, you don’t make money by exploiting others. And the middle class is a vague concept that is situational and effectively meaningless, particularly in the contemporary US

New comment by atkailash in "Changes since congestion pricing started in New York"

atkailash — Thu, 15 May 2025 03:30:12 +0000

Oh well then. Either spend less on the train (also saving money on gas and maintenance) or stay in suburbia. We pay a premium to live in the city, much more than the $9 so I’m not gonna shed any tears that it’s not much less convenient for someone to not drive

Driving is almost always more convenient on many levels, so it’s not really the best argument start from “it’s just easier”

New comment by atkailash in "U.S. citizen in Arizona detained by immigration officials for 10 days"

atkailash — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 19:33:43 +0000

It’s basically the party of narcissism. Which is why Trump has succeeded. Freedoms insofar as their world and life are concerned. Generally not an externally motivated “hey they need to be free too” unless they can somehow appear morally superior in a US Christian way, like abortion or prootecting marriage.

New comment by atkailash in "Whistleblower details how DOGE may have taken sensitive NLRB data"

atkailash — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 12:58:28 +0000

Cite? Really? I haven’t seen an article about the situation or the visit that didn’t mention it.

New comment by atkailash in "The polar vortex is hitting the brakes"

atkailash — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 23:28:26 +0000

I believe that’s why it was qualified with “almost”

New comment by atkailash in "Blue Ghost lander captures sunset shots on moon before falling silent"

atkailash — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 19:49:20 +0000

Meanwhile voyager is beyond the solar system. I don’t see why they didn’t use something that’s not solar so they aren’t just littering the moon

New comment by atkailash in "US court upholds Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes's conviction"

atkailash — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 12:48:20 +0000

That study doesn’t focus on people who are used to caviar and champagne as a normal thing versus an out of reach dream. These bourgeoisie think they’re untouchable, and largely are, so the threat of this is the only deterrent we have short of a Place de la Concorde situation

New comment by atkailash in "ICE wants to know if you're posting negative things about it online"

atkailash — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 15:27:08 +0000

I guess they’re tossing out the First and Fourth amendments now

New comment by atkailash in "VSCode’s SSH agent is bananas"

atkailash — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 08:52:57 +0000

Doom kept breaking, spacemacs is just kinda annoying, and I don’t wanna go through doing my own from scratch again. I basically only use emacs for my couple literate configs because I haven’t found an equal alternative

That’s why I’ve been checking out zed/helix/kakoune lately. Zed to replace VSCode which feels bloated and the other two to replace vim. The keybindings are more intuitive to me and having auto complete of commands out of the box with a full menu showing shortcuts saved me a lot of frustration from day 0

New comment by atkailash in "Subway crime plummets as ridership jumps significantly in congestion pricing era"

atkailash — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 03:26:58 +0000

It wasn’t even cops that caught people and you think increased presence prevented crime? How them boots taste?

Half the time they’re not looking at anyone but chatting in a circle. And the NG at the stations are even more useless (I say this as a former NG member) for this

And time and time again it’s been shown the way to prevent crime is social services eliminating the drivers of crime, not the punitive reactive scenario you’re describing