Hacker News: bashinator

New comment by bashinator in "Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode"

bashinator — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 19:03:29 +0000

Until you get a mandatory software update.

New comment by bashinator in "./watch"

bashinator — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 18:30:24 +0000

Agreed, and also most skeleton watches have the actual movement routed out to remove much of the material from bridges and plates, to expose as much gearing as possible.

New comment by bashinator in "TikTok is being flooded with racist AI videos generated by Google's Veo 3"

bashinator — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 21:07:05 +0000

Not personalized. Imagine TV that can be exactly tuned to every individual viewers' taste.

New comment by bashinator in "Game publishers respond to Stop Killing Games claim it curtails developer choice"

bashinator — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 15:11:53 +0000

I'll never buy an Ubisoft game again. Instant dealbreaker to see that studio on the Steam store page; I've deleted a $3 sale game from my cart when I realized that it was Ubisoft. No game is worth giving money to a company that hates its customers so much.

New comment by bashinator in "TikTok is being flooded with racist AI videos generated by Google's Veo 3"

bashinator — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 00:23:59 +0000

Has every generation also seen the rise of massively-multiuser automated personalized propaganda engines?

New comment by bashinator in "They don't make them like that any more: the Yamaha DX7 keyboard"

bashinator — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 18:38:22 +0000

DX7 is a great example of how new technologies can ruin a previously-great user experience. Going from cables and knobs and an "everything is visible at once" UX on analogs to a small LCD panel with data entry buttons was a huge regression.

New comment by bashinator in "AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS"

bashinator — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 16:25:19 +0000

This is really cool, I'm gonna try and implement it!

New comment by bashinator in "AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS"

bashinator — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 22:42:05 +0000

Not seeing a way to get the window currently under the mouse pointer, but this is pretty interesting - thanks!

New comment by bashinator in "The right not to be subjected to AI profiling based on publicly available data"

bashinator — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 18:53:18 +0000

Any sufficiently quantitative change becomes a qualitative change.

New comment by bashinator in "AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS"

bashinator — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 18:51:05 +0000

It can be implemented within apps, but not across apps afaict.

New comment by bashinator in "AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS"

bashinator — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 15:59:01 +0000

I've been searching for a sloppy-mouse-focus implementation for OSX for _years_. Pretty sure there's something fundamentally incompatible in how app windows are managed.

New comment by bashinator in "Will we have a negative leap second? [pdf] (2022)"

bashinator — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 17:05:55 +0000

I'm glad to see someone tackling the problem head-on instead of just coming up with workarounds.

New comment by bashinator in "AI-generated spam is starting to fill social media. Here's why"

bashinator — Mon, 20 May 2024 16:41:53 +0000

Thanks for your honesty there. Why do you do it, just the money? A cause you actually believe in?

New comment by bashinator in "State of the Terminal"

bashinator — Thu, 16 May 2024 16:14:17 +0000

In my opinion, the Lindy Effect[0] makes a lot of sense in scenarios like this. Personally, I love the fact that the slower evolution of command-line tools gives my personal skillset a longer shelf life. I can add additional capabilities without having to constantly re-learn how to do established work.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect

New comment by bashinator in "Downranking won't stop Google's deepfake porn problem, victims say"

bashinator — Wed, 15 May 2024 16:08:21 +0000

> worse problems than it "solves".

I'm going to go out on a limb and hypothesize that you're not in a demographic that is likely to be victimized by deepfake porn of yourself.

New comment by bashinator in "AI-generated spam is starting to fill social media. Here's why"

bashinator — Tue, 14 May 2024 16:53:11 +0000

Because it drives engagement.

New comment by bashinator in "AI-generated spam is starting to fill social media. Here's why"

bashinator — Tue, 14 May 2024 16:52:20 +0000

Care to elaborate? Are you a rage farmer, or trying to mitigate them?

New comment by bashinator in "Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?"

bashinator — Tue, 07 May 2024 18:33:06 +0000

`ncdu` is the single best tool I've ever found for tracking down high-disk-usage directories deep in the filesystem. Run it with the `-x` flag to prevent it from crossing mounts.

New comment by bashinator in "Ontario family doctor says new AI notetaking saved her job"

bashinator — Fri, 03 May 2024 14:23:33 +0000

The entire point of the article is that she no longer has to spend upwards of two hours a day using the notepad and pen.

New comment by bashinator in "When a black hole and a neutron star merge"

bashinator — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 16:10:03 +0000

That last sentence is a phenomenal explanation of why it can be harder for experts to teach a subject than non-experts.