<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: bashkiddie</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bashkiddie</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 20:26:46 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=bashkiddie" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bashkiddie in "The bird eye was pushed to an evolutionary extreme"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thank you for this long context!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 07:28:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48176490</link><dc:creator>bashkiddie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48176490</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48176490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bashkiddie in "This Month in Ladybird – April 2026"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I second that. Loading the pages takes longer before the video starts playing. I also regularly run into bot detection where no video will play at all until I log in.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 14:04:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48008959</link><dc:creator>bashkiddie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48008959</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48008959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bashkiddie in "This Month in Ladybird – April 2026"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I switched bank in 2021 and it was hard. No bank advertises "we do compliant chip tan" and no bank advertises "we do not buy an app framework that scans for customs roms".<p>Switching banks is hard, because all of them suck, are underdocumented and a moving target.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 10:40:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47995571</link><dc:creator>bashkiddie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47995571</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47995571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bashkiddie in "Men who stare at walls"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Dopamine has a half life of 2 minutes in the body.<p>May be true.<p>But doing "rewarding" work encourages your body to emit more dopamine. Some people call it "the flow", others "hyperfocus", but it is a constant stream of dopamine that keeps you doing what you currently do. And you can interfere with the emittance and absorbtion by using caffeine.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:42:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47932296</link><dc:creator>bashkiddie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47932296</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47932296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bashkiddie in "Men who stare at walls"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>An ADHD brain may work better without stimulating caffeine, YMMV.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 07:12:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47931308</link><dc:creator>bashkiddie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47931308</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47931308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bashkiddie in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I second this. Clownflare is agressively blocking:
Fennec v149.0.2 - Germany</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:12:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47867944</link><dc:creator>bashkiddie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47867944</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47867944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bashkiddie in "Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am guessing: There is an evolutionary "shadow". Genes for getting old and healthy are not selected for, because you get old after having children. Evolution optimizes for the survival of your children.<p>Might be that cancer hits after creating offspring.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 21:01:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47558080</link><dc:creator>bashkiddie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47558080</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47558080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bashkiddie in "Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> wrote the defacto standard regex library in Rust<p>What is the motivation that Rust invented its own RegEx flavor instead of sticking to PCRE or even RE2?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:52:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47514528</link><dc:creator>bashkiddie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47514528</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47514528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bashkiddie in "Walmart: ChatGPT checkout converted 3x worse than website"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Next years headline will be<p>> AI accounts for 90% of accidents while only accounting for 1% of traffic</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:51:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47487246</link><dc:creator>bashkiddie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47487246</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47487246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bashkiddie in "Walmart: ChatGPT checkout converted 3x worse than website"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When I shop for special hardware (e.g. bicycle shift gear) it is usually underspecified.
If the information does not exist in the text block, a chat bot is of no use.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:26:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47487069</link><dc:creator>bashkiddie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47487069</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47487069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bashkiddie in "Why can't you tune your guitar? (2019)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Why can’t you tune your guitar?<p>You can.<p>(1) Movable frets <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZC69A8TsJ8" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZC69A8TsJ8</a><p>(2) No frets <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92TxCGBNEVg" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92TxCGBNEVg</a><p>(3) force the string sideways to a higher pitch <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbALdNDhKYE&list=RDkbALdNDhKYE&start_radio=1" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbALdNDhKYE&list=RDkbALdNDhK...</a><p>But the long answer is: It will stay out of tune for a given definition of "in tune", because there is no perfect string.
A perfect string has a diameter of zero.<p>> The math of harmonics is really simple<p>If a string only had harmonics on it, the oscilation would form a stationary wave that never leaves the string and resonates between bridge and head.
It is the non-harmonics that create the sound.<p>A sound is made of a base frequency and overtones.
Overtones are never perfect multiples of the base frequency, because they are influenced by<p>(1) string length<p>(2) material bending stiffness<p>Because of bending stiffness, overtones have a lower frequency than their theoretical haromnics.<p>> The second harmonic is the one you get from the string vibrating in halves.<p>True in theory, false in practice due to bending stiffness.<p>> Guitars can’t be perfectly in tune<p>I don't see why. Overtone series are impossible to solve, but base frequencies can be tuned to your liking.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:42:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47315236</link><dc:creator>bashkiddie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47315236</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47315236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bashkiddie in "Defer available in gcc and clang"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I would like to second this.<p>In Golang if you iterate over a thousand files and<p><pre><code>    defer File.close()
</code></pre>
your OS will run out of file descriptors</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:35:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47085713</link><dc:creator>bashkiddie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47085713</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47085713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bashkiddie in "Gentoo Linux 2025 Review"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have heard rumors that at one point in time gentoo lost its forum - basically a catastrophic strike such as deleting Arch Linux wiki</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 19:54:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46579297</link><dc:creator>bashkiddie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46579297</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46579297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bashkiddie in "“Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead” (2016)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am unhappy with python. It degrades fast. It deprecates libraries every minor release and that tends to break the applications I use. Recent examples are distutils and opsaudio.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:00:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46527921</link><dc:creator>bashkiddie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46527921</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46527921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bashkiddie in "Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I say let X11 die, bury it, and never let it rise again.<p>totally awesome! And once we are done with X11, lets put pulseaudio to the grave! We can all focus on having an audio stack that does realiably stream to many sinks!<p>And polkit... su and sudo should have been enough</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2025 21:22:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46387117</link><dc:creator>bashkiddie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46387117</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46387117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bashkiddie in "Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I once had to write an IPv6 stack intending to cache poison internet targets (alias resolution).
I just referred to the RFC.<p>A well behaved reference implementation would not be of help.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 18:38:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46357181</link><dc:creator>bashkiddie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46357181</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46357181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bashkiddie in "OpenSCAD is kinda neat"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A hull requires at minimum one shape and returns a convex shape.<p>A minkowski sum, as far as I understand it, requires a surface and a volume and returns a volume.<p>Example 1: apply hull() to a star shape<p>Example 2: You want to fold a picture (SVG) around a cylinder and make its edges FDM printable by 45 degree overhang, apply a cone to the image</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 23:26:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46349702</link><dc:creator>bashkiddie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46349702</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46349702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bashkiddie in "Do dyslexia fonts work? (2022)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I did not know about phonics<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonics" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonics</a><p>English is my second language. I found writing and pronunciation disconnected and learned two separate languages.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2025 22:17:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46267654</link><dc:creator>bashkiddie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46267654</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46267654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bashkiddie in "Advent of Code 2025"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Go is strong.<p>How do you parse the puzzle input into a data structure of your choice?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 11:17:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46106067</link><dc:creator>bashkiddie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46106067</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46106067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bashkiddie in "Don't Download Apps"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The web page says Private Spaces can hide an app from the user.<p>What I want to do is hide my address book and gallery from the app.</p>
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