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New comment by bichiliad in "'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens"

bichiliad — Sat, 16 May 2026 03:28:50 +0000

Why would you even imply something like that?

New comment by bichiliad in "Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables"

bichiliad — Fri, 01 May 2026 11:52:11 +0000

You might like Ice: https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice

New comment by bichiliad in "Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables"

bichiliad — Fri, 01 May 2026 11:51:27 +0000

I love that this is a native mac app. Thanks for building this, and thanks for sharing.

New comment by bichiliad in "Habitual coffee intake shapes the microbiome, modifies physiology and cognition"

bichiliad — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:02:46 +0000

I was genuinely really surprised at how easy it was to fit tea in instead. I have a cup of decaf once in a while, or a cup of normal coffee once in a while, but I kinda just wake up now. I think it's also helped not drinking caffeine as soon as I get up, to be honest.

New comment by bichiliad in "Habitual coffee intake shapes the microbiome, modifies physiology and cognition"

bichiliad — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:18:52 +0000

I had wild food poisoning and had a similar experience (took me out for weeks, didn’t drink coffee). I assume the body must have some sort of gating mechanism for pain; I have absolutely had caffeine withdrawal before, but not that time. I’ve since cut back and switched to tea, which I believe has helped with my anxiety.

New comment by bichiliad in "Israel Destroys Villages in Lebanon"

bichiliad — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 12:51:37 +0000

They aren’t “firing back.” Per the article, they’re rigging homes with explosives and detonating them.

New comment by bichiliad in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

bichiliad — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 02:57:12 +0000

This kind of feels like the same thing in which people talk more about the cameras they have instead of the photos they make, or the modular synth they built instead of the album they're working on with it. It's nice when it's confined to your hobby, but it's so weird when the whole world is talking about it. Imagine everyone going to a concert just to see the gear on the stage.

New comment by bichiliad in "“This is not the computer for you”"

bichiliad — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:25:56 +0000

I’ve never had a post hit me with nostalgia as hard as this one. Thanks to the author for capturing what it felt like to be a stupid little kid with a weird old computer so well.

New comment by bichiliad in "Put the zip code first"

bichiliad — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 04:04:58 +0000

Besides the technical constraints (the zip code can't always tell you the city, etc), the zip code is more of a checksum to make sure the address you typed makes sense. I think you could probably get around the imperfections by making the city / state / zip be things suggested to you, whether in an autocomplete or by making them first in a dropdown. The imperfection of a zip code in encoding a city name doesn't mean that the frustration of filling out addresses isn't a real one!

New comment by bichiliad in "TSA leaves passenger needing surgery after illegally forcing her through scanner"

bichiliad — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:39:31 +0000

I think it's the job, not the person. All sorts of people work at the TSA; clearly it's endemic to the TSA, not to the people who work there.

New comment by bichiliad in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

bichiliad — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:41:13 +0000

I think they claim that if your computer has bad hardware, you're probably sending a lot of _additional_ crashes to their telemetry system. Your hardware might be working just fine, but the guy next to you might be sending 30% more crashes.

New comment by bichiliad in "Banned in California"

bichiliad — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 01:06:34 +0000

Surely you must know what a watershed is.

New comment by bichiliad in "Acme Weather"

bichiliad — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 04:06:12 +0000

I read this a bit ago and really enjoying it! It felt like it did justice to the effort that people wouldn't appreciate otherwise.

New comment by bichiliad in "Acme Weather"

bichiliad — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 13:31:00 +0000

In the app, you can swipe backwards in time and see the reports and data for yesterday.

New comment by bichiliad in "Acme Weather"

bichiliad — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 13:29:33 +0000

I have always had a ton of respect for the Dark Sky devs. I love the work that goes into designing interfaces that make sense of complex datasets intuitively, and I feel like Dark Sky was a textbook example. I’m genuinely really excited to try this out.

New comment by bichiliad in "Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months"

bichiliad — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:07:58 +0000

I don’t think these ends justify the means. It sounds like the government failed early on in what seemed like a benign infraction, and now it is deciding to punish him for it. That’s like getting away with not returning a library book, and then being arrested and taken to prison for thousands in overdue fees when I try to return it later. That’s arbitrary and excessive, hopefully found to be a violation of due process, and should not be defended.

New comment by bichiliad in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

bichiliad — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:43:58 +0000

I came in here looking for this thread specifically (I can't imagine moving off of Ableton). Thanks for taking a sec to write this up! I might give it a try, just for the synth alone.

New comment by bichiliad in "U.S. carbon pollution rose in 2025, a reversal from prior years"

bichiliad — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:43:57 +0000

I hear you, and I think it's also fucked up (as someone who lives in the US) that our climate success is so easily reversed by the whims of whoever is in power today. If it makes you feel any less bad, new Zealand doing it acts as fantastic proof that a good chunk of New England could do it, or that the American South could do it. Plus, there isn't a lot of love for polluting policies; just tolerance from the government for polluters. Nobody here likes to see their kids have asthma, or to see their water contaminated. The size thing can make it feel hopeless, but what is the US if not a handful of New Zealand's?

New comment by bichiliad in "alpr.watch"

bichiliad — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 13:31:00 +0000

Hey, I'm all for accounting for human error. But I don't think what we've been seeing in the news is not "hold on Mr. Robber, I need a warrant" (also, you don't need a warrant for that), nor is it "oops I arrested you by accident." It's people being taken off the street because of vague determinations about their identity, the types of jobs they're working, etc. That's not probable cause, and that's certainly not human error. That's an extrajudicial decision made intentionally to have a chilling effect.

New comment by bichiliad in "alpr.watch"

bichiliad — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 01:22:55 +0000

> The ideal amount of mistakes is non-zero.

Why? And separately, do you believe that people wrongly arrested in the US are being compensated accordingly? The justice system in the US isn’t known for being easy or cheap to navigate, and I don’t think getting a warrant before detaining people is that huge of an ask.