Hacker News: blikdak

New comment by blikdak in "Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school"

blikdak — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:28:34 +0000

A poor craftsman blames his tools.

New comment by blikdak in "Tell HN: Our paid Claude AI subscription unavailable >1 week and no support"

blikdak — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:50:12 +0000

while trying to recover massive debt switch to OpenAI they seem.

New comment by blikdak in "Who Is America's Homer?"

blikdak — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:44:30 +0000

Stop kidding yourself, you don't have the history or culture or wit to have a Homer, other than Simpson.

New comment by blikdak in "What 81,000 people want from AI"

blikdak — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 08:15:15 +0000

"What 81,000 users wish it could actually do"

New comment by blikdak in "Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not"

blikdak — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 08:02:48 +0000

What bugs me is the sheer number of people, and organisations, who still link to images and video or '1/20' long screeds on twitter, while the next article on their own site is bitching about how bad twatter/owner/politics etc is. Seriously if a site, blog, forum etc you know ever links to twitter then just stop interaction with them, they're lazy mofos need to do their own groundwork.

New comment by blikdak in "Replacing tmux in my dev workflow"

blikdak — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 11:36:18 +0000

I dunno what mess they got into with basic tumx use but yeah, just re-assign your ctrl^ key between local and remote and change your cursor and border colour you are fine. Scrollback on Windows, even using Terminal or Putty is, to me, a fail. Tell me 'cause it's a huge problem for me.

New comment by blikdak in "The Overengineered Resume with Zola, JSON Resume, Weasyprint, and Nix (2023)"

blikdak — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 12:44:49 +0000

OMg really hope you got 10x jobs that workflow.

New comment by blikdak in "Why Europe is dismantling its dams"

blikdak — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 06:20:38 +0000

A dam is many things; is it for generating electricity? Is it political or ideological? Does it give a geographical advantage? Is it extortionate? Is it for drinking water? Is it beavers? This thing doesn't explain what it thinks a dam is.

New comment by blikdak in "Why are Apple Silicon VMs so different?"

blikdak — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 12:20:18 +0000

AI generated nonsense, transition from intel to arm architecture has nothing to do with virtio.

New comment by blikdak in "Ask HN: Why do search functions everywhere not return what I search for?"

blikdak — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 09:58:18 +0000

Greed

New comment by blikdak in "Ask HN: Is Google becoming useless as a search engine, or is it just me?"

blikdak — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 22:56:03 +0000

True, it's not malice or stupidity, it's just "making money".

New comment by blikdak in "Ask HN: Is Google becoming useless as a search engine, or is it just me?"

blikdak — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 22:54:37 +0000

Google used to have an option to exclude sites from search - but then advertising... bit painful especially with all the scraping and frequent domain changes now, but better than nothing. IIRC there's some browser extensions which can do this for you.

New comment by blikdak in "Ask HN: Should a professional software dev know how many bits go in a byte?"

blikdak — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 05:53:55 +0000

Yes. Try adding 1 to a number which is already (in binary) all '1's. If you don't know the size of a byte, or an 'int' or a 'long int' etc for the language you are using you will be mystified why it is now 0, or maybe some other number your language decided was sensible to use (signed vs. unsigned etc). Then extrapolate that times 100 when dealing with floating point etc and presenting a sensible total in your shopping cart web app. If you don't know this stuff learn it or stay away from programming.

New comment by blikdak in "Ask HN: Has the quality of Google search declined for anyone else, or just me?"

blikdak — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 13:23:42 +0000

They want to make as much money as possible so they can go into space, or fund their extropian fantasies, and can afford to pay lots of unimaginative people like lawyers, marketing and bean-counting people lots of money to achieve it. Advertising is the crutch.

New comment by blikdak in "Tell HN: All .fj domains have gone offline"

blikdak — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 07:46:16 +0000

Is there anyone here in Fiji who can say they are OK?

New comment by blikdak in "Ask HN: What password managers can you recommend?"

blikdak — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 07:43:20 +0000

MacOS with iCloud has shared Keychain 1st party. People should stop thinking this integration is an app, it's a function of your entire online environment including how your OS talks to it. FBG

New comment by blikdak in "Ask HN: Why is today's Internet experience so user hostile?"

blikdak — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 04:49:15 +0000

Greed

New comment by blikdak in "Renesas enters FPGA market with the first ultra-low-power, low-cost family"

blikdak — Sat, 20 Nov 2021 23:05:38 +0000

I just ran a synthesis of their include demo Blinky and it ended with:

End of script. Logfile hash: 00b456ea46, CPU: user 3.19s system 0.13s Yosys 0.10.0 (git sha1 a743417f0, clang 12.0.0 -fPIC -Os) Time spent: 63% 17x read_verilog (2 sec), 6% 1x synth_xilinx (0 sec), ...

11/21/21 12:03 PM > Finished running Yosys with status: 0

(!!!)

New comment by blikdak in "Tell HN: Google issue tracker does not allow viewing issues unless signed-in"

blikdak — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 12:12:08 +0000

Is this for an Open Source or other project? Not that I think there's any distinction at Alphabet anymore of course.

New comment by blikdak in "Ask HN: How can an older worker going back to CS after a break find a position?"

blikdak — Thu, 06 May 2021 12:37:11 +0000

Well said. If you don't spend the time looking after your kids when they're younger you'll end up spending a lot more time sorting out problems when they're older.