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New comment by bluGill in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

bluGill — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:27:05 +0000

Yes, it is fairly common with some plastics. better plastics won't but there are a lot of different plastics with differt formulas (and many can be mixed)

New comment by bluGill in "Code is run more than read (2023)"

bluGill — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:21:51 +0000

Follow the manufacture recomendations. it sounded like a recomendation to replace more often. Maybe we are in agreement?

filter test can be inferred from flow rate and oil analisys. Destructive testing is best if you must know - but also not helpful.

New comment by bluGill in "Code is run more than read (2023)"

bluGill — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:52:24 +0000

> We don't have magic oil filters which last even 22k miles. You should be replacing them every 6 months / 6k miles, or 12 months / 12k miles depending on your risk tolerance (some people suggest even half my short interval).

We do - they are just a lot bigger.

You should replace the oil filter when it is no longer filtering. Replacing it early is a pure waste of money. Unfortunately the tests of do you need to change the oil filter is more expensive than just replacing the filter so just replace it before it can possibly be clogged is the right answer. Generally the manufactures recommendations are correct and you should follow what they say unless you have lab results that say otherwise.

New comment by bluGill in "Supply chain nightmare: How Rust will be attacked and what we can do to mitigate"

bluGill — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:53:26 +0000

That is why you mix in "Something So Feminine About A Mandolin" in once in a while. Or if you really insist on only very well known tunes "Cheese Burger in Paradise" should still count.

New comment by bluGill in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

bluGill — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:09:37 +0000

The vast majority of git users are using github as a central repository. There a a few other not github but serves the same purpose central repositories. Distributed sounds cool, but almost everybody wouldn't notice a thing if git was centralized.

New comment by bluGill in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

bluGill — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:56:37 +0000

The optimum amount of fraud is non-zero only because detection is expensive as you get close to zero. Getting less fraud needs to always be in mind. When someone gets away with fraud others will try to copy it so anything that has happened before has a much higher value to detect.

But for fraud that hasn't happened yet don't worry about it and hope nobody figures out how to do it.

New comment by bluGill in "Show HN: I built a Cargo-like build tool for C/C++"

bluGill — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:17:24 +0000

No scripts sounds nice until you are doing something weird that the system doesn't cover. Cmake is starting to get all the possible weirdness right without scripts but there are still a few cases it can't handle.

New comment by bluGill in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

bluGill — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:39:53 +0000

There are many customers to spread that over in proportion to their usage. This is standard acconting they have been doing for years

New comment by bluGill in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

bluGill — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:39:19 +0000

AI results are generally easy to transport - just a few bytes over some fibre. Electric is harder to ship, there is only so much you can put in a wire (even high voltage DC). Widgets (car parts...) are even harder to ship and take longer which is why big things often get final assembly locally.

New comment by bluGill in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

bluGill — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:27:54 +0000

That isn't the factories job - that is your utilities job.

New comment by bluGill in "EFF is leaving X"

bluGill — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:18:06 +0000

Details are different, but there have been lots of examples over the years. Andrew Jackson had his "kitchen cabinet". There was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teapot_Dome_scandal, Watergate. There are plenty of other examples. In large part if something is an example or not depends on your politics - people tend to overlook the mistakes of someone they support.

New comment by bluGill in "EFF is leaving X"

bluGill — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:02:04 +0000

There have always been business owners who shouted their ideology, and others who were quiet. You might remember some cases more than others, and some have had a louder voice than others, but both go way back.

New comment by bluGill in "Show HN: I built a Cargo-like build tool for C/C++"

bluGill — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:50:59 +0000

I didn't say the problem couldn't be solved. I said the problem can't be solved by one person. There is a difference. (maybe it can be solved by one person over a few decades)

New comment by bluGill in "The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy"

bluGill — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:49:49 +0000

Sure, but that is at most 25% of Americans. The rest are conditional in some way if they even support him at all.

New comment by bluGill in "The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy"

bluGill — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:17:08 +0000

For this purpose identify is enough - as anyone who identifies will be horrified even if they otherwise don't care about the church. Many non-Catholics (including non-Christians) are also horrified even though they otherwise don't care about what the pope says at all.

New comment by bluGill in "Show HN: I built a Cargo-like build tool for C/C++"

bluGill — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:12:36 +0000

For simple projects. Make is easier for simple things I will grant. However when your projects gets complex at all make becomes a real pain and cmake becomes much easier.

Cmake has a lot of warts, but they have also put a lot of effort into finding and fixing all those weird special cases. If your project uses CMake odds are high it will build anywhere.

New comment by bluGill in "Show HN: I built a Cargo-like build tool for C/C++"

bluGill — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:11:00 +0000

Anyone can make a tool that solves a tiny part of the problem. however the reason no such tool has caught on is because of all the weird special cases you need to handle before it can be useful. Even if you limit your support to desktop: OS/X and Windows that problem will be hard, adding various linux flavors is even more difficult, not to mention BSD. The above is the common/mainstream choices, there Haiku is going to be very different, and I've seen dozens of others over the years, some of them have a following in their niche. Then there are people building for embedded - QNX, vxworks, or even no OS just bare metal - each adding weirdness (and implying cross compiling which makes everything harder because your assumptions are always wrong).

I'm sorry I have to be a downer, but the fact is if you can use the word "I" your package manager is obviously not powerful enough for the real world.

New comment by bluGill in "Top laptops to use with FreeBSD"

bluGill — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:10:47 +0000

That is cool in ways, but many manufactures change the internals without changing the model number and so I'm not sure how much I can trust it. There is a recycled computers place near me that will sell me some of those cheap, but how can I be sure the one I'm buying is the same as the one tested (if indeed I can find any of those model numbers at all - which is a factor of what companies near me are recycling this month)

New comment by bluGill in "IPv6 is the only way forward"

bluGill — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:12:28 +0000

Without checking what is the ip for hackernews?

New comment by bluGill in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

bluGill — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:10:44 +0000

I fail to see a better offer. Support for those trying to kill jews is not something I can accept. I don't like any option for dealing with it, but walking away is still evil.