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New comment by bqmjjx0kac in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

bqmjjx0kac — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 05:51:02 +0000

I once had a vexing problem with my old Intel MacBook — macOS failed to boot, but Windows seemed totally normal. Can't possibly be a hardware failure, right? The symptoms disappeared after replacing the SATA cable!

New comment by bqmjjx0kac in "Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%"

bqmjjx0kac — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 21:12:18 +0000

I'm not sure how impressed I should feel about saving 45 MiB these days.

New comment by bqmjjx0kac in "Linux kernel security work"

bqmjjx0kac — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 01:21:38 +0000

Confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity :)

New comment by bqmjjx0kac in "Log level 'error' should mean that something needs to be fixed"

bqmjjx0kac — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 17:41:48 +0000

I would log a warning when an attempt fails, and an error when the final attempt fails.

New comment by bqmjjx0kac in "We Induced Smells With Ultrasound"

bqmjjx0kac — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 22:11:46 +0000

I shudder to think what capability the execute bit would grant.

New comment by bqmjjx0kac in "GHC now runs in the browser"

bqmjjx0kac — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 17:27:56 +0000

It would be more plausibly practical if GHC could now target wasm, but this announcement is actually about being able to run the compiler itself in the browser.

New comment by bqmjjx0kac in "Some people can't see mental images"

bqmjjx0kac — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 23:45:19 +0000

He gone doofed.

New comment by bqmjjx0kac in "Jujutsu at Google [video]"

bqmjjx0kac — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 21:15:42 +0000

I have burned git into my brain, so it's no longer hard to me. OTOH, I only pull out jq once every six months or so, and I just barely scrape by every time.

New comment by bqmjjx0kac in "Study of 1M-year-old skull points to earlier origins of modern humans"

bqmjjx0kac — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 02:56:54 +0000

> More energy from the digestive system to power a bigger GPU.

Is GPU already the metaphor du jour? I thought we were still aboard the steam engine ;)

New comment by bqmjjx0kac in "The Weird Concept of Branchless Programming"

bqmjjx0kac — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 20:05:15 +0000

As demonstrated in the article, you can compute clamp(x, min, max) with straight-line code.

New comment by bqmjjx0kac in "The subjective experience of coding in different programming languages (2023)"

bqmjjx0kac — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 13:28:41 +0000

I also do this sort of restless refactoring. I find interacting with a new codebase is a kind of brain hack that (subjectively) helps me get up to speed faster.

New comment by bqmjjx0kac in "Eternal Struggle"

bqmjjx0kac — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 21:37:20 +0000

Hmm, not on iOS Safari.

New comment by bqmjjx0kac in "A Brilliant and Nearby One-off Fast Radio Burst Localized to 13 pc Precision"

bqmjjx0kac — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 21:48:21 +0000

You nerd sniped me :) In this context, I believe it is a kilo-Jansky, not a kilo-Joule * year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jansky

New comment by bqmjjx0kac in "Fight Chat Control"

bqmjjx0kac — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 20:09:03 +0000

Well... "TM Signal" was just in the news. It's close enough I bet it could fool some percentage of otherwise security-conscious users. https://www.wired.com/story/tm-signal-telemessage-plaintext-...

New comment by bqmjjx0kac in "Fight Chat Control"

bqmjjx0kac — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 20:07:11 +0000

Do phones have trusted execution environments? I suppose you could require the recipient provide attestation that it's running the expected binary. Of course, this is pointless if the hardware manufacturer shares their root keys with the government.

Cursed Knowledge

bqmjjx0kac — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 23:34:52 +0000

Article URL: https://immich.app/cursed-knowledge/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44831704

Points: 518

# Comments: 157

New comment by bqmjjx0kac in "Can an email go 500 miles in 2025?"

bqmjjx0kac — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 22:47:08 +0000

I am familiar.

New comment by bqmjjx0kac in "Can an email go 500 miles in 2025?"

bqmjjx0kac — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 15:34:42 +0000

Oh, I know it's explained in the man page. I read it every time and promptly forget because I can't internalize the choice of notation.

New comment by bqmjjx0kac in "Can an email go 500 miles in 2025?"

bqmjjx0kac — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 14:59:54 +0000

I always want to reach for `units`, but I'm perennially baffled by the output! What's up with the * and /?

New comment by bqmjjx0kac in "We're all CTO now"

bqmjjx0kac — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 21:23:25 +0000

Oh, I guess you were just sharing and this wasn't advice:

> I just landed a mid 6-figures job _without_ grinding leetcode. They’re out there. This game everyone plays is an abomination.