Hacker News: cdmckay

New comment by cdmckay in "Escape IntelliJ: Scala and Kotlin LSPs on Emacs Eglot"

cdmckay — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:09:30 +0000

Source: trust me bro

New comment by cdmckay in "Prefer strict tables in SQLite"

cdmckay — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:45:43 +0000

I would’ve thought this was the default.

New comment by cdmckay in "Alternate clock designs and time systems"

cdmckay — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:42:01 +0000

I assume you’re talking about Slow Watches? I actually have one and while I love the simplicity of it, it turns out the minute hand is actually the more useful hand. Trying to figure out if you have 10 or 20 minutes until your next appointment on a Slow Watch is extremely painful, so much so that I only wear it if I don’t think I’ll need to know the time behind if it’s “roughly between 1 and 2 pm”.

New comment by cdmckay in "Google Chrome Installed a 4GB AI Model on Your PC"

cdmckay — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:43:51 +0000

Really? I use Firefox as my personal browser and everything works fine, including Google sites. Very rarely there’s a government site that needs Chrome, but I definitely wouldn’t say it’s “many” sites.

New comment by cdmckay in "Why DMARC's new "NP" tag can fail with DNSSEC"

cdmckay — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:47:43 +0000

So you’re cool with letting anyone walk your DNS?

New comment by cdmckay in "Podman v6.0.0"

cdmckay — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 20:57:49 +0000

After Docker Desktop randomly started consuming insane amounts of memory again we switched to Podman and it was literally as easy as installing it and pointing it at our docker-compose.yml.

Zero changes needed and now I don’t need to keep a daemon running.

Great software.

New comment by cdmckay in "Microsoft Needs Windows Lite"

cdmckay — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:51:56 +0000

> Windows Lite is a stripped down version of Windows. No telemetry, no spying, no ads, no AI, no .NET, nothing. Windows Lite is just win32 with a lightweight shell and graphics drivers.

So, basically Linux with Wine/Proton?

Isn’t this basically what SteamOS does?

New comment by cdmckay in "I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware"

cdmckay — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:17:01 +0000

You can make it so you need a YubiKey to login to 1Password the first time on a new device

So just waiting for the password won’t be enough

New comment by cdmckay in "Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability"

cdmckay — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:00:39 +0000

I think that’s the point of the OP. Git is great at certain things but is not a one size fits all.

New comment by cdmckay in "PaceVer (an alternative to SemVer, for mobile apps)"

cdmckay — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 06:23:41 +0000

In the article they call out that MARKETING can be date based

New comment by cdmckay in "Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels"

cdmckay — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:39:36 +0000

We could make it so profit wasn’t the prime motivator, instead it’s main motive would be to provide a public good. We would call it a public utility.

New comment by cdmckay in "Bugs Rust won't catch"

cdmckay — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:55:08 +0000

Or Fedora.

I feel like Fedora has the same pragmatic approach (allows non-free drivers, packages, etc.) and is just as easy to use.

New comment by cdmckay in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

cdmckay — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 05:27:58 +0000

JubHub

Stop your Raspberry Pi NixOS builds from crashing

cdmckay — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:59:45 +0000

Article URL: https://cdmckay.org/stop-your-raspberry-pi-nixos-builds-from-crashing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47840595

Points: 2

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New comment by cdmckay in "Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16"

cdmckay — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:23:11 +0000

You can always fork it if you don’t like the choices they make

That’s the point the OP is trying to make about the advantage of open source

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

cdmckay — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:44:00 +0000

Haha I was thinking the same when I read he hand filed it

New comment by cdmckay in "Temporal: A nine-year journey to fix time in JavaScript"

cdmckay — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:21:00 +0000

That only goes one level deep so it’s not much of a guarantee

New comment by cdmckay in "JPEG XL Test Page"

cdmckay — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:28:34 +0000

That’s because it uses the WebKit renderer built in to iOS

New comment by cdmckay in "Git Rebase for the Terrified"

cdmckay — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 10:19:50 +0000

This

Rebase only makes sense if you making huge PRs where you need to break it down into smaller commits to have them make sense.

If you keep your PRs small, squashing it works well enough, and is far less work and more consistent in teams.

Expecting your team to carefully group their commits and have good commit messages for each is a lot of unnecessary extra work.

New comment by cdmckay in "How Markdown took over the world"

cdmckay — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 08:49:39 +0000

You could still support a subset of the most common features like bold, italic, strike, bullets, links, etc.

Isn’t the beauty of MD supposed to be that if you can’t render it it should still look fine as plaintext?