Hacker News: coffeeblack

New comment by coffeeblack in "ICANN's list of abandoned vanity TLDs"

coffeeblack — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 20:47:34 +0000

In 2014 it wasn't all that obvious yet that the future internet would largely abandon the Web and become mostly apps talking to JSON APIs.

New comment by coffeeblack in "Stripe de-couples payments from the rest of its stack"

coffeeblack — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 12:35:15 +0000

"import pytorch" is the new "if-else".

New comment by coffeeblack in "Dedoimedo reviews Wayland in 2024 and comes to sad conclusions"

coffeeblack — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 10:27:54 +0000

We can do both at the same time.

Are you working on X11 though?

New comment by coffeeblack in "You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it"

coffeeblack — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 10:20:10 +0000

Just like any other LLM.

New comment by coffeeblack in "Germans among the unhappiest people in Europe"

coffeeblack — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 00:13:22 +0000

It's a positive and a negative.

It makes people less happy, sure.

But it's also the reason why German machinery has the good reputation it has. Because even if it works pretty great already, somebody will find a detail to "complain" about and improve it.

New comment by coffeeblack in "Germans among the unhappiest people in Europe"

coffeeblack — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 00:08:53 +0000

Or, to quote grandpa Simpson: "You only think you're happy, but you're not!"

New comment by coffeeblack in "Tesla shares 48V architecture with other automakers"

coffeeblack — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 14:17:14 +0000

Musk did an interview with Sandy Munro about it. Worth watching.

New comment by coffeeblack in "SpaceX broke its record for number of launches in a year"

coffeeblack — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 07:42:38 +0000

It uses methane and oxygen, could that be easily mass produced from solar or hydro? It may turn out better than burning fossil fuel in a plane. Just a thought, no idea if true or not.

Also, Starship doesn't need pilots, so freight transport could be automated.

On the other hand, I wonder about noise emission. Probably much louder than planes.

New comment by coffeeblack in "Scientists beam solar power to Earth from space for first time ever"

coffeeblack — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 14:18:08 +0000

Isn't the sun doing that already pretty successfully?

New comment by coffeeblack in "Federal judge: Border searches of cell phones require a warrant"

coffeeblack — Wed, 31 May 2023 06:30:19 +0000

If they have password and 2FA on the same device, then it's not 2FA. Tell them to get an external TOTP generator, at least.

New comment by coffeeblack in "Rust has been forked to the Crab Language"

coffeeblack — Tue, 30 May 2023 21:16:13 +0000

What made you think that you "need" to "celebrate" anything?

Who told you that? Weird choice of words.

New comment by coffeeblack in "Rust has been forked to the Crab Language"

coffeeblack — Tue, 30 May 2023 11:57:15 +0000

You missed to mentioned that he murdered all voices that dared to come up with ideas.

New comment by coffeeblack in "Rust has been forked to the Crab Language"

coffeeblack — Tue, 30 May 2023 11:55:08 +0000

About what? That phrase, that was just a trick by the Chinese Communists to find and kill millions of its critiques?

New comment by coffeeblack in "Rust has been forked to the Crab Language"

coffeeblack — Tue, 30 May 2023 11:51:00 +0000

Or that "toy OS" Linux.

Heard it all a thousand times already.

New comment by coffeeblack in "Rust has been forked to the Crab Language"

coffeeblack — Tue, 30 May 2023 08:56:07 +0000

???

New comment by coffeeblack in "Rust has been forked to the Crab Language"

coffeeblack — Tue, 30 May 2023 08:46:59 +0000

Interesting, how many negative comments this gets. People seem to love monoculture run by committees.

This is exactly what OSS is all about. Take a code base and develop it into different directions. Both code and organization. And "natural selection" will have some forks die and others strife.

New comment by coffeeblack in "Rust has been forked to the Crab Language"

coffeeblack — Tue, 30 May 2023 08:42:55 +0000

Forking is an essential feature in OSS, its what OSS is all about.

New comment by coffeeblack in "Why human societies developed so little during 300k years"

coffeeblack — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 17:09:17 +0000

My guess would be that most of them were. Not just by the tribe for the anti-social aspect, but by its leader for the threat to his power.

New comment by coffeeblack in "Why human societies developed so little during 300k years"

coffeeblack — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 17:05:28 +0000

And most importantly: who controlled that new invention.

Because that may come with a shift in influence and power. And the current leader may simply kill the inventor to stop change that may threaten his position.

New comment by coffeeblack in "The day Windows died"

coffeeblack — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 23:08:11 +0000

That was 15 years ago. Today, it's a big time saver compared to Windows.