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The Animated Eliptic Curve

colejohnson66 — Tue, 12 May 2026 12:51:20 +0000

Article URL: https://curves.xargs.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48107535

Points: 1

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Claude Says No

colejohnson66 — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:37:42 +0000

Article URL: https://wadetregaskis.com/claude-says-no/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48062186

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by colejohnson66 in "IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields"

colejohnson66 — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:54:21 +0000

Wasn't that due to trademarks?

New comment by colejohnson66 in "I went to America's worst national parks so you don't have to"

colejohnson66 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:29:03 +0000

We once did a hike from Chamberlain's Ranch down. No one else for 10+ miles until we reached the switchbacks at the end. It really depends on where you go.

New comment by colejohnson66 in "Michigan 'digital age' bills pulled after privacy concerns raised"

colejohnson66 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:04:25 +0000

"Can we do X, Y, Z?" Yes? Or maybe later?

It's so annoying. No means no, not "pester me later"!

New comment by colejohnson66 in "Michigan 'digital age' bills pulled after privacy concerns raised"

colejohnson66 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:58:22 +0000

I should not need extensions for a business to respect my privacy. It's as simple as that.

If you look at it through an equity angle, needing extensions relegates the negative effects to those that are already not "well off" — the technologically illiterate who don't know what to do or know someone who does.

New comment by colejohnson66 in "Jennifer Aniston and Friends Cost Us 377GB and Broke Ext4 Hardlinks"

colejohnson66 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:25:58 +0000

Doesn’t read like AI to me

New comment by colejohnson66 in "Adobe wrote to my hosts file. I've never had an app do this before"

colejohnson66 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:10:23 +0000

Even then, the installer itself has administrative access already, should they choose to do it then.

New comment by colejohnson66 in "SpaceX files to go public"

colejohnson66 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:55:11 +0000

Self-driving is a thing. Full self-driving, commonly known as "level 5 autonomy", has been claimed for over a decade. These claims have been made so many times it has a dedicated Wikipedia page!

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

New comment by colejohnson66 in "Why I forked httpx"

colejohnson66 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:05:53 +0000

I didn't mention IHttpClientFactory - just HttpClient. I will concede that ASP manages to be confusing quite often. As for the latter, guidelines are not requirements anymore than "RTFM" is; You can use HttpClient without reading the guidelines and be just fine.

New comment by colejohnson66 in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

colejohnson66 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:03:20 +0000

A lot of people online have convinced themselves that "tax deductible" means that the government would refund you that dollar amount. That's a "tax credit"... If forwarded donations were a tax credit, then yes, rounding up is giving the company "free" money! But you're not.

New comment by colejohnson66 in "Why I forked httpx"

colejohnson66 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:39:44 +0000

The boilerplate of not having sane defaults. .NET is much simpler:

    using HttpClient client = new();
    HttpResponseMessage response = await client.GetAsync("https://...");
    if (response.StatusCode is HttpStatusCode.OK)
    {
        string s = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
        // ...
    }

New comment by colejohnson66 in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

colejohnson66 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:22:53 +0000

Wine doesn't emulate the NT kernel; Just the NT and Win32 userspace APIs. For example, Wine provides a `kernel32.dll` that maps API calls into the appropriate Linux ones. Anything kernel level is operating "below" Wine.

New comment by colejohnson66 in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

colejohnson66 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:20:02 +0000

Forwarded donations are not tax-deductible (in the US); That's a lie that's been spread around the internet. If you give a company money with the express purpose of them forwarding it to someone else (the company acts as a "collection agent"), it's not their income or donation.

https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/who-gets-tax-benefit-thos...

New comment by colejohnson66 in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

colejohnson66 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:17:41 +0000

> Donate to the Wine Development Fund by cash, cheque, or international money order in US dollars.

New comment by colejohnson66 in "Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2"

colejohnson66 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:06:44 +0000

Content. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-a...

New comment by colejohnson66 in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

colejohnson66 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:09:16 +0000

I read OP as saying it is transformative, at least for them. Whether it's transformative for society is left to be decided.

New comment by colejohnson66 in "Font Smuggler – Copy hidden brand fonts into Google Docs"

colejohnson66 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:10:21 +0000

When we stopped paying for things. Seriously. If you pay for software, you can modify it. If you pay Google, they’ll modify it for you.

Yes, the EULA may prohibit modifications of local installations, but you’re not physically restricted from doing so - only contractually.

New comment by colejohnson66 in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"

colejohnson66 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:43:30 +0000

Because the government needs to know who you are to do anything involving you. Taxes, drivers' licenses, passports, courts, etc.

New comment by colejohnson66 in "US Court of Appeals: TOS may be updated by email, use can imply consent [pdf]"

colejohnson66 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:16:32 +0000

It's my belief the Disney+ EULA claim was just the lawyers doing the "throw everything at the wall and see what sticks" shtick (no pun intended). They knew it was likely to not hold up, but tried it anyway because, if it did, it helps future claims.