Hacker News: connicpu

New comment by connicpu in "Build your own Dial-up ISP with a Raspberry Pi"

connicpu — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:53:15 +0000

You have to get a dish on a different plan first but then you can switch to standby mode, it's $5/mo. It might not be available if you rent the hardware though, you might have to buy the dish outright.

New comment by connicpu in "Build your own Dial-up ISP with a Raspberry Pi"

connicpu — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:36:19 +0000

It would be funny as a project but there's better low speed backup options like a starlink dish on standby mode (500kbps)

New comment by connicpu in "Accidentally created my first fork bomb with Claude Code"

connicpu — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:23:50 +0000

A fork bomb can refer to any process that spawns multiple recursive child processes. You don't need fork to spawn more copies of yourself, that is merely the classic Unix implementation.

New comment by connicpu in "Time to Dump Windows?"

connicpu — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:31:15 +0000

Year of the Linux Desktop began for me last year. All the games I play work, and that's mostly what I do at home. Work is also a Linux desktop, because our build system runs there anyways so may as well use it directly (though some still work primarily from windows/mac laptops and ssh into their desktop). Only windows machine I have left is my work laptop because IT doesn't offer Linux laptops, but it's basically just a thin client to access my desktop away from the office.

New comment by connicpu in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"

connicpu — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:28:43 +0000

Not hidden from nation states with access to real-time satellite imagery, but more rustic guerilla operations usually don't have such sophisticated access

New comment by connicpu in "Even faster asin() was staring right at me"

connicpu — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:47:55 +0000

Unless your lookup table is small enough to only use a portion of your L1 cache and you're calling it so much that the lookup table is never evicted :)

New comment by connicpu in "ATMs didn't kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did"

connicpu — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:19:54 +0000

I've never written a check, but I have had to deposit occasional checks. In the last 6 years the only checks I've received were first paychecks at a new job (before direct deposit was set up) and my covid stimulus checks.

New comment by connicpu in "Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure"

connicpu — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:14:46 +0000

In Washington voting is free. My ballot comes in the mail, I fill it out, I drop it in the outgoing mail. It's pre-stamped. I don't mind full citizenship verification at the time of registration, as that can be done months before it's actually time to vote.

New comment by connicpu in "Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy"

connicpu — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:23:48 +0000

A couple weeks ago someone on my team tried using the experimental "vibe-lint" that someone else had added to our CI system and the results were hilariously bad. It left 10 plausible sounding review comments, but was anywhere from subtly to hilariously wrong about what's going on in 9/10 of them. If a human were leaving comments of that quality consistently they certainly wouldn't receive maintainer privileges here until they improved _significantly_.

New comment by connicpu in "MacBook Neo"

connicpu — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:51:32 +0000

If you operate over all of your data every time it's a lot more predictable ;)

New comment by connicpu in "World-first gigabit laser link between aircraft and geostationary satellite"

connicpu — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:38:35 +0000

Black box data doesn't need that crazy throughput either though. Traditional RF is much easier to get right, and works even when the aircraft starts losing track of where it is and stops being able to track the satellite with its laser

New comment by connicpu in "MacBook Neo"

connicpu — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 06:33:03 +0000

I write algorithms that operate on predictable amounts of data. It's very easy to work out the maximum amount of things we need to have and then allocate it all in fixed size arrays. If you allocate all your memory at startup you can never OOM at runtime. Some containers need over 100GB but like the parent comment said we've already bought the RAM.

New comment by connicpu in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

connicpu — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:54:17 +0000

The familiarity is great but the thing that really draws me to Plasma over Gnome is that the KDE developers seem to have an attitude of just implementing the features people want even if it's not perfect yet. Gnome is polished, but it's missing so many basic configuration options out of the box.

New comment by connicpu in "Hardware Touch, Stronger SSH"

connicpu — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 16:11:09 +0000

I can't speak to actually setting it up, but where I work we have an IT-provided yubikey ssh-agent that handles getting all that stuff set up, and we just paste the public key from our individual yubikeys into our authorized ssh keys with our on-prem-hosted bitbucket server. However almost everyone I know quickly gets sick of touching the yubikey for every git remote operation and just generates their own local SSH key to use for git since doing so is not forbidden. It's definitely not High Security, but since our git is on-prem and can only be accessed from within the corporate VPN the risks are probably lower than if we were using something shared on the public internet.

New comment by connicpu in "How well do you know C++ auto type deduction?"

connicpu — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:58:42 +0000

That's what I still do. Replacing auto with deduced type is one of my favorite clangd code actions.

New comment by connicpu in "Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson's. They blame a deadly pesticide"

connicpu — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:53:34 +0000

Scientific terminology should be precise, not based on colloquial usages

New comment by connicpu in "Size of Life"

connicpu — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:44:26 +0000

If it doesn't crash there is actually an ending

New comment by connicpu in "Java Hello World, LLVM Edition"

connicpu — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 14:48:16 +0000

The article is presenting something different entirely. This is the precursor to what it would take to create a compiler written in java that produces native code.

New comment by connicpu in "Why I stopped using JSON for my APIs"

connicpu — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 20:06:59 +0000

Regardless of whether you use JSON or Protobuf, the only way to be safe from version tears in your serialization format is to enforce backwards compatibility in your CI pipeline by testing the new version of your service creates responses that are usable by older versions of your clients, and vice versa.

New comment by connicpu in "Don't push AI down our throats"

connicpu — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 15:49:42 +0000

Yeah everyone I've tried to introduce helix to who was already a vim master hated it. It's great for people who don't already have that muscle memory, I found the reversed selection->action model a lot more intuitive personally.