Hacker News: cowfire

New comment by cowfire in "Why a program doesn't work when run from a batch file, but works when clicked"

cowfire — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 21:37:43 +0000

You can click on the title at the top of the page and find out.

New comment by cowfire in "Why a program doesn't work when run from a batch file, but works when clicked"

cowfire — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 21:36:56 +0000

And then you got a disciplinary process for telling a customer to fuck off?

New comment by cowfire in "Why a program doesn't work when run from a batch file, but works when clicked"

cowfire — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 21:35:31 +0000

> You can now do C:ffmpeg.exe -i D:scene1.mp4 output-scene1.mp4

This won't actually work because multiple current directories are a fiction of cmd.exe

New comment by cowfire in "Turning a solar power system into its own backup"

cowfire — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 21:34:47 +0000

TLDR: it's a concentrated solar plant (field of mirrors shine light on a tower to boil water) with a backup system that boils the water by burning stuff.

New comment by cowfire in "Breaking the open web won't stop the bad bots"

cowfire — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 21:33:28 +0000

The legal system isn't stupid - it doesn't think that a human using a web browser is a robot.

I mean it is stupid but not in that way.