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New comment by david422 in "Firewood Splitting Simulator"

david422 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:05:11 +0000

Depends on the wood. Perfectly dry, seasoned hardwood is going to be easy. Wood with knots, soft wood etc. is going to take a while to figure out.

New comment by david422 in "Firewood Splitting Simulator"

david422 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:01:51 +0000

Didn't even get my maul stuck once.

New comment by david422 in "32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building"

david422 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:01:34 +0000

I put together a new PC last year and got some extra memory, because why not. Crazy how much that would cost me today.

New comment by david422 in "Opaque Types in Python"

david422 — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:42:47 +0000

> Static typing in Python is the biggest hypocrisy ever

Yes, agreed. I used to work on a large python codebase and tried to add type hints where I could. The issue is that python was not the right tool for the job - except that switching to the right tool was a non-starter. So type hints were the best I could do.

New comment by david422 in "Cost of enum-to-string: C++26 reflection vs. the old ways"

david422 — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:11:49 +0000

> Almost all the Java web frameworks are giant balls of reflection. Name a function the right way or add the right magic annotation and the framework will autowire it correctly.

I find this to be very powerful, and also very unintuitive/undiscoverable at the same time.

New comment by david422 in "590k buyers paid $59M for Trump's gold phone, but not one has shipped"

david422 — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:56:10 +0000

There's another article somewhere indicating how Maga is furious because their money is lost. Someone commented on the article something like - "I'm MAGA and I'm not mad at all".

Which is perfectly in line with your comment.

New comment by david422 in "Inkscape 1.4.4"

david422 — Thu, 07 May 2026 02:52:12 +0000

> use Inkscape via CLI to generate icons, logos, and graphics for your app.

I do the same thing. How many icon sizes does Apple require now? I create one SVG vector, and then dump them all out with a script. Need to change something? Update the SVG and instantly regenerate the icons.

New comment by david422 in "Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027"

david422 — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:45:17 +0000

I just put my Pixel 10 through the washing machine by accident. To my surprise, it was perfectly fine.

New comment by david422 in "Ping-pong robot beats top-level human players"

david422 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:38:03 +0000

That's what tabs accomplish!

New comment by david422 in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

david422 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:15:25 +0000

Android has an option to enable these buttons on a toolbar at the bottom, I always turn it on.

Why change what works fine? Maybe that's the definition of being too old, can't be bothered to change to new things.

New comment by david422 in "Stop Sloppypasta"

david422 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:10:05 +0000

Or they are like - here, can you check over this LLM design and see if it makes sense?

New comment by david422 in "Stop Sloppypasta"

david422 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:57:00 +0000

My teammates hit the generate PR button. I'm not reading that, it's a summary of the changes that I am _already_ going to be looking at, wrapped in some flowery language about being "better architecture, cleaner code" etc.

So those PRs may as well not have a description at all as far as I'm concerned.

New comment by david422 in "What happens when US economic data becomes unreliable"

david422 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 18:18:14 +0000

> so much easier to destroy things than it is to build them, so the builders are always at a distinct disadvantage

Tangentially related, there was a local property nearby that had these large, aesthetic trees in the yard. The house was sold, a developer cut them all and flipped the house for sale.

Probably took 50+ years to grow, gone in an hour.

New comment by david422 in "Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting"

david422 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:45:52 +0000

Yes, I can see morons writing laws like this, and then it means that guys with guns can enforce it if they want to.

New comment by david422 in "I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard"

david422 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:06:18 +0000

> For example the washing machine. You dont need real time information because you know how long it takes since you've done it 1000s of times and it beeps. All these things are just managed in our heads subconsciously.

Actually, this is one example of home automation that works very well. My washer will remind me that wash is ready to move to the dryer, and stops reminding me once the washer door opens.

It means that a) I don't have to put it on my mental reminders, b) it works very well with anybody else in the family that does a wash and _they_ forget to move it to the dryer.

New comment by david422 in "LiftKit – UI where "everything derives from the golden ratio""

david422 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:27:21 +0000

I turned this into a game. Which image do I think looks better? Now I try to figure out which image is supposedly supposed to look better.

New comment by david422 in "Anthropic is Down"

david422 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:41:17 +0000

A long time ago I was taking flight lessons and I was going through the takeoff checklist. I was going through each item, but my instructor had to remind me that I am not just reading the checklist - I need understand/verify each checklist item before moving on. Always stuck with me.

New comment by david422 in "Try text scaling support in Chrome Canary"

david422 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:23:03 +0000

> how do we get large text to scale at a lower rate than body text. It's great that the body text can scale up from 16px to 32px, but does heading text need to scale up from 32px to 64px? It's already huge. If you have any thoughts, please do let me know!

Android 14 has this in non-linear text scaling -

> To prevent large text elements on screen from scaling too large, the system applies a nonlinear scaling curve.

https://developer.android.com/about/versions/14/features#non...

New comment by david422 in "Everything as code: How we manage our company in one monorepo"

david422 — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 21:08:13 +0000

I do it naively. Maintain the backend and frontend separately. Roll out each change in a backwards compatible manner.

New comment by david422 in "Everything as code: How we manage our company in one monorepo"

david422 — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 21:02:37 +0000

> Rollout should be within a minute

And if it's not, it breaks everything. This is an assumption you can't make.