Hacker News: depressedpanda

New comment by depressedpanda in "Tell HN: PayPal blocks GrapheneOS"

depressedpanda — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:57:01 +0000

I would never use a bank that is app only. Sounds like a horrible experience.

New comment by depressedpanda in "OpenAI's fall from grace as investors race to Anthropic"

depressedpanda — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:35:32 +0000

Honesty? Sounds like investor hype to me.

New comment by depressedpanda in "How far back in time can you understand English?"

depressedpanda — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:29:06 +0000

Yeah. Try comparing texts written in Old English and Old Norse. It's basically the same language. (I'm not surprised at all that Beowulf takes place in Scandinavia.)

But I think they would both be easier to decipher for someone speaking Swedish than English.

New comment by depressedpanda in "Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable"

depressedpanda — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:47:00 +0000

There are strong indications that Half Life 3 (or at least a Half Life game) is coming soon. Of course, Valve might decide to pan the project, but I wouldn't be surprised seeing an announcement for 2026.

New comment by depressedpanda in "Your smartphone, their rules: App stores enable corporate-government censorship"

depressedpanda — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:31:55 +0000

I have good news for you: if you prefer running a PWA in your browser of choice, you can. Nothing forces you to install the PWA.

New comment by depressedpanda in "Your smartphone, their rules: App stores enable corporate-government censorship"

depressedpanda — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:17:09 +0000

How? Do I need to configure something in uBlock Origin? If I go to, e.g., Reddit I still see the annoying "Open app" button.

New comment by depressedpanda in "Show HN: I built a local-first timeboxing app that never leaves your computer"

depressedpanda — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 16:06:13 +0000

I am very much interested in local-first/only (backend-less) PWAs, and have built a couple of them myself.

Unfortunately, I don't think I have any use for a time-boxing app. Nice work though.

Is there a reason you went with localStorage rather than indexedDB?

One useful thing is supporting 3rd party sync services. One of the apps I built allowed syncing data across devices via Dropbox. I never got Google Drive working, though, their API was horrible to work with in comparison. Is sync support something you've considered?

New comment by depressedpanda in "KDE launches its own distribution"

depressedpanda — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 11:22:59 +0000

Nifty.

I've long wanted a scrollable/zoomable desktop, with a minimap that shows the overall layout. Think the UI of an RTS game, where instead of units you move around and resize windows. This seems like something in that direction, at least.

How does Karousel work with full screen applications, e.g., games?

New comment by depressedpanda in "Unexpected productivity boost of Rust"

depressedpanda — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 09:57:36 +0000

No, I think you misunderstand how it works. The problem is that task 4, as you call it, runs after the navigation triggered by the redirect value.

The the author expects the side-effect -- navigation to a new page -- of the window.location.href setter to abort the code running below it. This obviously won't happen because there is no return in the first if-statement.

New comment by depressedpanda in "A German ISP changed their DNS to block my website"

depressedpanda — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 17:35:11 +0000

> Russia has attacked Ukraine. Not Europe.

Ukraine is most definitely a part of Europe.

New comment by depressedpanda in "4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC"

depressedpanda — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 20:36:27 +0000

> the politicians do a 180 once they get voted to power or forget about them because political promises are worthless and non-binding, meaning they lied themselves into power.

Why is this allowed? Why aren't there laws in place to hold politicians accountable for the promises they make to get elected?

New comment by depressedpanda in "Scientists just found a protein that reverses brain aging in mice"

depressedpanda — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 19:59:45 +0000

How is red meat connected to it?

New comment by depressedpanda in "Crimes with Python's Pattern Matching (2022)"

depressedpanda — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 00:39:46 +0000

Agreed.

After starting my new job and coming back to Python after many years I was happy to see that they had added `match` to the language. Then I was immediately disappointed as soon as I started using it as I ran into its weird limitations and quirks.

Why did they design it so poorly? The language would be better off without it in its current hamstrung form, as it only adds to the already complex syntax of the language.

> PEP: In most other languages pattern matching is represented by an expression, not statement. But making it an expression would be inconsistent with other syntactic choices in Python. All decision making logic is expressed almost exclusively in statements, so we decided to not deviate from this.

> We've had conditional expressions for a long time.

Also, maybe most other languages represent it as an expression because it's the sane thing to do? Python doing its own thing here isn't the win they think it is.

New comment by depressedpanda in "IQ tests results for AI"

depressedpanda — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 10:40:53 +0000

If a child is, e.g., two standard deviations below the norm, it is cruel to expect it to keep up with the pace of other students.

Education can be better adapted to the child's needs.

New comment by depressedpanda in "Why bother with privacy when I have nothing to hide? (2023)"

depressedpanda — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 03:18:30 +0000

> I'm fine with data collection as long as it doesn't land in the hands of bad people or special interests.

The only way to guarantee this is to ensure that nobody can collect your data in the first place.

While the government of today might be benevolent, the government of tomorrow might not be.

New comment by depressedpanda in "Canon wants us to pay for using our own camera as a webcam"

depressedpanda — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 14:30:56 +0000

Cute, didn't know it was a thing in Chicago!

I suppose wormwood is an acquired taste, but it's one I happen to like. They still put it in many different bitters here in Sweden.

New comment by depressedpanda in "A marriage proposal spoken in office jargon"

depressedpanda — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:29:17 +0000

Verbing weirds language.

https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/01/25

New comment by depressedpanda in "Please do not write below the line"

depressedpanda — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 23:49:12 +0000

I immediately realized what "Chesterton's menace" alluded to, but you lost me at 'Tamarians' (thanks for the explanation!)

I guess I could start calling such a situation "HPsquared and schlauerfox on Chesterton" : - )

New comment by depressedpanda in "Asterinas: OS kernel written in Rust and providing Linux-compatible ABI"

depressedpanda — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 19:03:43 +0000

From the README:

> Currently, Asterinas only supports x86-64 VMs. However, our aim for 2024 is to make Asterinas production-ready on x86-64 VMs.

I'm confused.

New comment by depressedpanda in "Turkish language has a gossip tense"

depressedpanda — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 21:55:54 +0000

I think that might be quite common. In Swedish we have morbror/farbror (literally mother-brother/father-brother) and moster/faster (mother's sister/father's sister). It's similar for grandparents.