Hacker News: dickiedyce

New comment by dickiedyce in "How does IKEA come up with names for its products?"

dickiedyce — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 05:30:40 +0000

Nope. Real Scots history. See also ‘piece’

New comment by dickiedyce in "OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining"

dickiedyce — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:03:07 +0000

I’ve always thought of both as the departmental equivalent of “cleanup crew to aisle nine“

New comment by dickiedyce in "Nyctography: A substituton cypher by Lewis Carroll"

dickiedyce — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:40:41 +0000

An excellent excuse to pull out the 3-D printer.

New comment by dickiedyce in "Show HN: Wyrm – Solve algebra by touch, built on an open-source soundness engine"

dickiedyce — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 06:43:18 +0000

I thought the difference of two squares example was odd. Maybe I just didn’t get how to factorise into brackets rather than out of them.

New comment by dickiedyce in "Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming"

dickiedyce — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 05:55:12 +0000

Although, didn’t it appear in a popular culture reference? I seem to remember an episode of “elementary“ that mentioned it.

New comment by dickiedyce in "Idler Magazine"

dickiedyce — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 04:03:11 +0000

Cracking magazine, and the frequent Idler online interviews generally thought provoking. Excellent cast of occasional contributors too.

New comment by dickiedyce in "The AI backlash is only getting started"

dickiedyce — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:30:04 +0000

"...and no one would feel the difference" does speak to the inadequcy of bureaucracy and government execution. Maybe we wouldn't notice the difference with our interactions with bureaucracy and government, but fairly certain we'd notice the jobs market being flooded with Golgafrincham's cast-offs.

New comment by dickiedyce in "Free SQL→ER diagram tool, runs in the browser, nothing uploaded"

dickiedyce — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 09:33:44 +0000

Small? Yes, but perfectly formed!

(Only minor tweak one could suggest would be multiple table selection for dragging... but to quote Frasier: "Think about it, Niles. What's the one thing better than an exquisite meal? An exquisite meal, with one tiny flaw we can pick at all night." Niles, raising a glass: "Ah, of course, to impossible standards.")

New comment by dickiedyce in "Am I German or Autistic?"

dickiedyce — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:58:08 +0000

My dearest childhood friend is half Italian, allegedly.

However, his woeful time-keeping is so poor that we began to suspect that he was indeed simply from another planet... with a longer day.

New comment by dickiedyce in "4D Doom"

dickiedyce — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:21:16 +0000

Hmmm... Agreed that they're mostly 2D sensors, but apart from near-field the post-processing brain can use depth-cues to for us 'see' in 3D. Also, you don't see in 3D unless your head/eyes/target is moving, right?

New comment by dickiedyce in "Arno's Engram Keyboard Layouts"

dickiedyce — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 06:30:12 +0000

Some explanation of the design principles would be welcomed. The workman (https://workmanlayout.org/#introduction ) website is really interesting in this regard, even if you disagree with the end product. [As an aside, the Svaalboard has been my saviour, that and a ludicrous amount of QMK customisation with tap-dance functionality.]

New comment by dickiedyce in "Have a fucking website"

dickiedyce — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 06:07:09 +0000

I daren’t ask “What have Millennials ever done for us?” because I have a suspicion that it would be a surprisingly unfunny answer.

New comment by dickiedyce in "Show HN: DenchClaw – Local CRM on Top of OpenClaw"

dickiedyce — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:54:16 +0000

... or disastrous comedy?

New comment by dickiedyce in "Show HN: DenchClaw – Local CRM on Top of OpenClaw"

dickiedyce — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:53:28 +0000

I'm in.

New comment by dickiedyce in "Substack confirms data breach affects users’ email addresses and phone numbers"

dickiedyce — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 06:13:15 +0000

Ooopsie... possibly a problem for some folks: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-s...

New comment by dickiedyce in "US Gen-X is definitely feeling the pressure"

dickiedyce — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 13:00:51 +0000

Interesting framing of the data.

US Gen-X is definitely feeling the pressure

dickiedyce — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 13:00:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260201062457.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46885319

Points: 25

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New comment by dickiedyce in "Impeccable Style"

dickiedyce — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:50:09 +0000

I'm glad it's not just me. One would hope that `BEFORE` and `AFTER` would imply `WORSE` and `BETTER`, but from their examples they somehow they managed to shoehorn `MEH` in there.

And if they need to explain it... ;-)

Tufte it isn't.

New comment by dickiedyce in "Show HN: WalletWallet – create Apple passes from anything"

dickiedyce — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 16:41:47 +0000

Code39 would be really useful ;-)

New comment by dickiedyce in "Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN"

dickiedyce — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 19:00:53 +0000

Actually on the nail. Mine actually made me laugh out loud. https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/dickiedyce