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New comment by dodomodo in "Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)"

dodomodo — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:21:05 +0000

I don't like it, from a pure brutalistic view point this obviously doesn't make any sense, it isn't practical and it doesn't make any effort to create a shape that is esthetically pleasing. The urban decay is even more outrageous, the whole appeal of urban decay is that it is "real", it's the thinking about all of people that went through the same structure throughout the years. Of cause it doesn't mean you can't make art about or featuring urban decay, but you have to be smart about it.

New comment by dodomodo in "Sc-im: Spreadsheets in your terminal"

dodomodo — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:26:12 +0000

I think spreadsheets are a greater example of something that require the subtleties of an actual GUI. This is most obvious with the various plots which are hilariously imprecise. But the advantages of GUI are also present when just using the spreadsheet itself, it's ability to convey the skeuomorphic two dimensional space is much greater.

And it's not like the terminal can't be a greater data processing tool, but you have to use different paradigms.

Still from an esthetical perspective I love those simple TUI interfaces. They invoke a weird sense of comfort in me that I can't fully explain.

New comment by dodomodo in "I used AI. It worked. I hated it"

dodomodo — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:09:48 +0000

Why even responding then? And are we not allowed to talk about how doing our jobs makes us feel?

New comment by dodomodo in "What if the browser built the UI for you?"

dodomodo — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 05:37:32 +0000

What the article misses is that generating a good UI is not easy, a good interface conveys so much more semantic information then just it's underlying API, and it does that without the user needing to concisely interpret the information.

And it's not just semantic information, presenting any kind of information in a way which enable the user to seamlessly interpret and use it is not an easy task.

AI, definitely lowered the bar for making some UI, but it doesn't help with the fundamentals challenges of making a UI, at least not more so then it helps with the fundamental challenges of any other job in our industry.

New comment by dodomodo in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

dodomodo — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 07:57:11 +0000

they agreed to not have stokepiles of enriched uranium, they didn't agree for no enrichment

New comment by dodomodo in "AI Error May Have Contributed to Girl's School Bombing in Iran"

dodomodo — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 07:30:27 +0000

The statement is complete speculation, there is no proof at all. And mistarting was a thing way way before ai.

New comment by dodomodo in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

dodomodo — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 11:24:49 +0000

there were not such news

New comment by dodomodo in "I’m joining OpenAI"

dodomodo — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 07:13:54 +0000

As long as AI can't make the code optimized and secure by itself, and these day it still can't, those people won't be replaced. And when they do get replaced there is no guarantee that the more "entrepreneur" population won't get replaced as well.

New comment by dodomodo in "Vercel's CEO offers to cover expenses of 'Jmail'"

dodomodo — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:37:21 +0000

Barak and bibi are political enemies (or at least we're when Barack was a relevant political figure) and besides that I haven't seen anything suggesting that his connection with bibi is more than the one meeting that was publicized.

New comment by dodomodo in "Deep dive into Turso, the “SQLite rewrite in Rust”"

dodomodo — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 18:20:46 +0000

usefull if you need to validate that the database runs properly on yours embedded platform, possibly with its custom io and sync primitives.

New comment by dodomodo in "Python 3.15’s interpreter for Windows x86-64 should hopefully be 15% faster"

dodomodo — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 08:54:05 +0000

They find them useful as a performance optimization, not as a design tool. This optimization is not relevant to Python code because it relies on the optimization passes the compiler makes.

New comment by dodomodo in "$50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres"

dodomodo — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 16:50:39 +0000

It might be slightly off topic but I have a hard time understanding the layout of the website on mobile, it's not clear what is clickable and what's not.

New comment by dodomodo in "The Tor Project is switching to Rust"

dodomodo — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 13:10:41 +0000

Comelete rewrite are not always bad, they are _just_ very costly. You just need to do cost benefit analsys and compare it with the cost and benefit of other actions.

New comment by dodomodo in "The Tor Project is switching to Rust"

dodomodo — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 13:06:49 +0000

I believe that the slowness is a matter of the amount nodes in the tor network, not something that can be fixed solely by code changes.

No one is claiming the new version is faster, only that it is safer.

New comment by dodomodo in "Chainalysis Successful Deanonymization Attack on Monero"

dodomodo — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 13:32:51 +0000

Nothing is "really anonymouse", it's all a game of information sharing and hiding. I think I now understand the difference in our definitions, for you anonymouse means that at the protocol level no one can link the transaction to "you" (defined by a set of identifiers). My defenition is just "not publicly linked to your real world identity", so for example, sending a message under a pseudu name in a public forum would be anonymous under my defenition but not anonymouse under yours. What do you think?

New comment by dodomodo in "Chainalysis Successful Deanonymization Attack on Monero"

dodomodo — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 16:00:41 +0000

In practice they (allegedly) took anonymouse transaction and linked it to real world identity. Call it what you want.

New comment by dodomodo in "Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet"

dodomodo — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:53:30 +0000

what are you talking about about? they have internet and the they had it 99% of the time during the war.

New comment by dodomodo in "Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret 'wink' to sidestep legal orders"

dodomodo — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 05:45:13 +0000

spy on law enforcement that spy on your government, seem like a fair game

New comment by dodomodo in "Cognitive load is what matters"

dodomodo — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 16:34:15 +0000

This was maybe a problem years ago, but I don't think its a pro lem these days. I see many more cases of the opposite problem, interfaces that are meant of technical users but are designed using modern mobile centric paradigms, over emphasizing negative space and progressive disclosure.

this is also a problem for tools designed for non-technical users for complex tasks that are performed frequently. your power users needs a powerful interface even if they are less technical.

New comment by dodomodo in "Dwl: Dwm for Wayland"

dodomodo — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 19:17:36 +0000

I was wrong to word myself the way I did, but my comment is simple not shallow, what I'm trying to say is that the amount of work done is not worth the architectural advantages of Wayland. It's a simple argument that people in the replies didn't fail to understand, but did fail to have a good response too. My real violation of the guidelines is this in my opinion: "Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes."