Hacker News: dopple

New comment by dopple in "Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'"

dopple — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:27:13 +0000

It would indeed be surprising to hear people say this if you completely ignore the words and actions of the Epstein class and the overwhelming amount of pain and suffering they afflict on everyone else.

New comment by dopple in "My Software North Star"

dopple — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:17:31 +0000

> There is a pretty clear and important difference between a program that does something wrong, and a program that just doesn't do something somebody wants.

Your argument hinges on all parties agreeing on what "wrong" means. Take a step back and consider that parties do not agree on a common definition of "wrong." Does "wrong" mean a gap between the spec and the implementation or a gap between a reasonable user's expectation and the implementation? If one party assert that it is clearly the former and the other party asserts it is clearly the latter, does that make the situation more clear or less clear?

No Use of AI Is Ethical

dopple — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:30:47 +0000

Article URL: https://efturnip.substack.com/p/no-use-of-ai-is-ethical

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48400999

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by dopple in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

dopple — Sun, 24 May 2026 21:06:14 +0000

> But as a lifelong American, I've never heard anyone make a negative comment about Mexicans.

What an absurd statement on its face that comes from a place of extreme privilege. I am a brown-skinned man in America and I lost count of all of the times people that look like me have been denigrated and lambasted in this country.

Linux gaming developers join forces to form the Open Gaming Collective

dopple — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:34:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/870159/linux-gaming-open-gaming-collective-bazzite

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46826452

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by dopple in "Ask HN: How are most people converting HEIC to jpg?"

dopple — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 01:58:56 +0000

This is exactly how I do it in KDE:

  > cat ~/.local/share/kio/servicemenus/convertHEIF.desktop 
  [Desktop Entry]
  Type=Service
  MimeType=image/heif;
  Actions=convertHEIF

  [Desktop Action convertHEIF]
  Name=Convert to JPEG
  Icon=image-bmp
  Exec=/bin/sh -c "heif-dec -q 95 %u $(dirname %u)/$(basename %u .heic).jpg"

New comment by dopple in "US memo to colleges proposes terms on ideology, foreign enrollment for fed funds"

dopple — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 17:14:34 +0000

"Life is political, not because the world cares about how you feel, but because the world reacts to what you do. The minor choices we make are themselves a kind of vote, making it more or less likely that free and fair elections will be held in the future. In the politics of the everyday, our words and gestures, or their absence, count very much."

- On Tyranny by Timothy D. Snyder

Keeping your head down and just dealing with it as a choice that you can make and it is the choice that they count on you making. But it's not the only choice.

KDE Development on Bazzite

dopple — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 04:37:15 +0000

Article URL: https://blues.win/posts/kde-dev-bazzite/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45310428

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Is Bazzite Just a Normal Linux Distro?

dopple — Fri, 30 May 2025 19:35:48 +0000

Article URL: https://blues.win/posts/normal-linux-distro/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44139287

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by dopple in "Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs"

dopple — Tue, 06 May 2025 23:17:13 +0000

This is so great! I wrote a short blog post about how well this fits into my Windows 95-inspired bootc project Blue95: https://blues.win/posts/chatting-with-ai-like-its-1995

The Joy of Linux Theming in the Age of Bootable Containers

dopple — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 13:56:06 +0000

Article URL: https://blues.win/posts/joy-of-linux-theming/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43743784

Points: 193

# Comments: 76

New comment by dopple in "Scientific sleuths spot dishonest ChatGPT use in papers"

dopple — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 14:19:10 +0000

> Can you “anonymously” report this without too much backlash? (I assume the answer is no: you clearly know it's wrong, and haven't done anything about it yet.)

This is so extremely common that I don't believe that there is anything to report. I reviewed dozens of papers under my PI's name throughout my entire PhD. Now that I have completed my degree, I never want to review another paper again.

New comment by dopple in "Amazon CEO reportedly told remote employees: It’s probably not going to work out"

dopple — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 15:43:08 +0000

Don't like being exploited by Company A? Try being exploited by Company B instead!

Show HN: CS PhD opportunity cost calculator

dopple — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 14:41:05 +0000

Article URL: https://phd.lol

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17228168

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by dopple in "Ways to Get Better at C++"

dopple — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 14:04:24 +0000

High performance computing / supercomputing is dominated almost exclusively by C, C++ and Fortran.

New comment by dopple in "Stream Sweep – Search across multiple streaming platforms for a track"

dopple — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 17:18:10 +0000

Looks like this is trying to solve the same problem as https://bop.fm/