Hacker News: doubled112

New comment by doubled112 in "I used to be excited about new tech, but I rarely am anymore"

doubled112 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:15:58 +0000

Dishwashers with WiFi, but they can't keep the water in.

New comment by doubled112 in "Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full"

doubled112 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:22:59 +0000

The data track never sounds very good. A little too industrial for my tastes.

New comment by doubled112 in "A controversial Alzheimer's surgery is said to reverse symptoms"

doubled112 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 17:56:42 +0000

I agree. Very likely to be brushed off as "you're having a good day today" unless you are looking for it.

New comment by doubled112 in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

doubled112 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:44:17 +0000

There is only XUL!

New comment by doubled112 in "Study links coffee consumption to metabolic health and sex hormones"

doubled112 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:07:18 +0000

I often drink a 12 cup pot in a day. No noticeable effects.

Why are coffee cups smaller than cups?

Maybe I’m just slow, but it makes doing the mental math a lot more difficult than it needs to be. Maybe I just need more coffee.

New comment by doubled112 in "My Homelab Got Hacked – A Postmortem"

doubled112 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 03:22:55 +0000

The chat server was the only thing I was sharing anyway, so it ended up on a boxing day sale VPS. Everything else became an internal service.

I thought it would eventually drive me crazy, but to this day I regret nothing.

New comment by doubled112 in "Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot"

doubled112 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:54:12 +0000

I use subdomains and a wildcard cert to partly obfuscate this.

New comment by doubled112 in "Everything you do is being recorded"

doubled112 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:35:55 +0000

Don’t look at me. I won’t even put a TV online because they want to watch me back.

What I do know, however, is that most people seem to be willing to give up everything for a little convenience.

New comment by doubled112 in "Everything You Do Is Being Recorded"

doubled112 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:27:06 +0000

I’d imagine some people would actually find that useful if they offered a backup and restore feature.

No more “why did I come in this room again?” moments.

New comment by doubled112 in "Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK"

doubled112 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 13:37:29 +0000

This conversation just dug some old nightmares out.

In a past life, I used to be almost ecstatic when a client would choose Tomcat over WebLogic or WebSphere, or whatever abomination of an app server they standardized on.

New comment by doubled112 in "The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded"

doubled112 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 03:02:21 +0000

I'm convinced that some day bootc (or something similar) will be exactly what I'm looking for, but not yet.

New comment by doubled112 in "Proxmox VE now available for ARM64"

doubled112 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 02:40:24 +0000

A Raspberry Pi 5 16GB is $425CAD right now ($300 USD) which isn’t a huge gap.

The price on SBCs is insanity right now because they have RAM.

New comment by doubled112 in "Quake – 30th Anniversary Update"

doubled112 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 02:23:21 +0000

YOU CAN JUMP ACROSS

And as I typed that I can still hear the noise all these years later.

New comment by doubled112 in "GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2"

doubled112 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:35:09 +0000

I could see just powering through because modern hardware is fast enough to do so being an option.

Adding 20% to a 10 second operation is a lot longer on a wall clock than adding 20% to a 1 second operation.

New comment by doubled112 in "Why some people mow a lawn better than others"

doubled112 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:14:43 +0000

I only have a front lawn (townhouse) and I'm not allowed to plant whatever I want in it.

If somebody reports it, the city can and will come tear it out and charge me for the work.

"Ownership" is a funny thing.

New comment by doubled112 in "That time when I failed the Microsoft interview"

doubled112 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 04:13:08 +0000

Sometimes I think "it's a UNIX system, I know this" but I've been caught by subtle differences before too.

killall is very different between Linux and Solaris, for example. I would rather have not found this out on a client machine for the first time.

New comment by doubled112 in "Disrupting supply chain attacks on NPM and GitHub Actions"

doubled112 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:44:11 +0000

Would the metaphor have worked better if it was Amazon?

Walmart does allow other stores to sell through their website.

New comment by doubled112 in "Sam Altman is now talking to the White House about decelerating AI"

doubled112 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:33:19 +0000

You and competitors are free to ask the White House for help. The White House is free to say “no”.

Look at all that freedom!

New comment by doubled112 in "Over 150k Flights: Airlines Just Flew the Busiest Day in Recorded History"

doubled112 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:46:25 +0000

I see you’ve met my mother!

New comment by doubled112 in "Game Pass Was Supposed to Save Xbox – Instead, It's Killing the Company"

doubled112 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:49:19 +0000

I don’t know about anybody else, but I don’t have infinite time to play those infinite games.