Hacker News: dpassens

Separating the Wayland compositor and window manager

dpassens — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:09:24 +0000

Article URL: https://isaacfreund.com/blog/river-window-management/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47388137

Points: 344

# Comments: 221

New comment by dpassens in "European Alternatives"

dpassens — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 16:05:16 +0000

Except for Ireland.

New comment by dpassens in "Reasoning LLMs are wandering solution explorers"

dpassens — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 09:32:19 +0000

Then perhaps you should seek help.

New comment by dpassens in "We found a bug in Go's ARM64 compiler"

dpassens — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 10:09:25 +0000

That's an x86 thing, though.

New comment by dpassens in "California passes law to ban ultra-processed foods from school lunches"

dpassens — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 10:04:42 +0000

Flour, presumably.

New comment by dpassens in "Ode to libraries (the book ones)"

dpassens — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 15:37:38 +0000

Pray tell, what does it say about me?

New comment by dpassens in "Ode to libraries (the book ones)"

dpassens — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 12:04:22 +0000

That would have been a very fair point but to me, the tone definitely comes off as "how dare these annoying waiters try to sell me coffee so that the shop doesn't lose money from me occupying a seat" and "how dare teenagers enjoy their time in a coffee shop, don't they know I have work to do?"

New comment by dpassens in "Ode to libraries (the book ones)"

dpassens — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 11:17:15 +0000

> So what to do? Go to nearest coffee shop. You’re lucky if they don’t play tasteless trendy music. You’re lucky if a waiter doesn’t keep asking if you need anything, isn’t intrusive, and doesn’t subtly let you know when it’s time to leave by checking on you constantly . You’re lucky if no teenagers talking loudly about their-whatever-teens-talk-about-these-days. Oh, by the way, pay a lot of money to be here and to drink a nice cup of burnt coffe.

Astonishingly entitled. The point of a coffee shop isn't to provide you with a nice space to work but to sell coffee.

New comment by dpassens in "Man jailed for parole violations after refusing to decrypt his Tor node"

dpassens — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 15:54:13 +0000

(I don't know enough about the CFAA to know whether this is true so I'll assume it is.)

To continue the garage door analogy, you wouldn't walk up to any random garage door and try code 12345 to help protect the owner's stuff, would you?

New comment by dpassens in "Folks, we have the best π"

dpassens — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 09:40:40 +0000

And why does the linked paper not qualify as such a link?

New comment by dpassens in "macOS Tahoe is certified Unix 03 [pdf]"

dpassens — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 18:40:53 +0000

No, and that's a good thing. Just look at how quickly features are added to the living browser standards. Instead, we get a new POSIX version every couple of years that includes the special cases that actually work the same on BSDs and Linux after they're already implemented.

New comment by dpassens in "EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy"

dpassens — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 11:04:32 +0000

No, the argument is that it didn't "wipe the continent" and in fact caused far less damage than other things we're totally fine with. I don't see GP saying that they want an incident like this to repeat, just that, if it did, the consequences would be far less severe than "wiping the continent".

New comment by dpassens in "From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens adjusting to the smartphone ban"

dpassens — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 20:37:16 +0000

The data seems to indicate that specifically social media is the cause. Take a look at some of the articles at https://www.afterbabel.com/t/the-international-mental-health... where the whole topic is discussed in more detail than fits in this comment box.

New comment by dpassens in "Classic GTK1 GUI Library"

dpassens — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 19:20:07 +0000

I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm merely pointing out that you're not disagreeing with GP either.

New comment by dpassens in "From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens adjusting to the smartphone ban"

dpassens — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 19:19:10 +0000

As a barely former teen, what awaits in those virtual spaces is both worse than the dismissal and arguably feeds the naïveté causing said dismissal.

New comment by dpassens in "Classic GTK1 GUI Library"

dpassens — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 16:30:27 +0000

But GP used client and server correctly, no? In the traditional model, the server renders the text it received from the client. Nowadays, the client renders it itself and pushes the whole bitmap to the server.

New comment by dpassens in "From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens adjusting to the smartphone ban"

dpassens — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 11:05:42 +0000

There's no need to wait, just look at the current mental health crisis.

New comment by dpassens in "Doorbell prankster that tormented residents of apartments turns out to be a slug"

dpassens — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 08:15:06 +0000

You... you don't actually think we talk like that, do you?

Humanely Dealing with Humungus Crawlers

dpassens — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 18:02:41 +0000

Article URL: https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/humanely-dealing-with-humungus-crawlers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45201464

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

New comment by dpassens in "Clankers Die on Christmas"

dpassens — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:52:42 +0000

I'd consider equating people and robots rather more degrading to people than calling non-people "slurs".