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New comment by drdo in "MacBook Neo"

drdo — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 12:45:35 +0000

I really dislike "tap to click" for some reason. I like the feedback of actually pressing it.

New comment by drdo in "Tell HN: Ublock Origin stopped working with Youtube"

drdo — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 06:58:14 +0000

I had the same issue but updating uBlock fixed it.

New comment by drdo in "10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea"

drdo — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 01:12:05 +0000

It's completely different to snip a cheap wire lock or even just pull hard on it and have the lock break versus pulling out the angle grinder and making a huge racket for a minute.

New comment by drdo in "Upcoming Rust language features for kernel development"

drdo — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 15:13:46 +0000

It's not that hard to implement a linked list in Rust in exactly the same way as in C or C++, using raw pointers, and putting a safe API around it.

New comment by drdo in "You Want Technology with Warts"

drdo — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 12:43:06 +0000

I don't think it's unpopular at all that bash scripts suck a lot.

New comment by drdo in "F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash"

drdo — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 23:16:12 +0000

Doesn't the pilot press the button to do it himself? It's not like it's a surprise, he can tense the muscles beforehand.

New comment by drdo in "F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash"

drdo — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 15:00:04 +0000

Even if the ejections happened with no fault on your part?

New comment by drdo in "The Best Line Length"

drdo — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 12:54:32 +0000

The problem is that on regular 13/14" laptop screens, it becomes hard to have two code editors side by side if you make the lines too wide.

And that's before we factor in all the nonsense IDEs like to clutter the screen with.

New comment by drdo in "Age Verification Laws: A Backdoor to Surveillance"

drdo — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 14:37:32 +0000

I know it's not the point but fun fact we've had big billboards advertising a specific OnlyFans account in a few cities in Portugal, with matching picture (not full nudity).

New comment by drdo in "Apple's Software Quality Crisis"

drdo — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 15:50:29 +0000

Successfully replicated after trying this!

New comment by drdo in "Apple's Software Quality Crisis"

drdo — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 17:07:40 +0000

What is this "Custom Color"? I clicked the "+" icon to open the color picker and did as described and I cannot reproduce this.

Sequoia 15.3.1 (24D70)

New comment by drdo in "I've acquired a new superpower"

drdo — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 18:28:33 +0000

Try the second test image (the one labelled "Hard", with the snow). That one was far easier for me than the first (the cat one).

New comment by drdo in "M4 Mac mini's efficiency"

drdo — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 09:19:41 +0000

My half solution is to use a keyboard that physically feels quite different to help my brain use a different mode. The Linux keyboard is a big heavy mechanical keyboard while on the macbook I just use the built-in keyboard.

It's not a perfect solution and I still make mistakes, but it helps.

New comment by drdo in "Should the richest 1% – who gained $42T/decade – be taxed more?"

drdo — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 22:11:23 +0000

They can start by taxing the poor less.

New comment by drdo in "The introverts are winning"

drdo — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 09:22:49 +0000

Typically real estate is extremely expensive near the places where company offices are. So it's a little unfair to call this a "choice".

Show HN: Redu – ncdu for your restic repository

drdo — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 10:47:02 +0000

Redu helps you find what's taking up so much space in your restic repository, all the caches and useless things you might be backing up.

Redu aggregates data from all snapshots into one view so you can easily find the culprits.

It lets you navigate around and mark all the files you want and generate a restic-compatible exclude file that you can just use.

There's a fairly complete README in the link with pics.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41092383

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New comment by drdo in "Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls"

drdo — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 09:24:49 +0000

I'm not sure that I fully understood the theming aspect but one point I think is that the standard 8/8 ANSI colors are presumably picked to be readable by the terminal theme itself, independent from your application.

So if you just use those in your application you don't know the actual colors that the user will see on their screen but you know that they will be something readable.

New comment by drdo in "Libera IRC Channels Sorted by Number of Users"

drdo — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 11:16:21 +0000

I've used thelounge for a while but I'm baffled by how slow searching is.

New comment by drdo in "Rust for Filesystems"

drdo — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 13:12:02 +0000

That is of course correct.

The main value is that you only have to make sure that a small amount of code surrounding the unsafe block is safe, and hopefully you provide a safe API for the rest of the code to use.

New comment by drdo in "Rust for Filesystems"

drdo — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 11:14:49 +0000

But unsafe blocks are available! And you should use them when you have to, but only when you have to.

Using an unsafe block with a very limited blast radius doesn't negate all the guarantees you get in all the rest of your code.