Hacker News: dual_dingo

New comment by dual_dingo in "Slumber a TUI HTTP Client"

dual_dingo — Fri, 22 May 2026 07:17:34 +0000

I would argue that a local only session with terminal.app is still a real terminal session because the app is just a terminal for the connection to the MacOS version of getty. In principle, this is not different from having a serial cable between the host and an old-style terminal or encapsulating that connection over a different network like with SSH and telnet etc.

New comment by dual_dingo in "Nextcloud: Open-Source Cloud Apps"

dual_dingo — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 09:58:21 +0000

Well, no. This argument might be correct if this policy wouldn't very strongly incentive people to use (possibly paid!) iCloud instead and if Apple would just allow any app onto the app store (or effortless sideloading like on Android). Instead, they heavily scrutinize everything that gets submitted. They could just have special permissions for apps like Nextcloud that would only be enabled if the app behaves correctly regarding this background sync functionality.

New comment by dual_dingo in "After 10 years, Yelp gave my app 4 days"

dual_dingo — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 22:35:43 +0000

Even if you pay, most likely you have a contract that effectively gives you close to no power because it's full of conditions favoring the service provider and trying to use the little power you have will be expensive because laywers and courts get involved.

New comment by dual_dingo in "Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork"

dual_dingo — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 09:37:07 +0000

Without HTTP/1.1 either the modern web would not have happened, or we would have 100% IPv6 adapation by now. The Host header was such a small but extremely impactful change. I believe that without HTTP/3, nothing much would change for the majority of users.

New comment by dual_dingo in "An Open Letter to the Python Software Foundation"

dual_dingo — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 13:24:01 +0000

Apparently, the two decision making bodies in the PSF for this matter have once-a-month meetings. This means any problem or missing information or whatever will delay the process for at least a month. So, maybe not a year, but 6-9 months would be a comfortable timeframe. I stand by it: 4 months before the event is WAY too late, and even with a slim organization, 3 months to get a decision is an absolutely reasonable time.

New comment by dual_dingo in "An Open Letter to the Python Software Foundation"

dual_dingo — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 12:51:50 +0000

Maybe it's my experience from working in grant driven academia, but applying for a grant 4 months before you need the money and then complaining because it took three short months to get a decision is ridiculous. Applying later than a year in advance is too late.

New comment by dual_dingo in "Turbo Pascal Turns 40"

dual_dingo — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 06:12:36 +0000

That throws me back. Being a teenager without any real understanding of compilers, interpreters etc., being able to create my own EXE file in TP4 felt like having superpowers - like being a real(TM) programmer :)

A few years later at 16, I actually got paid for developing a small app for managing my dad's customers, paid by the company he worked for. Part of that money went into getting a legal version of TP6.

Good times :)

New comment by dual_dingo in "Apple unveils the new MacBook Pro featuring the M3 family of chips"

dual_dingo — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 08:30:45 +0000

This is the second generation of Macbook Pro this year. The M2Pro/Max where introduced only in January.

New comment by dual_dingo in "Raspberry Pi 5 has no hardware video encoding and only HEVC decoding"

dual_dingo — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 17:08:32 +0000

Raspberry Pi is many things today. The foundation is indeed focused on education, but the company behind it has a much broader focus and sells many (most?) of their devices to commercial customers, where 2x4k outputs might be beneficial, e.g. in digital signage applications.

New comment by dual_dingo in "PyPI Was Subpoenaed"

dual_dingo — Wed, 24 May 2023 19:00:17 +0000

Not a US cititzen, but "The government" is a wide term and any law enforcement agency would fit this, including the ones that are responsible to deal with things like copyright enforcement - that's exactly the type of fish they exist to fry ...

New comment by dual_dingo in "Framework Laptop Cupholder Expansion Card"

dual_dingo — Wed, 03 May 2023 09:20:56 +0000

Yeah, but then the base module will cost 2000$ (or 20$/month), the cup holder attachment is another 200$ and the manufacturer will sent assassin squads against anyone daring to create compatible attachments or even the printable designs for them...

New comment by dual_dingo in "The rise and rise of e-sports"

dual_dingo — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 05:39:55 +0000

> High-level e-Sports should be considered child abuse at that age.

There is money to be made. That clearly is more important, don't you think? /s

Also, this is not new - in music, real sports, chess and other fields, young children have been abused in that way for ages, all over the world.

New comment by dual_dingo in "Gitea 1.19"

dual_dingo — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 15:32:55 +0000

For small personal deployments, using SQLite as a database is usually sufficient. This means you don't need a fullblown SQL server, instead the whole database consists of a single file.

New comment by dual_dingo in "The floppy disk just won’t die"

dual_dingo — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 16:40:47 +0000

At around 1990 as a high school student I was working in a wholesale supermarket and in the office they had a microcomputer (IIRC a MicroVAX) which had audible database transactions. Every time one of the cashiers scanned an item, you could hear the hard disk move into place to write out the data. I found that endless fascinating for the same reason.

New comment by dual_dingo in "Royal Astronomical Society: all journals to publish as open access from 2024"

dual_dingo — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 16:59:24 +0000

It was 10+ years ago, but I once saw the amount of money Springer paid my old boss (chair of a department) for being managing editor of a run of the mill low impact journal. He spend maybe 10h per month on it but was paid 1.5x yearly of what I was earning for a full time job.

New comment by dual_dingo in "It’s not aliens. It’ll probably never be aliens. So stop. Please just stop"

dual_dingo — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 16:03:07 +0000

Many/most people here (Germany) know Area 51, because it appears in so much media. My impression: Except a small minority, most people here consider this a big joke (same for UFOs in general) and for us, the current UFO craze in the US it chuckleworthy at best. However, I guess the minority that actually believes this stuff has the same deep distrust of the government and "mainstream media" as people in the US that are actively believing it. Luckily, here it's just a small percentage for now.

New comment by dual_dingo in "Ask HN: Is anyone else getting AI fatigue?"

dual_dingo — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 13:00:13 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by dual_dingo in "Ask HN: Is anyone else getting AI fatigue?"

dual_dingo — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 12:50:47 +0000

I am not evangelizing, I am just stating why this is not for me and my way to write software.

New comment by dual_dingo in "Ask HN: Is anyone else getting AI fatigue?"

dual_dingo — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 12:41:05 +0000

Artifical means "not human" in this context for me, but I understand "Intelligence" as the abiltiy to actual reason about something based on things you learned and/or experienced, and these "AI" tools don't do this at all.

But defining "intelligence" is a philosopical question that doesn't necessarily have one answer for everything and everyone.

New comment by dual_dingo in "Ask HN: Is anyone else getting AI fatigue?"

dual_dingo — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 12:32:18 +0000

I haven't. Now you know for a fact :)

What I have seen about it ranged from things that can be nearly just as well handled by your $EDITOR's snippet functionality to things where my argument kicked in - I have to verify this generated code does what I want, ergo I have to read and understand something not written by me. Paired with the at least somewhat legally and ethical questionable source of the training data, this is not for me.