<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: easyThrowaway</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=easyThrowaway</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:22:28 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=easyThrowaway" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by easyThrowaway in "A simple web we own"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>...just like the divine right of kings!</p>
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<p>Honestly, If anyone asked me "T'as fait quoi?" I'd blurt out "J'ai amené ma voiture chez le lavage". Background: I stopped speaking french when I was ten and my family isn't native, but it <i>feels</i> more conversational than "station de lavage".</p>
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<p>Very awkward and formal. Anyone would call it lavage auto, lave-auto or simply lavage if the context is clear.</p>
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<p>It feels more like a question on english linguistic conventions than logic.<p>If someone asked me the same question and I wanted to give a smartass reply, I'd tell them "You want to wash your car, good to know. Now, about your question, unless you tell me where you wanna go I can't really help you".</p>
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<p>It's the least convincing excuse used to circle around GDPR and similar laws. "I swear, it's for security! (please ignore the part in our ToS that says we can resell your HW configuration profile and installed software stats to our commercial partners)".</p>
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<p>Thanks!</p>
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<p>> The updates are over https. The default certificates are 10year expiry.<p>I wish I knew this last week while trying to restore a 2010 21" iMac.<p>Apart from this, I encountered another annoyance mid-way; the official download urls for Sierra and High Sierra were nowhere to be found. I somewhat remember being able to download the official dmg/disk image from some official repository, probably some App store public url?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 09:18:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47071724</link><dc:creator>easyThrowaway</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47071724</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47071724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by easyThrowaway in "The long tail of LLM-assisted decompilation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Many of the decompiled console games of the '90s were originally written in C89 using an ad-hoc compiler from Metrowerks or some off-branch release of gcc-2.95 plus console specific assemblers.<p>I willing to bet that the decompiled output is gonna be more readable than the original source code.</p>
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<p>In the music industry they have a saying about sampling and IP clearance which easily applies here too: "The lawfulness of your actions is directly related to your law firm fees compared to the other part".<p>Are Dolphin and emulation in general going to be legal in the future? Easy, if Nintendo chooses to go with Morrison & Foerster or Fish & Richardson for a lawsuit I'm going with "no".</p>
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<p>The point isn't simply "class removal affects cascading", but "anything upstream is capable of placing the original content in an unrecoverable state".<p>Where "anything" could be your framework, your CMS, you or your coworkers a few years after the original CSS has been written and you can't fully remember what ".format-header__nav-wrapper:not(:last-child) .model-header__nav-wrapper:not(:last-child)" is doing.<p>And yes, that's a real CSS selector from a refactoring job I'm doing right now.</p>
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<p>A safer assumption would be that our body influences our behavior and tastes, and in turn they are directly affected by changes in our body, like an organ transplant.<p>A more interesting question regarding the case above would be "what's in our hearth and lungs that affects our perception of capsaicin?".</p>
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<p>Hopefully this will help decompilation projects into generating better pseudocode. Some sort of "generate code -> build and execute -> test against existing executable if it behaves like the original -> change code again" loop.</p>
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<p>CSS Zen Garden is quite the opposite of a good example of your point. Even small changes to the original page layout would completely break most of the provided styles.<p>If I removed the .page-wrapper class it would be also nearly impossible for a different developer to reverse-engineer the issue from the existing Template and CSS files.</p>
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<p>For those who don't know, Native Instruments software synths were...uh, <i>instrumental</i> in developing several music genres and styles. Radiohead used Reaktor extensively while recording Kid A. Early Dubstep artists used Massive to get the "wobble" sound. Several founders of the Hyperpop scene (SOPHIE, Danny Harle, A.G. Cook) made use of Razor for sound designing most of the metallic leads and drums sounds.<p>Last one became so common that while recording Charli XCX's "Brat" A.G. Cook decided to ban it altogether... only to end up using another Native Instruments Patch for Reaktor, "Lazerbass".<p>Their tools were basically everywhere.<p>I can't believe their parent equity decided to fuck them up so badly to the point they burned so much cash they're liquidating.</p>
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<p>It's... a bit more complicated than that.<p>That episode, the Falcone Judge murder, was a bit of a last straw in the way most of italian political parties had dealt with mafia till that point. They realized the issue couldn't be contained to the sicilian cultural and political environment and they couldn't be... <i>that</i> much complacent (they still are, but at least they try to save face when they're found).<p>Long story short, every political authority at the time was pretty much aware the murder was going to happen, they just didn't expect a terrorist-like approach.<p>Once we got to that point, a newish department, the DIA[1] was given full authority to handle the issue... again, for a time. Then it went swallowed up too in the neverending whirpool of shit that is the Italian politics.<p>In the meanwhile, the Mafia got smarter, and rather than going in a full frontal attack with the authorities, they became much more... diplomatic, offering indirect support trough some proxies to some newly political figures that emerged shortly after. You probably heard about that Berlusconi guy.<p>[1]<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direzione_Investigativa_Antimafia" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direzione_Investigativa_Antima...</a></p>
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<p>I'd love to see it, too. There are a few Gists floating around supposedly letting you run a third-party game using proton, But everything I've tested fails with little to no usable debug indications on what's going wrong.</p>
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<p>Hopefully they'll somehow support Proton and Valve devices. Trying to run older windows-only games bought on GOG with launchers like Heroic is a bit of a hit or miss, despite the Steam releases of the same games having somehow a bigger chance of working out of the box. I guess there are some weird differences between the default Proton Runtime and the proton-ge/wine-ge builds.</p>
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<p>Very unclear about the reasoning behind CDPR decision. Unless he was redistributing code or assets from the game, how is this any different from any library emulation/wrapper like Wine/Proton or the multitudes of libraries like DK3D? Are they gonna sue Valve once their game works on the Steam Frame?<p>(I can only assume they're planning a specific version for the Frame and they fear this mod would offer a superior experience for a lower price)</p>
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<p>A. G. Cook and the late SOPHIE used it, so maybe it ended up being used in "brat" somehow? Honestly I think they'd probably just render the audio out and then edit in Live.</p>
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<p>We actually do, and often - depending on who our speaker is, our relationship with them, the tone of the message, etc. Maybe our intellect is not fully an LLM, but I truly wonder how much of our dialectical skills are.</p>
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