<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>Sun, 24 May 2026 21:00:01 +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 "The PSP feels surprisingly present right now"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It matches the current "2K aesthetic" revival. Probably the last device that fully incarnates that specific time frame.<p>You can commonly see it in major fashion adv campaigns, with models using anachronistic Sony CD Players, digital cameras and recorders.</p>
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<p>I mean, after having spent some time in both LA and Sicily, I can see some merits on the idea /s.<p>Unfortunately no, outside of the clubbing and the winemaking scene there are way too many differences. Trying to sell a coffee in Palermo for $5 would be cause for public commotion, for a start.</p>
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<p>Calling someone a "bloody...<i>ahem</i> meridionali" sounds a lot like those guys who would address a black guy as an "annoying N...nuisance, I mean".<p>Tell him he can drop the politically correct facade and call us Terroni (or <i>Terun</i>, with an hard-R), no need to pretend otherwise.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 10:17:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48047614</link><dc:creator>easyThrowaway</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48047614</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48047614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by easyThrowaway in "Why is southern Italy poorer than northern Italy?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We got a 3000m tall volcano in the middle of Sicily (currently full of snow unless it changed somehow since I last saw it this morning) and the Appennini in Umbria and Marche (800-2400m elevation) whose temperatures are roughly on par with those in most of northern Europe.<p>People living in those areas are not particularly smarter than those living on the coast, I'm afraid. Correlation is not causation, yadda yadda.</p>
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<p>One of my parents is from Ragusa and I've spent more than half of my life in Sicily. The answer can be summed up in "Culture, Corruption, Infrastructure, in this order".<p>I can see the last point improving over time. I give absolutely 0% chances to the first two points changing over time, bar some apocalypse-level destruction and rebuilding of society.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 08:46:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48033843</link><dc:creator>easyThrowaway</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48033843</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48033843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by easyThrowaway in "I spent years trying to make CSS states predictable"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> However I think you have perhaps not internalized yet how CSS variables and scoping rules work have created a situation that allows for often elegantly solving problems that one might wish one had a more powerful query language to handle.<p>As you already said, this approach would work fine if you had no external payloads that inject their own HTML and CSS on the page, either at runtime or by being loaded by other modules in a CMS.<p>It also breaks when your :root selector is being polluted by overly generic variables by your platform, like in the most recent versions of Wordpress.</p>
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<p>I mean... sure, just tell me how to write a fully responsive landing page straight from a PSD file by the marketing dept in roughly less than an hour without using Bootstrap or, for goodness sake, Tailwind and I'm ready to drop any framework and write "bare metal" (Ah!) CSS.<p>I'd also like if anyone could look at the specifications for CSS, ideally for Grid, especially the `grid-template-*` and `grid-auto-*` subset of rules, mixmaxing and gotchas and tell me what CSS exactly <i>is</i> right now, So I can avoid turning it into something that is not.</p>
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<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>
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<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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