<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: elric</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=elric</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:40:06 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=elric" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elric in "JVM Options Explorer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's all well and good, but entirely irrelevant to the number of options a JVM should reasonably have.</p>
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<p>In what way is gofmt remotely comparable to a JVM?<p>In reality the number of options is significantly smaller than the 1843 you mentioned. The list contains boatloads of duplicates because they exist for multiple architectures. E.g. BackgroundCompilation is present on 8 lines on the OpenJDK 25 page: aarch64, arm, ppc, riscv, s390, x86 and twice more without an architecture.</p>
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<p>Can still remember the sound of the Funky Bomb firing in Scorched Earth. Thanks fot reminding me of that.<p>If you're interested in this sort of stuff, the book Nature Of Code is great for exploring this topic by creating simulations. There's a Javascript version and Java based version (using the Processing framework). It isn't actually all that difficult, and I found it very satisfying to work through.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:31:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47707634</link><dc:creator>elric</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47707634</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47707634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elric in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I hadn't even considered massage as a potential hobby. I love getting massages, but they're not cheap. Taking a course might be a good hack to get cheap massages..</p>
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<p>Deep in the Eurorack rabbit hole myself. Trying to avoid anything that has a screen and anything that requires a computer to interact with. Patching cables and twiddling knobs is great fun. Sometimes it even sounds good xD</p>
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<p>+1 for martial arts in general. Depending on the art it might not be niche (I'm sure karate and taekwondo are too big for that). But things like HEMA, iaido, eskrima, all kinds of archery, ... are great fun and typically come with smallish & fun communities.<p>Edit: before you think these arts are immune to tech, I once had a student who built a (truly awful) sword fighting "robot" to help train deflecting strikes. Not quite up to par with Dune's robot swordmasters.</p>
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<p>You don't have to get it right. If you know the basic guitar chords in the open positions, you can sort of play along to the vast majority of popular songs. As your hearing, knowledge of the neck, and maybe music theory improves you will start to recognise more things.<p>The point is not a perfect outcome. The point is the effort.</p>
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<p>Age Verification and "banning kids from social media" are two different things. The former being an overzealous method of achieving the latter.<p>Parental responsibility and better parental controls would be a MUCH better way of going about this.<p>Of course, the polling public is blissfully unaware of the wide ranging consequences of such an Age Verification implementation. People will continue to pave the road to fascist hell with good intentions.</p>
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<p>That's a silly argument, not only because many important changes require a 2/3 majority.<p>My point was that the government and its services (German or otherwise) should be available to all citizens/residents, regardless of their choice (or lack) mobile device.</p>
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<p>There are two parts to this. The basic standards based auth stuff "sort of" works. Everything else requires a browser plugin. One of the Debian dudes (of grep.be fame) maintains a Linux version that works in many cases, but for some reason many non-government organisations require the use of a different plugin, one that only works on Windows and mac.<p>As an aside: signing things has a particularly awful UX. I never know what I'm signing, I have no way to verify that what's on the screen is what's being signed. And then there are orgs that use eID based PDF signing, which again requires different plugins. In short: a shitshow.</p>
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<p>Belgium has had exactly this for decades. But now they want to get on the hype train for smartphone based ID, because card reader support is still shit in browsers in 2026.<p>Adding to this: anyone older than 12 years old is required by law to have their government issued ID on them at all times when in public. If your ID is suddenly your smartphone, you're essentially required to have that on you 24/7. Dystopian spyware.</p>
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<p>Yup. But apparently the EU is refusing to take lessons from history.</p>
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<p>Sure, let's just arbitrarily exclude ~1million people because they're not running the government's preferred American spyware.</p>
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<p>Can you give some examples of which suggestions you think are schizo?</p>
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<p>> Often you either end up with one "dev ssh key" for all machines (which is bad) or you end up with people sharing around keys and unidentified keys on machines<p>That hasn't been my experience at all. I've never encountered ssh key sharing in any environment, that would be insane.<p>We enforced different ssh keys per environment at my previous company: fingerprint of your key would get logged, and if the SIEM detected a reuse of keys across environments (dev, test, prod, etc) you'd get a stern talking to.</p>
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<p>Oh there are definitely fuckups beyond the IT sector. But I think the two examples I listed are particularly egregious. In part because the Chat Control proposal had explicit exemptions for politicians (who's watching the watchmen? no one, obviously!), and because the chilling effect widespread surveillance has.<p>The EU has definitely done a lot of good over the years as well, but the system is beginning to lean away from democracy and towards a weirdly inscrutible authoritarianism.</p>
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<p>The European Commission and Council are becoming increasingly unpopular among my peers. Sentiment towards the Parliament is generally still positive. But it's clear that two thirds of the Trilogue essentially don't give a shit about European people, their rights, their freedoms or their wellbeing. Things like Age Verification and Chat Control are going to blow up in their faces.<p>I don't get how blind these institutions are.</p>
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<p>TDF apparently refers to The Document Foundation, the foundation behind things like LibreOffice.</p>
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<p>Presumably the combination of concentration, fine motor skills, and language use.</p>
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<p>I use the Obsidian Excalidraw plugin, means I can add diagrams to notes without leaving Obsidian.</p>
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