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New comment by equinoxnemesis in "Don't Roll Your Own"

equinoxnemesis — Sun, 24 May 2026 00:02:05 +0000

Indeed, people talk about technical solutions to social problems but there is also such a thing as trying a legal solution for a technical problem.

New comment by equinoxnemesis in "The Dilbert Afterlife"

equinoxnemesis — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 11:11:31 +0000

Weirdly lending credence to Adams' idea that the phrase is somehow special.

New comment by equinoxnemesis in "Microplastics: No longer a "maybe""

equinoxnemesis — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 21:51:54 +0000

I think it's saying there's more microplastics in unhealthy than healthy tissue is all, your interpretation is technically possible but phrasing it that way would be so misleading as to basically be lying.

The reason more microplastics in unhealthy tissue doesn't necessarily mean microplastics cause unhealthy tissue is that unhealthy tissue would be worse at removing substances irrespective of whether the substances cause the harm.

New comment by equinoxnemesis in "Recreating the US/* time zone situation"

equinoxnemesis — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 03:18:36 +0000

Context on "THE ONE", a phrase used in this post, because it wasn't obvious to me initially.

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/04/28/meta/

New comment by equinoxnemesis in "The Article in the Most Languages"

equinoxnemesis — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 17:44:18 +0000

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Self...

New comment by equinoxnemesis in "I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022)"

equinoxnemesis — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 14:18:02 +0000

I could imagine a judge holding a contract to resign from office void as contrary to public policy (on the basis of the intuition that elected representatives shouldn't have their continuance in office subject to random contracts with third parties lest this interfere with their service to the public.)

New comment by equinoxnemesis in "Judge Rules Blanket Search of Cell Tower Data Unconstitutional"

equinoxnemesis — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 23:06:12 +0000

There is obviously a line between what is and is not a permissible search somewhere and it's virtually inevitable that judicial rulings will from time to time err on both sides of that line (and they do). Punishing judges for ruling in ways which are later overturned would destroy rule of law at a fundamental level.

New comment by equinoxnemesis in "Google Search to redirect its country level TLDs to Google.com"

equinoxnemesis — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 13:33:18 +0000

Not allowed for gTLDs. Some ccTLDs do it, http://ai/ resolved as recently as a year ago though I can't get it to right now.

New comment by equinoxnemesis in "Calibre 8.0"

equinoxnemesis — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 11:46:18 +0000

Apparently if you have a 11th gen or older Kindle device, the KFX Input plugin and the latest DeDRM will allow you to pull books off it and crack the DRM. This worked for me with my 10th gen Kindle, after the removal of the web download feature.

New comment by equinoxnemesis in "Show HN: I built a modern Goodreads alternative"

equinoxnemesis — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 15:46:08 +0000

I'm curious about the origin of the name. Kaguya-hime no monogatari? Kaguya-sama?

New comment by equinoxnemesis in "Man from uncontacted tribe emerges in Amazon, villagers demonstrate a lighter"

equinoxnemesis — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 12:48:45 +0000

Yes.

New comment by equinoxnemesis in "Show HN: Is the Year a Perfect Square?"

equinoxnemesis — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 17:45:41 +0000

This was an experiment to start learning Svelte[1]. So the information shown, such as whether the year is in fact a perfect square, should update dynamically as you cross into 2025.

[1] https://svelte.dev/

Show HN: Is the Year a Perfect Square?

equinoxnemesis — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 17:21:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.arjunsatarkar.net/is_the_year_a_perfect_square/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42560159

Points: 2

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New comment by equinoxnemesis in "Flexagon"

equinoxnemesis — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 03:01:14 +0000

This is not true in my experience; you can make a wide range of possible edits without being reverted. Knowing which ones those are requires a good understanding of Wikipedia policy, not its politics. (There is politics, but it's not like every edit is a battle of minds.)

You'd need to read up on the notability guidelines and find a secondary source to figure whether you can make this edit stick. Though then again, there's often no "power user squatting the page" of any kind, so it might not be reverted even if you fail to adhere to this.

New comment by equinoxnemesis in "DNS over HTTPS is not what I thought"

equinoxnemesis — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 06:20:21 +0000

Some CAs do it, for free even. ZeroSSL does iirc.

New comment by equinoxnemesis in "Trello Allegedly Breached"

equinoxnemesis — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 01:26:11 +0000

Put it in your password manager! In the additional fields/notes section.

New comment by equinoxnemesis in "Copyright for original Mickey Mouse persona to run out 1 January 2024"

equinoxnemesis — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 06:18:58 +0000

People are weirdly fatalistic about Disney managing to extend copyright again. I have no idea why. It's not happening, not this time anyway.

New comment by equinoxnemesis in "Please, expose your RSS"

equinoxnemesis — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 03:29:42 +0000

It's a good idea to limit it somewhere so you don't end up sending 10 MB every time it's fetched. The feed will be re-fetched to check for updates so the cost isn't paid just once.

New comment by equinoxnemesis in "Nepal bans TikTok and says it disrupts social harmony"

equinoxnemesis — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 03:18:14 +0000

I care about the people in Nepal who don't want their government to restrict their access to the web. The people who want to be restricted in that way can exercise self-control.

New comment by equinoxnemesis in "In search of the least viewed article on Wikipedia (2022)"

equinoxnemesis — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 18:53:21 +0000

WMF has had nothing to do with Wikia/Fandom for years (apparently they shared some hosting costs back in 2009). Jimmy Wales also hasn't exerted control over Wikipedia policy in a long time, and as of this year no longer even nominally has the right to overrule ArbCom.

So at the very least that's not actively motivating the continued state of the notability guidelines, though I don't know if it's possible the original motivation was as you suggest.