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New comment by ericyd in "Ordinary abundance"

ericyd — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 02:53:35 +0000

That is interesting and I didn't know that, though the commenter said air coming out of their vents almost 50 degrees below the outdoor air temp, so I'm tempted to think they weren't referring to the outlet temperature.

New comment by ericyd in "Ordinary Abundance"

ericyd — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 22:12:18 +0000

Not trying to shame you but...50 degrees? Do you live in Phoenix and keep your home at 60 degrees?

New comment by ericyd in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

ericyd — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 22:42:00 +0000

I don't think losing faith in the value of your job is the same a losing your job due to automation.

New comment by ericyd in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

ericyd — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:28:45 +0000

At least we finally answered the Mad Max question "Who killed the world?"

New comment by ericyd in "Learn how chips are made with this Rollercoaster Tycoon-inspired animation"

ericyd — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 22:14:42 +0000

I was hoping for potato chips

New comment by ericyd in "Superlogical"

ericyd — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 01:20:39 +0000

What am I missing by not using a terminal multiplexer?

New comment by ericyd in "Em dashes are amazing"

ericyd — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:28:49 +0000

My heart bleeds for the monospace font developers who have to design this glyph.

New comment by ericyd in "Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)"

ericyd — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:53:35 +0000

Good faith question: what would you do with this information if you had it? For example, do you have a systematic audit plan for github accounts that you execute before using a project?

New comment by ericyd in "Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16"

ericyd — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:47:25 +0000

Hard agree, I would never use a totally different piece of software to run prod vs dev or local.

New comment by ericyd in "Ghost Cut – Or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere"

ericyd — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 01:13:56 +0000

It always amazes me the things that other people get really amped up about. I've never in my life felt anything at all about cut and paste.

New comment by ericyd in "Solod: Go can be a better C"

ericyd — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:19:39 +0000

I know this is probably a bad question but it says that this language would be good for C developers who like Go's safety. Isn't Go's safety achieved by its garbage collection, which is eliminated in this language? What elements of Go are safer than C which would be preserved in this subset language?

New comment by ericyd in "My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded"

ericyd — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:54:15 +0000

Lol I guess. I think there's a massive chasm between being ignorant of your effect on someone else and actively inflicting pain, but I'm sure I won't convince you that this is a meaningful difference if you don't already believe it. I think you could argue that tons of modern human activities cause negative experiences for other people, I don't think that means the people doing those things are terrible people. Something as simple as watering a lawn could be construed as "not caring about other people" due to failure to conserve public resources, but I don't get a lot of person benefit from cursing every person with a green lawn in the summer.

New comment by ericyd in "My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded"

ericyd — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:49:38 +0000

> Did you really think people did exhaust mods purely to torment everyone around them?

I didn't, but the OP wrote:

> So it is about subjecting OTHER people to his car

So my comment was in response to that. I don't think people should ignore the suffering they cause for others, but to me it's different if the motivation is to cause pain vs bringing joy to like-minded people.

New comment by ericyd in "My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded"

ericyd — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:03:06 +0000

I also dislike loud cars, but I've come to accept that the motivation of loud car owners is probably to gain kudos from other loud car lovers, rather than to inflict pain on us normies. One time I remember being on my bicycle and a kid car revved past me and another cyclist. In my head I though "what an asshole" but the cyclist next to me shouted "Sick!!!" I'm not really defending the loud noise, but I think it's useful to shift perspective a bit and understand it is probably not an act of intentional violence (though it may be unintentional violence).

New comment by ericyd in "The bread paradox: why convenience always wins, and why SaaS isn't doomed"

ericyd — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:19:42 +0000

Never hurts to have a reasonable, non-alarmist take on why the status quo is probably more durable than the hype men would have you believe. More of this please.

New comment by ericyd in "Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke"

ericyd — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:49:18 +0000

By far the most satisfying piece I've read in this saga. Favorite line:

> I’m not the one saying that their environment resulted in a buggy unmaintainable mess, Bun is the one saying that.

New comment by ericyd in "Write code like a human will maintain it"

ericyd — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:35:42 +0000

I have commit signing enabled by default. I run my harness in a sandbox which doesn't have access to my signing key, and I always tell it not to commit. When it ignores me, the commit fails because it can't access the signing key... so the agent commits without signing. Tragic.

New comment by ericyd in "98% isn't much"

ericyd — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:39:59 +0000

What a useless observation. "Metrics are different when applied to different things."

New comment by ericyd in "Vite+ Beta"

ericyd — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:30:31 +0000

Its vite... plus a bunch of stuff. Plus can mean different things

New comment by ericyd in "Why problem statements aren't enough"

ericyd — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 02:27:59 +0000

If you're a staff software engineer of any type and you can't figure out the absolute basics of CSS in 2026 then I don't want your advice, period. I think you think I am not sure what I'm saying, but I'm quite assured in this stance.