<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: eschatology</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=eschatology</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:52:43 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=eschatology" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eschatology in "“This is not the computer for you”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Because new user, ostensibly bad faith, throwing short cliched statements with no clear intent to start a meaningful discussion.<p>Seemingly effortless comments yelling to the void not worth starting a conversation with. Not the kind of comments that belongs or are wanted in this platform.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:32:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47363023</link><dc:creator>eschatology</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47363023</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47363023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eschatology in "Better to Skip a Year for Hardware Upgrades?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>These ai authorship accusations are now everywhere and it's getting really annoying.<p>It just distracts the discussion away and adds nothing.</p>
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<p>Exactly the attitude described by GP comment<p>Mind boggling</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 06:13:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45832037</link><dc:creator>eschatology</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45832037</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45832037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eschatology in "State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>While the article title is true (errant is a very specific and concise word), to me it did not convey clear enough that this is just ucs-detect / unicode support (compliance?) ranking. The article title "State of Terminal Emulators in 2025" implied a larger comparison of terminal emulators than just ucs-detect.<p>Personally I also question the practicality or usefulness of this table because why should I care about having "the best unicode support"?<p>Curious, I briefly compared top ranked emulator (ghostty) on how fast it can print 10000 lines and it took 432ms compared to alacritty, ranked 18 (50ms), and Terminal.app, ranked 29 (50ms). If this is the trade-off to have the best unicode support, why should I want it? Why does it matter?</p>
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<p>With rubber products, it’s usually the plasticizers leaking over years. I have learned this the painful way (massive migration of plasticizers from the underside of my mousepad to other things), and now actively avoid any rubber products, usually in favour of silicone instead.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 12:35:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45579291</link><dc:creator>eschatology</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45579291</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45579291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eschatology in "Stategraph: Terraform state as a distributed systems problem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hmm<p>I don’t see the state file as a complete downside. It is very simple and very easy to understand. It makes it easy to tell or predict what terraform will do given the current state and desired state.<p>Its simpleness makes troubleshooting easier: the state files are easy to read and manipulate or repair in the event of a drift, mismatch, or botched provider update.<p>With the solution proposed it feels like the state becomes a black box I shouldn’t put my hands in. I wonder how the troubleshooting scenarios change with it.<p>Personally, I haven’t ran into the scaling issue described; at any given time there is usually only one entity working with the state file. We do use terragrunt for larger systems but it is manageable. ~1000 engineer org.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 09:49:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45273777</link><dc:creator>eschatology</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45273777</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45273777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eschatology in "Linux phones are more important now than ever"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> What's the hardest part about an open phone?<p>Very good question; what's holding us back really? If we want an open phone there should be more discussions on this. Some thoughts aided with chatgpt:<p>Easy: get display, sound, cellular, sensors, inputs working<p>Harder: (efficient) Power management, App ecosystem: distribution, SDK, compatibility, (tight) Privacy controls, (robust) Update delivery system, (vast) Hardware support, Backward compatibility, Accessibility, Localization, Customizability, Camera (apparently)<p>Beyond tech:<p>Proprietary hardware drivers: how do you get the hardware manufacturers' commitment to allocate their engineers to write drivers for the open phone system? Reverse engineering requires more effort and is not very sustainable.<p>Carrier requirements: Supporting and testing emergency services, lawful interceptions, certifications, possibly differing requirements for each carrier and regions.<p>Regulatory compliance: Constantly changing requirements by nations and geographical regions.<p>--<p>Reading from the other comments, power management seems very hard to get right.<p>The non-tech reasons seem to be the most challenging; it introduces the most complexity and it's not exactly something that can be achieved by a passionate person in an evening</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 12:20:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45261258</link><dc:creator>eschatology</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45261258</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45261258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eschatology in "Show HN: Petrichor – a free, open-source, offline music player for macOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Feels like none of what you wrote is about how the native app compares to the app being discussed, Petrichor, which is an offline music organizer/player.<p>I have been using itunes/music to do that and it honestly works just fine. I have hundreds of playlists from over 10 years ago that still works. Finding specific playlist or music to play is pretty easy, especially with Alfred.<p>The longevity is the biggest concern to me when considering the third party apps. If it stops being maintained in the future I would be stuck and need to do the chore of moving them properly to another application. With the native app I am sure it will work for the next 20 years.</p>
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<p>Weird outrage</p>
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<p>You gotta add debouncing or disable the button(s) once clicked and are pending for results; got several email codes and random errors because I clicked again thinking the button(s) didn’t work<p>Adding a sample trip might help a lot to give an idea of how to use it.<p>Inputs feel tedious and not smart enough; so much that it feels to get in the way instead of helping.<p>Activity date input shouldn’t be free date input; I inputted the start and end date earlier, couldn’t that be used to help limit the input range? End date/time feels tedious as well, it could be a duration input instead (eg 3h at this location).<p>It also lacks some extra planning features, like pooling the list of locations to visit (no dates yet), for later to be scheduled if it ends up interesting.<p>Personally I would remain using Wanderlog..</p>
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<p>I would add a small asterisk that a given sentence may result in different number of tokens depending on the model and the tokenization method they use, so it’s unfortunately not as straightforward to get the precise dollar value for a given input.</p>
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<p>Stack trace is much more verbose and shows the symbols leading to the failing function call
The error wrapping(s) produce a log line containing a brief message from each layer in the codebase that expected no errors — subtle difference but one is a dump and the other is much more meaningful.</p>
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<p>Agreed, I would have used either em dash or parens here:<p>Semicolons bring the drama (that’s why I love them)<p>Semicolons bring the drama — that’s why I love them.<p>The semicolon somewhat works here but IMO not the best use of it (though perhaps intentional, to bring the drama).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2025 08:07:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44113733</link><dc:creator>eschatology</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44113733</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44113733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eschatology in "What Is HDR, Anyway?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My understanding is that on the darker scenes (say, 0 to 5 in the brightness slider example), there is difference in luminance value with HDR but not SDR, so there is increased contrast and detail.<p>This matches my experience; 0 to 5 look identically black if I turn off HDR</p>
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<p>Yes but with asterisks; Best way I can describe it:<p>You know the 0-10 brightness slider you have to pick at the start of a game? Imagine setting it to 0 and still being able to spot the faint dark spot. The dynamic range of things you can see is so much expanded.<p>Early HDR screens were very limited (limited dimming zones, buggy implementation) but if you get one post 2024 (esp the oled ones) they are quite decent.
However it needs to be supported at many layers: not just the monitor, but also the operating system, and the content. There are not many games with proper HDR implementation; and even if there is, it may be bad and look worse — the OS can hijack the rendering pipeline and provide HDR map for you (Nvidia RTX HDR) which is a gamble: it may look bleh, but sometimes also better than the native HDR implementation the game has).<p>But when everything works properly, wow it looks amazing.</p>
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<p>Just because you are out of the loop does not mean it’s meaningless — in some spaces the term is very straightforward and concise<p>I’d cut down the snark; this news aggregator is not built for you specifically, there will be many things that you are unaware of and I don't think they should be met with snark (there must be some reason why people invent a new term for it; in this case, it is to refer specifically to an animated avatar rigged to a face (or body) camera usually for a video streaming activity. Usually it is comprised of many moving components and assets, a PNGtuber works off a single PNG file, and thus easier/cheaper to get started with).</p>
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<p>I’ve personally replaced about 2 out of 5 searches with chatgpt queries so I do believe it’s in the right direction<p>I think the first paragraph while true is not indicative of anything since it can be fixed and improved</p>
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<p>If it is a new site, you can automatically choose.<p>If it is a site that already existed, do not make it automatically switch. Consider adding the option to switch instead.<p>If you insist nevertheless, then the ability to select the color scheme explicitly is absolutely mandatory.</p>
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<p>I am using bitmap font with AA off in Terminal.app so this is incorrect</p>
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<p>That bugzilla thread was quite a read! Thank you for sharing</p>
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