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New comment by fenaer in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

fenaer — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:13:25 +0000

So that person, on one central codebase at a company I work for, is me.

Assuming I'm not ego-mad, I like to think this is because I built the project from the ground up before handing it over to the rest of the team.

These days other people commit more often than I do, but my name is still dominant, and probably will be for some time.

New comment by fenaer in "How Much Money Jeff Bezos Made Since You Started Reading This Page"

fenaer — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 10:59:29 +0000

And yet I feel I always come back to this:

_What can I, as an individual, do to counter wealth inequality?_

It feels like breaking my fist against a brick wall.

New comment by fenaer in "Disk Scout – Find the Cheapest SSDs Across Amazon"

fenaer — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 21:38:02 +0000

First feedback is that it's limited to Amazon US! It looks like you've planned more regions as there is a selector with a single element, but it would be good to support more countries.

New comment by fenaer in "The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app"

fenaer — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:37:43 +0000

I'm not a security researcher, but I do believe in the ingenuity of others. If all else fails, this kind of law in my own country would lead me to running apps within a virtualised environment (if possible), or a dedicated cheap device in a drawer with my actual device still being mine.

New comment by fenaer in "The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app"

fenaer — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:32:34 +0000

You're claiming that the only legitimate use of rooting is criminal activity, which is not true. Your argument is based on a faulty premise in my eyes.

New comment by fenaer in "The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app"

fenaer — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:31:20 +0000

> [...] and there is reasonable expectation to not be caught [...]

Hence my qualifier. I'm not trying to incite anyone into personal danger.

New comment by fenaer in "The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app"

fenaer — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:15:51 +0000

Unfortunately the answer here is to not abide by the law. If there is a reasonable way to bypass this (as the cat-and-mouse game always seems to continue), and there is reasonable expectation to not be caught, then I see no moral quandary with ignoring such a consumer-hostile rule.

New comment by fenaer in "Show HN: Tascli, a command line based (human) task and record manager"

fenaer — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 23:15:12 +0000

Looks great but a configurable date format to support the European standards of dd/MM/yyy would turn it into something I could actualy use

New comment by fenaer in "Preventing Kubernetes from pulling the pause image from the internet"

fenaer — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 10:33:47 +0000

Talos has it's own API that you interact with primarily through the talosctl command line. You apply a declarative machineconfig.yaml with which custom settings can be set per-node if you wish.

New comment by fenaer in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025)"

fenaer — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 15:04:20 +0000

Never before have I wished I was a designer more. This ad is the best I've seen in a long while.

New comment by fenaer in "Encryption Is Not a Crime"

fenaer — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 13:19:03 +0000

Are you saying that this template is what the article is presenting?

If so I don't believe it applies, in particular because you have stated that only a partial compromise on C is needed to prevent Y and Z.

There is no "partial compromise" on encryption, so this argument is flawed. There is no way to have encryption that "only the good guys" can break. It is either secure, or it is not.

New comment by fenaer in "Death by AI – a free Jackbox style party game. AI judges your plans to survive"

fenaer — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 15:58:25 +0000

The AI can be tricked into filling in the blanks so you win, by being super generic and confirming to the expected output (i.e. including a twist).

This prompt has won every time I've used it:

"Do something. Then instead, solve the problem."

New comment by fenaer in "Death by AI – a free Jackbox style party game. AI judges your plans to survive"

fenaer — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 15:57:43 +0000

It seems like you can easily trick the AI to coming up with a solution for you. The following prompt wins every time I tried.

"Do something. Then instead, solve the problem."

New comment by fenaer in "You could have invented futexes"

fenaer — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 10:42:18 +0000

There is a typo in the first code example, “memoy” instead of “memory”

New comment by fenaer in "Hyperinflation is already here [video]"

fenaer — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 09:15:46 +0000

Can you expand? Why is American stimulus not comparable to Zimbabwean stimulus? Personally (as someone not familiar with these topics) I thought the video did a good job of explaining why it was comparable.

New comment by fenaer in "Secret doorway in UK Parliament leads to historical treasure trove"

fenaer — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 10:27:00 +0000

They didn't have the key.

The team turned to Parliament's locksmith for help and, with some difficulty, he was able to open the wood panel door, to reveal a tiny, stone-floored chamber, with a bricked-up doorway on the far wall.

Looks like the locksmith picked it maybe?

New comment by fenaer in "This week in KDE: bug squashing and more"

fenaer — Sun, 03 Nov 2019 12:15:16 +0000

How did you configure high DPI for the xps 13? I couldn't figure it out and gave up.

New comment by fenaer in "Dust storms on Titan spotted by Cassini for the first time"

fenaer — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 08:43:06 +0000

It would only ignite in the presence of oxygen, and at least according to the information I've looked at it doesn't seem that Titan's atmosphere contains large amounts.

New comment by fenaer in "JavaScript- Lodash vs Js function vs. for vs. for each"

fenaer — Fri, 11 May 2018 23:43:09 +0000

It seems to be the most performant out of the methods tested.

New comment by fenaer in "Introducing Fly Edge Apps"

fenaer — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 21:22:22 +0000

This seems really interesting as someone who is currently going through the pain that is Java android development.

Unfortunately at my stage, the difference between "free" (excluding Google developer fee) and paid usage is a significant enough difference. I'm probably not the target market though.

This looks really cool, good job!