<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: fingerlocks</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fingerlocks</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:39:59 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=fingerlocks" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fingerlocks in "Where does next-token prediction leave us?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is a lot less information online about the physical trades compared to software development. Plumbers don’t post on ToiletOverflow.com all day helping each other with their little tricks and sharing tribal knowledge. Pick a random brass fitting at the hardware store and try to google its purpose; you’d be surprised by the scant detail even when yielding plenty of shopping links</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 10:10:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48292039</link><dc:creator>fingerlocks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48292039</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48292039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fingerlocks in "The Eternal Sloptember"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Anything “live edge” is often done by hand. Also true for end grain cutting boards, end grain anything really, and any furniture made with mostly burl and heartwood. Coffee tables are common.<p>The reason is that knotted wood is dangerously unwieldy to machine without a lot of additional preparation. End grain work is just hard to automate. Lots of gluing into a shape that can’t be planed easily and prone to exploding if one is careless.<p>If you want to peek in to the weird long tail, the guys over at Sawmill Creek love to one-up each other in a never ending contest to be the king of traditional wood working.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 11:24:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48265609</link><dc:creator>fingerlocks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48265609</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48265609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fingerlocks in "Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You need to say “ i’ve never met anyone who could do that in one single command line invocation”. It’s trivial to separate that result into two or more steps using bare primitive git commands and perhaps a temporary branch. You don’t need to memorize every esoteric flag if you understand the fundamentals and don’t mind spending 15 extra seconds to execute multiple commands</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 23:05:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48173942</link><dc:creator>fingerlocks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48173942</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48173942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fingerlocks in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They are <i>everywhere</i> in Seattle. Some neighborhoods have them on almost every block. This had led to some creative variations on the concept, such as the Little Free Pantry, Little Free Art Gallery, Little Free Toolbox, Pottery, Boutique, Toybox, etc.<p>Not complaining. It’s a neat concept. And if you have a bunch of crap you want to get rid, it’s a lot of fun to build a big birdhouse looking thing, prop it up on the side walk, and keep it stocked with all the crap you don’t want anymore. This is why I created the Little Free Lumberyard to discard my woodworking offcuts. Seriously considering expanding into e-waste because it works so damn well.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 12:37:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48134529</link><dc:creator>fingerlocks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48134529</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48134529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fingerlocks in "Brembo's fluid-free electronic braking system is coming to a car near you"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why is a hybrid electric-hydraulic not an option? Seems like you would get the best of both worlds by using the precision of electronics to manipulate the oil, instead of the brake caliper directly. I was imagining something like a master-cylinder-by-wire system with a normally open valve to pedal in the event of electrical failure. Agreed, full electric brakes gives me the creeps.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 01:16:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48070781</link><dc:creator>fingerlocks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48070781</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48070781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fingerlocks in "The brave souls who bought a used, 340k-mile rental camper van"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I had one too!<p>Mine had a Subaru engine, Mercedes wheels, Audi Drive train, a Porsche suspension, and brakes from a Toyota Highlander.<p>How did you keep your Volkswagen running?</p>
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<p>I use screen mirroring, a lot. Guess I’m in the minority around here. Really nice projecting your phone on a massive OLED to multitask on the phone. Or even pair programming and conference calls you can mirror the phone to TV for the call while coding on the laptop.<p>I use my Apple TV like it’s a big iPad stuck to the wall. Because that’s basically what it is. I honestly had no idea so many people just buy it to stream the same content on every other platform</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 09:13:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019947</link><dc:creator>fingerlocks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019947</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fingerlocks in "Tar Files Created on macOS Display Errors When Extracting on Linux (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And .DS_Store is just your folder level preferences in Finder. If you don’t use Finder they won’t be created</p>
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<p>Agreed, but why not just finishing setting it up? Or do people own Apple TVs without iPhones? That never occurred to me since a large part of the value prop is phone integration</p>
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<p>Veal doesn’t make sense?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 07:18:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48005637</link><dc:creator>fingerlocks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48005637</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48005637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fingerlocks in "I have officially retired from Emacs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>can you elaborate? Heavy vim user here, have considered using emacs in vim mode to quell a decades long nagging curiosity. Just need a compelling nudge.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:54:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941371</link><dc:creator>fingerlocks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941371</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fingerlocks in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>huh, when I make em thin it's too flimsy to get the packed sawdust out. Maybe I need to get some premium hickory toothpicks</p>
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<p>I hate USB-C. Hi. I do a lot of woodworking and the port easily clogs with sawdust and lint. It was very easy to clean it each day when I had a lightning connector, a common toothpick would suffice.<p>Now I have to purchase specialized non-marring micro tool scrapers to clean the port without damaging it. The scrapers break after a few cleanings, so this is an ongoing monthly recurring cost. Yeah I can charge wirelessly, but I still don’t want sawdust in my phone hole after a day of ripping wood.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:46:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47846263</link><dc:creator>fingerlocks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47846263</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47846263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fingerlocks in "Nowhere is safe"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Correct, “Iran” literally translates to “Ayran”.<p>But America is a big place. Americans living in cities  probably know a first or second gen Persian, there’s lots of them everywhere. They even have a reality TV show.<p>Outside the urban archipelago the average person couldn’t 
tell you the difference from India, Turkey. and everything in between.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:09:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47737518</link><dc:creator>fingerlocks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47737518</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47737518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fingerlocks in "Why meaningful days look like nothing while you are living them"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>On the contrary! The dead-day theorem established earlier states that an 11/22 date filter is a necessary condition for verifiable human-only content, when filtered by content-creation date.<p>A weaker theorem can be postulated that any such filter provides a second  order sufficient condition.<p>This means we can filter content by account creation date, for example, by hiding all posts and comments from accounts created after the digital death event. This won’t always guarantee human-only content but certainly more than otherwise.<p>But then we wouldn’t be having this most definitively human-to-human conversation, right?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 08:21:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47737265</link><dc:creator>fingerlocks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47737265</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47737265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fingerlocks in "Why meaningful days look like nothing while you are living them"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why stop with traditionally published works? Before dead-internet-day,  very-nearly all forms of writing were guaranteed to be hand crafted, organic, and made with 100% Natural Intelligence.<p>The artificial stuff often has an odd taste, but boy it sure is quick and convenient.</p>
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<p>Sometimes people add to the discussion by sharing esoteric knowledge because the uncommon aberrations are interesting.<p>That aside, there was a larger point I was making that was lost in the forest because you poking at a tree. iOS apps are more than Swift. Metal was one example, there are plenty of other tooling components that absolutely suck to use in vim, or just missing support entirely. Bundle management, plist files, custom build phases, code signing, asset previews, canvas previews, interface builder, profiling, and unit testing UI is a bunch of stuff that has nothing to do with swift, sucks in vim, and integral to application development.</p>
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<p>Yes, But an iOS app requires a helluva lot more than just the Swift language. For example, Metal has zero support so you have to use ft=cpp and disable lsp diagnostics.  And you can completely forget Xcode’s wonderful Metal debugger entirely.<p>Otherwise swift works just like any other clang/llvm project and the tooling is basically the same.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:57:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47700553</link><dc:creator>fingerlocks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47700553</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47700553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fingerlocks in ""The new Copilot app for Windows 11 is really just Microsoft Edge""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The hilarious side effect of this is that Intune/Defender on MacOS flags the multiple copies of edge for non-compliance. Maybe this is just something that happens to MSFT employees, not sure, but I’ve had to waste many hours filing for false positive exceptions because not a single Microsoft product can figure how to use a Mach-o shared dylib path</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:57:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47677300</link><dc:creator>fingerlocks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47677300</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47677300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fingerlocks in "A macOS bug that causes TCP networking to stop working after 49.7 days"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are you sure?<p>tcp_now’s maximum cannot physically reach 2^32 because the trailing zeros of that number exceeds the bit width of data type.<p>Therefore, tcp_now + 30000 will wrap when tcp_now is equal to  2^32 - 3000. 
Your inequality sign should be strict <, otherwise the result does not follow.</p>
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