<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: fredfish</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fredfish</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:36:39 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=fredfish" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fredfish in "Many ransomware strains will abort if they detect a Russian keyboard installed (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wasn't very happy with Apple's bizarre UI or out of date libraries.<p>The easiest way to make an OS with ideal support on one platform is to only support Apple's hardware instead of the PC cosmos, so I will be interested if Asahi getting the relatively little resources it needs will gradually make it the least waste of time choice to use Linux on Apple hardware.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2025 21:58:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44416861</link><dc:creator>fredfish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44416861</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44416861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fredfish in "Many ransomware strains will abort if they detect a Russian keyboard installed (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Every few years someone forces me to use Windows and I find that my data is apparently worth nothing since it being one giant anti-pattern wastes my time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2025 21:08:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44416439</link><dc:creator>fredfish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44416439</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44416439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fredfish in "Personal care products disrupt the human oxidation field"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If an actual nutritionist says you can eat it every monkey in a lab coat knows they can sell it as a lotion with substantially less work than testing something else.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2025 19:10:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44415499</link><dc:creator>fredfish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44415499</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44415499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fredfish in "Group of investors represented by YouTuber Perifractic buys Commodore"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sure bad things could happen depending what terms they could negotiate. The counter proposal seems to be to not have made the deal probably not being able to raise enough money to do so in secrecy (or not maintaining secrecy and making more spicy gossip about an opportunity.) The old owner is probably happier to be done with owning the brand and getting more than they could have with no free advertising.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2025 12:29:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44412558</link><dc:creator>fredfish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44412558</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44412558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fredfish in "Programming as Theory Building: Why Senior Developers Are More Valuable"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The article is about Senior Engineers where time spent is a huge factor in the distinction. It would be more that theory building becomes a tuned skill for an engineer over time as a fundamental result of their job than whether they use it every day, started with it as their primary method, etc.</p>
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<p>> Her previous position was as a climate change denial specialist.<p>Predictions won't be less accurate because weather is beyond the comprehension of all people and no amount of data could change that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2025 11:21:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44412185</link><dc:creator>fredfish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44412185</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44412185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fredfish in "Bazzite would shut down if Fedora goes ahead with removing 32-bit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The claim seems quite self explanatory. As someone who isn't against my WiFi router or NAS matching my desktop, I don't understand why graphics as a fundamental element of the OS is a plus. I also think Linux not being as broken as Windows was probably a reason WSL's development path wasn't the same disaster Microsoft usually has.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2025 11:11:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44412140</link><dc:creator>fredfish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44412140</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44412140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fredfish in "Group of investors represented by YouTuber Perifractic buys Commodore"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>AFAICT from the article the takeover deal is agreed and in process, so assuming they end up able to pay on time and meet any other requirements I don't see how other interest matters?</p>
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<p>In what sense do you need to be cynical to believe the purpose in testing employees and then keeping the 50% of staff that did best when reducing staff was for the reduction of staff?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2025 22:50:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44408822</link><dc:creator>fredfish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44408822</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44408822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fredfish in "JavaScript Trademark Update"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>AFAIK Sun gave Netscape free use of the JavaScript Trademark purely to side with Netscape against Microsoft in the browser wars, language wars, etc. I would think there is still something related to the original agreement.<p>It looks like JScript is still trademarked by Microsoft, why not ask them to do whatever the community thinks is right for ECMAScript names and then we can all refer to the language a little faster?</p>
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<p>I haven't heard of that absurd business model since the Internet 1.0 bubble popped.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2025 21:04:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44408196</link><dc:creator>fredfish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44408196</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44408196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fredfish in "A brief history of children sent through the mail (2016)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't really get your point. Our skepticism toward reports involving real cults and incompetent insititutions is certainly higher since 12000 patients were hurt by non existing satanic institutions in bad therapy. They are not less hurt by the fact that it could have happened.<p>Percentages from the lost in a mall experiment don't seem to show anything surprising about how I would expect these traumas to end up integrating with real experience, and the patients that were going to be most susceptible were probably not going to look like a random selection study, see far more in the importance of their relationship with their therapist, etc.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2025 20:21:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44407865</link><dc:creator>fredfish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44407865</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44407865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fredfish in "A brief history of children sent through the mail (2016)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ah, yes, I took this to be a reference to general doctors don't take psychological issues seriously, which is both true at times and sometimes exaggerated.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2025 09:59:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44403507</link><dc:creator>fredfish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44403507</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44403507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fredfish in "A brief history of children sent through the mail (2016)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The "satanic panic" was certainly an extreme example, but in general the entire industry spent a few decades inducing false memories. Because of the nature of trust in authority few people question when they are pressured to have a trauma and psychological effects from events that never occurred.<p>On the lesser end, I think many of the consumer oriented psychologists will take you in this direction with events that did occur but are probably typical experiences and only actually effect specific personalities.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2025 09:45:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44403451</link><dc:creator>fredfish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44403451</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44403451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fredfish in "TikTok staff didn't know test would determine redundancy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Company finally uses a qualitative test to make lay-off decisions and gets torn apart on the details unlike the companies that use badge photos to rate employees.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2025 09:38:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44403422</link><dc:creator>fredfish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44403422</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44403422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fredfish in "A brief history of children sent through the mail (2016)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's clearly a serious problem that GPs ignore things that will surface but it is also a problem that experts surface things that don't need to be surfaced and in the worst cases even did not exist but fit a fad theory.<p>One should be very careful with measures claiming things like 90% as GPs defer to experts for these measures.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2025 08:42:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44403178</link><dc:creator>fredfish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44403178</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44403178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fredfish in "Some bits on malloc(0) in C being allowed to return NULL"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've always considered NaN too definitive for general industry languages like C, JS or Cobol where not even physics with calculus should be assumed. Maybe its ok for languages that at least expect math for engineers like Fortran or up..<p>How about we call it "Maybe a Number" and since equality can't work for it we still need a separate way to ask like: Math.whoIsTheMaN(me)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2025 18:34:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44399120</link><dc:creator>fredfish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44399120</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44399120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fredfish in "The 90% Gravity Problem: Why We Tend to Quit Right Before the Finish Line"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is easy to put off most forms of evaluation until the project is fully done. Aside from not wanting to face evaluation or unease that something wasn't as good as anticipated it also means an evaluation on many much earlier actions one no longer feels represents their new experience and how they wish they had approached the problems in retrospect.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2025 14:23:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44397036</link><dc:creator>fredfish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44397036</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44397036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fredfish in "America’s incarceration rate is in decline"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>An interesting and upbeat article.. But the death rate from overdose went from 9 to 32 per 100000 in the last 2 decades. Using their entrance logic, if I understand what this means afa per annum, couldn't that amount to a few hundred per 100000 who are not cycling into long prison terms because they are dead?<p>There's been something like 900k excess deaths since 1968 compared to if the rate was just flat since then. That's a lot of people who probably had a much higher chance of incarceration than average even if you only consider drug law and the more recently someone was born the more likely they are to have already overdosed at any given age.</p>
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<p>They were very proud of this mouse movement stuff when the desktop was 70% of traffic.. It's not worth as much investment as its been given since there's no group limiting people to one HID method and removing accessibility from world.</p>
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