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New comment by frogulis in "Diamond Transistor"

frogulis — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:21:02 +0000

Can you elaborate? Sounds cool

New comment by frogulis in "Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days"

frogulis — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 01:00:59 +0000

Oh good, you responded! I'm aware roughly of the history of thorn, but I was specifically wondering about it being used only once rather than on all the instances of "th", or at least all the instances if "the".

New comment by frogulis in "Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?"

frogulis — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 11:43:02 +0000

Yeah. It's titled "a love song to nicotine" and 80+% of it is about the benefits of nicotine with a claim that "sublingual nicotine’s addictive potential feels low", but TFA links to the tacked-on twitter screenshots at the end. Not the point, but it does make one wonder. Though, to be fair, I only realised that the main body of the article existed when I accidentally scrolled back up "too far". Perhaps the author of TFA received the exact same link and made the same mistake as I initially did.

New comment by frogulis in "Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days"

frogulis — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:55 +0000

Not really relevant, but I have to ask: why did you only use letter þ once in your comment?

New comment by frogulis in "Mallet Head Angle (2011)"

frogulis — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:12:46 +0000

That's a good rule. I came across this article as I'm building a mallet at the moment (with a head made of a piece of old river red gum firewood, because I guess I love sharpening tools).

The mallet has shifted to be my current project because I need to source more materials for my workbench made of secondhand 2x4s.

The project where I actually make an end product is depending on the workbench, because building an instrument on my current crappy workbench sounds torturous.

Can't say I'm unhappy about any of this, though :)

New comment by frogulis in "Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades"

frogulis — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 06:54:24 +0000

Yeah apologies, bad wording on my part. I really just meant the removal of the opening line which made it clear that it was a correspondence: "I am happy to try and answer any questions you have."

Mallet Head Angle (2011)

frogulis — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 03:29:20 +0000

Article URL: http://www.timberframe-tools.com/tools/mallet-head-angle/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49973822

Points: 66

# Comments: 24

Contemporary Humanities and the Spectre of the "Canon"

frogulis — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 03:26:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theprincetontory.com/contemporary-humanities-and-the-spectre-of-the-canon/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49973804

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

"Told Apart"

frogulis — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 03:21:27 +0000

Article URL: https://frogulis.net/writing/micro/told-apart

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49973774

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by frogulis in "Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades"

frogulis — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 03:16:03 +0000

And the "statement" in this article is the text from that email, disingenuously edited. I'm not sure why, but it rubs me the wrong way.

New comment by frogulis in "XCancel service is suspended until further notice"

frogulis — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 10:39:54 +0000

I think this changed recently, but at least prior to that, when not logged in, you only saw the initial post and none of the replies.

New comment by frogulis in "Intellectual Fly Is Open (2025)"

frogulis — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:55:01 +0000

I believe HN does some automated editing of titles to avoid clickbaity titles being displayed. May be that.

New comment by frogulis in "Fastpotify"

frogulis — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 10:36:23 +0000

RRR and PBS in Melbourne both stream online and are both fantastic for music discovery. Go the former if you lean indie and the latter if you lean international.

Fargate Is Not Firecracker (2024)

frogulis — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 06:39:13 +0000

Article URL: https://justingarrison.com/blog/2024-02-08-fargate-is-not-firecracker/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49357730

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Not causal chains, but interactions and adaptations

frogulis — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:06:32 +0000

Article URL: https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/05/19/not-causal-chains-but-interactions-and-adaptations/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331197

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by frogulis in "Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code"

frogulis — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:55:37 +0000

To be clear, I'm not accusing Anthropic of being evil black hats trying to break my computer, I'm accusing (or rather suspecting) them of pushing me towards some kind of product lock-in by making my preferred "sceptical at-arms-length user" workflow more annoying.

New comment by frogulis in "Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code"

frogulis — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 05:25:42 +0000

Their findings about auto mode catching more dangerous commands, and most permission requests being accepted without scrutiny is interesting. I can totally see how that happens.

On the other hand, soooo many of the tool uses it asks permission for are custom commands to replace functionality I should be able to trust once instead. e.g. instead of having a trustable Find tool, or using its already-trusted Read tool, it often will run `find` or `grep` or `cat` with a series of pipes and substitutions or `-exec` args, requiring me to give permission every time for basic, safe operations.

The (increasingly active) conspiracy theorist inside of me says it's precisely designed to do that, to give me "permission fatigue", so I turn on auto mode and give myself over to the machine spirit :)

New comment by frogulis in "John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement"

frogulis — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 07:01:49 +0000

Your "tilting at the windmill" phrasing is interesting. I don't get the sense from your tone otherwise that you disapprove of it or think it's pointless.

New comment by frogulis in "Parse, Don't Validate – In a Language That Doesn't Want You To"

frogulis — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:39:43 +0000

This explosion of optionality types is (the most important) topic of Rich Hickey's "Maybe Not" talk. I recommend it!

The short version is: the shape of a type is inherent to the type itself, but the optionality of its members is dependent on the situation. A type system that solves this problem separates these concepts to allow for this distinction.

I _suspect_ it's possible to implement something like that in typescript but I haven't tried it myself (and I doubt it's very ergonomic).

New comment by frogulis in "Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011)"

frogulis — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 05:06:08 +0000

Perhaps the beginning of a new vowel harmony phenomenon in English