Hacker News: gabagool

New comment by gabagool in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

gabagool — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 23:44:23 +0000

Per Goodfellas, "Paulie and the gang" ended up in jail while Henry Hill received witness protection. So, it wasn't just for show

New comment by gabagool in "Nanobrew: The fastest macOS package manager compatible with brew"

gabagool — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:30:01 +0000

I agree in principle but Homebrew only supports the latest 3 versions of macOS. Right now Ventura 13 which came out in October 2022 is unsupported.

New comment by gabagool in "A Fond Farewell"

gabagool — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 09:23:55 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers%27_Almanac

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Farmer%27s_Almanac

People do know things other people do not. They are fairly notable, though obviously not as much in today's society, hence this one's retirement

New comment by gabagool in "Ollama Turbo"

gabagool — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 22:35:01 +0000

You are thinking of Elon Grok, not Groq

New comment by gabagool in "Show HN: Wordle-style game for Fermi questions"

gabagool — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 18:27:08 +0000

Do you think you could support typing answers in scientific notation? So 8e9 for 8,000,000,000. It would make typing in answers easier considering my guesses always end in a bunch of zeroes!

Does the orange mean your answer is within 25% of the absolute value? Or that your logarithm value is within 25% of the logarithm value of the true answer?

Thanks for making this, this is awesome

New comment by gabagool in "Using command line to process CSV files (2022)"

gabagool — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 05:54:36 +0000

I didn't know that and my Google fu is lacking, does anyone have a resource I could read to understand that limitation?

New comment by gabagool in "Beej's Guide to Network Programming"

gabagool — Mon, 22 May 2023 02:31:40 +0000

Could be wrong, but isn't this the same Guide?

New comment by gabagool in "Shoshikantetsu"

gabagool — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 05:24:44 +0000

> Having a high say-do ratio has always been important to me

You probably mean a "high do-say ratio"? That is, to complete as many things as you set out to do.

Great story though, it reminds me a bit of how the German language has individual words to describe specific intents and feelings. Of course the German equivalents are far more verbose!

New comment by gabagool in "The plague of emoji insertion in French docs"

gabagool — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 17:22:08 +0000

I think the title should say "in French *Google docs." As is, it seems like French code documentation/papers are littered with emojis?

New comment by gabagool in "NY Supreme Court reinstates NYC's fired unvaccinated employees, orders backpay"

gabagool — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 03:58:19 +0000

It wasn't Kyrie, it was the Yankees. The opening came just before the start of the MLB season but well into the NBA season.

New comment by gabagool in "Amazon’s attrition costs $8B annually according to leaked documents"

gabagool — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 15:17:08 +0000

3 digits? So up to $999/year? That sounds extremely low. In the US salaries are done per year, so a 6-figure salary is >=$100,000/year.

Do you mean as an hourly wage? That would be $200,000+/year and a 6-figure salary.

New comment by gabagool in "Decoding AWS Reserved Instances"

gabagool — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 16:33:43 +0000

> Reserved Instances are a major piece of AWS Billing, accounting for $100B in revenue along side Saving Plans (SPs).

I think I know what you mean, but this reads like Reserved Instances earn AWS $100 billion/year which is almost impossible. I don't even think AWS earns that much annually.

New comment by gabagool in "Google's Switch to Android Is on the App Store"

gabagool — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 23:37:56 +0000

> I would not be surprised if Apple intent to use it as their PR later along with shit loads of submarine articles

What is a submarine article?

New comment by gabagool in "DwarFS: A fast high compression read-only file system"

gabagool — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 21:42:33 +0000

http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/

> The Super Simple Storage Service (S4) is a new innovation in cloud storage. Our advanced write-only storage provides the highest security, lowest cost, and simplest management available.

New comment by gabagool in "Code from the FBI’s Anom encrypted messaging app"

gabagool — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 18:05:10 +0000

In a word, yes.

> Messages: Most message attachment types other than images are blocked. Some features, like link previews, are disabled.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/07/apple-expands-commitm...

New comment by gabagool in "Mastering Nim – now available on Amazon"

gabagool — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 01:54:14 +0000

Looks to be fixed on Amazon.com: https://i.imgur.com/twYEtb3_d.webp?maxwidth=760&fidelity=gra...

New comment by gabagool in "GitHub Copilot is generally available"

gabagool — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 17:15:05 +0000

> We’re making GitHub Copilot, an AI pair programmer that suggests code in your editor, generally available to all developers for $10 USD/month or $100 USD/year. It will also be free to use for verified students and maintainers of popular open source projects.

> Do you want to start using GitHub Copilot today? Get started with a 60-day free trial, and check out our pricing plans. It’s free to use for verified students and maintainers of popular open source software.

Seems pretty clear. If you're willing to do your own research (aka going to the CoPilot site): https://github.com/github-copilot/tp_signup, you'll see that pricing reflected here as well as the date when the free period ends, which is August 22nd.

New comment by gabagool in "Intel’s Core i9-12950HX has 16 cores and 55 watts of power"

gabagool — Tue, 10 May 2022 16:40:47 +0000

In fact, the de facto upper limit for laptop batteries is 100 watt hours since this is the largest battery size permitted on a flight by the FAA (the US air travel regulatory body) without special approval [1]. The CPU would drain such a battery in 1 hour and 50 minutes.

[1]: https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/...

New comment by gabagool in "License to Use JSLint for Evil"

gabagool — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 23:56:09 +0000

I read this and it is interesting. I get why asking JS Hint contributors to re-submit/approve their changes is clear of the Do No Evil clause.

But, I don't understand why all changes before that (from JS Lint Day 1 until it was forked into JS Hint) aren't subject to that same clause. Why is the Eclipse Foundation not subject to it?

New comment by gabagool in "Stripe 2021 Business Update [pdf]"

gabagool — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 17:52:46 +0000

Dumb question, how does CashApp make so much money? Isn't it a free app with no fees? I have to imagine the free 1-3 business day deposit is highly preferred to the 1-3% transaction free instant-payment-deposit feature.