Hacker News: galonk

New comment by galonk in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

galonk — Sun, 03 May 2026 07:18:11 +0000

They pretended to be fronting up but didn’t respond to anything after that. Doesn’t seem very commendable to me.

New comment by galonk in "Tracy Kidder has died"

galonk — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:17:33 +0000

My favorite story from the book. Working on hardware, the engineers would often have problems where the whole machine would crash because some signal happend one nanosecond too early or one microsecond too late.

Eventually one of the engineers broke. He left and never came back. He left a note on his desk reading "I am going to live on a farm in Vermont, and I will no longer deal with any unit of time shorter than a season."

New comment by galonk in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

galonk — Fri, 16 May 2025 15:31:42 +0000

Maybe a dumb question, but... I'm a Canadian who would qualify for a TN visa if I worked in the States, but don't currently have a visa or green card. On the online submission form for job openings, it always asks "Are you legally entitled to work in the US?". Am I meant to answer yes or no to that?

Meander, a procedural river generator with beautiful visualizations

galonk — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 19:56:53 +0000

Article URL: https://rarevolume.com/work/meander/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43837314

Points: 16

# Comments: 0

New comment by galonk in "Native AOT Overview"

galonk — Fri, 26 May 2023 14:18:23 +0000

I don't know how it works, but it seems very odd that serialization/reflection wouldn't work with AOT... the information you need is there in memory either way, isn't it?

A directory of on-demand manufacturers for your creative projects

galonk — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 16:11:38 +0000

Article URL: https://buildlist.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33818234

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by galonk in "Palimpsest"

galonk — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 04:11:32 +0000

I was introduced to this word by the Carl Sagan novel Contact, and I’ve always remembered it.

New comment by galonk in "American Airlines is trying to stop a popular app used by flight attendants"

galonk — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 20:22:28 +0000

AA sounds like a horrible company. They had a design legacy from when their logo and identity were designed by Massimo Vignelli, but they threw it away and didn't seem to have any concept of its value. Their website has terrible design and usability. When a blogger posted an article about how bad it was, one of the designers at AA reached out anonymously and said they understood his criticisms and that they were working to make the site better. AA searched their mail servers to find that employee and fired them for... caring, I guess?

New comment by galonk in "My Tongue Cancer Story"

galonk — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 03:40:21 +0000

I didn’t know adding text to the submission would show up as a comment so it looks like I’m the author. Sorry about that!

New comment by galonk in "My Tongue Cancer Story"

galonk — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 17:02:54 +0000

A month ago I was diagnosed with tongue cancer. This is my journey of regret, joy, anger, and inter-species body modification.

My Tongue Cancer Story

galonk — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 17:02:54 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@jamespiechota/my-tongue-cancer-story-gummy-worms-tomato-soup-and-a-grumpy-penguin-4806e86d7a40

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33124023

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

New comment by galonk in "Faster CPython 3.12 Plan"

galonk — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 01:58:46 +0000

I don’t know why floats aren’t included, but any float can be easily represented by an int with same bits, or a bytestring, using the struct module to convert between them, so there are clear workarounds.

New comment by galonk in "Mystery still surrounds what happened to the bodies of Waterloo militaries"

galonk — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 15:42:56 +0000

Wendigos!

New comment by galonk in "HTTP/3 Is Fast"

galonk — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 22:24:01 +0000

I just assumed they were broken or that the image server was slashdotted.

New comment by galonk in "Backblaze restore for Personal Backup is awful"

galonk — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 22:07:52 +0000

A lot of people sing BB's praises but I never had a good experience with them. The client was always slow, buggy, and resource hungry, and its UI is terrible. They got shirty with me for reporting bugs when I was using a macOS beta. And finally, at some point even though nothing about my computer changed (it was a Mac Mini, what was going to change), I got a message saying some security/copy protection system had detected that my computer was "different", and I had to un-install and re-install the entire app to fix it (there apparently being no easier way to unset a flag). I uninstalled and skipped the second part.

Instead of using BB, get a Synology/Qnap/FreeNAS box to backup all your stuff locally, and back that up to another service (e.g. Glacier or Synology's own C2).

One year of Defector (indie paid sports blog)

galonk — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 16:59:29 +0000

Article URL: https://defector.com/one-year-of-defector/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28447080

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by galonk in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2021)"

galonk — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 19:20:49 +0000

SideFX | http://sidefx.com/careers/ | 3D software developer; Technical writer | US or Canada (Remote) | Full-time

SideFX makes Houdini, one of the most popular and widely-used 3D modeling, animation, rendering, and effect packages in games, film, and commercials.

New comment by galonk in "Researchers, lawmakers want Facebook's mental health research"

galonk — Tue, 18 May 2021 23:33:04 +0000

Facebook is the new tobacco industry.

Designing for Culture and Community at Automattic

galonk — Thu, 06 May 2021 18:49:28 +0000

Article URL: https://automattic.design/2021/05/06/designing-for-culture-and-community/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27067558

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by galonk in "Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is back in its all-online format"

galonk — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 16:34:05 +0000

I would have said splurge for a Ubiquiti Dream Machine, but it's not quite the automatic recommend it was before they started taking a "go fast break things" attitude toward their software. Still better than any consumer-level gear though.