Hacker News: garbageman

New comment by garbageman in "Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry."

garbageman — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 21:14:41 +0000

I'm trying to follow but how could one possibly know information (the embargo) that has not been shared?

For the law, you can say that the law has been published and is at least available for review.

New comment by garbageman in "DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers"

garbageman — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:37:10 +0000

Gambling is absolutely inherently addictive as it's essentially perfectly paired with your brains reward system and hijacks it. There's literally dopamine cycle and tolerance happening. And when compounded by algorithms and notifications which are designed to amplify this even further I'm not sure how you can think it's not inherently addictive.

New comment by garbageman in "Toyota is taking the Corolla electric"

garbageman — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 07:12:20 +0000

No different than gas vehicles running out of fuel.

Do the math and let's say theres even 50 percent charge of a 60kwh pack...and you just blast a 1000w of heat constantly....thats still 30 hours of heating at 1kw of power lol.

Gas vehicles burn .25 to .5 gallons per hour so uh...that 16 gallon tank completely topped off is 'only' 32hours. Half the tank and down to 16hours.

New comment by garbageman in "Saving money on Google Photos with Immich: Your own personal photo storage"

garbageman — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:56:52 +0000

Use claude code or any other llm to set this up for you then

New comment by garbageman in "Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series model and will release its weights"

garbageman — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:00:59 +0000

Look, it's kind of like that 1982 HydraTech 16ft bass boat with a pearl glitter paint job thats on Craigslist. When the wife asks, you low balled it and they accepted - an offer too good to refuse.

New comment by garbageman in "New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra"

garbageman — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:28:32 +0000

Moore's Cloth

New comment by garbageman in "New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro"

garbageman — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:12:45 +0000

I got an essentially free upgrade from an M1 air to an M4 air and let me tell you...there is zero difference in day to day usage. You've got another 5+ years of headroom at least.

New comment by garbageman in "Peppermint oil reduces blood pressure by 8.48 mmHg in small study"

garbageman — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 22:38:31 +0000

Whatever you want baby

New comment by garbageman in "Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak"

garbageman — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:57:59 +0000

Sous vide are even cheaper now, $30 for a basic one, provided you've got a stock pot or something large enough to set it in.

New comment by garbageman in "Almost no skill required to cook a steak"

garbageman — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:56:52 +0000

Salamander broiler would be incredible to have at home. We get decent results from using a cast iron pan thats as hot as we can get it. At most we can sear 2 steaks as it tends to cool off pretty quick even under high heat. Got any better alternatives that a home cook could use?

New comment by garbageman in "Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots"

garbageman — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:38:47 +0000

Leasing is out, but locked-in subscriptions are in!

New comment by garbageman in "Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots"

garbageman — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:37:44 +0000

Automatic litter box is a great example. We've had one for ~7 years and it's still going strong. High initial cost that pays back every day over the course of what will likely be a decade+ of usage. Absolutely worth every penny if you look to the horizon. I imagine the robot mowers and robot house maids will fall under the same type of payback but with even higher upfront costs - perhaps this will turn into yet another subscription scheme.

New comment by garbageman in "AI in Linux"

garbageman — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:46:21 +0000

Exactly. When I change my engine oil, I just dump it into the street for the same reason - nobody is dying from my actions directly.

New comment by garbageman in "A graph that should be front-page news"

garbageman — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:16:02 +0000

Both of those problems you cited are far smaller and easier to fix than the ~1,500 gigatons of C02 humans have emitted in the past century. CFC's have a half life of only 50 years, C02 just persists now forever since we're dumping it faster than can be consumed. Acid rain was a mostly localized problem, not one spanning the entire Earth and affecting ocean temps, ocean currents, etc etc. The cited problems are insanely easy to solve compared to global climate change.

It's likely / probably unsolvable at this point as we're hitting tipping points for which there is no effective return such as permafrost melting and releasing more co2, causing more heating, melting more co2, etc and partial shutdowns of critical ocean currents. But yeah I know...MUH FREEDOM.

New comment by garbageman in "Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing"

garbageman — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:46:25 +0000

Interesting to hear a different perspective on the touchbar. I have yet to meet someone who liked it. Removes touch typing, requires you to refocus attention, etc. Changing the volume is easy, button same place always - but with touch bar I have to look down and do the slidey thing. If they implemented real keys with that display built in...now we're talking!

New comment by garbageman in "MacBook Neo"

garbageman — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:02:23 +0000

100%

All the touch screen does is make it top heavy and the hinge less effective at damping the movement.

New comment by garbageman in "MacBook Neo"

garbageman — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:00:36 +0000

I agree generally that on Mac you can 'get by' with 8gb and for the target audience on this, and how they'll likely use it - it's totally acceptable.

But if it's for serious work, this is not the device. 'Managing' the software to 'use the machine well' to get serious work done is unacceptable in 2026. It needs to just work and disappear into the background. I have enough to think about and micro managing the software running is out of the question.

New comment by garbageman in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

garbageman — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 05:32:39 +0000

I'm curious, what does the 'determine intent' mean in this case?

New comment by garbageman in "eBay explicitly bans AI "buy for me" agents in user agreement update"

garbageman — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:17:21 +0000

It doesn't hurt to add it....but it doesn't help as it's happened to me.

New comment by garbageman in "How the cochlea computes (2024)"

garbageman — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 17:40:50 +0000

It's an absolutely brilliant bit of maths that breaks a complex waveform into the individual components. Kind of like taking an orchestral song and then working out each individual instrument's contribution. Learning about this left me honestly aghast and in shock that it's not only possible but that someone (Joseph Fourier) figured it out and then shared it with the world.

This video does a great job explaining what it is and how it works to the layman. 3blue1brown - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spUNpyF58BY