Hacker News: garfieldnate

New comment by garfieldnate in "Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation"

garfieldnate — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:20:42 +0000

You can't expect a company to support you in directly hurting them. This reminds me of a guy I know that sued his bank regarding a loan, but he used a terrible lawyer. The bank pretty quickly took their own action, including stopping all payments from his account (as they claimed that the money was theirs).

New comment by garfieldnate in "Why users cannot create Issues directly"

garfieldnate — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 18:34:41 +0000

Not that not being able to open a ticket is not actually an implemented feature from GitHub; they simply added this issue template to let you know that you shouldn't open one:

*DO NOT OPEN A NEW ISSUE. PLEASE USE THE DISCUSSIONS SECTION.*

*I DIDN'T READ THE ABOVE LINE. PLEASE CLOSE THIS ISSUE.*

New comment by garfieldnate in "Roc Camera"

garfieldnate — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 02:20:44 +0000

At some point I think it will be required for police bodycams and any security footage used in court to have this technology built in.

New comment by garfieldnate in "Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available"

garfieldnate — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 03:14:15 +0000

I know Korea is a fast-changing place, but while I was there I was taught and often observed that the value of "ppalli ppalli" (hurry hurry) was often applied to mean that a job was better done quickly than right, with predictably shoddy results. Obviously I have no insight into what happened here, but I can easily imagine a group of very hurried engineers feeling the pressure to just be done with their G-Drive tasks and move on to other suddenly urgent things. It's easy to put off preparation for something you don't feel will ever come.

I'm going to check all the smoke detectors in my house tomorrow :D

New comment by garfieldnate in "Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer"

garfieldnate — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 23:37:04 +0000

Anyone else amused by the date on the picture being 1 day from the beginning of the Unix epoch?

New comment by garfieldnate in "A receipt printer cured my procrastination"

garfieldnate — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 19:04:17 +0000

Having a to-do app that really pushes you to break down tasks into tiny pieces actually sounds really nice. I think that's the biggest takeaway for me here. The receipt print might seem a bit extra, but there's also something nice about having a physical motion to finish tasks while also not having to write everything out by hand. I dunno, writing doesn't actually take a long time. The post-its do feel a bit wasteful though, because they're so expensive.

New comment by garfieldnate in "The average college student today"

garfieldnate — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 19:52:58 +0000

Most of his complaints are understandable, but my goodness please just share the PPT slides, and the lecture notes, too, if they are appropriate for distribution! It's standard practice for the technical courses, at least. Personal notes fill a different niche and are supplemental to the official course notes.

New comment by garfieldnate in "OpenAI Audio Models"

garfieldnate — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 19:45:49 +0000

Most of the voices give "I'm sorry, I can't assist with that request" when I try to input Japanese. They all work for German and Spanish, though.

New comment by garfieldnate in "Boycott IETF 127"

garfieldnate — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 19:24:03 +0000

It's kind of ingenuous to take RFK's views on drug rehabilitation options and re-state them as if people are being sent to re-education/concentration camps.

That said, I do find the US border incidents to be super scary. I don't blame people for not wanting to come.

New comment by garfieldnate in "Executive wealth as a factor in return-to-office"

garfieldnate — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 03:17:45 +0000

>Remember, they live literally in another world.

One of my favorite sociology books is about rich people practically living in a different country, Richistan.

New comment by garfieldnate in "We were wrong about GPUs"

garfieldnate — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 04:14:05 +0000

It's been a while since I tried, but my experience trying to manually set up GPUs was atrocious, and with investigation generally ending at the closed-source NVidia drivers it's easy to feel disempowered pretty quickly. I think my biggest learning from trying to do DL on a manually set up computer was simply that GPU setup was awful and I never wanted to deal with it. It's not that I don't want to understand it, but with NVidia software you're essentially not allowed to understand it. If open source drivers or open GPU hardware were released, I would gladly learn how that works.

New comment by garfieldnate in "Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]"

garfieldnate — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 04:29:30 +0000

In my mind, addressing the huge lag on Switch between input and display would more than make up for any lost FPS. I want responsive controls.

New comment by garfieldnate in "I've acquired a new superpower"

garfieldnate — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 06:44:26 +0000

Doesn't work if you have lazy-eye, unfortunately! I generally just see whatever my stronger eye sees. It might be a good exercise to improve my weaker eye's sight, though.

New comment by garfieldnate in "FTC bans hidden junk fees in hotel, event ticket prices"

garfieldnate — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 21:28:39 +0000

That's actually a great idea! Something like the companies that take care of getting refunds for flight tickets when the flight is delayed too long (in Germany you are legally entitled to a refund, but the process is long, so there are companies that do it for you and take a piece). They might have some common claims that they can add to a catalog. You could cut costs by re-using paperwork on these. As long as they could claim legal fees, which I'm not sure of.

New comment by garfieldnate in "Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines"

garfieldnate — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 03:26:06 +0000

I would love to be able to manage my actual calendar with this. By which I mean, I want a seamless bridge with google calendar, iCal, etc. that also lets me view, edit, source-control, etc. my calendar with an mw file. I think this is very cool!

New comment by garfieldnate in "Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties"

garfieldnate — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 21:53:09 +0000

What do you use for the other controls? Start, select, exit, confirm... I have an older L-Tek and I really wish I had one with all nine step buttons (for other dance games) plus control button on top. Also kudos for not using a cheater bar :D. I don't see the old-school no-bar playing much anymore but I find it much more impressive.

New comment by garfieldnate in "Do AI detectors work? Students face false cheating accusations"

garfieldnate — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 04:47:48 +0000

In my opinion, when an assignment is flagged as potential plagiarism, that should be a signal that the student needs to be interviewed about the work to make sure that they actually understand the material well enough to produce a good assignment. Disciplining based on the output of an algorithm provided by a third-party is very stupid.

New comment by garfieldnate in "Linux from Scratch"

garfieldnate — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 14:28:58 +0000

I would love to see this updated with information on building a realtime Linux (which is now officially supported). I have in mind some hand-held devices that would be a lot more interesting to build with realtime support.

New comment by garfieldnate in "Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated"

garfieldnate — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 14:16:32 +0000

I don't know why, but AI-generated images have a very particular look; here I pick up on a certain bokeh blurring and huge, shiny eyes. The peacock actually reminds me of the AI girl that always gets generated: a sort of Asian Amanda Seyfried with unnaturally huge Alita-like eyes.

New comment by garfieldnate in "Synthetic diamonds are now purer, more beautiful, and cheaper than mined"

garfieldnate — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 17:43:43 +0000

I bought our wedding rings back in 2011, and I was very annoyed to find that the synthetic diamonds were better quality but always came with some sort of laser engraving to mark them as "fake," essentially as a way to protect the natural diamond market.