Hacker News: ghotli

New comment by ghotli in "Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era"

ghotli — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:05:53 +0000

What foldable BT keyboard do you use? Last time I tried something like this that was the weakest link with what was available on the market at the time.

New comment by ghotli in "Embassy: Modern embedded framework, using Rust and async"

ghotli — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 03:04:08 +0000

If you had to pick a MCU to try this out on, do you have a preference for a devkit to test this with?

New comment by ghotli in "I created a bouncing DVD screensaver for your terminal"

ghotli — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 23:19:45 +0000

I thought, surely it's dead simple to comment that out. I think it's just these two lines.

https://github.com/integrii/dvd/blob/main/cmd/dvd/dvd.go#L22...

New comment by ghotli in "Adding my home electricity uptime to status.href.cat"

ghotli — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 22:21:06 +0000

The way you wrote this and your previous comment above led me to believe your account is new. I checked it, 74 days at time of writing. I get the impression you haven't read the guidelines here. I like this place as it is generally civil discourse and have no qualms being the person that points you to the "In Comments" section of the guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Be kind, rewind.

New comment by ghotli in "Implementing fast TCP fingerprinting with eBPF"

ghotli — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 15:46:07 +0000

I downvoted you due to the way you're communicating in this thread. Be kind, rewind. Review the guidelines here perhaps since your account is only a little over a year old.

I found this article useful and insightful. I don't have a bot problem at present I have an adjacent problem and found this context useful for an ongoing investigation.

New comment by ghotli in "Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not just a design refresh"

ghotli — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 14:53:54 +0000

This is insightful thank you. Question: if you work with a wide range of AR displays, what do you suggest that's readily available and has a sdk?

New comment by ghotli in "The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source"

ghotli — Mon, 19 May 2025 18:01:02 +0000

Counterpoint: things like the Valve Index for VR simply don't behave well in this environment no matter how much I've worked on getting it there.

I'm not a novice either, $dayjob has me working on the lowest levels of Linux on a daily basis. I did linux from scratch on a Pentium 2 when I was 12. All that to say yes I happen to agree but edge cases are out there. The blanket statement doesn't apply for all use cases

New comment by ghotli in "Hotline for modern Apple systems"

ghotli — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 13:00:26 +0000

Soulseek is likely the one you're remembering. I remember talking to people with similar collections of music. Hotline was my primary passion for quite some time but soulseek had a longer run of utility in my childhood on the nascent web.

New comment by ghotli in "Learning Tibetan changed the way I think (2023)"

ghotli — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 05:12:17 +0000

Agreed. It's not an appeal to authority it's a paragraph I enjoyed reading and remembered in this context

New comment by ghotli in "Learning Tibetan changed the way I think (2023)"

ghotli — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 04:45:48 +0000

I'm actually glad you posted this because it reminded me of a quote from Wittgenstein's page on Wikipedia [1]

> According to Wittgenstein, philosophical problems arise when language is forced from its proper home into a metaphysical environment, where all the familiar and necessary landmarks and contextual clues are removed. He describes this metaphysical environment as like being on frictionless ice: where the conditions are apparently perfect for a philosophically and logically perfect language, all philosophical problems can be solved without the muddying effects of everyday contexts; but where, precisely because of the lack of friction, language can in fact do no work at all.[259] Wittgenstein argues that philosophers must leave the frictionless ice and return to the "rough ground" of ordinary language in use. Much of the Investigations consists of examples of how the first false steps can be avoided, so that philosophical problems are dissolved, rather than solved: "The clarity we are aiming at is indeed complete clarity. But this simply means that the philosophical problems should completely disappear."

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein

New comment by ghotli in "Learning Tibetan changed the way I think (2023)"

ghotli — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 04:38:44 +0000

What is logic here against the subjective internal experience you're responding to. Do I have to hold an axiom true to believe the person describing their internal experience is specifically as Chomsky proved in the language of logic?

New comment by ghotli in "Show HN: Whirlwind – Async concurrent hashmap for Rust"

ghotli — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 19:34:58 +0000

I try to tell all new programmers that ask me for advice that keeping abreast of the words of tools that are available for use is a big part of the work and shouldn't be left out. If I quit my daily / weekly trawl of what's out there, I'd surely start to atrophy.

New comment by ghotli in "Busy Status Bar"

ghotli — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 15:30:01 +0000

Oh. Sounds like you're referring to Agile and Standup with capital letters. In my experience people talk about agile-with-a-capital-A and standup-with-a-capital-S and those two don't really match what actually happens in the real world, at least in my experience.

New comment by ghotli in "Telegram Removes Z-Library Posts 'Due to Copyright Infringement'"

ghotli — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 02:42:35 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_(military_symbol)

New comment by ghotli in "Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall"

ghotli — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:10:49 +0000

Suzanne

New comment by ghotli in "My Homelab Setup"

ghotli — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 05:06:45 +0000

I disagree, but mostly just in the present. Sometimes I take an active approach to getting unconstructive communication out of where my eyes naturally go. It's rare. It's a feeling in a moment in a context as kind as I can possibly be. This has been net positive, but sure we agree in this context it's just a forum on the internet and I click my share of downvotes like any other.

New comment by ghotli in "My Homelab Setup"

ghotli — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 04:04:52 +0000

I guess this is a sort of meta comment rather than a reply. You seem like someone who hasn't had an account for a long time and upon clicking your profile I see that is in fact the case. It seems plausible that you haven't read the site guidelines, so I'll be that guy and point you to them. I like this place largely because of the good moderation. I hope you come to like this place for the same as the years go on.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

New comment by ghotli in "Smartphone Tethering: A Bigger Grind Than It Needed to Be"

ghotli — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 20:46:45 +0000

You're the real mvp on this thread. Thanks I figured this was in place but never thought through the ttl bit.

New comment by ghotli in "Ask HN: Where to find domain experts for 1:1 tutoring?"

ghotli — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 17:42:07 +0000

Lol. Sorta flattered to be taken for some sort of automated collection activity. Gotta be the second chance pool

New comment by ghotli in "Ask HN: Where to find domain experts for 1:1 tutoring?"

ghotli — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 22:36:38 +0000

I have an old boss that calls me from time to time. Maybe I'll just call him an old friend at this point. He lives by the philosophy that you put in the work and you debug your thinking by bouncing the context you've built up off of experts. Sometimes he shoots a cool hundred my way thereafter, sometimes he doesn't. Most of the time we're just catching up.

This works for him and tbh it works for me too. I guess my advice is that the important part is not sourcing the expert it's putting in the work to come with enough context to get something out of talking to an expert and to leave them without the feeling like you've wasted their time. Follow people on the socials, read their code, show up at NeurIPS with actual good questions to ask people in person on the hallway track.

Without the _hard work up front to get good questions to ask_ you're in danger of finding a good expert and them deciding you're just another starry eyed kid that doesn't know for just how many years longer you wouldn't even pass the screening call for an interview.

Just my two cents, hope this helps!