Hacker News: gregwtmtno

New comment by gregwtmtno in "Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)"

gregwtmtno — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:50:47 +0000

I have to agree here. I love ripgrep, but at times I've had to go back to regular grep because I couldn't figure out what it was ignoring and why, and there were far too many settings to figure it out.

New comment by gregwtmtno in "How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM"

gregwtmtno — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 12:25:59 +0000

This is going to date me, but I had a t-shirt with basically a code-golf version of DeCSS printed on it and it said "This shirt is illegal" on it or something like that. I never actually wore it in public.

New comment by gregwtmtno in "Rust on Dreamcast"

gregwtmtno — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 00:57:26 +0000

I always love seeing modern technology on old hardware. The Dreamcast was an amazing machine in a beautiful form factor.

New comment by gregwtmtno in "A new RISC-V Mainboard from DeepComputing"

gregwtmtno — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 15:19:42 +0000

I have a Framework 13, and I'm excited about this. I've been looking forward to moving to RISC-V for years now. I'm one of those weirdos who is willing to pay more for less performance. I guess they know their customers.

New comment by gregwtmtno in "Framework Laptop 16 Review"

gregwtmtno — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 16:00:30 +0000

Just wanted to chime in that I love my Framework 13 as well. It's been running great on Ubuntu for well over a year now--no complaints.

New comment by gregwtmtno in "Modern TLS/SSL on 16-bit Windows"

gregwtmtno — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 14:24:11 +0000

I wanted to know this as well. I'm guessing that the author created a drop-in substitute for the SSL library it already head.

New comment by gregwtmtno in "Connecticut parents arrested for letting kids walk to Dunkin' Donuts"

gregwtmtno — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 14:04:19 +0000

Any reasonable person can see that there's much greater danger in allowing a child to ride in a car on a highway--which no doubt would be considered perfectly acceptable by these police. Look at this visualization of cause of death by age: https://wisqars.cdc.gov/data/lcd/home. For those kids, the number one cause of death is "unintentional injury," the biggest component of which is motor vehicle crashes. Unfortunately, these police wield incredible power in our legal system, and, as a lawyer, I don't see any easy fix. It makes me sad that I'll be raising my child in this kind of environment.

New comment by gregwtmtno in "An unorthodox scholar uses technology to expose Biblical forgeries"

gregwtmtno — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 02:20:22 +0000

Can’t imagine why they didn’t print the name.

New comment by gregwtmtno in "The Kobayashi Maru of comparing dates with times"

gregwtmtno — Sat, 12 Feb 2022 23:04:16 +0000

I never understood why programmers have such a hard time with time. There are two and only two pieces of information you need to work with time: seconds past the epoch and location. Everything else is applying legal and social context to the actual data.

Here both of those pieces of information are missing on all three questions, so no answers can be given. Any answer to these questions makes assumptions or deductions about those pieces of information.

New comment by gregwtmtno in "Lagrange – Desktop GUI client for browsing Geminispace"

gregwtmtno — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 14:59:36 +0000

Does anyone have a rec for great iOS Gemini client?

New comment by gregwtmtno in "Colin Powell has died"

gregwtmtno — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 13:17:50 +0000

Nice to hear Russ's name on HN. Not completely forgotten I see. He also opposed the Patriot Act when it was extremely popular which I thought was courageous.

New comment by gregwtmtno in " Prison in Japan (2017)"

gregwtmtno — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 16:03:24 +0000

It's the opposite. If you're being offered "drugs" by people on the street, it's because you look like a mark.

New comment by gregwtmtno in "FedEx responds to The New York Times article from Nov. 17, 2019"

gregwtmtno — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 17:25:07 +0000

The Times newsroom doesn't posit premises (and certainly not the one you suggest) or debate tax policy, it reports facts. I find the ignorance on the basics of journalism and its role in American society on hacker news to be shocking and embarrassing.

New comment by gregwtmtno in "FedEx responds to The New York Times article from Nov. 17, 2019"

gregwtmtno — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 16:28:28 +0000

So this response says the story is factually incorrect, but doesn't dispute a single fact. If the story is inaccurate, FedEx should describe what was wrong, in detail, and ask for a correction.

That they didn't do that makes me wonder.

New comment by gregwtmtno in "Async-await on stable Rust"

gregwtmtno — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 16:36:12 +0000

I've dipped my toes into embedded rust from time to time. Can you give me an example or two of how you would use async/await in an embedded environment? I'm just curious about how it would work.

New comment by gregwtmtno in "Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies"

gregwtmtno — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:31:32 +0000

I think carbon emitters should be on the hook to clean up an amount of carbon equivalent to what they emit. There should be nothing controversial about requiring people to clean up after themselves.

New comment by gregwtmtno in "“I would like to maintain the floppy driver”"

gregwtmtno — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 20:23:05 +0000

Interestingly enough, my 2019 Subaru came with a CD player. I doubt it will ever be used.

New comment by gregwtmtno in "News Websites Are Dumpster Fires"

gregwtmtno — Wed, 29 May 2019 12:41:35 +0000

I won't look at any page that has autoplaying (even silent) video. It's too distracting and it's not worth the effort to click the close button.

New comment by gregwtmtno in "Graphics Team ships WebRender MVP"

gregwtmtno — Tue, 21 May 2019 13:21:04 +0000

This is an amazing achievement for the WebRender team, but users should manage their expectations with regard to performance improvements.

The reality is that Firefox's current rendering engine is highly tuned, and switching to a new engine without major performance regressions is impressive. Keep in mind, there may be performance improvements coming down the line.

New comment by gregwtmtno in "Wage Stagnation"

gregwtmtno — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 15:29:43 +0000

Those are points I hadn't considered, but what in the US, net exports are negative. Wouldn't that imply the converse effect to what you're describing?