<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: idiocrat</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=idiocrat</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 01:57:45 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=idiocrat" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by idiocrat in "Show HN: Yumo.to, a map of 19,652 onsens in Japan"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For me the dots appear as white on a grey terrain.
Impossible to see.<p>Win Firefox 148.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 03:52:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47294242</link><dc:creator>idiocrat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47294242</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47294242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by idiocrat in "LLM Inevitabilism"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do we still need program source code?<p>One idea would be not to have the code as the result of your prompt, but the result itself.<p>Why not to let the environment do everything integrated, according to your prompt?<p>Else you have the disconnect between the prompt and the generated code.
The generated code need to run somewhere, need to be integrated and maintained.<p>That stringdiff function is a part of the bigger environment.<p>So ultimately you should just be able to request your assistant to make sure all the work assigned to you is done properly, and then the assistant should report to the original requestor of the work done.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2025 07:45:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44568901</link><dc:creator>idiocrat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44568901</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44568901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by idiocrat in "Query optimization doesn't work because SQL is declarative"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe the "query optimization works because sql is set-oriented"?<p>The types of operations in SQL are limited to sets, therefore allowing certain optimizations.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2025 05:15:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42997165</link><dc:creator>idiocrat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42997165</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42997165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by idiocrat in "Google.com search now refusing to search for FF esr 128 without JavaScript"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Good that there are also non-EU instances of searx.<p>Here is an extended list:<p><a href="https://searx.space/" rel="nofollow">https://searx.space/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2025 02:45:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42733562</link><dc:creator>idiocrat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42733562</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42733562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by idiocrat in "Goodbye from a Linux Community Volunteer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, what you are saying is fair enough.<p>I can imagine technological "divorces" will happen more often going forward, as the polarization between the G7 and the BRICS++ members grows.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Oct 2024 10:07:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41934010</link><dc:creator>idiocrat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41934010</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41934010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by idiocrat in "Goodbye from a Linux Community Volunteer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And then the next paragraph of the wikipeida: "In Chicago, Frederick Stock was forced to step down as conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra until he finalized his naturalization papers. Orchestras replaced music by German composer Wagner with French composer Berlioz. After xenophobic Providence Journal editor John R. Rathom falsely accused Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Karl Muck of refusing to play The Star-Spangled Banner and triggered a trial by media in October 1917, Muck and 29 of the orchestra's musicians were arrested and interned in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, until well after the Armistice. "</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Oct 2024 06:37:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41932595</link><dc:creator>idiocrat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41932595</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41932595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by idiocrat in "Goodbye from a Linux Community Volunteer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This reminds of the Anti-German sentiment during WWI.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-German_sentiment" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-German_sentiment</a><p>"The Justice Department attempted to prepare a list of all German aliens, counting approximately 480,000 of them. The Committee of Internment of Alien Enemies recommended sending them to internment camps, though the idea was opposed by the War Department and the Attorney General. More than 4,000 German aliens were imprisoned in 1917–1918. The allegations included spying for Germany and endorsing the German war effort.<p>When the United States entered the war in 1917, some German Americans were looked upon with suspicion and attacked regarding their loyalty. Propaganda posters and newspaper commentary fed the growing fear. In Wisconsin, a Lutheran minister faced suspicion for hosting Germans in his home, while a language professor was tarred and feathered for having a German name and teaching the language. The Red Cross barred individuals with German last names from joining in fear of sabotage. One person was killed by a mob; in Collinsville, Illinois, German-born Robert Prager was dragged from jail as a suspected spy and lynched. Some aliens were convicted and imprisoned on charges of sedition for refusing to swear allegiance to the United States war effort. Thousands were forced to buy war bonds to show their loyalty."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Oct 2024 06:34:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41932579</link><dc:creator>idiocrat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41932579</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41932579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by idiocrat in "Ask HN: How is job search going for you?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A quick thought: You could try to peek into the new world. They are not calcified (yet) and thus growing quickly, covering half of the world population. Surely they could appreciate your extended experience.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Oct 2024 01:09:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41930906</link><dc:creator>idiocrat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41930906</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41930906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by idiocrat in "Microsoft exec sends stern warning to staff about return to office"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I would be for the employees returning to office, if they could make Windows UI flexible and customizable.<p>After all, there is at least some minimal efforts to modernize the Win11 UI: it seems not impossible (after many years of trying) to make taskbar icons small, or align the taskbar icons to the left.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2024 02:38:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41716668</link><dc:creator>idiocrat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41716668</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41716668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by idiocrat in "Leak claims RTX 5090 has 600W TGP, RTX 5080 hits 400W"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Finally a valid reason for those 1000W platinum PSUs.<p>Their highest efficiency is at 80-90% utilization, but the efficiency drops off when underutilized.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2024 11:25:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41669050</link><dc:creator>idiocrat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41669050</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41669050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by idiocrat in "SQL Tips and Tricks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Learn your DB server. Check the query plans often. You might get surprised. Tweak and recheck.<p>Oftentimes the well-designed queries behave unexpectedly, because the column statistics are not updated or when the data is fragmented for big tables (e.g. random PK insertion).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2024 06:16:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41644206</link><dc:creator>idiocrat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41644206</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41644206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by idiocrat in "Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The 5 years estimate is off by 3 years?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2024 05:05:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41643871</link><dc:creator>idiocrat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41643871</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41643871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by idiocrat in "Google strikes $100/ton deal with Holocene to capture CO2 from the air"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sorry to be sarcastic, but obviously there is no money to make with planting forests to capture same amount of CO2 from the air.<p>"Saving Amazon Forest" has been memory-holed.<p>The technology will save humanity.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2024 03:04:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41507676</link><dc:creator>idiocrat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41507676</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41507676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by idiocrat in "Counter-Strike 2 gaming using Neuralink is 'insane'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As with usual exponential growth -- do not blink.<p>The exponential growth is that you see nothing for long time, until it is too late.<p>Once you blinked you will find the HN site is full of articles about the minimal-invasive brain microsurgery startups getting funded billions of dollars. And that we are in the midst of another tech bubble.</p>
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<p>Can they pick up the two poor stuck guys on the way down?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2024 13:59:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41500829</link><dc:creator>idiocrat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41500829</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41500829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by idiocrat in "China's super-radar detects plasma bubble over the pyramids in Giza"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have a friend who loves climbing tall mountains.<p>He sends me pictures where he is on a mountain summit, pointing his "made it" fingers (or even his ski poles) into the blue skies.<p>I pray each time that he does not getting hit by a random lighting strike.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2024 12:55:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41488059</link><dc:creator>idiocrat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41488059</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41488059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by idiocrat in "Ilya Sutskever's SSI Inc raises $1B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Talking to an electronic assistant is so antiquated. It feels unnatural to formulate inner thoughts into verbal commands.<p>An ubiquitous phone has enough sensors/resources to be fully situationally aware and preempt/predict for each holder any action long time ahead.<p>It can measure the pulse, body postures and movements, gestures, breath patterns, calculate mood, listen to the surrounding sounds, recall all information ever discussed, have 360 deg visual information (via a swarm of fully autonomous flying micro-drones), be in an network with all relevant parties (family members, friends, coworkers, community) and know everything they (the peers) know.<p>From all gathered information the electronic personal assistant can predict all your next steps with high confidence. The humans think that they are unique, special and unpredictable, but opposite is the case. An assistant can know more about you than you think you know about yourself.<p>So your 8yo daughter does not need to tell how to alternate the audio books, the computer can feel the mood and just do what is appropriate, without her need to issue a verbal command.<p>Also in the morning you do not need to ask her how she slept tonight and listen to her subjective judgement.<p>The personal assistant will feel that you are probably interested in your daughters sleep and give you an exact objective medical analysis of the quality of the sleep of your daughter tonight, without you needing to ask the personal assistant of your daughter.<p>I love it, it is a bottomless goldmine for data analysis!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2024 01:10:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41452517</link><dc:creator>idiocrat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41452517</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41452517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by idiocrat in "Low level of Magnesium linked to disease-causing DNA damage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thank you. I found this by chance two years ago. Just a 3 days of Mg supplementation (2 grams/day) was a life-changing experience for me and fully cured my RLS.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Aug 2024 04:45:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41280181</link><dc:creator>idiocrat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41280181</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41280181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by idiocrat in "Ask HN: BTree Alternative for Storing to Disk?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can you try to use a memory-mapped file, so the tree is always stored to disk, without a need of de/serialization?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2024 15:03:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41275044</link><dc:creator>idiocrat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41275044</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41275044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by idiocrat in "Ask HN: As you got older what have you realised?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Life is short and limited and you will die sooner than you think.</p>
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