Hacker News: ilkkal

New comment by ilkkal in "macOS Internals"

ilkkal — Sun, 07 May 2023 06:15:35 +0000

Thanks for the blinding insight.

New comment by ilkkal in "macOS Internals"

ilkkal — Sun, 07 May 2023 06:00:29 +0000

Fascinating stuff, I've never really thought about what problem e.g. frameworks are solving. It's kind of too bad that in my day job my head's in the clouds and usually somewhat removed from most of these system level details.

inb4 it's just someone else's computer -- trust me I know

New comment by ilkkal in "I Saw the Face of God in a Semiconductor Factory"

ilkkal — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 07:26:25 +0000

I guess regular religious fervor just isn’t what it used to be.

New comment by ilkkal in "Last Flight Out"

ilkkal — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 05:56:21 +0000

Primary cooling could be molten salt or liquid metal but unless you take the power out through the Seebeck effect like RTG’s on space probes, you still need water to make steam for turbines, I guess.

New comment by ilkkal in "Doors of McMurdo"

ilkkal — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 21:07:39 +0000

I wonder if proper door operation is part of orientation: https://youtu.be/Wof0xPUmW38

New comment by ilkkal in "Twitter 2.0: Our continued commitment to the public conversation"

ilkkal — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 22:07:56 +0000

At this point, why care about Twitter?

New comment by ilkkal in "271 years before Pantone, every color imaginable in an 800-page book"

ilkkal — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 11:44:19 +0000

To me this is the weirdest thing about Pantone the company, their products etc: so much trouble to try to make sure that for a fleeting moment some knick-knack produced half a world away looks like it did on the designer’s expensive monitor. Then, time happens.

Is the world better off than if we just eyeballed it?

New comment by ilkkal in "Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun"

ilkkal — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 12:59:35 +0000

> the end of that bell-curve

A "bell end", if you will.

New comment by ilkkal in "Nokia’s Burning Platform Memo (2011)"

ilkkal — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 08:21:40 +0000

I was a consultant working on two Meego projects at the time, fancy mechanics and some pretty interesting ideas about graph data storage and inference. Super talented crew of diverse hackers, kind of a tech head dream project thinking back on it now. This all was such a gut punch. I always thought they should have just rallied behind their own OS, but I don't claim to understand the business all that well.

(edit: a highlight was getting to meet Dan Ingalls once; he was cool)

New comment by ilkkal in "Incident with GitHub Actions, API requests, Codespaces, Git operations, Issues"

ilkkal — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 15:34:23 +0000

Sure, but it’s incredibly naive to see gh having problems and go “they must not know what they are doing”

New comment by ilkkal in "Practical Front-End Architecture"

ilkkal — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 13:05:14 +0000

Got a big chuckle out of them describing server-side rendering as this new-fangled unproven technical risk of a technology :) I get the context, but it was still funny. Ah, back to editing index.php I guess.

New comment by ilkkal in "Buildpacks vs. Dockerfiles"

ilkkal — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 13:21:49 +0000

The RUN? I thought about that but I don’t see how that would work. Or is the argument that Dockerfiles are just too hard?

(An argument I’m not unsympathetic to)

New comment by ilkkal in "Buildpacks vs. Dockerfiles"

ilkkal — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 12:55:05 +0000

I’m sure it’s usually just a case of “thinking while typing”, but I find it surprising how often articles about Docker stuff get some basic details a bit wrong. In the very first code example there is a RUN instruction where the author probably meant to have a CMD instruction, and they talk about BuildKit and build cache optimisation even though that was always something to think about, way before BuildKit was a thing.

I’m not trying to say I know everything or that the article is wrong or bad, but it’s an observation I’ve made.

New comment by ilkkal in "AI slays top F-16 pilot in DARPA dogfight simulation"

ilkkal — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 12:36:27 +0000

Sparrows are history these days, but even more modern weapons can be defeated. It’s a lot about knowing what your weapon’s perf envelope is, and what the other side has to throw at you, and defending appropriately.

New comment by ilkkal in "Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products"

ilkkal — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 06:53:19 +0000

"The Fine Comment" and "Article", respectively. Sometimes another adjective is substituted, by angry people.

New comment by ilkkal in "Subsurface – An open source scuba dive logging platform"

ilkkal — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 10:15:38 +0000

I haven't dived all that much, but the initial submersion with empty lungs is super unpleasant every time, the urge to draw air is super strong. After I'm under I'm 100% fine with it and just don't think about the whole thing. I've only dived drysuit, maybe submersion is easier without.

New comment by ilkkal in "A small notebook for a system administrator"

ilkkal — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 19:18:24 +0000

Also the idea that design is something that's just "out there" totally apart from how things are used is just precious.