Hacker News: irdc

New comment by irdc in "Show HN: Tusk for macOS and Gnome"

irdc — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:26:25 +0000

Awesome, finally! Are you planning to integrate with Postgres.app?

New comment by irdc in "AI Risks "Hypernormal" Science"

irdc — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:25:42 +0000

It's been shown in other fields that training models on the output of other models produces subtly broken models, not a flattening to the statistical mean. Why would science be different?

New comment by irdc in "RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one"

irdc — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:51:53 +0000

Signetics was first with their 25120 Fully Encoded, 9046xN, Random Access Write-Only-Memory[0].

0. https://web.archive.org/web/20120316141638/http://www.nation...

New comment by irdc in "A man who broke into jail"

irdc — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:38:06 +0000

As a Dutch person, what’s interesting to me is how this exact rule applies to Dutch. Maybe that’s why I didn’t notice it while reading the article…

New comment by irdc in "A review of M Disc archival capability with long term testing results (2016)"

irdc — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 19:02:09 +0000

Ideally the test should include the number of bit errors that were corrected using on-disc ECC. This could then also be used to estimate disc lifetime (preferably using multiple samples).

New comment by irdc in "Something Big Is (Not) Happening"

irdc — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 22:38:31 +0000

Thus making humanity an ever-receding area of AI-incompetence.

New comment by irdc in "Linear Address Spaces: Unsafe at any speed (2022)"

irdc — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 19:49:55 +0000

> Why do we even have linear physical and virtual addresses in the first place, when pretty much everything today is object-oriented?

But what happens when the in-memory size of objects approaches 2⁶⁴? How to even map such a thing without multi-level page tables?

New comment by irdc in "Repressive Desublimation"

irdc — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 22:05:18 +0000

Where sublimation is the redirection of socially unacceptable impulses or desires into socially acceptable actions, desublimation refers to the acceptance of these impulses and desires, removing the energies otherwise available for higher goals.

Repressive Desublimation

irdc — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 22:05:18 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repressive_desublimation

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46295239

Points: 4

# Comments: 3

New comment by irdc in "FVWM-95 (2001)"

irdc — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 17:42:27 +0000

Anything more complicated than this was just too difficult with the early HTML standards (there was no CSS).

New comment by irdc in "FVWM-95 (2001)"

irdc — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 17:29:34 +0000

I ran this at one time but it was a bit unstable. I remember corresponding with one of the authors who remarked that it was also attempting to emulate the stability of Windows 95. This was ... oh gawd ... back in 1997 or 1998 I think.

New comment by irdc in "RP2350 A4, RP2354, and a New Hacking Challenge"

irdc — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 13:59:32 +0000

Note that this new stepping fixes the notorious E9 erratum which caused GPIOs to misbehave.

New comment by irdc in "Ancient law requires a bale of straw to hang from Charing Cross rail bridge"

irdc — Fri, 23 May 2025 18:19:59 +0000

The Romans would like to have a word...

New comment by irdc in "Weird Lexical Syntax"

irdc — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 13:42:43 +0000

It’s just that nesting them arbitrarily is now allowed, right? That shouldn’t matter much for a mere syntax highlighter then. And one could even argue that code that relies on this too much is not really for human consumption.

New comment by irdc in "Weird Lexical Syntax"

irdc — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 13:03:32 +0000

I’d be interested to see a re-usable implementation of joe's[0] syntax highlighting.[1] The format is powerful enough to allow for the proper highlighting of Python f-strings.[2]

0. https://joe-editor.sf.net/

1. https://github.com/cmur2/joe-syntax/blob/joe-4.4/misc/HowItW...

2. https://gist.github.com/irdc/6188f11b1e699d615ce2520f03f1d0d...

New comment by irdc in "Rip2 – A safer, rust-based rm"

irdc — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 12:11:56 +0000

This is a good practical example for the less experienced that just because it’s written in rust doesn’t mean it’s magically more secure. Who’s gonna write up the CVE?

New comment by irdc in "Ceefax and the Birth of Interactive TV"

irdc — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 21:54:58 +0000

In some countries Teletext never went away. The Dutch system is still up and running, and has a web front-end: https://nos.nl/teletekst

New comment by irdc in "Linux/4004: booting Linux on Intel 4004 for fun, art, and no profit"

irdc — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 10:10:21 +0000

Ig Nobel is a pun on Nobel and ignoble, so how about a Tor Turing award?

New comment by irdc in "A lonely man in his 30s found welcome and community at spin class"

irdc — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 07:26:33 +0000

> Like how many straight geeky single dads do lesbians want in their friendship group really

Really? If they have kids themselves connecting to someone in a similar situation who is otherwise not like them can be really refreshing.

New comment by irdc in "Paper types ranked by likelihood of paper cuts"

irdc — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 15:09:25 +0000

Finally a use for my stash of dot matrix printer paper.