Hacker News: itslennysfault

New comment by itslennysfault in "Drugwars for the TI-82/83/83 Calculators (2011)"

itslennysfault — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:15:24 +0000

I seriously remember this game being hard... I finished with $500k cash, $11m in the bank, and $0 debt. 100/100 score. High school me is very proud.

New comment by itslennysfault in "Have a fucking website"

itslennysfault — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 05:03:01 +0000

The phone. Wow. Great solution..... Literally the whole point of putting information online is so your employees don't have to waste time answering the same question 999999x per day.

New comment by itslennysfault in "Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers"

itslennysfault — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 04:58:54 +0000

cPanel reborn

New comment by itslennysfault in "Have a fucking website"

itslennysfault — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:01:37 +0000

> If you don't want to do business with them just because you shun platforms

I don't do business with them because I can't access their hours, menu, services, etc... I've had this happen a few times. I'm not avoiding these businesses because I'm a snob. It's because I literally can't access the information. So, I go back to google and find a business that provides the information I need to decide if the business meets my needs before traveling to their location.

New comment by itslennysfault in "Hyperlinks in terminal emulators"

itslennysfault — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 09:21:40 +0000

Yeeeeah, I made it as far as...

> It was, however, not possible until now for arbitrary text to point to URLs, just as on webpages

before saying "oh... no.... I hate this. Please don't."

New comment by itslennysfault in "Marmot – A distributed SQLite server with MySQL wire compatible interface"

itslennysfault — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 18:15:20 +0000

OP mentioned using this to scale WordPress instances in one of the comments. So I assume that had something to do with the choice. It probably wouldn't be TOO hard to support multiple dialects of SQL in the future though.

New comment by itslennysfault in "IBM to acquire Confluent"

itslennysfault — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 14:50:59 +0000

What's wrong with kafka or what WILL BE wrong with kafka?

New comment by itslennysfault in "Nostr"

itslennysfault — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 19:34:34 +0000

They explicitly don't have a "nostr coin" or do anything "on chain" which I applaud them for especially since the Venn Diagram of Nostr and the crypto community is basically a circle.

New comment by itslennysfault in "Try and"

itslennysfault — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 14:11:04 +0000

This is also the construction used for FAFO

FA = "try" (as a vulgar slang)

When you de-vulgar/de-slang it it becomes: try and find out

New comment by itslennysfault in "Enough AI copilots, we need AI HUDs"

itslennysfault — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 17:53:21 +0000

Very odd. This must be some kind of Ubuntu issue. Out of curiosity I tried it in Chrome, Firefox and Safari on MacOS 15.5 and saw very little CPU usage and no difference with/without the video playing. I don't have a Ubuntu Desktop handy to confirm. Looking at the video it's nothing special. Just a fairly small mp4 using a native html5 video element to play it. Really no reason this should be causing issues.

New comment by itslennysfault in "New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes"

itslennysfault — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 14:50:12 +0000

Just in case... Maybe you didn't wait long enough? I saw nothing so I came to the comments expecting a lot of others to day the animation is broken. However, it turns out it's a lot slower/longer than I thought. I saw the little bar on the left shrink to nothing and thought that was it and exited, but that's just the start. The full animation is the red circle shrinking all the way until it disappears. There is no illusion until the circle shrinks quite a bit.

New comment by itslennysfault in "Man wearing metallic necklace dies after being sucked into MRI machine"

itslennysfault — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 13:56:03 +0000

That's crazy... Did they bill you for the cost of shutting down the MRI and refilling the helium?

New comment by itslennysfault in "How to handle people dismissing io_uring as insecure? (2024)"

itslennysfault — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 13:41:34 +0000

I went through your exact same hate timeline. The CoffeeScript one was so bad that I was REALLY hesitant about TypeScript, but the whole "it's a superset of JS" thing won me over in the end.

I still hate PHP the most, and I very much mean PHP 5 when I say that, and have no idea what happened beyond that, and honestly the scars are so deep I don't care to find out.

New comment by itslennysfault in "Show HN: Refine – A Local Alternative to Grammarly"

itslennysfault — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 21:34:22 +0000

I don't think the risks are high with this. It's not writing for you. It's just correcting your grammar. If you're 99% writing it yourself and just having it highlight grammar mistakes I wouldn't expect it to trigger an alarm....... but I haven't been in school since waaay before LLMs were viable/common. So, maybe it's worse than I think.

New comment by itslennysfault in "Show HN: Refine – A Local Alternative to Grammarly"

itslennysfault — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 21:32:00 +0000

Gosh people love complicating things.

You don't need to fight with installing (the correct version of) java. I wouldn't in my life consider installing java on my OS directly.

For anyone with docker already installed (most people these days)...

  git clone git@github.com:gardner/LocalLanguageTool.git

  cd LocalLanguageTool

  docker compose up

New comment by itslennysfault in "Show HN: Refine – A Local Alternative to Grammarly"

itslennysfault — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 21:26:37 +0000

Did the website originally say this? I just checked and it says "an" now... Perhaps they didn't use their own tool when writing the web copy.

New comment by itslennysfault in "Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP"

itslennysfault — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 21:18:41 +0000

This was even a major hurdle for Google Fiber. The incumbent ISPs did everything they could to obstruct them from installing fiber, and it was fairly effective even against someone with deep pockets like Google.

New comment by itslennysfault in "Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized"

itslennysfault — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 21:08:03 +0000

I'm not a doctor or any kind of expert, but I think consistency is pretty much always the best. A lot of people get stuck in a weird mindset of "it's only a mile why bother" ... but even just going for a walk every day is infinitely better than doing nothing.

From my own experience, after 2020 threw me into a bit of a depression I gained a bunch of weight for the first time in my life. I decided I was going to "workout every day" but gave myself a ton of grace about what the definition of "workout" meant. If it was bed time and I hadn't done anything yet I'd just do a couple sets of pushups to "check the box" and go to sleep. I tried to do as much as I could every day, but still gave myself a pat on the back as long as I did ANYTHING that I could call a "workout" ... I lost the weight shockingly quickly and felt a lot better even though most days I was only working out for 10-20 minutes.

New comment by itslennysfault in "Taking over 60k spyware user accounts with SQL injection"

itslennysfault — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 18:10:42 +0000

Thanks for your suggestion, but at this time the NSA cannot allow this change.

New comment by itslennysfault in "Show HN: Jukebox – Free, Open Source Group Playlist with Fair Queueing"

itslennysfault — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 17:22:29 +0000

Yeah, the "why" the URL changed is a pretty messy story.

The original founders both wanted to start a new version of the original, and had a very public feud about ownership of the domain / name. I can't find any of it now so I'm assuming it was all removed as part of the settlement. Instead, they both posted this nearly identical statement.

https://jperla.medium.com/turntable-resolution-c66c6662ad62

https://billychasen.medium.com/settlement-agreement-9d5a5366...