Hacker News: itslennysfault

New comment by itslennysfault in "Microsoft's Canada timezone troubles leave admins fixing calendars"

itslennysfault — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 14:48:44 +0000

The OS knows how to handle all sorts of weird timezones without issue. On mac it's just a matter of updating the files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

No idea what Microsoft is doing.

New comment by itslennysfault in "California bans child marriage, a practice still legal in 32 US states"

itslennysfault — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 03:27:26 +0000

Considering...

> In the state, there had been no legal age to wed, allowing children to get married as long as their parents consent and a judge signs off on the nuptials.

I don't even think the headline was sensationalist.

New comment by itslennysfault in "I could've accessed 17T Microsoft records"

itslennysfault — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 19:36:22 +0000

> the story that came from stakeholders was that the accounting team found the error, and I left in disgrace (despite that not being my department?).

That sounds like defamation to me.

New comment by itslennysfault in "Turning a dumb AC unit smart (without losing my security deposit)"

itslennysfault — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:46:20 +0000

Agreed. I've done some crazy stuff in apartments. Last place I rented I installed a projector on the ceiling and ran wires through the ceiling and walls because it'd be ugly otherwise. Also converted a ceiling light into an outlet to power it. Patched the drywall before I moved out and the landlord never needed to know.

New comment by itslennysfault in "Turning a dumb AC unit smart (without losing my security deposit)"

itslennysfault — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:41:32 +0000

I'd cut a block of wood to fit snuggly to the left of the knob, wedge it in place and screw the stepper in to that.

.....or just screw into the AC unit somewhere discrete and hope no one notices.

New comment by itslennysfault in "How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing"

itslennysfault — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:41:04 +0000

My favorite one has to be "production ready" it will say that about completely broken code without hesitation. LLM says it's production ready, lets ship!!

New comment by itslennysfault in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

itslennysfault — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:01:06 +0000

I agree with this, but it seems so crazy to me. How can money be a motivator when you're that rich. I'm not even "rich" but I'm already at a point where money is far from my #1 motivator.

I LOVE puppies, but if I had a trillion of them the last thing I'd want is another puppy.

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.