Hacker News: jas39

New comment by jas39 in "Terminal Graphics Protocol"

jas39 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:44:48 +0000

Truly the best terminal emulator.

New comment by jas39 in "7zip.com Is Serving Malware"

jas39 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:57:23 +0000

I would not trust any sw from Russia. Could be a vector for the FSB. I'm sure they have thought about it.

New comment by jas39 in "ThinkNext Design"

jas39 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 09:11:57 +0000

Well, software should not be able to destroy hardware.

New comment by jas39 in "ThinkNext Design"

jas39 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 09:11:17 +0000

Went to sleep, while powered. Never woke up.

New comment by jas39 in "ThinkNext Design"

jas39 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 09:07:07 +0000

No, it was bricked. Connected to mains at the time. Tried to reset it with a needle. Then unscrewed it. All components were glued. Googled around, and it has happened to other people. I think lenovo bought the brand and design, then just cut costs.

I was traveling at the time. Mayor inconvenience.

New comment by jas39 in "ThinkNext Design"

jas39 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 09:01:22 +0000

This was a ThinkPad X1 Carbon (4th Gen).

New comment by jas39 in "ThinkNext Design"

jas39 — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 08:39:35 +0000

Had my lenovo thinkpad bricked by sleep mode in linux. Never again. Seriously overrated stuff. Get a laptop with 3:2 display instead.

New comment by jas39 in "Go away Python"

jas39 — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 12:38:29 +0000

May I...

augroup fix autocmd! autocmd BufWritePost *.go \ if getline(1) =~# '^// usr/bin/' \ | call setline(1, substitute(getline(1), '^// ', '//', '')) \ | silent! write \ | endif augroup END

New comment by jas39 in "Website as a Function from URL to HTML [video]"

jas39 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:32:13 +0000

"Diversity & inclusion sponsor"? What is that?

New comment by jas39 in "HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers (2023)"

jas39 — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 16:13:38 +0000

Pandoc can convert to svg. It can then be inlined in html. Looks just like latex, though copy/paste isn't very useful

New comment by jas39 in "How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes"

jas39 — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 08:46:24 +0000

What a poor write-up, neither defining the problem nor the solution with any clearity. Did anyone come away with any information that can be used for anything?

New comment by jas39 in "How Silica Gel Took Over the World"

jas39 — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 10:34:06 +0000

Yes, I imagine in Singapore: - Is this chrystal meth, lah? - No, it's cat litter. - You stoopid, that is even worse!

New comment by jas39 in "How Silica Gel Took Over the World"

jas39 — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 22:26:16 +0000

This is sold as crystal cat litter. Very useful to put a sock in the car, the boat or the check-in luggage.

New comment by jas39 in "The Burnout Machine"

jas39 — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 20:50:38 +0000

There is nothing wrong with unions, but they are a response to an imbalance in bargaining power. In places with lots of smaller employers, there is much less benefit.

New comment by jas39 in "AI Is Making Developers Dumb"

jas39 — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 20:22:06 +0000

Well, AI does make errors, and never says "I don't know". That is also true of Wikipedia though. I've seen much improvement in accuracy from 3.5 to 4.5. Hallucinations can often be hashed out by a dialogue.

New comment by jas39 in "Did the Particle Go Through the Two Slits, or Did the Wave Function?"

jas39 — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 20:04:24 +0000

One thing I've thought about is whether observations in the present can influence past events. I'm thinking it must be so, though probably only on a microscopic level.

New comment by jas39 in "AI Is Making Developers Dumb"

jas39 — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 19:49:26 +0000

Frankly, i don't think this is true at all. If anything I notice, for me, that I take better and more informed decisions, in many aspects of life. Think this criticism comes from a position of someone having invested alot of time in something AI can do quite well.

New comment by jas39 in "Go Data Structures (2009)"

jas39 — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 05:41:35 +0000

Very disturbing how append sometimes decouples, sometimes not.

New comment by jas39 in "Show HN: SQLite disk page explorer"

jas39 — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 23:55:46 +0000

A true masterpiece:)

New comment by jas39 in "Unintended workplace safety consequences of minimum wages"

jas39 — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 19:59:17 +0000

It is not true. The minimum wage was primarily an eugenic measure introduced during the progressive era. The idea was to prevent Chinese and other immigrants from undercutting white labour.

The people arguing for it back then understood the effect of minimum wage very well. They just had different motivations.