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New comment by jb1991 in "Ploopy Bean: a trackpoint for every computer"

jb1991 — Sat, 16 May 2026 07:15:40 +0000

> pointing stick mouse. It adds high-precision pointing stick functionality to any setup

I’ve never heard these terms before. What is a pointing stick on a computer?

New comment by jb1991 in "Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold"

jb1991 — Tue, 05 May 2026 05:43:13 +0000

Or just about any movie theater of any kind outside of North America.

New comment by jb1991 in "Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold"

jb1991 — Tue, 05 May 2026 05:42:43 +0000

Outside North America just about every country I’ve ever lived in or visited had assigned movie ticket seats.

New comment by jb1991 in "Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold"

jb1991 — Tue, 05 May 2026 05:42:14 +0000

It’s the only way I’ve ever seen movie tickets sold outside of North America anywhere.

New comment by jb1991 in "Let's talk about LLMs"

jb1991 — Mon, 04 May 2026 20:58:06 +0000

Funny, I have the complete opposite impression after using claude code for a while. I would never trust it to design anything. Never again. But it can code pretty well given a very tight and limited scope.

New comment by jb1991 in "[dead]"

jb1991 — Mon, 04 May 2026 10:57:15 +0000

It’s a sad side effect of the AI revolution that no one knows what is real and trustworthy anymore. I saw a “rare” photo someone shared on Reddit of Hitler and it received tons of comments until it was pointed out that it’s definitely not a real photo.

New comment by jb1991 in "New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag"

jb1991 — Mon, 04 May 2026 08:53:51 +0000

I can assure you that they would not have gone through all this enormous effort to quickly install a statue without very careful consideration of the most effective place to do so.

New comment by jb1991 in "I have officially retired from Emacs"

jb1991 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:34:55 +0000

The thing about emacs and muscle memory is that all of the standard emacs keyboard shortcuts are also the standard all throughout the Mac operating system, so when you’re writing in text boxes in a webpage, writing in a Google doc, anywhere you type, throughout macOS, it’s emacs shortcuts. That has a lot to do with building my muscle memory.

New comment by jb1991 in "I have officially retired from Emacs"

jb1991 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:33:31 +0000

I used evil for about one year actually.

New comment by jb1991 in "I have officially retired from Emacs"

jb1991 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:29:05 +0000

I used emacs full-time for many many years. Then I switched to Vim or other editors with Vim modes, also for many years. I have to be honest, I don’t see a particularly clear winner between them. Model editing is a bit unusual in many ways. There are some things that it certainly makes easier, but I personally found that the overall process of editing and writing code in real time for me was more efficient in a single mode emacs.

French teen who licked vending machine straw faces years in jail in Singapore

jb1991 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:20:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjw8w849g6go

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919020

Points: 7

# Comments: 2

New comment by jb1991 in "GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation"

jb1991 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:32:20 +0000

I’ve made a lot of really good decisions in my life, I think, such as: deciding to have kids, deciding to move to another place I wanted to live, career choices, but by far one of the best of them all was getting all of my domains off of GoDaddy.

New comment by jb1991 in "Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem"

jb1991 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:50:38 +0000

I disagree, you have quoted me in a way that is not the tone or content of what I wrote.

New comment by jb1991 in "Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem"

jb1991 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:47:20 +0000

Your reply was so rude it convinced me to edit. Your second reply is a distortion of my original message too.

New comment by jb1991 in "The Joy of Folding Bikes"

jb1991 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 06:39:02 +0000

I have consistently heard that the bikes by decathlon are very poor quality and fall apart easily. Is it a case of you get what you pay for?

New comment by jb1991 in "Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem"

jb1991 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 06:08:50 +0000

Minor aside, these models do not return the same answer every time you prompt it. Makes it harder to reason over their effectiveness.

New comment by jb1991 in "I’m spending months coding the old way"

jb1991 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 08:00:12 +0000

This is definitely not correct in my opinion. You’re essentially saying, instead of a person actually getting better at the craft, just give up and let someone else do it.

New comment by jb1991 in "Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin"

jb1991 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:58:23 +0000

I've always wondered how something so old and in one place so long is just sitting on top of the soil so easily found. How did it go for such a long time not noticed?

New comment by jb1991 in "Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin"

jb1991 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:12:54 +0000

That's addressed in the article: unlikely to be a collector who lost the coin. The coin was just one of many artifacts discovered in that area over the last 75 years.

New comment by jb1991 in "€54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs"

jb1991 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:38:48 +0000

You are getting down voted but the first thing I thought when I read the above comment you replied to was that it was written by an LLM as well. It has all the stylings of it. Word choice, sentence structure, phrasing, metaphors, etc.