Hacker News: jezzamon

New comment by jezzamon in "World Capitals Voronoi"

jezzamon — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:14:28 +0000

I want to see one a diagram which includes the oceans too

New comment by jezzamon in "Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds"

jezzamon — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:09:38 +0000

We used to call them social networking sites, now they're social media sites.

But I think the problem is that people don't contribute very much too them, so if none of your friends are sharing things that interest you then the media part has to come in as a fallback

New comment by jezzamon in "Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds"

jezzamon — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:16:02 +0000

I think they're still there, but deeply hidden in their menus

New comment by jezzamon in "Dav2d"

jezzamon — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:17:53 +0000

You are underestimating HN's reach, this happens all the time. As someone who has been on the front page of HN it's a pretty big rush in traffic!

New comment by jezzamon in "Naphtha shortages in Japan"

jezzamon — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:33:24 +0000

FYI, those 8% of males / 0.5% females stats are not about complete colorblindness, so almost all of those people use color in their life

New comment by jezzamon in "What are locusts and what happened to them?"

jezzamon — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:04:39 +0000

I have been in a locust plague once. It does feel very weird. Yes they are grasshoppers but you might be underestimating just how many there are. Plus they don't look normal, they actually change appearance when they're in a plague.

One small detail I remember was when the sun was just behind a building, you could see this glow around the building which was the sun reflecting off all the locusts that were flying around it

New comment by jezzamon in "Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu"

jezzamon — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:28:16 +0000

It's internal to my company, unfortunately! Otherwise I would've mentioned it

New comment by jezzamon in "Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term"

jezzamon — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:19:15 +0000

There's another way to find out, which is to track things from the other side. Highly likely Google has access logs on the data.

New comment by jezzamon in "Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term"

jezzamon — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:17:05 +0000

It's possible he had multiple accounts but seems unlikely, one reason he was caught was because he made a whole bunch of trades on markets related to "year in search", all on one account, and all the trades were perfect. If he was thinking about creating new accounts to obscure himself then he should have at least made each bet he placed on a seperate account.

People (particularly those committing crimes) do frequently overlook things in inconsistent ways, so it's possible. But seems unlikely to me.

New comment by jezzamon in "Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu"

jezzamon — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:46:36 +0000

You can definitely get stuck in a weird place with git that I haven't run into in the same extent with jj. The ability to undo anything with the one 'jj undo' command is awesome in the agent coding world when it makes a mistake.

New comment by jezzamon in "Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu"

jezzamon — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:39:32 +0000

If you do want to solve this, here's two thoughts on how you can deal with it. First: don't try to edit jj changes. Always work on a new change and then squash that in to the parent. You think of that top level change as your working space.

From there, the simplest way is to just always use 'jj commit -i' and 'jj squash -i' to create change ids with your work. Then if you want to have your changes move around with you, just rebase your working copy which contains your "uncommitted files" to the new branch.

A different idea is to put those changes in a separate change, and then when you do work, always create your working space change as a merge change like 'jj new

. Then you should be able to do 'jj absorb' instead of 'jj squash' to put changes into the right change. Switching to a different branch is 'jj new .

As in typing this, I'm thinking for myself and what I actually do in practice... I find moving / rebasing jj commits very easy (I have a UI tool that literally lets you drag and drop them) so I usually just commit these changes and then drag the commits around so it's not in the chain of when I want to send it out for review

New comment by jezzamon in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

jezzamon — Sat, 23 May 2026 21:36:02 +0000

You have to do a lot when you get a green card to prove you won't be a burden on the US tax payer. It's a big part of the system and a big part of the anti-immigrant rhetoric

New comment by jezzamon in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

jezzamon — Sat, 23 May 2026 21:30:48 +0000

Wow. As someone who just went through this process myself (leaving the US to get a green card via consular processing), I can only hope they hire more people to handle the increased case load. You need a medical exam and there were only 2 people available in my country to do that, which added 2 months to my application time (where I could not return to the US)

New comment by jezzamon in "The lasting influence of Netscape Time"

jezzamon — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:31:31 +0000

Sort of amazing that it caused the shift the other way - the internet became centralised, but television (video content) became decentralized

New comment by jezzamon in "Docker images are hundreds of MB; a full game engine compiles to 35MB WASM"

jezzamon — Tue, 12 May 2026 12:39:31 +0000

Amazing that the point of this article is that 35MB is small and everything else is bloated

New comment by jezzamon in "Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging"

jezzamon — Sat, 09 May 2026 12:38:53 +0000

It's not terrible. It's just worse in some areas. Which is of course a worthwhile trade-off for many people. Just... Some people don't really care about the privacy part

New comment by jezzamon in "Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging"

jezzamon — Sat, 09 May 2026 12:37:25 +0000

FWIW I totally understand the reasons for e2ee and think it's good that options exist for that. Just saying that if you're a user that doesn't care about that, then there are usability trade-offs you're dealing with

New comment by jezzamon in "Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging"

jezzamon — Sat, 09 May 2026 05:34:28 +0000

Main thing that comes to mind is things like this:

- If you lose you phone you lose your messages

- If you forget your password you lose your messages

- If you switch phone you often lose messages

- If you get added to a group you can't see the previous messages

New comment by jezzamon in "Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging"

jezzamon — Sat, 09 May 2026 01:27:28 +0000

People here like it, but end-to-end encryption is an objectively worse user experience for people that don't care about that feature

New comment by jezzamon in "Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2"

jezzamon — Fri, 08 May 2026 11:24:36 +0000

I have the originals of both, the screen is much better on the switch 2. Don't have any other similar devices or the OLED version.

In the Switch 2 Welcome Tour app they even have demos to highlight the improvement in the screen quality compared to the switch