Hacker News: jgtrosh

New comment by jgtrosh in "Splitting a Git Commit"

jgtrosh — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:28:46 +0000

Also, `jj split` can use alternative tooling to the built-in TUI, whereas I don't think `git history split` can.

New comment by jgtrosh in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

jgtrosh — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:35:47 +0000

The VCR became widespread during the 1980s

> The industry boomed in the 1980s as more and more customers bought VCRs. By 1982, 10% of households in the United Kingdom owned a VCR. The figure reached 30% in 1985 and by the end of the decade well over half of British homes owned a VCR.

New comment by jgtrosh in "KOReader"

jgtrosh — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:21:19 +0000

I wish you could disable fullscreen (enable the navigation bar) on Android though :-(

New comment by jgtrosh in "Almost Always Unsigned"

jgtrosh — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 05:19:26 +0000

> Where unsigned does benefit here is when these are used as indices into an array. The signed behavior will almost certainly produce invalid indices which leads to memory unsafety issues. The unsigned way will never do that, it’ll stay bounded, even if the index it produces is actually wrong. This is a much less-severe logic bug, but can still be used maliciously depending on context.

The argument for signed often goes that it's easier to detect an invalid operation on an index by checking for bounds, or the higher probability of segmentation faults, than if your index is always “valid”. Granted, even with signed your invalid operation might still give a valid index. Simply put, seeing a negative index in your debugger is an obvious red flag you lose with unsigned.

In general I want to complain about the idea that a subtle bug is less severe than an obvious bug. Obvious bugs can be caught automatically or manually and are therefore less severe than subtle ones. This is a mistakes all students do btw. Segmentation faults are your friends!

New comment by jgtrosh in "The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)"

jgtrosh — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:04:58 +0000

Also in French, different similarity, av2il hav2e

Slightly worse in English, av2age mav2ick

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

jgtrosh — Sun, 24 May 2026 22:58:04 +0000

I believe this is the most common scenario, yes. If you're used to actively pushing and pulling from the same branche as your colleagues, you need to learn how to manipulate diverging changes and conflicting bookmarks, but other than that all the jj magic is limited to your local activity.

New comment by jgtrosh in "Space Cadet Pinball on Linux"

jgtrosh — Sun, 10 May 2026 13:14:59 +0000

I intuitively feel like more realistic games could be more fun, and that I might just have fondness for Space Cadet from growing up with it; but the more I played other pinball games the more I appreciate that space cadet is a simply great game to play, it feels great and there's a great variety of things to keep you hooked.

I wish I could find another pinball game I enjoyed as much. The closest experiences I could find are Xenotitle and Demon's Tilt but I found them harder to get into and get good at.

The next best thing imo is Yoku's Island Express.

New comment by jgtrosh in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

jgtrosh — Sat, 09 May 2026 05:59:02 +0000

To those who do not know about this subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_of_Moldova_and_Rom...

(My external barely informed understanding is that proponents of unification are largely right wing nationalist, pro-Russians call for a unification with Bessarabia while ceding Transsinistria to Russia; Moldovans are largely against union in polls.)

New comment by jgtrosh in "Make some art with your phone sensors"

jgtrosh — Wed, 06 May 2026 10:07:04 +0000

Even just the plain etch-a-sketch using motion sensing is cool enough.

I suppose this might have been done already?

New comment by jgtrosh in "HardenedBSD Is Now Officially on Radicle"

jgtrosh — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:20:01 +0000

I was not aware of Radicle; it's a truly peer-to-peer Git forge which aims to guarantee commits are signed by current maintainers (among, I suppose, other goals).

The article mentions an us and a you, but I feel like it would have been an useful occasion to explain why move (from where?) and why Radicle. Maybe this was already discussed elsewhere?

I suppose similar discussions regarding GitHub are happening today and could explain why this was posted to HN.

New comment by jgtrosh in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

jgtrosh — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 06:45:09 +0000

After a quick search, there is an NFC web API, but with no general support https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_NFC_API

New comment by jgtrosh in "Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove"

jgtrosh — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:00:42 +0000

Sounds like they might have been working the gigs? Maybe a sounds engineer

New comment by jgtrosh in "The Clock"

jgtrosh — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:32:19 +0000

Yeah, this screamed US date format to me! (Though there's no year in this clock)

New comment by jgtrosh in "LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua"

jgtrosh — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:42:45 +0000

I like the Trosh game

New comment by jgtrosh in "JSLinux Now Supports x86_64"

jgtrosh — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:33:55 +0000

Similarly I've used it for technical interviews.

New comment by jgtrosh in "System76 on Age Verification Laws"

jgtrosh — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 08:04:40 +0000

To my surprise, this graph [0] shows that even when taking into account vaping, it seems that smoking has truly gone down in the US.

[0]: https://ecigone.com/featured/vaping-statistics/

New comment by jgtrosh in "Humans 40k yrs ago developed a system of conventional signs"

jgtrosh — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 05:42:05 +0000

Your instinctive reaction matches with scientific consensus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_writing

> Each historical invention of writing emerged from systems of proto-writing that used ideographic and mnemonic symbols but were not capable of fully recording spoken language. True writing, where the content of linguistic utterances can be accurately reconstructed by later readers, is a later development. As proto-writing is not capable of fully reflecting the grammar and lexicon used in languages, it is often only capable of encoding broad or imprecise information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_speech

> vocal languages must have begun diversifying at least 100,000 years ago

New comment by jgtrosh in "A CPU that runs entirely on GPU"

jgtrosh — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 09:25:52 +0000

The dedicated term GPGPU [0] didn't catch on.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-purpose_computing_on_g...

New comment by jgtrosh in "Nobody likes lag: How to make low-latency dev sandboxes"

jgtrosh — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 22:42:34 +0000

These rely on undoing within a game's constrained environment. There isn't a way to magically undo any possible procedure with side effects.

New comment by jgtrosh in "Windows 11 Outperforming Linux on an Intel Arrow Lake H Laptop"

jgtrosh — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 11:37:53 +0000

I appreciate the fact that they waited two months to check their results before sharing them publicly. However, this feels like there should be a hypothesis for explaining the difference other than “this fits expectations”, especially after the author extensively claims this does not fit their own expectations. Did I miss something?