Hacker News: joeyh

New comment by joeyh in "Kona EV Hacking"

joeyh — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:29:27 +0000

Amusingly, the only DCFCs near me that charge by time and not kwh are run by utilities.

New comment by joeyh in "Rathbun's Operator"

joeyh — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 04:14:26 +0000

That PR was apparently accepted by the operator, not by the bot. Kind of weird.

New comment by joeyh in "Oh My Zsh adds bloat"

joeyh — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 14:34:20 +0000

Current branch without bloat is to cat .git/HEAD, and if that didn't exist, run git symbolic-ref HEAD. The first is faster and works in the common case where you're in the top of a git repo. In either case, run it through ${branch##*/} to strip down to just the current branch.

I have used this for a long time, never understood how people would put all of git in between them and the next prompt.

New comment by joeyh in "Video filmed by ICE agent who shot Minneapolis woman emerges"

joeyh — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 22:13:46 +0000

This video has been edited at 0:42, likely removing something from it. Source: CBC analyst

New comment by joeyh in "Debian's Git Transition"

joeyh — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 18:17:40 +0000

The command is `bts` in devscripts. I wrote it in 2001.

New comment by joeyh in "Stopping bad guys from using my open source project (feedback wanted)"

joeyh — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 15:37:54 +0000

The best way to do this is to design something that is not appealing for those people to use, but is appealing for the people you want to support to use.

New comment by joeyh in "Recreating the US/* time zone situation"

joeyh — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 12:17:57 +0000

It's worth noting that a new installation of Debian will still display the same Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific menu to the user as shown in the screenshot. It just maps those to the non-deprecated names now.

New comment by joeyh in "Debian 13, Postgres, and the US/* time zones"

joeyh — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 15:19:08 +0000

You are confusing Russ Allbery with me, while at the same time making it sound like I have a problem with systemd, which is not the case. Russ remains a debian developer.

New comment by joeyh in "Debian 13, Postgres, and the US/* time zones"

joeyh — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 15:15:25 +0000

NEWS.Debian entries are displayed by apt-listchanges in a pager by default when running apt upgrade, as well as sent by email.

New comment by joeyh in "I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf"

joeyh — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 13:53:08 +0000

I have driven 20 thousand EV miles in the past year, with 50% of my charging being at public chargers (and 50% at home). I have never needed to wait in line, and have never needed to interact with anyone regarding charging.

New comment by joeyh in "The future of large files in Git is Git"

joeyh — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 13:02:53 +0000

A common misconception. git has always used binary deltas for pack files. Consider that git tree objects are themselves not text files, and git needs efficiently store slightly modified versions of the same tree.

New comment by joeyh in "Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient"

joeyh — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 21:26:50 +0000

This reminds of of a web page that did this for Ithaca NY circa 1995. The page was a static hardcoded shade of grey.

New comment by joeyh in "Debian switches to 64-bit time for everything"

joeyh — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 13:45:30 +0000

Steve Langasek decided to work on this problem in the last few years of his life and was a significant driver of progress on it. He will be missed, and I'll always think of him when I see a 64 bit time_t.

New comment by joeyh in "Another way electric cars clean the air: study says brake dust reduced by 83%"

joeyh — Wed, 28 May 2025 13:25:17 +0000

Hybrids have a smaller battery, so C rate limits maximum regen. For example, a prius can regen at 2 kw, while a model 3 can regen at 76+ kw.

New comment by joeyh in "Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift'"

joeyh — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 15:50:57 +0000

Wise (nee Transferwise) requires a passport style photo taken by a webapp for KYC when transferring money. I was recently unable to complete that process over a dozen tries, because the image processing didn't like something about my face. (Photos met all criteria.)

On contacting their support, I learned that they refused to use any other process. Also it became apparent that they had outsourced it to some other company and had no insight into the process and so no way to help. Apparently closing one's account will cause an escalation to a team who determines where to send the money, which would presumably put some human flexability back into the process.

(In the end I was able to get their web app to work by trying several other devices, one had a camera that for whatever reason satisfied their checks that my face was within the required oval etc.)

New comment by joeyh in "Louis Rossmann opines on the Firefox debacle [video]"

joeyh — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 16:18:04 +0000

Nothing in the ToU says this is local only or not for ads.

New comment by joeyh in "Louis Rossmann opines on the Firefox debacle [video]"

joeyh — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 16:13:52 +0000

When did you request that firefox back up the content to your profile? Bear in mind that a nontechnical user has no idea it does this, and a technical user only realizes it does this after reading the code or experiencing a crash. You "requested" this behavior implicitly by using firefox. So any behavior firefox has, now, or in the future with data you input is implicitly something you requested.

If firefox starts backing up your profile to a mozilla server, encrypted, you requested it. If there is an additional encryption key that lets mozilla decrypt it and sell it to OpenAI, you requested it.

Also, I am requesting that firefox send this post to HN by pressing the reply button. By the terms of firefox's ToU, this gives Mozilla a license to this content. That license is not limited to the duration of the http call if other firefox behavior that I have "requested" uses that content later. Perhaps they will scrape my comments from HN and use their content in targeted ads that firefox will display to me later. All allowed by the ToU.

New comment by joeyh in "Can solar costs keep shrinking?"

joeyh — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 15:51:04 +0000

Those tariffs have were entirely worked around on the Chinese side before the ink was dry. One easy dodge: Manufacture in eg India for a little bit more, sell those to the US, transport Chinese solar panels for installation in India.

I bought a pallet just after the tariffs were announced and the price today is cheaper.

New comment by joeyh in "70% of new NPM packages in last 6 months were spam"

joeyh — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 11:52:06 +0000

Tea is absolutely NOT "taking steps to remediate this problem". They are grifters and part of their grift is claiming to take steps when called out.

New comment by joeyh in "KeePassXC Debian maintainer has removed all network features"

joeyh — Fri, 10 May 2024 20:30:26 +0000

vim-tiny is installed by default on debian (providing a vim command), and also has X removed.