Hacker News: joombaga

New comment by joombaga in "Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video]"

joombaga — Mon, 18 May 2026 03:06:01 +0000

I'm with you. My current code is a superset of the task I'm trying to accomplish, test code, leftovers from experiments, etc. I often have to break it up into logical chunks that get merged separately. I tried the jj flow and it's just not my thing. Git matches my mental model exactly, but I used it second (after subversion) and in my most formative years as a developer. Maybe there's a universe out there where things worked out differently.

New comment by joombaga in "HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'"

joombaga — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:03:16 +0000

Who are you quoting?

New comment by joombaga in "Networking changes coming in macOS 27"

joombaga — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 01:11:05 +0000

You can't turn it on without an external drive attached, even though it saves local backups. It works if you mount a disk image and then point TM to it with the CLI.

New comment by joombaga in "Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock"

joombaga — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 14:31:42 +0000

WARNING: This triggers an emergency call on Android.

New comment by joombaga in "I made a terminal pager"

joombaga — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:48:20 +0000

Yes. It calls the default pager (or whatever you specify).

New comment by joombaga in "Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it"

joombaga — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:57:20 +0000

I use MO2 on Linux through Steam's Proton runtime, to play TTW (Fallout NV mod). Works fine. The TTW installer did require an older Proton version though.

New comment by joombaga in "Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division"

joombaga — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:50:11 +0000

Maybe not exactly an antimeme, but my mind went to biology. Measles can destroy memory B-cells and T-cells, causing immunological amnesia.

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1002885

New comment by joombaga in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

joombaga — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:00:42 +0000

Yes! But I only know because someone mentioned it during an interview. It's not something I keep track of on a per-employer basis.

New comment by joombaga in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

joombaga — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 01:53:25 +0000

Software jobs for sure, but I've been applying for jobs with employers that have other types of jobs too (nursing, accounting, industrial engineering, etc.) and the requirement is not solely for their software jobs. Some have fields that pattern match (for these I put something like "https://linkedin.com/I_DO_NOT_USE_LINKEDIN") while others use an integration that actually require you to sign in to Linkedin (some of these I've created accounts for and then deleted them, some I've managed to bypass by hacking on the POST a bit, and others I've decided not to apply for).

New comment by joombaga in "Claude Code runs Git reset –hard origin/main against project repo every 10 mins"

joombaga — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 01:46:09 +0000

I would not have expected the model's baseline training data to presume not to delete files it didn't author. If the project existed before you started using the model then it would not have created any of the files, and denying the ability to delete files at all is quite restrictive. You may consider putting such files in .gitignore, which Cursor ignores by default.

New comment by joombaga in "Buying a retro game console"

joombaga — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:27:10 +0000

> Which is a bit annoying, as I don't really know what to do with AppImages.

They're self-contained. You make them executable and run them. Store them in /use/local/bin or wherever you want.

New comment by joombaga in "Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)"

joombaga — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:12:49 +0000

Yeah but some operating systems have HISTIGNORE in (or sourced from) their skeleton files.

New comment by joombaga in "Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)"

joombaga — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:07:49 +0000

You can use `set vi-ins-mode-string` and `set vi-cmd-mode-string` in .inputrc to get indicators in readline, and you can add them to your prompt with a bit more work: https://superuser.com/questions/1466222/move-vi-mode-string-...

New comment by joombaga in "Claude Code Cheat Sheet"

joombaga — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:36:35 +0000

They mean `/resume`. But the shortcuts are Ctrl+B to toggle branch, Ctrl+V to preview, and Ctrl+R to rename, at least on my machine.

New comment by joombaga in "Is it a pint?"

joombaga — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:03:14 +0000

I'm having trouble understanding these 2 claims from the summary:

> 1 in 2 pints delivered less than 14.4 oz (below 90%)

> 37.9% were significantly short (under 90% of claimed volume)

Aren't those the same claim with different percentages? 1 in 2 is 50%, and 50% is less than 37.9%

New comment by joombaga in "$ teebot.dev – from terminal to tee in 6 seconds"

joombaga — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 04:44:11 +0000

Your site supports Hebrew, but it looks like Printful doesn't for most fonts. They all come back with placeholder characters. The letters do show up with at least some of the fonts if I design directly on Printful.

New comment by joombaga in "Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine"

joombaga — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 04:02:37 +0000

That one has a lower pixel density. 162 ppi for the Yoga vs 219 for the Neo. My MacBook Air M3 is 224 and I can't image going much lower, even for OLED. Maybe if I watched more videos.

New comment by joombaga in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

joombaga — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 13:55:22 +0000

The Telly comes with a second screen for ads that you're not allowed to shut off. https://www.telly.com/

New comment by joombaga in "In praise of –dry-run"

joombaga — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 17:34:45 +0000

Consider using work trees. They have separate reflogs, you'd still get separate directories, but less duplication.

New comment by joombaga in "Neocities Is Blocked by Bing"

joombaga — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 03:08:57 +0000

Did you reach out to popular Bing-powered search engines like DuckDuckGo directly? Or just Microsoft?