<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: jwrallie</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jwrallie</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:53:22 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=jwrallie" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jwrallie in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For laptops, what I had in mind is excellent power management and efficiency, it seems to correlate with ARM but I think most people don’t really care for the details of architecture.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 07:14:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48367011</link><dc:creator>jwrallie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48367011</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48367011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jwrallie in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Depending on how easy it is to run Linux on this as opposed to the new MacBooks may make this attractive for Linux users.<p>Anyway, the whole trend to change from x86 to Arm on laptops is bad news for compatibility. It might be that the era where you can download an iso and expect Linux to run on a random laptop is over, and Linux users will have to stick to only a couple of devices with well known support. Did Valve release a laptop yet?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 23:54:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364113</link><dc:creator>jwrallie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364113</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jwrallie in "Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I didn’t like that you are not supporting Linux in your free tier.<p>Edit: if it is not clear, the way you treat the community is one way I evaluate my decisions to support or not your company when I suggest using your products to others, students or not.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 23:51:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48262194</link><dc:creator>jwrallie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48262194</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48262194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jwrallie in "Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m working in education and will change to other vendors in the near future. That means all my students will do so as well.<p>Windows cannot provide feature parity for workloads that require cross compiling, AMD could at least support RHEL like the old days.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 06:24:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48254918</link><dc:creator>jwrallie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48254918</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48254918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jwrallie in "The death of the brick and mortar toy store"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Interestingly toy stores are still a thing in Japan. I took my 2 year old daughter to buy her birthday present this year. Her smile when I told her she could take the toy plush home was priceless.<p>I asked her if she wanted the big or small version, she liked the small. Showing kids toys on a tablet is never going to replace the experience.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 06:59:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48232873</link><dc:creator>jwrallie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48232873</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48232873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jwrallie in "Googlebook"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, I own one. I touch it every day :)<p>It has good build quality. It has been a great experience _for me_. Sorry, I don’t care if the logo is shiny or not.<p>I said I’d recommend a tablet for people that need a stylus, meaning to do art, I don’t think a Neo is good for that, but for other users, I stand on my opinion that the Neo can in many cases be a better deal than a tablet.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 09:02:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48190977</link><dc:creator>jwrallie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48190977</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48190977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jwrallie in "Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials (2019)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In some countries the number of kids born through c-section are very high, more than half the kids in Brazil are born that way for example, so definitely people can be healthy without getting it from their mothers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 13:03:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159905</link><dc:creator>jwrallie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159905</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jwrallie in "I Bought a “Junk” PSP From Japan"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>After buying several used goods in Japan, my impression is that junk simply means the seller does not want to hear complaints over old items, so they sell it at a lower price. I have bought many perfectly working items sold as such.<p>Of course buying old stuff requires some ability to do simple repairs. That’s part of the fun.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 04:07:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48156725</link><dc:creator>jwrallie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48156725</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48156725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jwrallie in "“I applied to be pope”: Losing grip on reality while using ChatGPT"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hail Eris!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 09:19:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48119616</link><dc:creator>jwrallie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48119616</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48119616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jwrallie in "Googlebook"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Have you ever touched a Neo? It does not feel like scrap pieces. That is the magic.<p>A phone has great battery life and standby power management. What’s the problem with running a different OS on it if it works just fine?<p>Different stuff for different folks I guess. At work all files are on the cloud, I have a NAS and a computer I can remote into for development. A Neo is just perfect to make all of that mobile.<p>As for tablets, I’d only recommend one if you need a stylus for drawing or a smaller form factor. I think that is the market where the Neo is competing, that is where you have a point.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 22:45:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115580</link><dc:creator>jwrallie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115580</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jwrallie in "My first in-prod corrupted hard drive problem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If taking it offline is not a concern, I would try a low level backup with ddrescue while booting from external media as soon as possible.<p>Keep using the system from a disk showing read issues could trigger loss of more data, and one could always back up the SQL from the backup image later.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 23:29:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48070044</link><dc:creator>jwrallie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48070044</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48070044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jwrallie in "Ask HN: Who wants to be fired? (May 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m having problems with too many competing projects recently, so I had to reach to my boss and ask to leave most of them. It was not even the workload but the constant context switching that did it.<p>Currently waiting a month to check how things change, but if there is no change in my stress levels, I’ll look for a way out.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 03:47:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983121</link><dc:creator>jwrallie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983121</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jwrallie in "New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Difficult parts on videogames as well. It could be attributed to slow response times due to being tired or accidentally memorizing a bad pattern, resting also could help with those.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 22:12:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981094</link><dc:creator>jwrallie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981094</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jwrallie in "Credit cards are vulnerable to brute force kind attacks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Recently I got an sms from my bank about a suspicious transaction overseas from my wife’s card, it was literally listed as zero USD, at a time when  she was not using her phone or computer.<p>I initially thought the sms itself was phishing, but after checking online, the sms format matched and the bank webpage ensured the feedback process will not ask for any information so we proceeded to confirm that we did not purchase anything.<p>The bank immediately cancelled the card and shipped a new one.<p>My initial thought is that the bank safety system could be overreacting, but it was likely that someone was doing exactly what is described in this article and the bank detected it earlier.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 21:51:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47980889</link><dc:creator>jwrallie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47980889</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47980889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jwrallie in "I have officially retired from Emacs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Check out Doom Emacs if you are looking for a good starting point. The defaults make sense coming from Vim.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:24:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47942683</link><dc:creator>jwrallie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47942683</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47942683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jwrallie in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think this is the only long term solution, even if cumbersome.<p>I’m curious what secondary devices people are using. I have a second hand Surface Go running Fedora 43 with Gnome, it’s a bit big but it’s doing its job well.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:50:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47942411</link><dc:creator>jwrallie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47942411</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47942411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jwrallie in "Ubuntu 26.04"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Now Debian is packaging non-free drivers in the iso images directly. I would suggest to try Debian first, if it works well for you just keep it.<p>If you feel the need for newer packages, try other alternatives (or Debian unstable). I’ve set down on Fedora with XFCE, it’s really stable yet packages feel new.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:02:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47886168</link><dc:creator>jwrallie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47886168</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47886168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jwrallie in "GPT-5.5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The difference is that there is a company that can easily take your agents away from you.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:09:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47882794</link><dc:creator>jwrallie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47882794</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47882794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jwrallie in "Books are not too expensive"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>People should never buy an ebook which they cannot make a copy that is readable anywhere, extra steps required or not. There are so many disadvantages to even list.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:21:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47870939</link><dc:creator>jwrallie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47870939</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47870939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jwrallie in "中文 Literacy Speedrun II: Character Cyclotron"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I agree completely. I will focus of Japanese because it’s the language I have experience with.<p>With a good order (RTK), optimal reviews (SRS) and putting 30 minutes a day it is possible to learn keyword to Kanji writing in a couple of months to one year. Make it two if you are a busy person. After that you need 10 minutes to maintain the knowledge per day. (I’m assuming 2200 Kanji).<p>People that did that successfully will recommend it to be done as early as possible as they know the boost in learning it provides.<p>I think it’s a trap, because it’s possible to get to a very useful level in the language while ignoring Kanji, and most people will be perfectly happy staying there. At that point you will have a much better idea if you really need to go all the way.</p>
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