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New comment by k2enemy in "How to setup a local coding agent on macOS"

k2enemy — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:47:06 +0000

Grammar note:

When used as a verb, it should be "set up," and when used as a noun, "setup."

Other examples (verb, noun):

back up, backup

shut down, shutdown

break down, breakdown

warm up, warmup

New comment by k2enemy in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

k2enemy — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 23:52:50 +0000

> Bonds are no longer recommended. Current research indicates 100% equities to be the best composition leading up to, and past, retirement.

Are you referring to Anarkulova et al? Might be worth mentioning that the fixed income part is replaced with international equity, not more domestic equity.

New comment by k2enemy in "Accenture to acquire Ookla"

k2enemy — Sat, 30 May 2026 19:51:23 +0000

I'm sure they do, but data about the speeds of other ISPs is also valuable.

Online Go Server

k2enemy — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:28:02 +0000

Article URL: https://online-go.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48308685

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by k2enemy in "All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes"

k2enemy — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:55:30 +0000

Either crumble by hand or beat with an open end wrench.

New comment by k2enemy in "How to convert between wealth and income tax"

k2enemy — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:03:33 +0000

Lots of confusion and misunderstanding in these comments. Not surprising, given the highly charged nature of the subject. I highly recommend Ray Madoff's book The Second Estate [1] to learn more about the topic.

[1] https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo256019...

New comment by k2enemy in "How to convert between wealth and income tax"

k2enemy — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:00:02 +0000

How do you propose we measure a person's wealth, when wealth is easily hidden? When it needs to be done now, it is usually a years long audit.

70% of Faculty Vote to Overhaul Harvard Grading with a Cap

k2enemy — Thu, 21 May 2026 04:15:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/5/20/fas-passes-a-grade-cap/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48217796

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by k2enemy in "Show HN: A terminal spreadsheet editor with Vim keybindings"

k2enemy — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:50:57 +0000

Looks terrific! I have a suggestion as you continue to add features and think about scripting. sc-im has lua external functions, but you cannot pass a range of cells, only the value of one cell. This severely limits the usefulness of external lua scripts. If/when you add scripting, hopefully you can overcome this limitation. If so, you'll have at least one more user!

New comment by k2enemy in "Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race"

k2enemy — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 22:20:03 +0000

> Most shoes have carbon plates in them now, they act as a spring, storing energy and propelling athletes forwards.

This seems unlikely to be true, although it is repeated in every article I read about carbon plated shoes. The people that study them in a lab environment seem to disagree. See some of the papers here:

https://www.wouterhoogkamer.com/science2

However, I agree wholeheartedly with the overall points in your post!

New comment by k2enemy in "What being ripped off taught me"

k2enemy — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:04:36 +0000

> - Late payment shall incur interest at 8% above the BoE base rate and a late fee of 100 GBP as per the UK Late Payment Legislation. Partial payments on invoices shall apply to late fees, interest, and then principal, in that order.

Do you mean 8 percent, or 8 percentage points?

New comment by k2enemy in "Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons"

k2enemy — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:32:07 +0000

This is for the icons in the drop-down menus, not the icons in the menu bar.

New comment by k2enemy in "Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild"

k2enemy — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:11:57 +0000

I'm really hoping Apple backtracks on its refusal to update the 18.x line for phones that are compatible with 26. At least provide a security update.

New comment by k2enemy in "Grandparents are glued to their phones, families are worried [video]"

k2enemy — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 18:37:22 +0000

And also the most likely to fall victims to scams. An elderly family friend lost millions to a pig butchering scam.

New comment by k2enemy in "TSA leaves passenger needing surgery after illegally forcing her through scanner"

k2enemy — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:56:48 +0000

Every photographer with expensive equipment that I know has insurance for their equipment. Sometimes it is included with homeowner, sometimes a separate rider, and sometimes part of their commercial insurance. So it would be covered.

However, that wouldn't help OP if they needed the lens for their trip, suddenly need to find another one, and needed to float the cash until insurance pays out.

New comment by k2enemy in "Story of XZ Backdoor [video]"

k2enemy — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:52:37 +0000

Oxide and Friends also had a great podcast with Andres about the discovery:

https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/discovering...

Zed Split Diffs Are Here

k2enemy — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:56:20 +0000

Article URL: https://zed.dev/blog/split-diffs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47088096

Points: 14

# Comments: 0

New comment by k2enemy in "Audiophiles can't distinguish audio sent through copper, banana or mud"

k2enemy — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:49:37 +0000

Got it, thanks for the explanation!

New comment by k2enemy in "Audiophiles can't distinguish audio sent through copper, banana or mud"

k2enemy — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:17:15 +0000

> Up to a point, there's an easily distinguishable sound and detail difference between cheaper and more expensive gear, given that you don't cheat (i.e. put cheaper gear in expensive enclosure), but that difference indistinguishable well before these "true audiophile" level stuff.

I don't understand how that is cheating. Isn't it a better controlled experiment if the equipment looks the same?

New comment by k2enemy in "Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists"

k2enemy — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 12:27:37 +0000

Is that even possible? Someone has to pay for it. If I'm rich and I get $40,000 a year from UBI, but my direct or indirect taxes go up by $60,000 in order to fund the program, am I really receiving UBI? At some point UBI has to involve transfers between income or wealth levels. The particulars of how the program is funded determines how progressive or regressive the policy is in net.