<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: kalaksi</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kalaksi</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 04:42:06 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=kalaksi" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kalaksi in "Fixing a monitor that goes black, off or blinks due to static electricity (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Any idea if ESD can damage the monitor over time?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:55:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47785840</link><dc:creator>kalaksi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47785840</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47785840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kalaksi in "France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I actually have been lucky since even my laptop from 15 years ago already worked well with Linux and suspend while Windows didn't (wasn't OEM Windows anymore). I have also had multiple desktops that have _mostly_ had no issues with suspend either: only nvidia has given me grief on some setups when sometimes the screen would be blank when waking up, but I figured out workarounds for that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:40:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47717233</link><dc:creator>kalaksi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47717233</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47717233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kalaksi in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Desktop Linux is not useless, but it is really just sub-par compared to Windows.<p>Each to their own. My experience is the opposite (I use KDE). I have to use Windows at work and it's always such a pain. At least Windows 10/11 finally has multiple workspaces natively and some keyboard shortcuts for managing windows (ironic), but I would have preferred to stay in Windows 10.<p>Now Windows doesn't even support proper suspend anymore and it won't stay in the "modern standby" either. Constantly waking up and doing god knows what with fans screaming. When I take a look what it's doing, task manager claims that nothing resource intensive is going on. I'm guessing it's hiding some internal processes. It calms down when I put it to sleep again. Sorry for the rant, I better stop before I start.</p>
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<p>You'll have to be more specific what kind of "privacy claims" you're talking about. Proton is definitely a lot more private than, say, Google. But, as always, you'll have to trust the party delivering the binaries you run. Also, any company operating legally, have to co-operate with court orders etc., but afaik they try to push back</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:11:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47624929</link><dc:creator>kalaksi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47624929</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47624929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kalaksi in "Slop is not necessarily the future"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And then everyone disagrees what counts as luxury in software.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:31:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593067</link><dc:creator>kalaksi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593067</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kalaksi in "Typing and Keyboards"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hey, me too! I do touch typing with home row and tried using mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX Brown switches, but eventually switched to scissor switches. I like them for the same reasons as you.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:53:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566589</link><dc:creator>kalaksi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566589</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kalaksi in "Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I get your point that plastics are relatively inert and may not cause noticeable harm (depending on quantity?), but I think it'd be wise to be cautious. See for example <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic#Bisphenol_A_(BPA)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic#Bisphenol_A_(BPA)</a> .<p>I'd also consider plastic, and their additives, to be a lot bigger and longer lasting unknown than GMOs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:22:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47563920</link><dc:creator>kalaksi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47563920</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47563920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kalaksi in "Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Many negative health effects have been associated with microplastics and related chemicals. Not sure if there's yet anything causative, but I think it's probably a matter of time and there's lots of research to be done. I'd bet the health effect of microplastics (or anything that human body isn't used to) is more likely to be negative than not.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 14:02:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47563227</link><dc:creator>kalaksi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47563227</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47563227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kalaksi in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Some users might enable these kind of features with their attention, but I don't think users actually want these features and any kind of "voting" is likely unintentional. It's manipulation. The fault lies mainly with the company and their carefully planned dark patterns. Ideally, users should punish them by e.g. leaving the platform but there's friction that may be a bigger problem than the dark patterns (depending on user). And I don't think there are any platforms that always guarantee good user experience now and in the future.<p>Not sure if users even realize what the dark patterns are and do. Users aren't all-knowing, with endless time, carefully balancing their attention to try to provide markets with the optimal signal to wisely guide the misbehaving actors.</p>
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<p>> strictly speaking not wrong, but many times slower to absorb. (I think most developers screech to a halt and their brain goes "is there something funny going on in the logic here that would necessitate this?")<p>I agree with this, but can't see how this applies to variable naming. Variable names can be too long, sure, but in my opinion, very short non-obvious variable names also make scanning and reading harder since they are not familiar shapes like more complete words. Additionally, when trying to understand more deeply, you have to stop and read code more often if variable's meaning is not clear.<p>That said, 1-2 char variable names work well in short scopes, like in some lambda, or when using 'i' for an index in a loop (nested loops would depend on situation), but those are an exception.<p>Like always, this is probably subjective too. And well-organized codebase probably helps to keep functions shorter, but there's often not much I can do about the existing codebase having overgrown functions all over.</p>
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<p>Or just find a shared memory/moment not available on the internet when in doubt. I don't think people will be that eager to remember another passphrase.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:18:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47515848</link><dc:creator>kalaksi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47515848</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47515848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kalaksi in "How I'm Productive with Claude Code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is constant juggling of multiple agents productive? I haven't seen the allure (except maybe with 2 agents sometimes). I guess it depends on what kind of tasks one is doing and I can imagine it working if doing large, long-running tasks, but then reviewing those large changes and refactoring becomes more difficult. And if you're juggling multiple agents, there's the mental context switching and tooling overhead for managing them. Maybe predictable and repetitive tasks can work well.<p>I prefer focusing mostly on 1 task at a time (sometimes 2 for a short time, or asking other agent some questions simultaneously) and doing the task in chunks so it doesn't take much time until you have something to review. Then I review it, maybe ask for some refactoring and let it continue to the next step (maybe let it continue a bit before finishing review if feeling confident about the code). It's easier to review smaller self-contained chunks and easier to refer to code and tell AI what needs changing because of fewer amount of relevant lines.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:19:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47495915</link><dc:creator>kalaksi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47495915</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47495915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kalaksi in "Too Much Color"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/?r=AG4mKP____6_" rel="nofollow">https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/?r=AG4mKP____6_</a><p>"This shouldn't be possible. I'm not saying that you cheated, but not not saying that."<p>0.0011. The quote seems a bit hyperbolic. There were maybe 2-3 that I didn't see and missed. 1-2 that I didn't hit perfectly but close enough. Display probably affects results (but didn't change any settings for this). I have a Dell IPS. I also moved my head around a bit, felt natural while trying to discern the colors.<p>I do have a good vision (including color). Reminds me of the other color-game where you order some colored boxes to form a spectrum.<p>Edit: just tried hard mode and got 0.0084. Missed maybe 3 that I couldn't see. Usually some magenta or blue colored. Grey and red / brown seem to be the easiest.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:11:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47455740</link><dc:creator>kalaksi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47455740</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47455740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kalaksi in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's crazy. There have been news articles here where people have lost their whole account balance in one go and bank says they can't even do anything after the transfer is made. How is that different from Bitcoin then? People that have never done such huge transfer and the banks supposedly are monitoring transfers.<p>And since the customer was supposedly being careless, they won't get anything from the bank.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:40:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47452794</link><dc:creator>kalaksi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47452794</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47452794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kalaksi in "Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But the outcome as a whole isn't the same. Maybe the same areas get invaded, maybe not. Denmark is also part of NATO. But it isn't the same to just give something up without a fight even if same areas get eventually invaded.</p>
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<p>This shows how hard it is to create a generalized and simple rule regarding programming. Context is everything and a lot is relative and subjective.<p>Tips like "don't try to write smart code" are often repeated but useless (not to mention that "smart" here means over-engineered or overly complex, not smart).</p>
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<p>Maybe it's a language thing. Architects saying they built something sounds a bit off to me. In my native language, and in everyday language, I don't think people would use "built" like that. I don't know how architects talk with each other, though.</p>
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<p>Yeah, I haven't had issues with SD cards in a long time. Many years ago (maybe 10), I think they weren't quite as good and I probably skimped too much when buying a card. RPi 1 also had power regulation issues. Now I only use higher tier cards and  make sure there's enough free space for wear leveling and operations.</p>
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<p>I've thought about it, but I'm not too worried. I wash containers before use and there's not a lot of sun or heat indoors. My regular pots are actually ceramic or stone. They look and feel better than plastic, but I also want to avoid unnecessary plastic when I can.</p>
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<p>What? No, a short explanation of why some approach doesn't work well.</p>
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