Hacker News: kasdi

New comment by kasdi in "Kagi search reached 20k paying members"

kasdi — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 17:49:14 +0000

The retail price you pay them is unlikely the wholesale price they pay the factory.

New comment by kasdi in "Normal Operating Sounds"

kasdi — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 22:01:59 +0000

After listening to a few dozen chimes and confusing some of them I can't help but wonder why we accept technology to communicate to us in this crude way. Why not make it talk to us, "too fast", "too close", "hand brake active", etc.?

Might want to keep chimes for emergency warnings where speech would be too slow, although there's an argument to be made that speech would still be better, since jarring chimes might scare you so much that you take just as much if not more time until you've identified the emergency.

New comment by kasdi in "X Corp vs. Media Matters [pdf]"

kasdi — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 23:02:55 +0000

Isn’t this is a jury trial?

New comment by kasdi in "My favorite coding question to give candidates"

kasdi — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 17:49:30 +0000

Out of curiosity, how would you solve this particular problem with shell commands?

New comment by kasdi in "Ask HN: Am I unhireable?"

kasdi — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 11:25:17 +0000

Isn't this a self-fulfilling prophecy? Giving up can't end in success.

New comment by kasdi in "U.S. net saving as a percentage of gross national income"

kasdi — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 11:13:24 +0000

> GNP counts income only owned by residents of the US that happened in the US.

Also income of US residents that happened outside the US, no?

IIUC, "domestic" is location-based while "national" is residency-based.

New comment by kasdi in "U.S. net saving as a percentage of gross national income"

kasdi — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 11:04:13 +0000

IIUC, it is income of any "person" of the nation, including personal, business and government.

New comment by kasdi in "Contributing to Rust as a Novice"

kasdi — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 14:34:55 +0000

> tremendous power in "not knowing what you don't know" that sometime in university disappeared

This.

By now I believe university does at least as much harm as it does good if not more. The good mainly boils down to building up contacts and connections. If you’re able to find a substitute for that, then skip university!

New comment by kasdi in "SpaceX Starship Super Heavy Project at the Boca Chica Launch Site"

kasdi — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 07:21:19 +0000

> Do you have any evidence to support your assertion that Elon overruled all the SpaceX engineers on the timing of when to install the steel water cooled plate or are you Literally making things up?

Unfortunately, #LiterallyMakingThingsUp seems to be a trend these days.

New comment by kasdi in "1Password detects "suspicious activity" in its internal Okta account"

kasdi — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 07:04:03 +0000

No, it does not. But one can’t assert something one doesn’t know. Therefore this assertion is as good as they can do.

New comment by kasdi in "SpaceX files for new 29,988-satellite W-band network"

kasdi — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 19:02:47 +0000

Unfortunately, this seems to be the future. While now the sky is largely empty with an occasional plane, in the future it will be filled with drones. It already happened with cars. A century ago the land was mostly quiet, now you usually have a loud and busy street somewhere in the vicinity. And in the farther future, it will be spaceships in the solar system (and maybe beyond).

New comment by kasdi in "Passkeys are now enabled by default for Google users"

kasdi — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 15:08:13 +0000

Interesting point. Seems like a point where the law lacks behind technological progress. Though, in any case, most people aren’t aware of the detailed laws and when pressured enough by enough authority - perhaps not quite lawfully - they will give in. So, this seems to me a rather niche case where both sides know and follow the law, which is usually not the case.

New comment by kasdi in "British journalist held by police at Luton airport for five hours without arrest"

kasdi — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 11:53:51 +0000

People should just make up their own mind by reading a publication, instead of adopting another publication’s opinion about a publication.

New comment by kasdi in "Cisco Acquires Splunk"

kasdi — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 18:37:00 +0000

Can evolution be attributed thought or more generally consciousness?

New comment by kasdi in "Matrix 2.0: The Future of Matrix"

kasdi — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 18:39:52 +0000

The project is a mess, which is obvious if one follows it. There is only slow progress. Instead of focusing everyone on one thing to do it right, they focus on multiple things that remain half-baked forever, e.g. multiple concurrent implementations like Synapse and Dendrite, Element and Hydrogen, Element and Element X, etc. pp. They seem to have organizational challenges, stemming from technical founders who didn’t know that it takes more than technical knowledge to build a great product. I believe they’ve learned somethings, e.g. that Element’s UI has always been crap hence Element X now, which they’ve denied for a long time. But they are surely still learning, e.g. how to be a focused and decisive leader, etc.

A project is always in large a reflection of the leaders. It’s the messy hackathon type project - not the clear and polished corporate project.

New comment by kasdi in "Caddy is the first and only web server to use HTTPS automatically and by default"

kasdi — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 19:17:26 +0000

Great approach. User agent default style sheets are the worst, especially since they are all different.

But, instead of handing the user a empty slate with nothing, it should contain a note saying “look, these are the recommended options”. If the initial config is interactive, it could even prompt to activate them: “want to use compression?” - “yes”, etc.

New comment by kasdi in "Death by a Thousand Microservices"

kasdi — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 19:02:52 +0000

I’m curious, not being from this era, what are some examples of better old software than new? And why is the new one worse instead of better?

New comment by kasdi in "Maybe Rust isn’t a good tool for massively concurrent, userspace software"

kasdi — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 08:31:39 +0000

Naive question: Why not use OS concurrency then?

New comment by kasdi in "Maybe Rust isn’t a good tool for massively concurrent, userspace software"

kasdi — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 08:09:17 +0000

Maybe the issue is that we overload the concept of a function with an entirely different thing, a Future / Promise. Maybe if the syntax would have been entirely different too, it would have been easier to understand. We tend to have different syntax for different things.

I’m hesitant towards not distinguishing different things anymore and let the underlying system “figure it out”. I’m sure this could work as long as you’re on the happy path, but that’s not the only path there is.

New comment by kasdi in "Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Win11 to get people to ditch Chrome"

kasdi — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 22:33:19 +0000

- Excel on iOS won’t let you open files without signing in. Then it loses the session and you have to sign in again.

- Microsoft AutoUpdate on macOS jumps in your face every day multiple times. No way to uninstall it.

At this point, I treat Microsoft as cancer. Avoid touching anything from them at all cost.