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New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public"

kevin_thibedeau — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:12:13 +0000

The sarcastic solution is to use C# bindings to a non-GC language. Put all available memory under control of a pool allocator and enjoy the perf gain.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "FPS.cob: A first person shooter in COBOL"

kevin_thibedeau — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:46:40 +0000

tcl::unsupported::representation will expose the actual internal type.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "FPS.cob: A first person shooter in COBOL"

kevin_thibedeau — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:28:32 +0000

Saying it's "just strings" is disingenuous. You could make a js interpreter that uses strings internally too.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "FPS.cob: A first person shooter in COBOL"

kevin_thibedeau — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:04:20 +0000

Tcl 8 introduced dual-ported objects. Everything can exist as a typed object that is convertible back to a string in certain cases (some form of string operation typically). That plus the bytecode engine makes it work completely different than prior releases.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time"

kevin_thibedeau — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:42:10 +0000

Gulf war tomahawks didn't use GPS. They flew on terrain following radar (over Iran to improve accuracy), inertial reference, and image correlation for the final phase of attack.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "Petition to Withdraw Canada's Bill C-22"

kevin_thibedeau — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:11:47 +0000

They kept selling residential property to foreign money launderers. In the US that activity is confined to major metros where it impacts the more distributed population density less significantly.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)"

kevin_thibedeau — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:01:02 +0000

RIAA is a standards body.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)"

kevin_thibedeau — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:58:35 +0000

Everybody is lazy nowadays and sends their ruined digital mixes out for everything. It's the production teams that need to fix their behavior.

What RIAA should do is promote universal use of ReplayGain across digital distribution platforms. That way people can manage relative volume as desired without the need to corrupt the audio. They could make money with a signed tag certifying the mix meets quality standards.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "Oh good, screwworms are back (2025)"

kevin_thibedeau — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:33:04 +0000

They're building a new breeding facility in the US. They can't pull a Don't Look Up on this one because of the powerful business interests they need to placate.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)"

kevin_thibedeau — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:29:25 +0000

The fix is to disqualify album of the year eligibility for anything showing evidence of severe clipping. The industry would rapidly shape itself up.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "BYD is bringing its 5-min 'Flash' electric car charging to Canada"

kevin_thibedeau — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:59:39 +0000

The US specific part is that a decent portion of the population makes, at least occasionally, longer trips outside of urban centers where more limited range, longer charging stops, and the need to carefully plan routes to hit chargers (that are hopefully functioning) make ICE derived power more attractive.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "A €0.01 bank transfer could compromise a banking AI agent"

kevin_thibedeau — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:31:53 +0000

The current usage model comingles commands and data. That doesn't have to be the case. Use an input format that explicitly presents them as separate components parsed into a data structure with non-LLM tooling. Or stick with natural language input but parse into an intermediate format that can be verified to some standard of correctness.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "US Consumer Price Index up 4.2%"

kevin_thibedeau — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:34:34 +0000

That's what E15 is for.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with agents"

kevin_thibedeau — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 04:01:26 +0000

A GPL tool that processes data doesn't virally transfer the license to its output. Copyrighted ffmpeg code isn't incorporated into the video output. The LLM didn't just conjure up equivalent behavior to git without ingesting the code and transforming it as new output. There is no other behavioral description that would reproduce all needed functionality.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'"

kevin_thibedeau — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:25:39 +0000

They want to upstage Putin's Black Sea palace in a place where they can bribe their way out of extradition.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?"

kevin_thibedeau — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:02:02 +0000

The real crime is that FIFA is allowed to interfere with mass transit schedules for venues already equipped to handle large events. Non-spectators are being unfairly disenfranchised if they need to use public services they, and not FIFA, are paying for with taxes.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee"

kevin_thibedeau — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:36:39 +0000

The 45th president was supposed to deliver that reform. Then they went all out and... commissioned a study. Then they did nothing, once the puppet masters let it be know they didn't want to lose their servile work force chained to their visas with a green card dangled in front of them.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee"

kevin_thibedeau — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:31:34 +0000

Disqualify consulting firms from "hiring" H-1Bs. You should be employed directly by the business needing the skilled guest worker.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

kevin_thibedeau — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:36:18 +0000

That avoids accusations of bigotry which Europe has convinced itself doesn't exist within its domains.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "There's no escaping it: an exploration of ANSI codes"

kevin_thibedeau — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:38:51 +0000

Cursor movement isn't an extension. Xterm extensions don't deal with in terminal rendering.