Hacker News: kevin_thibedeau

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure""

kevin_thibedeau — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 19:46:25 +0000

Only since 2023.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "Credit card debt rises to $1.26T, nearing all-time record"

kevin_thibedeau — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:29:08 +0000

That's what a 0% balance transfer is for right? Just play musical cards until the issuers blacklist you.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI"

kevin_thibedeau — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 22:53:10 +0000

It isn't accurate. It is a statistical tool meant for easily measuring populations of people. It does not apply in any meaningful way to individuals.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "The American sports plutocracy"

kevin_thibedeau — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:29:19 +0000

Pay for my stadium or I move the team.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "The American sports plutocracy"

kevin_thibedeau — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 01:19:41 +0000

> equity partners

That implies equitable treatment. The reality is there is a class of filthy rich people that make a game of shaking down government bodies to pay for their entertainment venues so they can swim in more money on the public dime.

Equitable would be if a public entity invests 60% into a stadium, they get 60% of the revenue. No billionaire grifter will allow that to happen.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

kevin_thibedeau — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 01:13:08 +0000

You can change your UA and add Sec-CH-UA to match Chromium if you want to avoid the (non-ADA compliant) browser bias.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

kevin_thibedeau — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 01:09:31 +0000

That's manifest V3 working as intended.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better"

kevin_thibedeau — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 01:02:45 +0000

x86 chips don't truly exist anymore. They only use it as a compressed ISA for a more capable internal representation that can be freely updated at any time.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "France's tax authority had data stolen on 680k taxpayers"

kevin_thibedeau — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:25:27 +0000

Liberté, égalité pas, fraternité

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "an ambiguity in C89 which will never be fixed"

kevin_thibedeau — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 02:39:56 +0000

There is a distinction. Lisp machines do not allow function pointers to become data pointers. The C standard accounts for that. Function pointers also have special decay behavior unlike data pointers. You can chain an unlimited number of '*'s and still get a valid function pointer.

  int f(int x) { return x + 1; }

  int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
    int (*fp)(int) = f;
    printf("Answer: %d\n", fp(39) + (****fp)(1));
    return 0;
  }

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "an ambiguity in C89 which will never be fixed"

kevin_thibedeau — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 01:43:58 +0000

> f[...]

It is illegal to perform pointer arithmetic on function pointers. They are not necessarily interchangeable with data pointers. Clang is wrong.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "My Rules for Using Spreadsheets"

kevin_thibedeau — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:54:46 +0000

Except the OP had to write VBA code to link it to a database. That is almost guaranteed to be a brittle solution with hardcoded cell IDs.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "Show HN: My solar died for 6 months, so I built a watchdog"

kevin_thibedeau — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 23:33:16 +0000

This is an Enphase system. They can be run grid tied without any batteries.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "My Rules for Using Spreadsheets"

kevin_thibedeau — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:11:29 +0000

Access gives you an explicit grid in its report designer.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "Heart aerospace completes first flight of largest electric aircraft"

kevin_thibedeau — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:48:49 +0000

Island hopping is the usual sales pitch for these planes.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "My Rules for Using Spreadsheets"

kevin_thibedeau — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:31:04 +0000

This should have either been a Word template that used mail merge to insert the data into fields or an Access form.

  Checklist:
   #1 Are you doing calculations?
    Yes: Use a spreadsheet
    No: Use another tool

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "Why tiny JPEGs look different in Chrome"

kevin_thibedeau — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:25:46 +0000

Digital natives are commonly unaware of how anything works.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook"

kevin_thibedeau — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:57:09 +0000

There is a ton of shady stuff that UBO let's through. Some of it can be filtered with the optional lists but not all. You really need NoScript and LocalCDN in the arsenal to pare back the invasive abuse of privacy.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "License plate reader searches should require a warrant"

kevin_thibedeau — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:08:07 +0000

License plates are public property.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "Delphi 13 Community Edition Is Now Available"

kevin_thibedeau — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:52:47 +0000

I keep a Windows VM for one app that is a commercial Delphi program for embroidery editing. It's been around for 30 years and is on the path to getting cross platform support soon with recent GUI revisions. Always been pretty solid for a product from a small team.