Hacker News: kps

New comment by kps in "The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC"

kps — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 20:09:07 +0000

jj itself doesn't have a native ‘push’. `jj git push` and `jj piper upload`¹ operate on external systems that don't necessarily support undoing arbitrary operations. Pure speculation, but if I were ESRC I'd make my backend handle it (subject to enterprise audit policies).

¹ https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dVzug1lHoOxdbFu8gcCJCu-G_uV...

New comment by kps in "The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC"

kps — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:51:53 +0000

Others have answered about traction. As a one-time Mercurial user, I think the single most significant addition is first-class conflicts, so that dealing with them doesn't stop the world but can be deferred until I'm working on a particular conflicted change. (That also eliminates the need to ‘evolve’.) Easy undo is also nice.

New comment by kps in "Google Maps changed to show Lake Ontario as Lake America"

kps — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 23:17:22 +0000

I don't think that matters with the current administration.

New comment by kps in "Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux"

kps — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 01:41:40 +0000

Apple's green bubbles are low contrast and hard to read, on purpose.

New comment by kps in "GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven"

kps — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:34:47 +0000

Or page up/down.

New comment by kps in "The Tariff Cost: analysis of the costs to Americans from new tariffs on Canada"

kps — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 22:18:28 +0000

It sounds like you misread my comment.

New comment by kps in "The Tariff Cost: analysis of the costs to Americans from new tariffs on Canada"

kps — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 21:11:39 +0000

> The main reason the Dairy Supply quota is in place is to stop US dairy producers from dumping dairy into Canada.

Yet the same rules apply to European cheese: limited quantities that can only be imported through an established dairy cartel member. Anti-Americanism is a convenient marketing tool, along with the nostalgic myth of the independent family farm. The reality is oligarchs like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saputo_Inc.

New comment by kps in "Xorg-server 26.1.0 rc1"

kps — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 21:35:34 +0000

> X11 is also not a display server it is a protocol

With a reference implementation. Xsgi, Xsun, Xquartz, and all the rest used the reference implementation with platform driver glue.

New comment by kps in "Xorg-server 26.1.0 rc1"

kps — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 21:02:17 +0000

> Wayland is not a "display server", it's a display protocol.

Bailey: Wayland replaces Xorg

Motte: Wayland is just a protocol

> because "display server" is only half of what Xorg does.

Yes, that's a big part of the problem. X was build for I/O, Wayland was built for O and had to be dragged kicking and screaming into rudimentary I.

New comment by kps in "Turns are Better than Radians (2022)"

kps — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 13:59:30 +0000

HN has clumsy filtering, but you're allowed to write π and τ.

New comment by kps in "Xwayland 26.1.0 rc1"

kps — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:19:29 +0000

Wayland's raison d'etre was “every frame is perfect.” Input was an afterthought.

New comment by kps in "How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots"

kps — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 01:24:34 +0000

Until the big players agree on a watermark that their cameras will refuse to photograph.

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

kps — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 21:49:21 +0000

It's all gone tits up.

New comment by kps in "France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s"

kps — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:40:47 +0000

If you're worried about MPs doing that, you should be equally worried about judges doing that. The difference is that MPs can be voted out.

New comment by kps in "Single log line is 49KB+ (ext4) / 110KB+ (btrfs) of systemd-journald disk writes"

kps — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:55:25 +0000

There is a certain consistency to IBM-dominated projects that suggests that there are checks and balances and that they are working as intended.

New comment by kps in "Only 2.6% of the most visited websites have fully valid HTML"

kps — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:46:18 +0000

Dark mode is bad for people with astigmatic halation.

Light mode, I've read, is worse for people with cataracts.

Visual accessibility doesn't just apply to the totally blind. There's a reason things like WCAG exist.

I can't reply to the reply, but if I've been mislead, can someone persuade me to see dark mode text clearly? It would help a lot.

New comment by kps in "Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app"

kps — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:42:16 +0000

Bluesky could have been a Reddit rival, with the ability to follow topics rather than users, but they screwed it up.

New comment by kps in "Only 2.6% of the most visited websites have fully valid HTML"

kps — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:02:59 +0000

Ironically the site does not support `:prefers-color-scheme`.

New comment by kps in "OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining"

kps — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:04:01 +0000

I have no knowledge of this particular person, but usually the job of an ‘ethicist’ is to find excuses for something obviously wrong.

New comment by kps in "How We Pushed CDC into Postgres"

kps — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:57:53 +0000

I'm afraid nobody (else) here remembers Control Data Corporation. But I'm happy to see the Centers for Disease Control using Postgres.