Hacker News: kzrdude

New comment by kzrdude in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

kzrdude — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:05:25 +0000

Presumably the understanding on the forum is greater when it comes to software tools. And I would usually say: don't be your computer's tool! :)

New comment by kzrdude in "DRAM has a design flaw from 1966. I bypassed it [video]"

kzrdude — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:23:37 +0000

Don't know her twitter, but bsky is here: https://bsky.app/profile/lauriewired.bsky.social

Not slop, seems mildly interesting

New comment by kzrdude in "RAM Has a Design Flaw from 1966. I Bypassed It [video]"

kzrdude — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:01:14 +0000

I have to say that using drawbridges and differently colored rail pieces to explain it was very clever.

New comment by kzrdude in "DRAM has a design flaw from 1966. I bypassed it [video]"

kzrdude — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:00:03 +0000

Surprising to me that two memory channels are separated by as little as 256 bytes. The short distance makes it easier to find, surely?

New comment by kzrdude in "Wit, unker, Git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy"

kzrdude — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:10:11 +0000

We already use this with "we", it's just not clear from the word if 'you' are included or not. Example: "We had eggs for breakfast".

New comment by kzrdude in "Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?"

kzrdude — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:02:30 +0000

Tangential, but I was wondering if it's maybe related: why doesn't google maps and google earth want to show satellite images of the ocean? It just overlays those areas with blue color.

New comment by kzrdude in "Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence"

kzrdude — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:05:18 +0000

pitch to investors sounds like working for the opposite goal though - to convince investors to give more money to the company.

New comment by kzrdude in "Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence"

kzrdude — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:50:49 +0000

For me it's 213 kB. Did they replace it?

New comment by kzrdude in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

kzrdude — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:23:59 +0000

As someone who cycles daily, the bell is less aggressive than a car horn and it's a useful signaling tool about every other day. I need to signal that I'm approaching from behind pedestrians, especially if they are walking without any safe gaps for me to pass them through.

New comment by kzrdude in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"

kzrdude — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:05:00 +0000

There is another new trend now that some artists are doing album concerts, where the set list follows one of their albums. I thought that was cool.. probably as a reaction, on how to bring back the album in a way.

New comment by kzrdude in "France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain"

kzrdude — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:35:25 +0000

They sold the existing holdings and bought new of equivalent weight(?), so somehow they ended on profit on those moves.

New comment by kzrdude in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

kzrdude — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:08:31 +0000

The other well publicized photo they did was of the dark side of the earth (it was night), so same idea(?)

New comment by kzrdude in "Nvim-treesitter (13K+ Stars) is Archived"

kzrdude — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:18:42 +0000

Nvim treesitter is kind of taken for granted even if nvim maintainers say it's experimental. So I think the community will have to find a solution and replacement project.

New comment by kzrdude in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

kzrdude — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:51:53 +0000

We have done a lot better with faster and readily perceptible environmental problems.. from air pollution in China to acid rain killing forests and lakes in Europe. So yes, we should celebrate our successes too.

New comment by kzrdude in "Gold overtakes U.S. Treasuries as the largest foreign reserve asset"

kzrdude — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:47:02 +0000

I think that people also see that government in all its ministries is becoming less competent, because of deliberate actions, firings, and flight of competent people. Uninspiring, uninterested, loyalists as leaders of each department doesn't exactly help.

And the competence of departments is crucial for the well functioning of the country, services high and low. (Diplomacy, war, and education to electricity and roads).

In my view it's both that the State Department, for example, is less competent than before, and that the administration is less likely to listen to the experts and Department officers than before.

(I'm not american.)

New comment by kzrdude in "European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps"

kzrdude — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:26:02 +0000

Europe is a geographical region, the only question is where does it border neighboring regions (Asia). There is no ambiguity about whether Switzerland or Norway and so on are in Europe. They are.

New comment by kzrdude in "Which European countries have the best salaries after taxes?"

kzrdude — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:29:33 +0000

The ISK rules and taxes are relevant for a middle class I think. This was a question about the really rich.. then we need to look at taxes on capital gains, dividends, corporate tax et.c.

New comment by kzrdude in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

kzrdude — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:34:13 +0000

About "all the way up to high school", what about the rest? I'm in the camp that it's better for all people, regardless of age actually.

New comment by kzrdude in "The future of code search is not regex – 100x faster than ripgrep"

kzrdude — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:35:08 +0000

However, it's coming up on a decade (8 years) of vscode using ripgrep behind the scenes.

New comment by kzrdude in "Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

kzrdude — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:20:20 +0000

Captain's discretion