Hacker News: lexicality

New comment by lexicality in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

lexicality — Wed, 06 May 2026 21:38:54 +0000

You could get entire publisher catalogues for peanuts. I think at least half my steam library is useless filler because I bought every game WB ever published for $40 to get the new batman game or similar.

New comment by lexicality in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

lexicality — Wed, 06 May 2026 21:29:06 +0000

so he can count to three after all, interesting

New comment by lexicality in "Welcome to Gas City"

lexicality — Mon, 04 May 2026 22:00:58 +0000

You're thinking of bloat, jank is things like putting a cauldron on your head and the physics engine firing you into the stratosphere.

New comment by lexicality in "Using a 1978 terminal in 2026 (DEC VT-100)"

lexicality — Fri, 01 May 2026 09:34:28 +0000

There's a VT520 at my local hackspace which I spent some time getting running with a Pi, it's surprisingly practical - though as the author says the DEC keyboards are atrocious, it's like typing into wet sand.

New comment by lexicality in "Jumping into cold water can stop your heart"

lexicality — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 18:03:42 +0000

> How exactly could the human body’s response to cold water shock change since 1989?

microplastics

New comment by lexicality in "Commenting and approving pull requests"

lexicality — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:50:59 +0000

Hi, I do this.

> are these nits asks or just you opinions?

If I've approved the PR, then these are changes I'm asking you to do, but not ordering you to do. You are free to say "no" to my request

> What if I dont address all of them

Then you will have decided that you don't agree with my recommendation and that's OK.

I only ever do this with people I trust - I am trusting you to review each of my nitpicks and make an informed decision if they're necessary or not. Generally I'd like you to reply to the ones you don't do with a reason though.

New comment by lexicality in "Less human AI agents, please"

lexicality — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:35:54 +0000

The entire point of LLMs is that they produce statistically average results, so of course you're going to have problems getting them to produce non-average code.

New comment by lexicality in "Human Accelerated Region 1"

lexicality — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 07:46:26 +0000

I mean it does add like a millisecond of unnecessary delay that wouldn't be there if it took the most efficient route. It's not much, but it does add up!

New comment by lexicality in "Human Accelerated Region 1"

lexicality — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:01:19 +0000

I'd like it if the vagus nerve didn't do a loop around my neck for no particular reason. (Giraffes would probably like that even more)

New comment by lexicality in "Six Characters"

lexicality — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:00:08 +0000

The IATA has 367 active airlines.

Bear in mind that this doesn't apply to charter airlines, only public passenger ones.

Given there are about 200 countries in the world, you'd need 5 large airlines per country, which is a lot! Most of them don't have any and rely on other countries. Still more have a single national carrier.

New comment by lexicality in "Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent"

lexicality — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:49:25 +0000

Recipes? For washing clothes?

New comment by lexicality in "RedSun: System user access on Win 11/10 and Server with the April 2026 Update"

lexicality — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:34:29 +0000

helpfully the user provides a second tool which automatically turns off Windows Defender so you can't be affected by this: https://github.com/Nightmare-Eclipse/UnDefend

New comment by lexicality in "Modifying FileZilla to Workaround Bambu 3D Printer's FTP Issue"

lexicality — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:24:32 +0000

> I use Linux daily and don't want to switch to Windows just to connect to the printer's FTP service

I wonder if the author tried using their file manager to connect? I haven't needed any kind of external file management system since switching to Linux, Dolphin just handles everything (sftp, ftp, samba, etc) for me natively in the same window.

New comment by lexicality in "NYC to open municipal grocery store in 2027"

lexicality — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:19:35 +0000

> Won’t a better option be subsidizing taxes for grocery stores, and let the discounts competitively pass unto the customers?

I'm sure this time trickle-down economics will work and not simply line the pockets of business owners

New comment by lexicality in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

lexicality — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:33:44 +0000

That's fine, there's already an API for this: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/befo...

That's very different to sites like tomshardware that pops up a "hey why don't you check out this extra slop you didn't ask for" when you try to navigate away

New comment by lexicality in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)"

lexicality — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:13:24 +0000

Funny, I'd assume we'd got consensus on that one.

- Anyone who recommends disabling paste as a security feature is a fraud

- Doing UA sniffing is always a mistake

- If the user's browser doesn't support `autocomplete="cc-number"` then they're already used to it not working, you don't need to care about it

- You should always make your form as accessible as possible regardless of if the user is a robot or visually impaired

- Making your website intentionally inaccessible may be a federal crime in the USA as the ADA doesn't care what you think about openclaw.

New comment by lexicality in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

lexicality — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:27:57 +0000

> Abundance and growing the pie for everyone is also an outcome if this is done right.

Do you genuinely believe there's any chance that's going to happen?

New comment by lexicality in "Async Python Is Secretly Deterministic"

lexicality — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:36:42 +0000

Only for tasks that are created in synchronous code. If you start two tasks that each make a web request and then start a new task with the result of that request you will immediately lose ordering.

New comment by lexicality in "Async Python Is Secretly Deterministic"

lexicality — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:12:14 +0000

> This makes it possible to write simple code that’s both concurrent and safe.

Yeah, great, my hello world program is deterministic.

What happens when you introduce I/O? Is every network call deterministic? Can you depend on reading a file taking the same amount of time and being woken up by the scheduler in the same order every time?

New comment by lexicality in "Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps"

lexicality — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:25:19 +0000

Orbital mechanics and "next to" don't go together particularly well, so it's not quite as easy as popping something up there.

The Chinese have put Queqiao-1 in the earth-moon L2 point which seems to be working out for them, but I guess the Americans aren't likely to be asking permission to use it.