Hacker News: littlecosmic

New comment by littlecosmic in "Hoot 0.8.0 released with more live dev tools"

littlecosmic — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:51:47 +0000

IMO these folk are doing a great job slowly chipping away at all the barriers to using guile everywhere. Also, their software, like "Goblins", gets the imagination started up, mulling what the next wave of software could be like.

New comment by littlecosmic in "Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)"

littlecosmic — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 11:53:50 +0000

Far crazier things have happened on this planet than switching to Linux and retraining some IT folk.

New comment by littlecosmic in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

littlecosmic — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 06:49:26 +0000

If there are terrible crimes being committed by a dictator then there is the ICC and the UN. It would require building up rather than undermining the institution but it’s there.

New comment by littlecosmic in "State regulators vote to keep utility profits high angering customers across CA"

littlecosmic — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:46:51 +0000

You say this like it is a law of nature, but we can plan and build it directly if we want it. Redundancy is not something that only emerges from an indirect 4d-chess strategy of ownership mixes.

New comment by littlecosmic in "The US polluters that are rewriting the EU's human rights and climate law"

littlecosmic — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 12:08:34 +0000

Even under capitalism there is a lot of central planning at huge scales. Walmart is one American example. Woolworths and Coles are another couple in Australia. These companies aren’t rocketing up at the market each morning and taking the latest price… they are managing supply and pricing end to end for most of what they do in advanced.

New comment by littlecosmic in "OpenAI API user data exposed in Mixpanel security breach"

littlecosmic — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 07:37:08 +0000

They say transparency is important which is true, but taking accountability would be good too. This is an OpenAI incident and internally they have a subcontractor mixpanel.

New comment by littlecosmic in "Iowa City made its buses free. Traffic cleared, and so did the air"

littlecosmic — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 04:32:59 +0000

Maybe the military should pillage all the places it goes to self-fund?

New comment by littlecosmic in "Iowa City made its buses free. Traffic cleared, and so did the air"

littlecosmic — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 04:27:46 +0000

In Singapore there is no MRT congestion prices only for private cars, right? Trains get crowded but still workable. It’s not clear if people would start working 6am to 3pm or something if you did. Overall I think charging money made more sense when there were more private, profit seeking companies involved as it’s the name of the game… buts it’s cheap enough that it’s hard for someone with an ok job the get bothered about it

New comment by littlecosmic in "Free software scares normal people"

littlecosmic — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 14:10:01 +0000

In my experience, it’s often the business side - rather than IT - that tries to use a technical change to force change to the business process that they have failed to change politically… and it usually turns out that a technical change isn’t enough either.

New comment by littlecosmic in "A conspiracy to kill IE6 (2019)"

littlecosmic — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 04:44:31 +0000

The trap will work if you are near destitute.

New comment by littlecosmic in "What makes 5% of AI agents work in production?"

littlecosmic — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 10:52:14 +0000

Valued by the worker to give meaning and quality of life not by the buyer - so it does carry much weight.

New comment by littlecosmic in "Strong Eventual Consistency – The Big Idea Behind CRDTs"

littlecosmic — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:42:43 +0000

Don’t you also have to consider this just as much without CRDT? Not saying it isn’t a real issue, but this example could easily be a problem with a more traditional style app - maybe users open the record on their web browser at same time and make different updates, or they update the different timestamp fields directly in a list of tasks.

New comment by littlecosmic in "Tesla offers mammoth $1T pay package to Musk, sets lofty targets"

littlecosmic — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 00:51:40 +0000

In Singapore there is a mix, but BYD seems to be a growing quickly - just anecdotal

New comment by littlecosmic in "The day Return became Enter (2023)"

littlecosmic — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:44:16 +0000

On my 16" M1 MacBook Pro both Return and Fn+Return edit the filename... does it work differently on yours?

New comment by littlecosmic in "De-Googling TOTP Authenticator Codes"

littlecosmic — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 10:34:33 +0000

yes, fair points. Thanks for clarifying.

New comment by littlecosmic in "De-Googling TOTP Authenticator Codes"

littlecosmic — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 10:27:38 +0000

The risk factor is mainly that someone got the password from a web application hack not that they logged into your computer and accessed your password manager. In the web app scenario it is still a second factor.

New comment by littlecosmic in "We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own"

littlecosmic — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 01:56:59 +0000

Alternatively it just puts pressure on the walled garden to let people do what that want to do safely within the walls so they don’t have to go through the escape hatch.

New comment by littlecosmic in "Good EU regulations"

littlecosmic — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 00:40:22 +0000

But how sure are you that it was the fuel efficiency standards that led to more SUVs? Feels like bad reasoning, unless you have more evidence.

New comment by littlecosmic in "Fiber optic drones are changing combat operations"

littlecosmic — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 05:19:46 +0000

Better to find a postwar fibre optic than a postwar mine, I guess

New comment by littlecosmic in "Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones"

littlecosmic — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 23:37:15 +0000

What is ‘blind’ about sending it to a paired device whitelisted by the user?