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New comment by locao in "The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) 2025 Winners"

locao — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 14:39:00 +0000

Back in 2000 I was being interviewed for my first internship, to join a team of C programmers. They showed me one of the winner entries of the prior years, asked me to review the code and left the room. About 5 minutes later they came back:

– And?

– I'm sorry I wasted your time. I just can't understand it.

They burst into laughs and asked me to start the joining process.

I wonder if people still make fun of interns. I still have a good laugh when I remember myself freaking out.

New comment by locao in "Ten Years of Franz"

locao — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:54:51 +0000

Such as Google Wave? I really wanted it to work.

New comment by locao in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

locao — Tue, 12 May 2026 03:40:46 +0000

This is a very good comparison, I'll be using it.

It just made me realize why I don't have those found memories of my mom's cooking. When we got our first microwave she went full on the vibe cooking and took years to realize how dumb it was.

I hope my kid doesn't get the same kind of memories about my weekend projects.

New comment by locao in "I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night"

locao — Tue, 12 May 2026 03:34:22 +0000

I don't need this to know what wakes me up during the night: my wife pushes the door and THEN turns the doorknob. A simple conversation was no good. My MIL said on her experience deep conversations would not help either. At least it didn't help for 15 years.

New comment by locao in "I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night"

locao — Tue, 12 May 2026 03:25:24 +0000

You're joking, but the other night I had high fever and had nightmares of AI giving me wrong answers to questions I already knew the answer, but for some reason I kept insisting on writing the same prompts I didn't even needed over and over again.

New comment by locao in "Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated"

locao — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:34:35 +0000

He didn't receive the memo because someone wrote DECEASED on his mail months ago.

New comment by locao in "Kids bypass age verification with fake moustaches"

locao — Tue, 05 May 2026 10:26:09 +0000

I'm not saying you're wrong, but Apple's parental controls just don't work.

New comment by locao in "Ask HN: RedHat for Personal Use"

locao — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:49:44 +0000

The default Debian version is focused on stability, so you'll only find battle-tested releases in it. That's why it's called "stable", if you're feeling more adventurous than that, you could try "testing" or even "unstable". 20+ years ago I daily drived an unstable desktop. At that time it had literally what was released hours ago, but you were always risking it to stop working after any update. You should check these versions if you like Debian.

New comment by locao in "FDA approves first gene therapy for treatment of genetic hearing loss"

locao — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:15:35 +0000

Coincidentally, I'm reading this at the doctor's office reception, waiting to check my (potentially genetic) hearing loss. Hope it's something simpler, but good to know there are advances in this area.

New comment by locao in "Can you stop beans from making you gassy?"

locao — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 04:00:31 +0000

Brazilian here. It's not a superstition, I can see my wife's belly literally inflate if the process is not done correctly. I cook beans at least once a week, I've made mistakes and there's no way to hide it. We don't get them cooked from delivery as we don't know how they were prepared, lesson also learned the hard way.

That said, the process is soaking the beans in water for, at least, 10 hours. You have to change the water four or five times during this period and toss the water at the end.

On the other hand, adding bay leaves are totally a superstition. Saw my mother-in-law trying to hide she forgot to soak the beans overnight by adding bay leaves and my wife had a bad aftermath.

New comment by locao in "Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing"

locao — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:02:53 +0000

It took me forever to upgrade because I was afraid the same thing would happen to me. Luckily it didn't, but I can imagine the frustration.

New comment by locao in "Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack"

locao — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 02:18:08 +0000

Violence is never but sometimes the answer.

New comment by locao in "Tech valuations are back to pre-AI boom levels"

locao — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 02:12:49 +0000

At least once a week I ask Claude what to cook with the last ingredients from my last trip to the groceries. I'm still to be disappointed by the results, although every time one of the three or four of its suggestions seems completely off my taste.

New comment by locao in "My Google Workspace account suspension"

locao — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:01:54 +0000

It depends on what you call "non-trivial". I found answers on how to circumvent dumb macos bugs on Apple forums at least twice in the last 6 months. One related to displays, I was about to return a new USB-C monitor which wouldn't turn on. A silly issue, but it's a bug on my book, I wouldn't find the answer on the docs.

New comment by locao in "How to make a sliding, self-locking, and predator-proof chicken coop door (2020)"

locao — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:40:40 +0000

Same here. It's getting quite common for me.

New comment by locao in "Oracle Files H-1B Visa Petitions Amid Mass Layoffs"

locao — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:27:05 +0000

Tbf, if I was the only person in the country, no one would stop me of being the actual king.

New comment by locao in "A dot a day keeps the clutter away"

locao — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:52:05 +0000

"a better home": probably someone who also thinks it's cool and also will never use it :)

New comment by locao in "Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids"

locao — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 10:28:43 +0000

Yep. After years of frustration, trying every possible way to fix it, uncountable hours of searching, I asked Claude about it: "just subscribe to an external service". This is ridiculous, Android's parental controls work flawlessly. If I knew that beforehand, I would never had got my kid an iOS device.

New comment by locao in "How Ford burned $12B in Brazil (2021)"

locao — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 04:21:39 +0000

This article is wrong at its core.

> The study was commissioned by Brazilian auto industry group Anfavea

Nothing that comes from Anfavea is trustable. It's a crooked association of a few automakers that will try to push the government to give every subside to them and tax the other ones to the brim.

The article tries to justify Ford Mexican cars low sales numbers in Brazil using every flawed argument Anfavea uses. For instance:

> On Thursday, Ford launched its new Bronco Sport SUV in Brazil. Made in Mexico, it is exported to the U.S. where it starts at $26,820. In Brazil, where per capita income is much lower, Ford said the Mexican-made car will retail for $48,000.

The key point here is "starts". Ford only imports top of the line cars in Brazil. I just searched Bronco Sport prices in Mexico in 2021, they started at $30900 up to $40000+. That $40000+ version was (still is) the only one sold in Brazil. 20% over the retail price in Mexico is not great, but far away from what the article tries to imply.

New comment by locao in "My Journey to a reliable and enjoyable locally hosted voice assistant (2025)"

locao — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:59:25 +0000

Youtube is trying to push me to watch a video about jail breaking the Echo Show for a week now. I didn't watch it, but it's probably easy to find.