Hacker News: mackalhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mackalHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 13 May 2026 14:19:28 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by mackal in "Googlebook"]]>no specs given. COOL.

]]>Tue, 12 May 2026 22:47:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115606mackalhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115606https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115606<![CDATA[New comment by mackal in "Sega mistakenly reveals sales numbers of popular games"]]>Those numbers are for both original and remaster.

]]>Sat, 21 Jun 2025 14:01:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44337681mackalhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44337681https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44337681<![CDATA[New comment by mackal in "Some __nonstring__ Turbulence"]]>Gentoo also has a tracker [1] for GCC 15 issues that they've been working on as well. (Note: GCC 15 is masked in Gentoo so you have to go out of your way to install it)

[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/932474

]]>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 14:41:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43794104mackalhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43794104https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43794104<![CDATA[New comment by mackal in "CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished"]]>> massive SQLite fan, but this is giving me pause about using other software by the same author

Even if I wanted to contribute code to SQLite, I can't. I acknowledge the fact God doesn't exist, so he doesn't want my contributions :P

]]>Sun, 13 Oct 2024 21:38:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41831871mackalhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41831871https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41831871<![CDATA[New comment by mackal in "July 2024 Update on Instability Reports on Intel Core 13th/14th Gen Desktop CPUs"]]>Intel has always had randomly supported ECC on desktop CPUs. Sometimes it was just a few low end SKUs, sometimes higher end SKUs. 14th gen it appears i9s and i7s do, didn't check i5s, but i3s did not.

]]>Tue, 23 Jul 2024 13:12:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41045638mackalhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41045638https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41045638<![CDATA[New comment by mackal in "Breaking Free from DRM: Hacking My Air Purifier"]]>All of these sort of things are just based on hours used. It's like looking at your hot water heater warranty and replacing it when it's over (I live an an area where the PPM of the water is rather high and hot water heater warranties are basically calibrated for water like mine, so we do have to replace them on warranty expiration, most places you at least get a few years or double)

]]>Thu, 25 Jan 2024 01:32:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39125103mackalhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39125103https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39125103<![CDATA[New comment by mackal in "Exploiting DNS response parsing on the Wii U"]]>They fixed the easy to use exploits on the 3DS not too long ago after it had been discontinued and store shutdown etc

It wouldn't surprise me if Nintendo went back and fixed something that wouldn't make sense like this.

]]>Sun, 29 Oct 2023 15:30:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38059494mackalhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38059494https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38059494<![CDATA[New comment by mackal in "Speeding up the Super Game Boy"]]>I would recommend trying to clean them with some rubbing alcohol first, using abrasives will only work so many times

]]>Sun, 16 Jul 2023 22:20:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36751996mackalhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36751996https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36751996<![CDATA[New comment by mackal in "Speeding up the Super Game Boy"]]>You can also put the 72 pin connector in boiling water for like 30 mins, take it out and let it cool. That should reset the pins back to "factory condition"

]]>Sun, 16 Jul 2023 22:19:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36751985mackalhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36751985https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36751985<![CDATA[New comment by mackal in "“Support for System V scripts now deprecated; will be removed in future release”"]]>I think it all comes back to people being upset about the Ubuntu PulseAudio switch. Ubuntu did a bad job when they switched to PulseAudio and caused lots of issues. Lennart Poettering was lead dev for both projects and it's weird how much the anti-systemd crowd get their panties in a bunch over him and also PA.

]]>Wed, 28 Jun 2023 23:39:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36514284mackalhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36514284https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36514284<![CDATA[New comment by mackal in "OBS merges WebRTC support"]]>Most of the c string usage appears to be just for libobs, which is a C library. They have a few constants that are perfectly fine and the rest of their string usage is actually std::string ...

]]>Sat, 10 Jun 2023 18:44:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36273571mackalhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36273571https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36273571<![CDATA[New comment by mackal in "Available Today: Windows Dev Kit 2023 a.k.a. Project Volterra"]]>Secure boot is going to be forced on.

]]>Mon, 24 Oct 2022 19:42:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33321512mackalhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33321512https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33321512<![CDATA[New comment by mackal in "Cork is making a comeback"]]>Just to make sure I increase knowledge, cork taint is a very specific thing, it's from a chemical called TCA (2,4,6-trichloroanisole) not just something corks do.

]]>Sun, 16 Oct 2022 21:45:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33227444mackalhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33227444https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33227444<![CDATA[New comment by mackal in "Cork is making a comeback"]]>I actually would rather synthetic or screw tops, but I'm mostly into whisk(e)y not wine. Corks can fail way more than other options. I do like a nice cork pop though.

Plus cork taint is no fun (yes, that happens with whiskey too, it's a myth it can't)

Also another down side of spirits being capped with a cork is that at higher ABVs they can slowly disolve the cork ... (Not sure when that starts to happen, but I believe 40% ABV can)

]]>Sun, 16 Oct 2022 02:10:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33220490mackalhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33220490https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33220490<![CDATA[New comment by mackal in "SQLite: QEMU All over Again?"]]>Why must I be tolerant towards the intolerant?

]]>Tue, 04 Oct 2022 23:30:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33088644mackalhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33088644https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33088644<![CDATA[New comment by mackal in "SQLite: QEMU All over Again?"]]>If I believed fairy tales were as real as he does religion, which is just fairy tales, you'd call me a nutcase too.

]]>Tue, 04 Oct 2022 22:41:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33088116mackalhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33088116https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33088116<![CDATA[New comment by mackal in "Researcher finds a new method for recycling polystyrene"]]>Someday I'll have something to do with my Warhammer sprues I guess

]]>Wed, 24 Aug 2022 18:30:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32583746mackalhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32583746https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32583746<![CDATA[New comment by mackal in "System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life"]]>It should be noted that jmondi review is talking about the previous model. The one the article is talking about hasn't been out long enough for his post to be about lemp11. That doesn't mean it's changed enough that it's not still valid, but it was a different model of the Lemur Pro (likely lemp10)

]]>Sat, 09 Jul 2022 14:26:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32035396mackalhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32035396https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32035396<![CDATA[New comment by mackal in "Little rant about GNOME's file manager (a.k.a. Nautilus)"]]>I got told by a GNOME dev on reddit that I use my file browser wrong when I complained about lack of type-ahead search. I've switched to KDE since.

]]>Thu, 14 Apr 2022 18:24:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31031164mackalhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31031164https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31031164<![CDATA[New comment by mackal in "Year 2038 problem is still alive and well"]]>I was just trying to find that bug report to comment on it, should have just read the comments XD

]]>Sun, 27 Feb 2022 21:37:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30492778mackalhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30492778https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30492778