Hacker News: marky1991

New comment by marky1991 in "macOS 15.8.2 Breaks OpenGL"

marky1991 — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 23:32:36 +0000

Could you explain how?

New comment by marky1991 in "macOS 15.8.2 Breaks OpenGL"

marky1991 — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 17:34:17 +0000

How so?

Both are os-specific graphics apis. It seems pretty comparable to me.

New comment by marky1991 in "macOS 15.8.2 Breaks OpenGL"

marky1991 — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 17:11:17 +0000

Ok, but even if that were true , it costs nothing to say "we'll let you know when we think we have fixed the issue so you can then retest"

"Idk lol, it'll probably be fixed one day, keep testing and find out" is a pretty crappy response.

New comment by marky1991 in "Scam American companies are using to manipulate ingredient lists"

marky1991 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:19:12 +0000

But sugar is literally added to jelly as the preservative, that's why jelly exists to begin with.

For example, the very first recipe for strawberry jelly from some horrible spam recipe site:

2 cups (16 ounces) pure strawberry juice (I used 3 1/2 pounds ripe, fresh strawberries to get this amount of juice) 3 1/3 cups (666 grams) granulated sugar

It's literally more sugar than strawberry juice.

New comment by marky1991 in "Scam American companies are using to manipulate ingredient lists"

marky1991 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:13:49 +0000

How is this a 'hack'? It's listing ingredients in order of quantity. The nutrition facts already tell you total amount of sugar per serving separately, that's not what the ingredient list is for to begin with. Also, I don't have much sympathy for someone surprised that jelly contains a lot of sugar: A) Have you tasted it B) Do you have any idea what jelly is or why it exists C) Have you ever made it?

Jelly inherently, as a direct consequence of its very reason for existing, contains a lot of sugar, duh.

New comment by marky1991 in "ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026"

marky1991 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:31:27 +0000

If we were to take all preceding arguments seriously, couldn't that be explained by americans going to live in a low-cost-of-living country once they've earned their living?

(Don't know your country to know if that's true or not, but it's a possibility)

New comment by marky1991 in "Unknown number of Texas voter registrations went unprocessed due to DPS error"

marky1991 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:18:58 +0000

I was always taught that the executive branch enforces the law, not interprets it. If the executive branch or legislative branches disagree with the judicial branch, then they have the responsibility to appeal or deal with it; they can't just ignore it because they disagree.

New comment by marky1991 in "Every invoice in Brazil's economy runs on SOAP 1.2"

marky1991 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 01:06:41 +0000

Eg Python is barely trudging along with random forks of a library that stopped being supported 10 years ago, each fork only getting maintained for about a year at a time.

I really think outside of Java and c#, soap is totally dead.

New comment by marky1991 in "EFF to Governor Newsom: Veto California's AB 1709"

marky1991 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 20:33:54 +0000

So why are you commenting here?

New comment by marky1991 in "EFF to Governor Newsom: Veto California's AB 1709"

marky1991 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 18:31:43 +0000

Sorry, but that's not an answer to my question. To be honest, I'm starting to feel like you're not really talking to me, you're just responding to me.

If you're asking for evidence of people changing their minds, I've done that, though I will admit I haven't done it in the past page of comments on hackernews.

Normally it's not a wholesale change of opinion, but a shift in nuance or a changing of details.

But even if I found such a thing, that doesn't answer my question.

New comment by marky1991 in "EFF to Governor Newsom: Veto California's AB 1709"

marky1991 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:20:20 +0000

If you aren't interested in changing minds, why do you comment in forum threads at all?

New comment by marky1991 in "EFF to Governor Newsom: Veto California's AB 1709"

marky1991 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:25:16 +0000

So, are you admitting there's no moral justification here? It's just 'do-it-because-you-want-to'?

New comment by marky1991 in "EFF to Governor Newsom: Veto California's AB 1709"

marky1991 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:52:08 +0000

I don't understand, could you rephrase your answer to his question? I read his question and read your response, but don't see a connection between the two.

New comment by marky1991 in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"

marky1991 — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:20:51 +0000

Yeah, obviously we wouldn't try to do that. Our laws, cultures, and priorities are wildly different. By this lens, the main problem seems to be that the eu expanded too much and grew too large to actually have a coherent purpose.

New comment by marky1991 in "Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM"

marky1991 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:00:25 +0000

How would you detect broken video decoding or font rendering? I don't know what those are. I don't think i've had any issues this year (Maybe i had do do some pacman-wrangling once this year, but i'm slow to update, so that was probably my fault...)), that I noticed anyway, but maybe everything's broken and i just can't tell.

New comment by marky1991 in "The main way I've seen people turn ideologically crazy (2025)"

marky1991 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:36:38 +0000

That makes me, a conservative, wonder what those other headlines are talking about and if those headlines are worthwhile or helpful. Because, regardless of what you are reading, the fundamentals of government are unchanged. So if people aren't reading about them, that to me just suggests they're ignorant.

New comment by marky1991 in "My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”"

marky1991 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 19:42:33 +0000

This feels debatable to me. I wouldn't at all be upset if someone pulled the emergency stop cord in that case. Getting hundreds of dollars robbed from you on the is a big deal.

New comment by marky1991 in "My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”"

marky1991 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 19:39:32 +0000

I've never had that problem with my solar garmin watch.

New comment by marky1991 in "All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen"

marky1991 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:30:06 +0000

What do you mean by 'removed from society'? Do you really mean you think someone should get a life sentence for stealing some cameras? Do you mean they should be executed? Something else? And then you say 'to set an example'. By that, do you mean 'they should be punished in excess of the harm they caused, to deter others from doing the same'? If so, by its very nature, that's obviously unjust and immoral.

Your reaction sounds far more third-world-country than the original act you're responding to. 'Straight to jail': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiyfwZVAzGw It sounds like a desire to turn the country into an authoritarian paradise. In my opinion, such opinions are unamerican.

New comment by marky1991 in "Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise"

marky1991 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:21:10 +0000

I read that but assumed that wasn't why they fired him. I don't understand, why would you fire someone for receiving some kind of medical treatment?

Ignoring the obvious legal landmines, what does that have to do with the job?

I assumed there was some other reason for the firing. If that was the reason (or if that's what the victim is alleging) then I think the article needs to be more clear, it all reads like vague gossip to me and it wasn't at all clear to me that that was what this was about.