Hacker News: mattrick

New comment by mattrick in "Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline"

mattrick — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 19:57:53 +0000

The owner of Twitter/X is about to be in the president’s cabinet. And the owner of Meta is clearly cozying up to the incoming administration with their new “anti-woke” policies.

New comment by mattrick in "A simple math error sparked a panic about black plastic kitchen utensils"

mattrick — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 09:26:02 +0000

I’d be interested to know how you ate glass without realizing it until it was too late.

New comment by mattrick in "Oscilloscope Music N-Spheres"

mattrick — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 12:32:17 +0000

If you like this sort of thing, I highly recommend checking out C. Allen’s work. The visuals and music are both really impressive, in my opinion the best out there: https://youtu.be/OP7sTQQ0Blw

New comment by mattrick in "Ask HN: Has anyone been able to contact Cloudflare Support in the last 5 days?"

mattrick — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 00:46:54 +0000

I’ve had a lot of trouble with their support recently as well. A domain I was trying to renew just…wouldn’t. The ticket I opened went unanswered for nearly a month. What finally got them to look at it was posting on their forums with a ticket ID. Even still, they just quietly renewed the domain without a response or confirmation or anything so it’s technically still open…

New comment by mattrick in "Tesla Cybertruck Unexpectedly Accelerates into Home with Rear Wheels Locked"

mattrick — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 01:11:23 +0000

I could be misremembering, but I think I remember Teslas having a feature that would apply slight torque to the motors when braking on hills to prevent the car from rolling backwards when switching from brakes to the accelerator.

I wonder if this was a malfunction of the system that detects the car being on a slope which caused it to accelerate forward despite the brake being pressed?

New comment by mattrick in "Personal VPN services are snake oil"

mattrick — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 20:45:45 +0000

I think the snake oil claim is in regard to VPN companies marketing themselves as a security product. The security benefits that these companies claim in their ads are dubious but of course there’s other benefits to them, they just can’t advertise that they can be used for these things.

The problem is people who aren’t aware of this see these ads and think that they actually do prevent hackers from stealing their information.

New comment by mattrick in "Go Enums Suck"

mattrick — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 23:46:23 +0000

I think they may be referring to if someone accidentally changes the ordering, either by inserting a new variant between two existing ones or by shuffling the order of the existing variants the value can change and cause problems.

New comment by mattrick in "Why is Prettier rock solid?"

mattrick — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 05:41:49 +0000

1.1k isn't bad for a project with ~33 million weekly downloads[1], imo. Yes, I know that's not necessarily a good metric, but it's ~10 million more than React[2] which also has a similar number of open issues[3].

[1]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/prettier

[2]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/react

[3]: https://github.com/facebook/react

New comment by mattrick in "CSS WG resolved to officially work on native custom functions and mixins"

mattrick — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 10:40:06 +0000

If this feature were added, I’d see very little need to use CSS preprocessors - at least for me. We already have variables, nesting, and color functions. Throw in mixins and user defined functions and that pretty much covers 90% of what I’d usually do in Sass.

Maybe you still use PostCSS for some auto prefixing/ backwards compat stuff but the need for that should go away as the usage numbers for unsupported browsers go down.

New comment by mattrick in "Why you've never been in a plane crash"

mattrick — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 23:48:11 +0000

I've been obsessed with the US Chemical Safety Board videos on YouTube that describe in great detail the events that lead up to industrial accidents. One of the common themes I've seen among them is that there's usually some sort of warning sign or near miss that goes ignored by the people responsible for them since they don't cause any major damage. Then a few days or months later that system fails in an entirely predictable way with catastrophic consequences. A good example of this is the fatal phosgene gas release at a DuPont chemical plant[1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISNGimMXL7M

New comment by mattrick in "Kagi – Sourcing from Brave Search, improved image search, and new Safari ext"

mattrick — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 09:50:36 +0000

I agree with this. The only real advantage to Kagi over just using Google + Adblock for me is an easy way to just completely block certain sites from ever appearing in searches. It's probably not worth $10 a month but I pay for it because SEO spam sites bother me on a personal level.

New comment by mattrick in "I kind of killed Mercurial at Mozilla"

mattrick — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 00:34:10 +0000

You definitely can comment on lines that haven't been changed. I don't think there's a way to comment on files that haven't been changed, though.

New comment by mattrick in "Toyota adopts the North American charging standard"

mattrick — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 08:06:51 +0000

It still seems odd to me that they'd just...not really do EVs while their competitors gain experience and trust shipping EVs years before them. They don't need to flip a switch and suddenly begin producing only EVs.

New comment by mattrick in "Internet traffic in Israel surged 170% right after the Hamas attack"

mattrick — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 02:55:46 +0000

Permalink for those viewing later: https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/il?dateStart=2023-10-05...

New comment by mattrick in "Chicago independently abolishes subminimum wage for tipped workers"

mattrick — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 21:25:12 +0000

I was always under the impression that the mandatory service fees (like for groups of x or more) was just a way to make sure that the wait staff don't get stiffed. If the service fee is 20%, I just tip 0% unless I feel inclined to tip more on top of that.

New comment by mattrick in "Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month"

mattrick — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 00:29:28 +0000

You'd be surprised how many games run perfectly well on Linux. Unless you're playing something with ridiculous anticheat like Valorant it will most likely run fine.

New comment by mattrick in "Ask HN: Anyone else finding Google Maps terrible?"

mattrick — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 06:50:51 +0000

I've also found Apple Maps' instructions are easier to follow. Apple Maps gives instructions like a human would ("in two lights, make a left onto Main Street"), unlike Google which usually gives instructions in distances ("in a half mile, turn left onto Main Street").

I'm sure some prefer the latter, but I find that it makes it much more likely that I will miss a light or especially a side street with only the smaller street signs on the side of the road.

New comment by mattrick in "Tesla repossessed my car due to an extreme oversight on their end"

mattrick — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 19:21:42 +0000

There’s only a handful of EVs that currently qualify for the $7500 federal tax credit now that the rules for it have changed - Tesla being one of them. In California you also get an extra $2000 credit for Teslas as well. So there’s some incentive there right now to buy one at nearly $10k off.

New comment by mattrick in "Permission.site (2016)"

mattrick — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 00:34:08 +0000

They could probably fix this by having the HTTP version be served on a different subdomain that only listens for HTTP.

New comment by mattrick in "Podman Desktop 1.2 Released: Compose and Kubernetes Support"

mattrick — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 16:39:30 +0000

WSL2 still runs in a VM so it has the performance implications of that, not that they usually end up being that significant (I have found that memory usage in WSL2 is usually ridiculously high, though).

I think the support for Linux GUI applications is achieved by running an X server on the Windows side of things.