Hacker News: mianos

New comment by mianos in "Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things"

mianos — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:16:35 +0000

I've been a developer for 40 years. Used VC since rcs. If only people had such pedantry for the actual code, the world would be a better place. I look at the author way more than I read a commit message, next the date and then the code. Never much else.

New comment by mianos in "ESP32-S31"

mianos — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:05:58 +0000

Nema 17

New comment by mianos in "ESP32-S31"

mianos — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 02:25:16 +0000

I have tried one. It has no torque. For what looks like an awesome product, it does not have the power to drive a peristaltic pump. I used the same motor on a TMC stepper controller and it's completely silent and works. It's open loop, so comparing apples to oranges but I am not sure what the MKS servo driver on a motor could actually do, aside from spin unloaded.

New comment by mianos in "Anyone seen a CC- serial prefix on legacy networking hardware?"

mianos — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:58:57 +0000

They may not wear dark glasses and suits, but these are the peeps who organise disposal if there are not vetted personal to decom it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLA_Disposition_Services

This is real, but it's still a joke.

New comment by mianos in "Anyone seen a CC- serial prefix on legacy networking hardware?"

mianos — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:40:25 +0000

CVC3000, they should send some guys in dark suits and glasses to pick it up.

New comment by mianos in "C array types are weird"

mianos — Tue, 26 May 2026 23:38:10 +0000

p.s. in case you don't want to follow the link, number 2 on the list

New comment by mianos in "The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100"

mianos — Mon, 25 May 2026 03:44:04 +0000

It's not me. I actually work for a living and I receive a salary. Many people I know with their own business plan to hopefully get out of it some day. They all make less than me but own a business of their own.

Let's say this works and those people who already have assets get taxed a bit more, when they are gone, there would then now very little incentive to work hard and start a business.

Such short term thinking will pretty much destroy the economy in the long term. You can't tax an economy to health and fairness.

New comment by mianos in "The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100"

mianos — Mon, 25 May 2026 02:58:51 +0000

ps. Australia uses a progressive tax system. If you earn very little money, you pay a very low tax rate (or many zero). If you earn a massive corporate salary, you pay the top rate.

The new 30% floor completely throws that out the window for capital gains. It means even if your total income for the year is low enough that your normal tax rate should be 16% or 0%, the government steps in and forces a flat 30% tax on the asset sale anyway.

So, contrary to what the government is saying, this new regime taxes the poorer even more.

New comment by mianos in "The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100"

mianos — Sun, 24 May 2026 23:18:32 +0000

If you start a business and grow it from hard work, you will now be taxed more. It's not just passive gains, it's all gain.

New comment by mianos in "Australia Four-Day Work Week Study Data Shows Boosted Productivity"

mianos — Sun, 24 May 2026 23:16:55 +0000

I'd assume, as an Australian, who works for a HK company and has travelled for work all their life, the long term lifestyle in Australia is probably better than those countries. I love HK and Singo but I am not sure I'd want to live there. But for working, most people here would not work in an iron lung and the socialist government pretty much supports the idea that, if you don't like to work, you shouldn't have to as long as there are a few who will work. And, that number is fewer and fewer.

New comment by mianos in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"

mianos — Tue, 19 May 2026 09:41:30 +0000

Never to feed the trolls ... but, how does my carpenter deserve $100 an hour when he is using an electric drill and power saw I can get at Home Deepo for $100 bucks?

Most good developers are not employed because just because they can code well.

What is over is: fizzbuzz and trivial CS algorithm regurgitation as a gate.

New comment by mianos in "The quiet renovation at Bitwarden"

mianos — Mon, 18 May 2026 23:05:34 +0000

I use keepass and have for years and I wanted to switch from using google drive to something more self hosted so I tried sync-thing. I have been a C and C++ developer for over 40 years and I found it one of the most obtuse things I have ever tried. I'll have to get back to it. :) It's still running but somehow never syncs a single file between the desktop and the linux server. I don't think the android client can run on a modern pixel phone anyway anymore due to security constraints.

New comment by mianos in "Ask HN: When did computers stop being fun?"

mianos — Sat, 16 May 2026 23:39:10 +0000

Esp32s are amazing fun. I designed boards in the 80s and I still love tinkering with microcontrollers. The reflux control for my still currently uses a brushed motor controlled by PWM and I am upgrading it to a second hand pump with a brushless motor so I am looking at driving it. I just set up an old drone ESC and am controlling the motor with dshot and it works ok. There is a little pre built board Simple FOC that is also esp32 I just ordered for 20 bucks to give a try.

I've been a developer for 45 years and I still actually like it most days.

New comment by mianos in "Bare-metal STM32: vector table, linker script, and startup code from scratch"

mianos — Thu, 14 May 2026 23:41:20 +0000

I saw the comment about it being hard to use the esp32 without the IDF and was about to disagree, but after one second's thought, the author is right. Access to all their chips is via some quirky lower level api. That said, considering how different the chips are, it's actually a surprise they even manage to give you a common interface to them all. There was an OS free boot for the esp8266.

It's probably possible if you forego the wifi and there was a basic boot hello world a while back. The arm is not natively wifi so it's not really comparing apples to apples.

New comment by mianos in "New arXiv policy: 1-year ban for hallucinated references"

mianos — Thu, 14 May 2026 23:29:03 +0000

You are being ironic right?

New comment by mianos in "A desire for a loud car correlates with higher scores on psychopathy and sadism"

mianos — Thu, 14 May 2026 23:22:44 +0000

As covered in SouthPark 'documentary' noted above. Worth a watch.

New comment by mianos in "Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired"

mianos — Thu, 14 May 2026 05:12:44 +0000

I wonder if their stellar academic record is due to the same shenanigans? Given that they were caught manipulating logs and deleting evidence to cover their tracks in 2025, that they did the same to their academic records is technically plausible.

In 2011, university systems like George Mason’s were significantly more vulnerable to the exact type of SQL injection and credential theft they were using in their early criminal years.

New comment by mianos in "A desire for a loud car correlates with higher scores on psychopathy and sadism"

mianos — Thu, 14 May 2026 02:52:45 +0000

As a biker, there is sure a lot of peer pressure to have a louder bike. My s1k has the factory msport straight through akro muffler and a valve system that opens the larger exit, also bypassing the baffles in the 'lunchbox' underneath, at 7k. Meaning it's very quiet until it's being asked to go very fast.

Replacing the cats and lunchbox with headers gives under 1hp on a 220hp bike.

But, every meetup, multiple people are asking "when are you getting a proper exhaust system". Which is basically louder for no other reason but being loud.

New comment by mianos in "Online age verification is the hill to die on"

mianos — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:23:56 +0000

Like prohibition and the overtaxing of cigarettes in Australia, ID fraud will just become criminalised and the government will lose all control. There are pros and cons to this.

New comment by mianos in "Chernobyl wildlife forty years on"

mianos — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 03:14:03 +0000

They write all this `scientificy` stuff then put stuff like "Recent research has found that the combination of heat emitted from radioactive contamination ..."

The energy released by these environmental isotopes is microscopic. By the time that energy dissipates into the surroundings, the macroscopic thermal output is practically zero. It cannot alter local temperatures, it cannot warm a microclimate, and it certainly cannot cause "heat" stress to wildlife.

I wonder if the editors added this bit in a bout of 'whatboutism' to get some global warming agenda in there?