Hacker News: micahcc

New comment by micahcc in "The Milky Way is probably full of dead civilizations"

micahcc — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 04:48:50 +0000

WAG in WAG out

New comment by micahcc in "Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts"

micahcc — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 02:48:51 +0000

steam-run seems to be able to run everything. It uses bubble wrap to keep the OS isolated and add /usr/bin stuff most exes want.

New comment by micahcc in "Build systems, not heroes"

micahcc — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 05:48:28 +0000

> If you have strong enough rules, you don’t need to worry about the skills of the programmers.

lol. lmao, even.

New comment by micahcc in "MotorOS: a Rust-first operating system for x64 VMs"

micahcc — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 06:12:24 +0000

> a simple multi-processor round robin (SMP)

> the kernel is very small and does not block, so does not need to be preemptible

I don't believe you and I don't even need to look at the code to know this is false.

New comment by micahcc in "New data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI"

micahcc — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 18:00:43 +0000

Likely they have humans review the images (or even touch up). Same thing with the dataset scraped from the internet.

New comment by micahcc in "Alpine Linux does not make the news"

micahcc — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 20:48:10 +0000

I've been migrating to nixos. I think it makes news in that everyone is obligated to hate it publicly for at least 6 months before resigning themselves to it.

New comment by micahcc in "Alpine Linux does not make the news"

micahcc — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 20:47:08 +0000

still true it doesn't make news I suppose

New comment by micahcc in "LXD is now under Canonical"

micahcc — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 02:37:30 +0000

Why LXD over podman? I've found podman to be a pretty great docker lite.

New comment by micahcc in "LXD is now under Canonical"

micahcc — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 02:36:42 +0000

Have you tried nixos? Its a totally different paradigm and definitely an acquired taste, but I used gentoo for ~2 years, then used Arch for ~5 and now am switching everything to nixos.

Main benefits is setting up a new machine is much easier, and updates are easier because almost all the normal configuration is managed by nixos (in the nix language) as opposed to regular files floating around etc.

New comment by micahcc in "LastPass user vaults stolen in recent hack"

micahcc — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 21:59:52 +0000

right, they need to know whether to offer you a password or not regardless of whether you have re-locked

New comment by micahcc in "dwm"

micahcc — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 22:28:45 +0000

I cycled through dwm at one point. The thing that killed me was that on my nvidia machine, for some reason it would flash when I changed desktops, like the draw order was wrong. i3 is the only tiling window manager that didn't, I think because it uses xcb instead of xlib.

I love the magical bullshit in the description. Each line contains some face palm.

> dwm doesn't distinguish between layers: there is no floating or tiled layer. Whether or not the clients of currently selected tag(s) are in tiled layout, you can rearrange them on the fly. Popup and fixed-size windows are always floating, however.

Ok so it does have floating then?

> Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it's pointless to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and elitist. No novices asking stupid questions. There are some distributions that provide binary packages though.

Ok so you can package then....?

> dwm is only a single binary, and its source code is intended to never exceed 2000 SLOC.

Strange flex but ok.

> dwm has no Lua integration, no 9P support, no shell-based configuration, no remote control, and comes without any additional tools, such as for printing the selection or warping the mouse.

It uses x, x warps the mouse.

> dwm is customized through editing its source code, which makes it extremely fast and secure - it does not process any input data which isn't known at compile time, except window titles and status text read from the root window's name.

ok so there is input that could hacked (not saying there IS, but if you process strings or floats from the user those can contain unexpected values).

All that said, suckless tools are nice, just think the mindset is hilarious.

New comment by micahcc in "Wave Function Collapse library in pure C"

micahcc — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 18:21:14 +0000

Its a slow to compile idiom. The only reason to use it is if you expect people to download the header and plop it in. Basically its an end-run around build systems.

New comment by micahcc in "Spy camera detection using smartphone time-of-flight sensors"

micahcc — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 17:17:23 +0000

Ok I'm not crazy

New comment by micahcc in "Spy camera detection using smartphone time-of-flight sensors"

micahcc — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 17:17:09 +0000

It took me a full minute to realize this wasn't the Los Angeles Police Department's R&D division

New comment by micahcc in "SUBLEQ and DawnOS (2017)"

micahcc — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 05:28:19 +0000

The fu? This guy has no idea what he is talking about.

> there are also lack of technical knowledge at linux side, for example, most linux distributions cant even detect the cpu type, and force a kernel using PAE or SSE kernel on a 6x86 cpu, which of course will crash at boot.

Uh yes it can? cat /proc/cpuinfo? What he is saying (incorrectly) is that Linux is compiled for i686 -- which it often is, so that you don't get illegal instructions when you run programs. No one is preventing you from recompiling with optimizations and -march=native.

Theres so many levels of crazy in just the first paragraph.