Hacker News: mishac

New comment by mishac in "Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload"

mishac — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 12:47:07 +0000

urgh. What is old is new. "Copilot" is the new omniname, what ".NET" was for a previous generation.

New comment by mishac in "Deep cloning objects in JavaScript"

mishac — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 19:45:32 +0000

Unnecessary _now_ perhaps, but not unnecessary when lodash was written. In 2009, when underscore.js came out (from which lodash was a fork) Array.every() was not something you could rely on. Chrome just came out a year earlier (and didn't support Array.every until version 4) and half the world was on IE 6-7-8

New comment by mishac in "Arc Browser 1.0"

mishac — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 21:24:10 +0000

It got baked into the silicon valley culture for some reason. When the rebellious innovators à la Wozniak and the Berkeley folks merged with trillions of VC spewing finance bros, a weird amalgam was created where while everything is in reality about money, it needs to be sugar coated with drivel about wanting to change the world and solve world hunger via the application of middle out compression algorithms

New comment by mishac in "Arc Browser 1.0"

mishac — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 21:18:12 +0000

requiring an account on day one makes me wary that the whole thing is pre-enshitified.

New comment by mishac in "FreeBSD at 30: Its secrets to success"

mishac — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 23:25:04 +0000

Why do you think NetBSD is more popular? Of all the BSDs FreeBSD is by far the most widely used.

New comment by mishac in "Jellyfin: Free software media system"

mishac — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 21:56:19 +0000

Docker on freebsd's been abandonware for a few years now.

New comment by mishac in "Reddit is currently down"

mishac — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 23:11:25 +0000

Or a causal thing....reddit being down means that some number of people switch to hackernews to pass time.

New comment by mishac in "50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World"

mishac — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 11:36:45 +0000

the entire point of TPP Was to exclude China...

New comment by mishac in "Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended"

mishac — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 01:22:31 +0000

Steve Job's return to Apple was not like this at all. For all his faults Jobs was never as erratic as Musk, and he never pulled stunts like causing 80% of the staff to be fired or leave, nor did he ever lock the buildings in Cupertino.

New comment by mishac in "RIP Google Hangouts, Google’s last, best chance to compete with iMessage"

mishac — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 17:06:51 +0000

Due to timezones? or is there something in Japanese culture that makes friday meetings disliked?

New comment by mishac in "Tell HN: GitHub is down again"

mishac — Sat, 27 Nov 2021 23:16:38 +0000

If Github had planned downtime every 3 months people would scream bloody murder, so the point stands that github's uptime is almost surely better than someone who selfhosts.

New comment by mishac in "Air France-KLM Unveils Tiny A220 Jet in Superjumbo's Shadow"

mishac — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 00:48:35 +0000

The irony is that the Canadian (and Quebec) government usually get flak for shoveling money and favours to Bombardier, not for refraining from doing it.

New comment by mishac in "New smb3 kernel server (ksmbd)"

mishac — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 19:33:46 +0000

ZFS on linux uses the system tooling for SMB and NFS. Like if you `zfs share` a dataset, it modifies the system /etc/smb.conf or /etc/exports.

New comment by mishac in "Nimforum: Lightweight alternative to Discourse written in Nim"

mishac — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 21:11:21 +0000

which goes back to the confusing UI. why should there be a different scroll bar to use than the standard one?

New comment by mishac in "Nimforum: Lightweight alternative to Discourse written in Nim"

mishac — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 17:49:55 +0000

which is why phpbb or even (god forbid) reddit is more ergonomic to use for me. If the thread is enormous, then split it into pages. And if it's not enormous, the discourse solution ends up being heavier and slower than just loading the whole discussion at once.

Discourse's voodoo ends up being more annoying to me than useful, not unlike infinite scrolling.

(obviously this is all subjective..I can only speak to the fact that I get annoyed by it and thus instinctively avoid discourse when I can)

New comment by mishac in "Nimforum: Lightweight alternative to Discourse written in Nim"

mishac — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 17:13:11 +0000

The fact that discourse hijacks ctrl-f drives me insane. Sometimes I want to jump to a particular part of a thread featuring a word quickly, but discourse gets in the way.

And, though this is more subjective, I find the UI confusing. I end up browsing the github issues or even reddit for answers to questions just to avoid discourse on projects that use it (discuss.linuxcontainers.org - I'm looking at you).

New comment by mishac in "size_t-to-int vulnerability in Linux’s filesystem layer"

mishac — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 20:02:38 +0000

> I personally haven't run into it as a developer

Clearly not a nodejs developer then! npm's insanely nested dependency graph caused me to hit the 260 character limit relatively regularly. (though this was several years ago, so maybe they have mitigations for that now)

New comment by mishac in "Casu Martzu"

mishac — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 21:49:41 +0000

I was under the impression gas leaks are supposed to be foul smelling, since the gas itself doesn't have an odor, and they add a foul-smelling additive for safety purposes.

New comment by mishac in "PHP has been removed in macOS Monterey"

mishac — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 22:35:08 +0000

you can install bash on windows too.

New comment by mishac in "Calibre – E-Book Management"

mishac — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 21:25:40 +0000

Not everyone is happy, which is why many of us wish it had a better UI.