Hacker News: mrunkel

New comment by mrunkel in "California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy"

mrunkel — Wed, 06 May 2026 06:18:53 +0000

What is dark about the best time to get high?

New comment by mrunkel in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

mrunkel — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:42:03 +0000

Code merges are made by reviewers in my org, not by the author.

Spend time educating your team about `git commit --amend` and `git push --force` on their own branches and you don't have to see any of that ugliness.

New comment by mrunkel in "Am I German or Autistic?"

mrunkel — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:32:31 +0000

So, why no German language version?

I am convinced that the majority of Germans are on the spectrum. What other country builds viewing platforms for construction sites?

New comment by mrunkel in "Introduction to reverse-engineering vintage synth firmware"

mrunkel — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 05:33:26 +0000

I just wanted to say thank you. This is a great read.

New comment by mrunkel in "Cinematography of “Andor”"

mrunkel — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 04:10:42 +0000

Check out the Kingdom Come Deliverance series.

Sure, you'll be a badass at the end, but you're going to earn it. :)

New comment by mrunkel in "How a single line of code could brick your iPhone"

mrunkel — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 06:23:00 +0000

> Requiring a device erase isn't a full brick, no, but it's still pretty serious.

He totally murdered that guy!

What? Why would you say murdered, he only gave him a black eye?

I know, but that's still pretty serious.

New comment by mrunkel in "The order of files in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/ matters"

mrunkel — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 07:24:27 +0000

RTFM

No tool can protect you from your own assumptions about how said tool works.

New comment by mrunkel in "When your last name is Null, nothing works"

mrunkel — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 07:17:44 +0000

I tested "all supported" but this is explicitly for 5:

https://3v4l.org/cFc5I#v5.4.45

New comment by mrunkel in "When your last name is Null, nothing works"

mrunkel — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 04:24:27 +0000

I can confirm that PHP doesn't have this problem.

if ("null" == null) { echo "true"; } else { echo "false"; }

prints "false"

New comment by mrunkel in "It's not a crime if we do it with an app"

mrunkel — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 06:36:05 +0000

No, the article says that the suppliers send data to a central service, which then tells them the optimal price, this service bases this price based on data sent by all other suppliers, and presumably gives all suppliers the same price.

New comment by mrunkel in "The Influence of Bell Labs"

mrunkel — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 13:00:31 +0000

As far as I know, Mr. Zuckerberg still owns a controlling interest in Meta Platforms.

Since he has 57% of the votes, he can tell everyone to pound sand.

New comment by mrunkel in "California's most neglected group of students: the gifted ones"

mrunkel — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 21:22:20 +0000

Don't bother Mark, he's working on chewing crayons.

New comment by mrunkel in "DeskPad – A virtual monitor for screen sharing"

mrunkel — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 09:08:21 +0000

What exactly do you mean by "can't do HD?"

I can set my display to 1728x1080. That's HD.

I can also output my Mac to an HD TV, Projector, etc. And I have the notch on my MacBook Pro.

Do you have some other definition of HD that I'm not understanding?

New comment by mrunkel in "Fixing a bug in Google Chrome as a first-time contributor"

mrunkel — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 10:48:36 +0000

I think they mean that the change is at the end of the first word in the Variable. i.e, Worker vs. Worklet instead of Worker vs. TinyWorker?

Doesn't make too much sense to me, but I think that's what they are saying.

New comment by mrunkel in "Apple delays highly anticipated device due to 'technical challenges'"

mrunkel — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 03:58:38 +0000

Is this the best headline for this? Seems a little clickbaity

New comment by mrunkel in "Ryanair – when every page is a dark pattern"

mrunkel — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 06:03:15 +0000

The point still stands. A bus is pretty much a FILO queue, so the order inverts when they climb in the Bus.

New comment by mrunkel in "Refined GitHub: GitHub a lot and notice many annoyances we'd like to fix"

mrunkel — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 04:02:42 +0000

Maybe add a “We use” to the title?

New comment by mrunkel in "TinyLetter shut down by Mailchimp, so I built the letterdrop"

mrunkel — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 07:24:20 +0000

That doesn't say what you think it does.

Quoting the judgement: "only works created by a human can be copyrighted under United States law, which excludes photographs and artwork created by animals or by machines without human intervention"

Clearly, the machine in question is responding to human prompts. The LLM didn't create this program on its own.

So I think these are still open issues.

New comment by mrunkel in "Why does current flow the opposite way from the electrons?"

mrunkel — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 03:57:13 +0000

In German we use “Akku” which is short for “Akkumulator” for rechargeable batteries.

New comment by mrunkel in "How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop"

mrunkel — Fri, 31 May 2024 16:06:53 +0000

DB9 serial to USB Null modem cable + some simple file transfer software would have solved this in minutes.

Since the mac had a built-in modem, you could have used that software to transfer the file via xmodem or ymodem protocol.

I guess this isn't common knowledge any more.