<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: necovek</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=necovek</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 07:48:50 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=necovek" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by necovek in "What being ripped off taught me"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As 75% of a single month fee (25% paid upfront), not too bad either: $46k in total for 4 weeks of work. Expenses were not included (flight was paid for).</p>
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<p>Kid will be fine, mom will be fine, dad will be fine — a month does sound long, but it depends more on what attention you provide when you <i>are</i> with your partner and kids.<p>Sounds like he is in there 24/7 most likely spending more time than you or me with his kid over the course of the year (if you are in a regular 9-5 type of role with limited PTO) — or he'd not even mention missing a month with his 2yo.</p>
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<p>I read section 7 of AGPLv3 quite differently from OnlyOffice: it clearly calls it "Additional Permissions" throughout, and also says this:<p><pre><code>  When you convey a copy of a covered work, you may at your option remove any additional permissions from that copy, or from any part of it.
  ...
  All other non-permissive additional terms are considered "further restrictions" within the meaning of section 10. If the Program as you received it, or any part of it, contains a notice stating that it is governed by this License along with a term that is a further restriction, you may remove that term.</code></pre></p>
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<p>The problem is differentiating between those who've given up and who do not want to work (have other means to sustain themselves).<p>In general, either is fine by me as long we are consistent: they are both proxies for percentage of people needing work and should correlate to a large extent.</p>
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<p>According to the quote above, he "could have been at the helm", and his family has claimed he hasn't.<p>Something, something, due process.</p>
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<p>Subpixel rendering has nothing to do with any of this: it was messing up on non-RGB pixel layout panels like VA and OLED, and it used to be a simple setting in GNOME (hidden these days unfortunately).<p>Still, even 5K at 27" is not without noticeable jagged edges in diagonal lines and textual characters (though I've only tried 4K at 24", but that's a similar DPI and angular resolution if at the same distance) if your visual acuity (with or without correction) is around 20/20 or better (mine is better with glasses/contacts).<p>I hate how the text looks with a Mac on a 4K 32" screen, let alone 4K 42" screen.</p>
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<p>M1 non-Pro could only support one external screen through TB, and I think it carried on through at least M2 Air.  It would also frequently get my Dell screen into a weird hung state after suspending and attempting to reconnect, frequently requiring a power cycle of the screen (not even connecting a Linux laptop back to it got it fixed).  At some point, it seems to have gotten fixed and I am not seeing it anymore.<p>Linux, however, has worked great ever since I got the USB-C DP Alt-mode screen back around 8 years ago with my Thinkpad X1 Carbons over the years.  I do have trouble getting a stable 8K at 60Hz through it with Iris Xe (gen13), but that does not work with Macs either.<p>Linux did have issues with using different scaling factors on multiple connected screens, but I only ever used one monitor so it never bothered me.<p>On top of that, it still does support subpixel rendering, and you can even tune pixel layout (RGB, BGR...) for VA and OLED panels, so text never looks crappy or janky as it can on Macs with low DPI screens (eg. large 4k screens of 40"+, but noticeable even on 32" 4k).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:05:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47639181</link><dc:creator>necovek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47639181</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47639181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by necovek in "Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I prefer big, high-resolution monitors at appropriate distance (I am at 4k 43" at roughly 36"/90cm viewing distance in my home office and 32" at 28"/70cm at work) to be able to put all task-related content on the same screen.<p>I need to do cross referencing quite a bit, and even with quick iterations in development, I like having documentation and output (terminal, browser...) side by side with Emacs as my IDE (I don't use Emacs' built-in window management as much, but it'd be the same thing).<p>Using large 16:9 screens ensures I keep enough vertical space compared to ultra-wides, and high res is crucial for smooth text (scaled properly).</p>
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<p>An aside: I am generally good at keeping notes while in a meeting, and I have tried shared notes in One Note, but as soon as someone else edits something in the same spot, it creates a forked history requiring manual reconciliation: does this work for you?<p>I've switched to Word akin to how I used to do it with Google Docs as that works much better.<p>Perhaps it's given away by "One" in the name (one simultaneous editor)? Or am I holding it wrong?</p>
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<p>While this is definitely a good first step, nothing stops Claude from following an injected prompt and writing malicious code in your writeable development directory, waiting for you to execute it manually with your full local permissions.<p>The point is that anything produced by Claude should only ever run in a sandboxed environment if you are really dead set on protecting yourself.</p>
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<p>The first Google search hit for the UK variant of the law[1] says this:<p><pre><code>  This includes a range of websites, apps and other services, including social media services, consumer file cloud storage and sharing sites, video-sharing platforms, online forums, dating services, and online instant messaging services. 
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[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/online-safety-act-explainer/online-safety-act-explainer#who-the-act-applies-to" rel="nofollow">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/online-safety-act...</a></p>
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<p>Depends on what you consider "practically its entire existence": the same could be said of Google Search if we are looking at how long they did not compared to the rest of the time, but I distinctly remember the period when they did not and when I recommended them to my entire social circle as The Search Engine (compared to Yahoo, Altavista, MSN or whatever else was there at the time) or The Social Network (compared to MySpace, I can't remember anything else that was comparable).</p>
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<p>Was Facebook social media before it started adding ads or not?<p>Will non-monetized old school "forums" escape the wrath of "social media" bans for children? Will HN?</p>
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<p>Well, it never hurts to be prepared for the war against Europaeans (aliens from Europa, satellite of Jupiter).</p>
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<p>If your assistant is technical enough to know which parts apply to you and which do not, they likely don't need you to do the rest of the job either.<p>An LLM could do this by looking over the full codebase and release notes and do a shorter summary, bit probably at the cost of many tokens today.</p>
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<p>To me, the value I would look to extract feom LLMs is turn the code changes into user-readable, concise release notes.<p>If you are coding with the help of LLMs, then release notes are your human-crafted prompt.<p>Basically, the intent is given as a decision somewhere, and that is human driven.</p>
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<p>Whatever the prompt is, it is still the only information of value reflecting <i>actual</i> decisions made.<p>Everything coming out of LLM on any prompt is either someone else's decisions or same thing reworded in a different way.</p>
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<p>I believe you are making the same argument: the GP prefers space race over war for large technological development at less or no human suffering.</p>
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<p>I can see what you are describing with Pluto. But I am reasonably confident that we'd not be seeing that reaction if the discovery of new planet-like lumps of rock similar in size to Pluto was described as "new planets discovered" (you seem to hint at that too): it's more of a reaction to change for the sake of change in their opinion ("let's redefine what a planet is, making Pluto not one anymore").<p>I think it would be comparable to us saying that something which is now ingrained is redefined (eg. think about saying "Zero/0 is not a number" anymore).<p>Research pointing in the other direction in regards to serif vs non-serif type is not the same: it is measurable objective fact (even if riddled with methodological constraints and issues).</p>
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<p>While that is just a natural reaction to "unfair" world where not everyone gets the same level of access to the best level of care, I'd also say that it's a reminder that money can't and won't solve all problems people are hit with in their lifetimes (or he'd not be facing cancer diagnosis in the first place).<p>This story is of someone with resources putting them to good use to save themselves, but also have that benefit others: medical research is expensive and for good reason restricted, and just like lots of open source was driven by individual's need, so lots of good stuff can come out of this. I suggest to see it that way.</p>
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