Hacker News: oasisaimlessly

New comment by oasisaimlessly in "Engineering management after the cost of code collapsed"

oasisaimlessly — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 21:16:16 +0000

btw, your last paragraph makes you sound like an ass.

New comment by oasisaimlessly in "GDID Windows – Cut the tracker that follows you even under VPN"

oasisaimlessly — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 19:24:29 +0000

I'm guessing Devuan still has /var/lib/dbus/machine-id.

New comment by oasisaimlessly in "Good Tools Are Invisible"

oasisaimlessly — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 15:12:45 +0000

preach, brotha

New comment by oasisaimlessly in "Why it's so difficult to produce American-made medical gloves"

oasisaimlessly — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 10:25:01 +0000

NBR = nitrile butadiene rubber, a synthetic rubber. Not really a raw material, as it's synthesized.

New comment by oasisaimlessly in "No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026"

oasisaimlessly — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:59:54 +0000

For things that need much more precusion than my lunch, ±1 second probably still isn't good enough, so they need another layer of correction anyway. Given that exists, might as well push leap seconds into that layer too.

New comment by oasisaimlessly in "I used sound waves to make espresso. It could cut coffee‑brewing energy use by ¾"

oasisaimlessly — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 21:27:10 +0000

s/shit/shot/g

New comment by oasisaimlessly in "Corrupting a ZFS File on Purpose"

oasisaimlessly — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:59:09 +0000

Why use zvols? Aren't they essentially just single-file ZFS datasets (allowing e.g. independent snapshotting)?

New comment by oasisaimlessly in "GenCAD"

oasisaimlessly — Mon, 18 May 2026 01:22:06 +0000

OpenSCAD has almost zero crossover with B-rep modelling ('true' CAD, what this apparently is), though.

New comment by oasisaimlessly in "Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused"

oasisaimlessly — Tue, 05 May 2026 01:40:53 +0000

No, that is actually very rare, not typical. Do you have any examples of password managers that do that?

New comment by oasisaimlessly in "I am worried about Bun"

oasisaimlessly — Mon, 04 May 2026 23:33:30 +0000

You dropped this:

New comment by oasisaimlessly in "Unsigned sizes: A five year mistake"

oasisaimlessly — Sat, 02 May 2026 20:33:13 +0000

> Wrapping around is what happens when you decrement the minimum value of any integer type, including signed types.

No, signed wraparound is undefined behavior in C, whereas unsigneds are defined to wraparound. If you use -ftrapv, signed wraparound is an immediate abort().

New comment by oasisaimlessly in "Unsigned Sizes: A Five Year Mistake"

oasisaimlessly — Sat, 02 May 2026 20:28:55 +0000

> That's true for signed numbers too though? `int_min - 2 > int_min`

No, that's undefined behavior in C, and if you care about correctness, you run at least your testsuite in CI with -ftrapv so it turns into an abort().

New comment by oasisaimlessly in "ASML became the chokepoint for cutting-edge chips"

oasisaimlessly — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:41:15 +0000

MEMS oscillators do use a vacuum, and that's why they're susceptible to helium. A helium atom is tiny compared to an oxygen or nitrogen atom, and can leak through many otherwise-perfect seals.

So, a (badly-designed) MEMS oscillator is basically a region of vacuum enclosed by a membrane that only helium can permeate. Of course exposing it to helium is going to permanently change its behavior! Once the helium gets in, there's no reason for it to leave, due to the vastly higher atmospheric pressure outside.

New comment by oasisaimlessly in "HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'"

oasisaimlessly — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:35:23 +0000

You don't have to 'build' anything. Just spin up a GitLab docker container. Bonus: If you put it behind a VPN, you never have to worry about updating it.

New comment by oasisaimlessly in "10 years ago, someone wrote a test for Servo that included an expiry in 2026"

oasisaimlessly — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:11:02 +0000

This is a very SWE-centric perspective. The very names of software/hardwsre would imply the exact opposite.

New comment by oasisaimlessly in "Bypassing the kernel for 56ns cross-language IPC"

oasisaimlessly — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 01:52:50 +0000

What?

> Exactly, the application logic is the target. Actually doing seccomp bpf base but for managed bindings (Java, Node, Go, ...) add a lot of complexity....

Maybe proofread the slop before posting it next time?

New comment by oasisaimlessly in "I’m spending months coding the old way"

oasisaimlessly — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:17:20 +0000

I'm an actual boss, and wasting a week is cause for a 30-minute post-mortem, not immediate termination.

New comment by oasisaimlessly in "It's OK to compare floating-points for equality"

oasisaimlessly — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 19:18:19 +0000

I don't think this is true. Modulo the sign bit, the "next float" operator is equivalent to the next bitstring or the integer++.

New comment by oasisaimlessly in "Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning"

oasisaimlessly — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:34:55 +0000

I've never heard anybody (mis)attribute that to Apple.

New comment by oasisaimlessly in "The Document Foundation ejects its core developers"

oasisaimlessly — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:57:52 +0000

On the contrary, I would take this as evidence that these projects are alive and well - they have people who care enough to try to affect their future trajectory.