Hacker News: pavinjoseph

New comment by pavinjoseph in "The revolt of the reader"

pavinjoseph — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 04:25:48 +0000

I had to reread the first one but I wanted to read it! The second one was understood on the first scan but was a chore to read.

Does that make sense?

New comment by pavinjoseph in "Show HN: Elevators"

pavinjoseph — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 06:52:48 +0000

Surprised that the LOOK algo beat RSR in the final sim!

New comment by pavinjoseph in "How the Mayans were able to accurately predict solar eclipses for centuries"

pavinjoseph — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 02:20:13 +0000

The original RDB!

New comment by pavinjoseph in "Suchir Balaji Case Reopened: From ‘Suicide' to 'Active Investigation’"

pavinjoseph — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 22:11:11 +0000

Just watched the mother's interview where she presented an independently conducted investigation report on Tucker's show. Doesn't appear remotely close to a suicide.

Guy was hit in the head while brushing his teeth, sat in a sitting position and shot from above. Wonder how they can get to so many peeps in positions of authority. Coroner, local PD, attorneys were all compromised.

New comment by pavinjoseph in "Zed on Linux Is Here"

pavinjoseph — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 13:13:56 +0000

Not very good experience after opening a simple Python script with no external dependencies in zed for linux. They use Pyright and there was an error and warning that were both incorrect. VSCode uses Pylance IIRC and it's not complaining.

New comment by pavinjoseph in "If AI chatbots are the future, I hate it"

pavinjoseph — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 12:20:58 +0000

I had a decent experience with a service recently that used a ChatGPT powered support agent, it couldn't deal with my situation but I was surprised by how quickly it knew its own limitations and handed me to an actual human who helped me out.

Edit: The chatbot in question was not powered by ChatGPT a few months ago and it was pretty bad, a few canned QAs and really weird loops to get to a human agent. Before that the same service had direct human support. But as someone who has worked in a support capacity myself I will take the nice middle ground with a decent LLM that can quickly dispatch me to a human agent should it not be able to solve the issue.

Show HN: Never let another update break your rolling release distro

pavinjoseph — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 15:53:54 +0000

Really simple Python script to perform transactional updates on regular Tumbleweed/Slowroll distros.

Can be adapted easily to other rolling release distros like Arch provided the root filesystem is setup for btrfs/snapper snapshots & rollback.

It uses systemd-nspawn for rudimentary checking of the snapshot for issues!

Feedback welcome, especially on improving the bootup checks from within a container

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39919067

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New comment by pavinjoseph in "Realtime telemetry from ISS internal components"

pavinjoseph — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 10:13:02 +0000

Incredible! I wonder how much delay there is between the sensor data coming in to ISS, being relayed to NASA, fetched by these guys and forwarded to their model's actuators.

New comment by pavinjoseph in "Tell HN: "Default" FileZilla download bundled with adware"

pavinjoseph — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 10:06:09 +0000

Good that I don't have to worry about things like this when downloading from official OpenSuse repos. Are they allowed to bundle adware into flatpaks and AppImages?