Hacker News: phaistra

New comment by phaistra in "Servo is now available on crates.io"

phaistra — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:57:26 +0000

Is there a table of implemented RFCs? Something similar to http://caniuse.com where we can see what HTML/JS/CSS standards and features are implemented? If it exists, I can't seem to find it. Closest thing seems to be "experimental features" page but its not quite detailed enough.

New comment by phaistra in "So you want to parse a PDF?"

phaistra — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 15:05:00 +0000

Sounds like you are describing markdown.

New comment by phaistra in "Someone made a 128k line PR to OpenCut"

phaistra — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 16:43:59 +0000

You could ask the submitter to show a quick video recording of the new feature being used. Or if its a bugfix, show the failure scenario and then the fixed non-buggy scenario. If they can't be bothered to show a basic before/after demo of whatever they are working on, then you probably don't want to work with them and accept their code changes anyway.

New comment by phaistra in "Nnd – a TUI debugger alternative to GDB, LLDB"

phaistra — Tue, 06 May 2025 17:15:25 +0000

I recently found a super cool article[1] which also gives a good overview of how a debugger works.

[1]:https://keowu.re/posts/Writing-a-Windows-ARM64-Debugger-for-...

New comment by phaistra in "Espressif's ESP32-C5 Is Now in Mass Production"

phaistra — Thu, 01 May 2025 14:09:33 +0000

Are we sure this is correct? The table shows ESP32-C5 supports CANFD but I cant find any info on CAN-FD peripheral, drivers, etc.

New comment by phaistra in "Microsoft's Weather app now shows more ads"

phaistra — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 16:38:44 +0000

First time I heard of Atlas OS. How is it different from Windows LTSC?

New comment by phaistra in "Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark"

phaistra — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 12:44:27 +0000

> Those moderators aren't doing their work for free, so why should anyone else?

Because they actively volunteer to do so.

New comment by phaistra in "GeForce RTX 40 Series"

phaistra — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 16:08:15 +0000

Mining boom prices without the mining boom.

New comment by phaistra in "“Science must respect the dignity and rights of all humans”"

phaistra — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 17:22:09 +0000

Can you provide some books or links if so that I can read up on these misconceptions?

New comment by phaistra in "Ask HN: What are the best programming tricks you know?"

phaistra — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 15:27:29 +0000

Can you expand on your first trick? What is the problem being solved and what is a practical use case? I'm not sure I follow.

New comment by phaistra in "Extreme heat, drought will permanently scar California and its social fabric"

phaistra — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 19:54:29 +0000

There is always going to be some negative externality to anything humans do. No free lunch in any endeavor. You can find new uses for waste products or reprocess it to something less harmful.

The "water crisis" in California is an entirely political problem.

New comment by phaistra in "Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions"

phaistra — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 18:19:44 +0000

> Have you seen how hard it is to pass a contentious law these days?

So what? Not the SC's problem.

> Most people can agree about its merits but it's naive to act as if special interests haven't manufactured the contention and captured the regulatory and legislative processes.

So if special interests have captured the regulatory body, how is letting them keep (or gain) their unelected power any better?

> We don't have the luxury of proceduralism any more.

I can use the same argument about any topic we disagree about. Do you not see the problem with this line of thinking?

New comment by phaistra in "Why America can’t build"

phaistra — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 20:26:33 +0000

What is your concrete solution? Create a fine for not-voting in local elections and local initiatives?

New comment by phaistra in "Coinbase lays off around 1,100 employees"

phaistra — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 19:59:46 +0000

You literally just described most of Wall Street and most of the finance industry too.

New comment by phaistra in "Coinbase lays off around 1,100 employees"

phaistra — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 19:40:36 +0000

> Looks like you need to look Shenanigans done by Musk, Gates etc

You should check out the shenanigans that the US government gets away with. Whatever bad things Musk, Gates and crew is small fry compared to the government.

New comment by phaistra in "The Elites Have Every Intention of Controlling Our Lives"

phaistra — Fri, 27 May 2022 14:30:24 +0000

> Anyone even remotely concerned about privacy or constitutional rights

There goes 95% of America.

New comment by phaistra in "Everything with a battery should have an off switch"

phaistra — Mon, 09 May 2022 14:59:51 +0000

> Evening with batteries should have user replaceable batteries

There should be a law for this. Even for cellphones. When corporations market themselves as environmentally conscious, but don't allow the replacement of common wear items in their gadgets and products, then that's how you know they are full of shit.

New comment by phaistra in "When I tell the Windows Terminal team something is simple, I am "misguided""

phaistra — Fri, 06 May 2022 16:02:23 +0000

Just because you don't think he was polite to some arbitrary standard does not make him wrong.

If people are this sensitive to "tone" and "tact" about technical matters, then we (as a community I guess) have much deeper issues then the technical matters themselves.

New comment by phaistra in "When I tell the Windows Terminal team something is simple, I am "misguided""

phaistra — Fri, 06 May 2022 14:54:29 +0000

> rants about how stupid everyone else is.

> His favorite target seems to be...drumroll please...large corporation software teams.

I missed the part where he is wrong.

New comment by phaistra in "When I tell the Windows Terminal team something is simple, I am "misguided""

phaistra — Fri, 06 May 2022 14:49:56 +0000

How was Casey wrong?