<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: phaker</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=phaker</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 07:05:42 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=phaker" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by phaker in "PicoIDE – An open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><inconsequential webpage bug report> First few images link to the full size version of the _next one_ </inconsequential webpage bug report></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 08:47:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45951904</link><dc:creator>phaker</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45951904</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45951904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by phaker in "Viagrid – PCB template for rapid PCB prototyping with factory-made vias [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>1. It's a hobby in your own right. The nasty is not that bad, back in the day the annoying thing was how fiddly it was but the community thought of better ways like etching with a sponge. You can get better boards made online but that applies to all hobbies.<p>2. In most of US/EU you get them for $5 in up to _two weeks_, or in two days for $5+$2X or more which adds up quicklyand can be more than the rest of the project. Even next day shipping loses out badly to making it yourself in ~30 minutes, turns into two days delay unless you're lucky to have an idea in the morning and time to work on it in the next afternoon, a lot of the time i see people bodging things i'd make another board for because it's just easier.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2025 08:21:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45780045</link><dc:creator>phaker</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45780045</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45780045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by phaker in "Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in 2024"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Surprisingly many forgeries were exposed due to Calibri, Wikipedia has a short list:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calibri#In_crime_and_politics" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calibri#In_crime_and_politics</a><p>I feel like I remember the topic having its own list article but can't find any trace of it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2025 20:18:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42881766</link><dc:creator>phaker</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42881766</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42881766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by phaker in "Pylyzer – A fast static code analyzer and language server for Python"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's also made by the top contributor to erg (github user mtshiba), and erg is trying to be a compiled typed python.<p>If you're already making <i>that</i> then building a type checker wrapper on top of it makes perfect sense.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2024 07:12:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40029278</link><dc:creator>phaker</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40029278</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40029278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by phaker in "Blur Radius Comparison"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>SVG filters default to linear color (but svg gradients etc default to srgb) so the 'SVG fe' are all linear. Color space used changes where the midpoint is so nothing else here uses linear color (unless they've decided to fudge that to match user expectations).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2024 08:19:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38978158</link><dc:creator>phaker</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38978158</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38978158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by phaker in "Measuring the size of the cache line empirically"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It and it's getting late here so i can't try it myself, at least not today, but i'd try moving in a fixed, sparse, pseudorandom pattern but vary operation size.<p>I think this should give a more staircase-y plot, with jumps when the size of each individual copy passes whole multiple of cache line width.<p>I think this way you don't need to fight prefetching, and there will be one read-modify-write per operation except right at the edges which is another signal.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2023 20:21:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38658335</link><dc:creator>phaker</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38658335</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38658335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by phaker in "Inhibition of ALDH2 by quercetin glucuronide to explain red wine headaches"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Quercetin is present in grapes. Wikipedia says it's "the main flavonol" in both red and white wine ( <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenolic_content_in_wine" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenolic_content_in_wine</a> ).<p>It is or at least was pretty common to hear about flavonols, flavonoids and specifically quercetin in various foods and their purpoted health benefits. Seems we've moved on to other compounds that are not yet known to be ineffective.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2023 06:02:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38359950</link><dc:creator>phaker</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38359950</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38359950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by phaker in "Julia Child's Culinary Notes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When it's young it works as is, it is more annoying but i like the results. For thin crusts i work a bit on it so likely few more grams end up on the inside, and it's mostly crust. You do need to stretch it in more steps and can't leave it resting for too long as it'll stick to the counter. Also I worked my way up from 66%.<p>We all want to make <i>something</i> and pick methods in pursuit of that. I always liked light, airy, bubbly, crispy things which drove me to high hydration and savory, beery, bready things which drove me to long fermentation. For pizza this means i liked bubbly high crusts and savory thin as a pancake pizza bassa, so that's what i tried to make.<p>When it's getting old i deliberately fold in extra flour. Notice it doesn't take that much to push it down because the quantities are quite small -- i've settled on 144g flour, ignoring everything else at ×1.75 it's 252g of dough, it'll take 18g of extra flour to push it all the way down to classic 66%, that's a heaping tablespoon. And i rarely really reach 75%, i aim for just under 75% and generally end up making 72~74% after including what it absorbs as i work it.</p>
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<p>I keep them in the fridge, yes, should have mentioned that.<p>Oh, and another thing i should have mentioned is that if the dough is older i make sure to fold it few times more and work a bit more fresh flour into it. And i use high hydration (as high as i can make it, about 72~75%), when i pull it out from the fridge it's _wet_ so even when it's as old as it should be (2~7 days) the crust will be mostly fresh flour.<p>The trick is that there is no trick and you just let it overferment but pick style that will work well with it. You need savory toppings to go with the taste, e.g. salami and maybe sharper tasting cheese. Making very thin pie will be difficult with dough so weak so don't do that, it won't rise very high so don't make it too thick either.<p>And 14 days is the furthest i recommend taking it. As i wrote above two to seven days is best, of course it tastes differently after seven than after two days but both are good and perfectly within the canon of 'pizza' and you can prepare it anyhow you want.<p>Beyond that you're pushing it, but since the topic is what shortcuts you can take i'll still recommend more than you need and using it longer than you'd think to over trying to make it the same day. 30~40 minutes from a decision to a pizza, it does taste right too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2023 19:36:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38281320</link><dc:creator>phaker</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38281320</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38281320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by phaker in "Julia Child's Culinary Notes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can go the exact other way, plain pizza dough is best after anywhere from 2 to 7 days in my experience. You can push it to 10 or 14 days too, which will taste different but still very good and the dough will be quite weak by then for thin crust pizza.<p>You still have to think of it ahead of time but this removes need for coordination and lets you do it in batches.<p>Also I just make one kind of starter bread dough in batches and then make everything out of it, some things as-is (bread for first ~4 days, bread dough pizzas for 14 days), some by mixing it with fresh dough (bread afterwards, everything else). But i'm specifically after the heavily fermented dark dough taste.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2023 09:30:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38274860</link><dc:creator>phaker</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38274860</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38274860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by phaker in "Hyphens in man pages"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I expected this to be about hyphenation, which (as i just realized and checked) breaks search because it won't find hyphenated words. I'm "happy" to see it's an entirely different and another problem.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2023 21:22:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37893501</link><dc:creator>phaker</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37893501</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37893501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by phaker in "Alcohol without the hangover – scientists are finding ways"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Afaict other than water water, vitamins, preservatives, organic acids and glycerine the only common ingredient between the two is magnolia officinalis. Wikipedia mentions two psychoactive compounds in it with a matching mechanism:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnolia_officinalis" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnolia_officinalis</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Jul 2023 07:09:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36928633</link><dc:creator>phaker</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36928633</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36928633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by phaker in "Fixed Bits of Version 4 UUID (2015)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This depends on the distribution, for a uniform distribution all 16 hex digits are equally likely in every position.<p>Also for benford's law to show up you want your data to span several orders of magnitude (so e.g. you have numbers in tens, hundreds and thousands) and for a datapoint to be about as likely to give an n-digit number as a n+1-digit number, not everywhere and not exactly but it needs to dominate over there being ten times times as many of them with each step.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2023 06:54:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36843958</link><dc:creator>phaker</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36843958</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36843958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by phaker in "Play (1) Linux manual page"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Haven't heard this one.<p>Do you have a name or source or something? Can't really google <i>that</i>.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jun 2023 08:53:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36279499</link><dc:creator>phaker</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36279499</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36279499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by phaker in "Ocean-surface temperatures are breaking records"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>With this attitude you'll see conspiracies everywhere, and that's a self reinforcing spiral.<p>If this is how much evidence you need to dismiss something without checking, then you'll dismiss everything and you'll never find out if/when the hunch was wrong.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 May 2023 17:53:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35843702</link><dc:creator>phaker</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35843702</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35843702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by phaker in "PeopleDAO “exploited” by Google Docs edit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There was a very noticeable uptick in spam (and also false positives like news Russia wouldn't like suddenly being marked as nsfw) starting after Elon laid off everyone he could. So i guess the human half of moderation disappeared.</p>
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<p>The 'apply' button is active so these are unapplied changes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2022 20:38:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31645916</link><dc:creator>phaker</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31645916</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31645916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by phaker in "UT1 NTP Time Dissemination"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>TAI is the 'UTC without leap seconds'.<p>UT1 is an evolution of solar time, and wobbles when Earth does because it's using the Earth and Sun (and other bodies) as a clock.<p>UTC is TAI with leap seconds added when UT1 drifts too far away.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2022 21:45:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29940873</link><dc:creator>phaker</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29940873</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29940873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by phaker in "Why the Obvious Necessary Condition Is Also Sufficient (2019) [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Disable https everywhere</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2021 07:22:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28903047</link><dc:creator>phaker</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28903047</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28903047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by phaker in "It is easier to educate a Do-er than to motivate the educated"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Rephrased it even sounds better:<p><i>It's easier to educate the motivated than motivate the educated.</i></p>
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