Hacker News: pletnes

New comment by pletnes in "Sudo for Windows (2024)"

pletnes — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:21:54 +0000

I just avoid windows whenever I can.

New comment by pletnes in "Sudo for Windows (2024)"

pletnes — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:12:33 +0000

Browsers let me copy-paste curl commands from developer tools. These don’t work with windows «curl».

I know a few flags of curl too. These also don’t generally work with «curl».

New comment by pletnes in "Sudo for Windows (2024)"

pletnes — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 06:28:07 +0000

The curl alias in powershell is not compatible so it is an inconvenience. Must be one of the worst decisions to make it into windows, which is saying a lot.

New comment by pletnes in "Claude Code Routines"

pletnes — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:21:51 +0000

Also you can schedule it a bit off. Every hour? Delay it a few seconds. Can’t do that with a chat message. Also, batch up a bunch of them, maybe save some compute that way? Latency is not an issue.

New comment by pletnes in "NaN Is Weird"

pletnes — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:26:18 +0000

Just use numpy if you want to do math. Seriously.

New comment by pletnes in "Making Wolfram tech available as a foundation tool for LLM systems"

pletnes — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:21:10 +0000

He got famous solving quantum field theory problems

New comment by pletnes in "A DuckDB-based metabase alternative"

pletnes — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:06:42 +0000

Same here. I have however seen a few out of memory cases in the past when given large input files.

New comment by pletnes in "Claude Code is being dumbed down?"

pletnes — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:12:13 +0000

I honestly don’t think the models are as important as people tend to believe. More important is how the models are given tools - find, grep, git, test runners, …

New comment by pletnes in "How to effectively write quality code with AI"

pletnes — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 22:14:39 +0000

Claude code is great at figuring out legacy code! I dont get the «for new systems only» idea, myself.

New comment by pletnes in "Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments"

pletnes — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 06:29:43 +0000

You might need to backtrack a lot more, due to the intermediate compression step?

New comment by pletnes in "Using PostgreSQL as a Dead Letter Queue for Event-Driven Systems"

pletnes — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 17:13:20 +0000

If you can’t deliver to the DLQ, then what? Then you’re missing messages either way. Who cares if it’s down this way or the other?

New comment by pletnes in "The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable"

pletnes — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 18:04:24 +0000

I cannot recall Obama doing one single thing for peace internationally? Which conflict did he help stop?

New comment by pletnes in "Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids"

pletnes — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:51:49 +0000

My samsung did this years ago. Not sure if it was truly required but I’d say this has happened.

New comment by pletnes in "Zellij: A terminal workspace with batteries included"

pletnes — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 20:27:41 +0000

I like tmux better as well (muscle memory) but AFAIK you need tmuxinator for preconfiguring layouts?

New comment by pletnes in "Mixpanel Security Breach"

pletnes — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 09:02:25 +0000

Is it? I read that they disabled mixpanel while the incident was ongoing?

New comment by pletnes in "PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage"

pletnes — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 14:54:54 +0000

That way? I was trying to say that the mix of hydrocarbon molecules is different for each and every oil field due to local geological variation. Even within the field, since eg lighter molecules presumably come out first.

New comment by pletnes in "PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage"

pletnes — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 05:30:32 +0000

Depends a lot on the oil field, geology is random

New comment by pletnes in "How I use every Claude Code feature"

pletnes — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 10:16:09 +0000

On windows, it depends on the local git configuration. It’s not something I’ve been happy with, especially since symlinks also behave differently again when you’re running a docker container to get your windows usable for development.

New comment by pletnes in "Tags to make HTML work like you expect"

pletnes — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 14:56:52 +0000

Even better: it scales nicely with the browser’s zoom setting.

New comment by pletnes in "60k kids have avoided peanut allergies due to 2015 advice, study finds"

pletnes — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 05:49:32 +0000

And most of them die young.