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New comment by plucas in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

plucas — Tue, 05 May 2026 09:12:13 +0000

The first. In German, many words that refer to a person (e.g. Fahrer/Fahrerin, male/female driver) have a plural which is identical to the male singular. For a while now, many writers have used a typographic style to make the plural gender-neutral by writing the male plural, an asterisk, and then the female plural suffix (e.g. Fahrer*innen).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_star

New comment by plucas in "Temporal: The 9-year journey to fix time in JavaScript"

plucas — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:13:14 +0000

Would have been interesting to connect back to Java's own journey to improve its time APIs, with Joda-Time leading into JSR 310, released with Java 8 in 2014. Immutable representations, instants, proper timezone support etc.

Given that the article refers to the "radical proposal" to bring these features to JavaScript came in 2018, surely Java's own solutions had some influence?

New comment by plucas in "The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup"

plucas — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 09:27:59 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system

New comment by plucas in "Severe turbulence forces Delta A330 to make emergency landing, 25 injured"

plucas — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 14:22:33 +0000

This study from the University of Reading found that severe turbulence has indeed increased significantly and measurably over the last 40 years: https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/2023/06/28/avia...

New comment by plucas in "It's the end of observability as we know it (and I feel fine)"

plucas — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 07:49:43 +0000

My assumption is by creating a service account with limited privileges and activating it for gcloud when running this.

New comment by plucas in "Hunting up-to-date Wikidata datasets"

plucas — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 15:56:54 +0000

Interestingly, the page you linked is missing Germany.

New comment by plucas in "Std: Clamp generates less efficient assembly than std:min(max,std:max(min,v))"

plucas — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 15:05:29 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust,_but_verify

> Trust, but verify (Russian: доверяй, но проверяй, tr. doveryay, no proveryay, IPA: [dəvʲɪˈrʲæj no prəvʲɪˈrʲæj]) is a Russian proverb, which is rhyming in Russian. The phrase became internationally known in English after Suzanne Massie, a scholar of Russian history, taught it to Ronald Reagan, then president of the United States, the latter of whom used it on several occasions in the context of nuclear disarmament discussions with the Soviet Union.

Memorably referenced in "Chernobyl": https://youtu.be/9Ebah_QdBnI?t=79

New comment by plucas in "Original Age of Empires 2 dev talks about its usage of assembly code"

plucas — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 15:11:57 +0000

For those interested, the competitive AoE2 scene is alive and well with one of its biggest tournaments, NAC5, going on now, an in-person LAN in Berlin.

https://liquipedia.net/ageofempires/Nili%27s_Apartment_Cup/5

https://www.twitch.tv/nili_aoe

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXeY7zz-1LsyZdnpFbffdqA

New comment by plucas in "The Heresy of Decline"

plucas — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 06:26:18 +0000

https://longnow.org/ideas/long-now-years-five-digit-dates-an...

New comment by plucas in "More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck"

plucas — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 14:38:34 +0000

That sounds like a bold statement. I would imagine the large majority of players of any mass-market title don’t know about or use any non-built-in mods.

New comment by plucas in "Microfeatures I'd like to see in more languages"

plucas — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 08:00:21 +0000

What exactly do you mean by "damned" here?

New comment by plucas in "Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond [pdf]"

plucas — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 13:09:01 +0000

Gigabits, I presume, so 100 GB/s.

New comment by plucas in "Ask HN: How do you record your personal finances?"

plucas — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 11:49:01 +0000

Beancount (https://beancount.github.io/) plus a script for formatting bank statement CSVs.

New comment by plucas in "Are film critics losing sync with audiences?"

plucas — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 09:10:11 +0000

Maybe you're aware of how Rotten Tomatoes scores work, but in case someone reading this isn't: the score is not some average of individual scores like IMDb uses (I think), but just the _proportion of critic scores that are positive_.

So, if a film has 100x 2.5/4 star ratings from critics and 50 1.5/4 star ratings, it would have a Tomatometer score of 67% (100 positive of 150 ratings).

New comment by plucas in "IBM’s Watson Health is sold off in parts"

plucas — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 15:29:02 +0000

This is a mischaracterization of P.A.s (well, not the being-paid-less bit). Do you know any personally?

New comment by plucas in "Hetzner announcement: Price changes for servers ordered via the Server Auction"

plucas — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 13:20:03 +0000

My monthly electricity bill went up by ~29%, so sounds about right. In fact, my electricity provider raised everyone's rate, even those with a contract, but giving an option to leave and find another provider, and shortly thereafter went bankrupt.

New comment by plucas in "A delightful quirk of relativity theory"

plucas — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 13:48:57 +0000

Note that Thread Reader loses the images attached to some of the tweets (at least for me).

Edit: strike that, it was Firefox's social tracker protection blocking them. Just need to click the shield icon left of the address bar and temporarily disable it.

New comment by plucas in "Canyon.mid"

plucas — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 13:08:39 +0000

I encourage you to read the first sentence of QuadrupleA‘s comment to this post in LGR’s voice.

New comment by plucas in "How we built EGo"

plucas — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 12:06:40 +0000

What are you trying to say, exactly? "Confidential computing" doesn't _use_ anything, it's a technology for working with encrypted data, mate.

Ask HN: Who do you go to for tech support?

plucas — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 11:36:27 +0000

Where do you turn when you run into a tech support issue you can't solve yourself, even when leaning on the brain-cache that is the internet?

What I thought was a minor issue has stubbornly stumped me for three or four months now: under certain kinds of load, my Windows (10; self-built) PC experiences pops in its audio output due to high latency in processing interrupts.

Having gone down the rabbit hole of performance trace recording[1] and analysis[2] on Windows, as well as ruling out component after component, I'm no closer to solving the problem. (The gory details can be found on my /r/techsupport thread[3] with no replies)

At this point, I would pay good money to a high-level (low-level?) tech support provider that has the skills necessary to debug this sort of problem, but I'm at a total loss at where to find one in the haystack of "IT Crowd"-esque support you find by searching the internet or picking an arbitrary local "PC repair" shop.

So, can anyone recommend a company with a sufficiently deep level of expertise to solve this kind of problem that an individual could go to? Or know where to look or whom to ask to get pointed in the right direction?

[1]WPR: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/test/wpt/windows-performance-recorder

[2]WPA: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/test/wpt/windows-performance-analyzer

[2]MXA: https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Defrag-Tools/DefragTools-149-Media-eXperience-Analyzer-part-1

[3]https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/l71009/persistent_interrupt_latency_problems_on_windows/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26112574

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