<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: quink</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=quink</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:44:59 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=quink" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by quink in "Live: Artemis II Launch Day Updates"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It was a telegram, not a letter. As also immortalised at the end of the 1968 episode of ‘From The Earth To The Moon’, attributed there to an apparently fictitious person.</p>
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<p>Because at this point all the people in all the other countries do not care who you voted for, especially not after he caused an insurrection and a Democratic Party administration didn't do anything to prosecute that. At this point all the people outside the US just want to know what you're going to be doing about this insanity.</p>
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<p>lol, others are saying elections to solve economic concerns. If that solves it why do you keep re-electing Republicans given this context: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._economic_performance_by_presidential_party" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._economic_performance_by_p...</a> sure the next election might fix it temporarily but the one after that will just just tank the economy again. Or overturn insider trading bans or issue pardons, the possibilities for chaos are endless and — fun fact - investors abhor regulatory uncertainty.</p>
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<p>Getting rid of the delusion of American exceptionalism in how politics is conducted. In other words, do something about the two party system, or the pardon power or any number of things, the possibilities are endless. But doing anything about it would require admitting that the USA is something other than perfect, so it’ll never happen. Too bad really.<p>At least the USA is only 4% of the world’s population so the world economy will just find other financial hubs and currencies, no big loss.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:00:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47504650</link><dc:creator>quink</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47504650</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47504650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by quink in "A beginner's guide to split keyboards"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Crazy suggestion, just connect two normal keyboards. Particularly if the left one is numpad-less you’ll get much of the idea for sure.<p>They might be a smidgeon further apart than might be ideal, there’s some ugly duplication… which happens to enforce a minimum distance… just get that shoulder opened up and start evaluating. It’s certainly likely to be more optimal than the status quo.<p>Might need Karabiner on macOS to keep shortcuts working.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:08:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47081737</link><dc:creator>quink</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47081737</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47081737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by quink in "Treasures found on HS2 route"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Get any satellite imagery of the UK, like on Google Earth. Even at a very zoomed out level, with London and Birmingham but an inch apart, you'll instantly spot the bit of HS2 they're building.</p>
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<p>SponsorBlock. Granted, doesn’t do much for my iPhone but on computers it’s a solved problem.</p>
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<p>How? Near enough no one was using the Kunrei system for any of that. If anything this will make it more consistent or at least no worse. Macrons are the biggest inconsistency but that’s always been the case.<p>It was either Hepburn, the English title (i.e. rock instead of rokku), or just most sensibly kana/kanji that would have been used for this everywhere, never other romanisation systems, to within a rounding error.</p>
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<p>> to win multiple elections around the country.<p>So voters across the country have come to the conclusion that the Democrats aren’t to blame.<p>You don’t always get comments that contain their own rebuttal, but when they happen they just bring a tear to your eyes.</p>
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<p>Hooks were first introduced in 16.8. Make it 18 maybe?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 10:57:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45525951</link><dc:creator>quink</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45525951</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45525951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by quink in "Highest bridge unveiled at more than 2,000ft above ground"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One of these days I’ll get a model railroad bridge and put it over a borehole. But that day shan’t be today because arguing technicalities on HN seems easier :)<p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_bridges" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_bridges</a> vs <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest_bridges" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest_bridges</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2025 22:43:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45456475</link><dc:creator>quink</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45456475</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45456475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by quink in "Highest bridge unveiled at more than 2,000ft above ground"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Note: highest, not tallest. Highest should technically be the building here: <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole</a> which is more than 12km above ground, that is to say 12km high. Or, rather, was, having been destroyed since. There’s other boreholes too though.</p>
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<p>Just make it a well-defined class.<p>Like option structs in Go. Simple.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2025 12:16:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45371913</link><dc:creator>quink</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45371913</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45371913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by quink in "macOS Tahoe is certified Unix 03 [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm not even talking about compilers though... all I want is a baseline standard that I can point to and say: "Here. This right here is where it says that 'curl' and 'wget' shall be available and in $PATH."<p>And some simple command for any Linux distro or macOS to install everything necessary to adhere to that standard, or a distro that conforms with that standard in the first place.</p>
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<p>I may have mentioned on occasion, here or there, about how ludicrous it is that there appears to be no well-defined standard that user space shall have sqlite3 and git and gzip.<p>So, for all intents and purposes, nothing that would be relevant in any reasonable end-user way in 2025. It’s all just: here’s defaults and here’s scripts to set up your environment and here’s a dozen things to run brew with. But no standard.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2025 12:39:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45239376</link><dc:creator>quink</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45239376</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45239376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by quink in "Newsmax agrees to pay $67M in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting_by_country" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting_by_country</a><p>In fact, I’d call electronic voting unpopular given the many, many examples on this page.</p>
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<p>Australian here. Electronic voting is a joke. And a not very funny one.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2025 23:07:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44946277</link><dc:creator>quink</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44946277</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44946277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by quink in "NASA's acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I saw a cold, dark, black emptiness. It was unlike any blackness you can see or feel on Earth. It was deep, enveloping, all-encompassing. I turned back toward the light of home. I could see the curvature of Earth, the beige of the desert, the white of the clouds and the blue of the sky. It was life. Nurturing, sustaining, life. Mother Earth. Gaia. And I was leaving her.<p>Shatner on space. Same thing with Carl Sagan and that mote of dust. And Earthrise. And Blue Marble.<p>I dislike these Trump people and the consistency with which they’ve all had complete spiritual bankruptcies ever so much.</p>
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<p>> Apple released its final CRT monitor in 2000<p>Not a standalone monitor, but eMac. 2002, with the last revision first released in 2005.</p>
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<p>> Mac history echoes in current Mac operating systems<p>Echoes like, if you look really closely, how window management without third-party tools is as garbage in 2025 as it was in 1984. Never change, love you Mac.</p>
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