Hacker News: rmwaite

New comment by rmwaite in "On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted"

rmwaite — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:17:20 +0000

To be fair, they were just sharing their experience. I don’t recall them saying anything close to your interpretation.

New comment by rmwaite in "Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird"

rmwaite — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 23:37:57 +0000

JavaScript has its share of wtfs, so I wonder how much of it is which one someone experienced during some formative window in their learning.

Did you encounter JS first?

New comment by rmwaite in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

rmwaite — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 22:09:39 +0000

I find it interesting that you can’t lie to the police but the police can (and do) lie to you. Why?

New comment by rmwaite in "How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots"

rmwaite — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:30:22 +0000

That’s just an email signature, configurable (or removable, if you prefer) by the user. This is completely different, in my opinion.

New comment by rmwaite in "How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots"

rmwaite — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:28:30 +0000

On iOS, if you swipe control center down and then back up but don’t lift your finger, the screenshot will not have the logo. I do this with Twitter so my screenshots don’t have the X logo.

New comment by rmwaite in "uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook"

rmwaite — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:25:27 +0000

I think “staggering” is a pretty accurate way of putting it if blocking ads is in the same ballpark as running a AAA game on max settings.

New comment by rmwaite in "Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word"

rmwaite — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:29:06 +0000

Instructions are data

New comment by rmwaite in "A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway"

rmwaite — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:07:15 +0000

I think the point is that worse is better. There is incredible power in a standard (mostly) predictable platform, even if it could be done better.

New comment by rmwaite in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

rmwaite — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:27:23 +0000

I mean it kinda does.

New comment by rmwaite in "Data centers consumed 264B gallons of water as drought hits nearly 63% of US"

rmwaite — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 01:07:14 +0000

> Once you irrigate a field, that water is gone.

This doesn't seem true to me, in the sense that anything is truly "gone". The water doesn't cease to exist or is converted to anything other than water. It just moves.

New comment by rmwaite in "The real cost of owning a home"

rmwaite — Tue, 26 May 2026 21:57:02 +0000

Agree completely about the time thing. Indeed, every time I’ve fallen into the trap of somehow believing I’ve moved “past” the time sink it inevitably has bitten me down the road when something breaks or I learn about some maintenance task I should have been doing but didn’t even know existed.

More than anything, I’ve come to admire those who learn how to do this stuff consistently because it is hard.

New comment by rmwaite in "Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu"

rmwaite — Mon, 25 May 2026 00:25:30 +0000

I remember being the big innovation over svn being merging. There were others things, obviously, but the distributed model + easy merges is what I remember.

New comment by rmwaite in "Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15"

rmwaite — Wed, 13 May 2026 22:28:42 +0000

Any language of Python’s size and popularity will be a mess, the only difference is what parts of it.

New comment by rmwaite in "LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate"

rmwaite — Sat, 09 May 2026 17:08:43 +0000

What I find fascinating about LLMs is that a lot of their failures seem strikingly similar to the failures that humans struggle with. I’m not sure what this “means” but I think it’s interesting that we can theoretically fix these failures for LLMs but for humans it is much harder. You pretty much need to educate / indoctrinate people for their entire lives and even then it’s messy and unpredictable and prone to failure—just like LLMs.

New comment by rmwaite in "Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school"

rmwaite — Fri, 08 May 2026 04:16:54 +0000

I don't think this is something to laugh at. Whether or not you think it's necessary or a proper method of punishment, it isn't funny.

New comment by rmwaite in "Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux"

rmwaite — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:11:41 +0000

This matches me experience as well. Some of my earliest rsync experiences were with the Cygwin version and I can remember scratching my head and wondering why people raved about this tool that ran so slowly. Imagine my surprise when I tried it on Linux. Night and day!

New comment by rmwaite in "YouTube users get option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes"

rmwaite — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 01:20:25 +0000

In my case, once I set the limit to 0 minutes and refreshed the home tab I don't see Shorts recommendations at all. There is still a Shorts tab at the bottom that tells me I have no remaining time (and allows me to trivially override it, sigh). But otherwise this seems to have cleaned up the "feed" that I see in the app of anything Shorts related (for now, at least).

New comment by rmwaite in "There's no single best way to store information"

rmwaite — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 18:54:54 +0000

Relevant: https://sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html

New comment by rmwaite in "IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world"

rmwaite — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 20:11:41 +0000

IP addresses were always meant to be globally reachable. Of course, NAT has corrupted this - which is why NAT is a scourge.

New comment by rmwaite in "I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla"

rmwaite — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 01:44:57 +0000

I think AI can add a lot of functionality but on the margins. Making things “work better”. I think AI as a focal point—in that it is The feature is a mistake for most things. But making code completion work better or suggestions more accurate? Things that are largely invisible UI-wise.