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New comment by roer in "The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) 2025 Winners"

roer — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 14:30:35 +0000

Going through your comment history makes me wish for a way to ignore hn users

New comment by roer in "The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) 2025 Winners"

roer — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:05:28 +0000

There's a Frieren [1] reference in there! https://www.ioccc.org/2025/yang2/index.html

One of the main characters is called Fern, and she almost exclusively uses the common offensive magic of Zoltraak.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frieren

New comment by roer in "Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test"

roer — Fri, 29 May 2026 05:57:56 +0000

The mass produced rockets explode very infrequently

New comment by roer in "Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?"

roer — Tue, 26 May 2026 20:27:36 +0000

How do you get enough calories while avoiding fats? What do you usually eat in a day?

New comment by roer in "SpaceX S-1"

roer — Fri, 22 May 2026 04:39:48 +0000

Not that slow if the temperature is high enough. Power radiated is proportional to T^4

New comment by roer in "SpaceX S-1"

roer — Fri, 22 May 2026 04:35:32 +0000

Scott Manley is a much more respected source than I am

New comment by roer in "SpaceX S-1"

roer — Thu, 21 May 2026 05:46:50 +0000

I don't see how that would lessen their concerns? Exactly because space is a vacuum, cooling is harder since you can't do convection.

The math still checks out though. Scott Manley did a video on it, and the top comment has some corrections: https://youtu.be/FlQYU3m1e80

New comment by roer in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

roer — Mon, 11 May 2026 11:33:16 +0000

Frame it as "America will decide what you can do with your phone" and people in Europe will listen.

New comment by roer in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

roer — Mon, 11 May 2026 07:53:19 +0000

Check if there are local digital rights groups to your country/area. I just joined two I didn't even know about. Meeting up and talking with likeminded people is a great way to get motivation for bigger change.

New comment by roer in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

roer — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:07:56 +0000

I love the readme on the gitlab page [1]. It feels so.. friendly :)

> This repository contains CAD files for the external shell (surface topology) of Steam Controller and the Steam Controller Puck, under a Creative Commons license. This includes an STP model of each, an STL model of each, and an engineering drawing with critical features/keep outs for each.

Feel free to use these to make your own Puck holders, Controller sweaters, or whatever else you want to create!

Your Steam Controller is yours, and you have the right to do with it what you want. That said, we highly recommend you leave it to professionals. Any damage you do will not be covered by your warranty – but more importantly, you might break your Steam Controller, or even get hurt! Be careful, and have fun.

[1] https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/SteamHardware/SteamController

New comment by roer in "Why Not Venus?"

roer — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:02:59 +0000

Did you read the rest of the post? The author acknowledges the lander issues as well

New comment by roer in "DeepSeek v4"

roer — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:43:18 +0000

This is quite interesting. I'm not sure what can to be done to reverse this? When you've reached a level of untrust where you deem trust itself naive, how can you recover?

New comment by roer in "M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan"

roer — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:39:35 +0000

It is straight up the same NERV, so it might.

From the site:

> The name and logo of "NERV" are used with the explicit permission of khara Inc., the copyright holder of the "Evangelion" series, and Groundworks Corporation, which manages the rights to the series.

New comment by roer in "FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer"

roer — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:14:27 +0000

The graphics protocol might be relevant, but I fail to see how the rest of your comment is.

New comment by roer in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"

roer — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:21:12 +0000

I assume you meant Crunchyroll. They've gotten even worse recently by moving away from .ass subtitles which removes a ton of typesetting options

New comment by roer in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"

roer — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:18:13 +0000

It doesn't have to be significantly better. If the service is stable, cheap and hassle-free, people will pay for it.

New comment by roer in "Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer"

roer — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:27:51 +0000

Lots of fun trying to go to a target symbol. Especially if you intentionally get yourself stuck in the lines first :D

New comment by roer in "Claude's Cycles [pdf]"

roer — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:21:49 +0000

Is this a joke I don't get? His name was Rudolf Diesel, right?

New comment by roer in "Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf]"

roer — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:27:42 +0000

I have the printed versions of issue #6 and #7, I highly recommend them!

https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/pagedout

New comment by roer in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

roer — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:01:00 +0000

I think op meant the subjective feeling of having a system that runs in a stable manner. I don't quite follow their reasoning either (maybe the smaller changesets expose compatibility bugs before affecting general ux?), but I agree that arch was a joy for me to use and felt "stable".