Hacker News: ronjakoi

New comment by ronjakoi in "Bugs Rust won't catch"

ronjakoi — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 05:35:24 +0000

They are deliberately not looking at coreutils code because the Rust versions are released as MIT and they don't want the project contaminated by GPL. I am not fond of this, personally.

New comment by ronjakoi in "OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS"

ronjakoi — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:20:54 +0000

What's wrong with typing 2:1?

New comment by ronjakoi in "Archive of BYTE magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975"

ronjakoi — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:53:46 +0000

In Finland, we make an independent computer magazine called Skrolli that comes out 4 times per year. Our issues are about 120 pages each, but with hardly any ads.

New comment by ronjakoi in "The effects of caffeine consumption do not decay with a ~5 hour half-life"

ronjakoi — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:28:27 +0000

You should start a xanthina where you serve various xanthinated beverages.

New comment by ronjakoi in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

ronjakoi — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:42:41 +0000

I've been growing bonsai trees for about 13 years. It doesn't have anything to do with computers, so it's a nice counterbalance to my software job. I don't really even take pictures or videos of my trees, I want to keep the subject as analog and simple as I can.

New comment by ronjakoi in "Willingness to look stupid"

ronjakoi — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 05:10:26 +0000

Are you sure?

New comment by ronjakoi in "Can my SPARC server host a website?"

ronjakoi — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 08:54:20 +0000

The question is more about the hardware. Back then, TLS existed but was used sparingly for things like banking, because of the computational overhead, at both the server and client end. Today's computers are so much faster that we don't even think about it.

New comment by ronjakoi in "Parse, Don't Validate (2019)"

ronjakoi — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:30:45 +0000

I work with PHP, where classes are supposedly a lot slower than strings and arrays (PHP calls dictionaries "associative arrays").

New comment by ronjakoi in "In praise of –dry-run"

ronjakoi — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 05:58:27 +0000

I used to have alias rm='rm -i' for a few years to be careful, but I took it out once I realised that I had just begun adding -f all the time

New comment by ronjakoi in "200 MB RAM FreeBSD desktop"

ronjakoi — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 06:38:44 +0000

I used to run Gnome on 8 MB in the late 90s

New comment by ronjakoi in "Light Mode InFFFFFFlation"

ronjakoi — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 02:36:02 +0000

That's an unreasonable ask. I'm not gonna fiddle with the brightness of my monitor throughout the day, thanks

New comment by ronjakoi in "Kip: A programming language based on grammatical cases of Turkish"

ronjakoi — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 02:26:52 +0000

Finnish case markers vary a lot from word to word, because of not only vowel harmony but other features of the word stem, and consonant gradation which is a weird feature of Uralic languages.

For the subtraction example, some numbers would be 50:tä 5:llä and others 6:tta 3:lla. Of course you could encode for all those possibilities and successfully parse them, but it would feel weird for a compiler to reject an expression because it's ungrammatical Finnish.

Also it would feel weird if you first write (vähennä muuttujaa 256:lla) but then realise you made an off-by-1 and have to change it to (vähennä muuttujaa 255:lla) but that doesn't compile because it should be 255:llä, so you have to remember to change two things.

But on the other hand, that's just how it is to write in Finnish, so in prose we don't really think about it. In natural language, it's normal to have to change other stuff in a sentence for it to continue making sense when you change one thing.

New comment by ronjakoi in "Kip: A programming language based on grammatical cases of Turkish"

ronjakoi — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 02:11:41 +0000

Essentially you could write equivalent code as (vähennä 5:ttä 3:lla) in Finnish

New comment by ronjakoi in "Eat Real Food"

ronjakoi — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 23:49:49 +0000

I haven't had any meat in about 20 years. But I also don't live in the US.

New comment by ronjakoi in "Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%"

ronjakoi — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 01:17:48 +0000

But that's what Linux distros are for, package maintainers watch the CVEs for you, and all you have to do is "apt upgrade"

New comment by ronjakoi in "Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo"

ronjakoi — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 18:54:21 +0000

On mine, I don't. Any interactivity is too much hassle for me to worry about wrt moderation etc. I also don't particularly care what random people have to say. If my friends like what I wrote, they can tell me on Signal or comment on the Bluesky post when I share the link.

New comment by ronjakoi in "NTP at NIST Boulder Has Lost Power"

ronjakoi — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 14:10:36 +0000

Or even just a microsecond emergency.

New comment by ronjakoi in "NTP at NIST Boulder Has Lost Power"

ronjakoi — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 14:09:18 +0000

Will the time it takes you to answer depend on the mass of the person asking?

New comment by ronjakoi in "1,700-year-old Roman sarcophagus is unearthed in Budapest"

ronjakoi — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 06:10:30 +0000

Cool band name, too.

New comment by ronjakoi in "Slow"

ronjakoi — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 21:39:35 +0000

Nah I just didn't know anything about Mandarin really