Hacker News: roydivision

New comment by roydivision in "What would happen if you tried to land on a gas giant?"

roydivision — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 06:59:13 +0000

More and more article titles follow this click bait pattern. The article itself is fine, interesting, albeit a bit short. But I totally agree, and it irks me too, that the implied promise of the title is not honored.

New comment by roydivision in "I think it's time to give Nix a chance"

roydivision — Wed, 28 May 2025 07:00:55 +0000

You can easily host and manage your own package repository. My point is that this apparent limitation is not in itself a strong enough reason to embark on NIX.

Go fill your boots if you want to use NIX, power to you, but be honest about why if you're going to write a piece about it.

New comment by roydivision in "Space Selfie"

roydivision — Wed, 28 May 2025 06:54:27 +0000

It seems from my own upload that you are limited to one / email address. So yes you could just use a bunch of aliases, but I guess they're banking on most people only having access to a few addresses.

New comment by roydivision in "I think it's time to give Nix a chance"

roydivision — Tue, 27 May 2025 06:58:31 +0000

> More importantly, Docker containers themselves aren’t reproducible—running apt-get update or pip install requests at different times can yield different results, even with the same Dockerfile.

apt-get install =

> And frankly, no one really needs Kubernetes, they just have it because everyone and their grandma has it. I digress, that’s a topic for another day.

Oh grow up, ffs.

New comment by roydivision in "Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?"

roydivision — Tue, 27 May 2025 06:43:29 +0000

The Mastodon instance I'm on.

New comment by roydivision in "Living beings emit a faint light that extinguishes upon death, study"

roydivision — Mon, 19 May 2025 07:20:19 +0000

The article specifically states that this light is NOT visible to humans:

> UPE, also known as biophoton emission, is a spontaneous release of extremely low-intensity light that is invisible to the human eye and falls within the spectral range of 200–1,000 nm.

New comment by roydivision in "Show HN: Hardtime.nvim – break bad habits and master Vim motions"

roydivision — Mon, 19 May 2025 07:09:55 +0000

Some nice explanations of f and t:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12495442/what-do-the-f-a...

New comment by roydivision in "How Kim Jong Il Kidnapped a Director, Made a Cult Hit Godzilla Knockoff (2015)"

roydivision — Tue, 06 May 2025 06:43:24 +0000

Paul Fischer's book, 'A Kim Jong-Il Production' is well worth a read, not only for the story of these kidnappings, but of life in North Korea and its history.

New comment by roydivision in "The Beauty of Having a Pi-Hole (2024)"

roydivision — Tue, 06 May 2025 06:39:03 +0000

I choose browser plugins instead for a more consistent experience, at home or anywhere.

New comment by roydivision in "Try Switching to Kagi"

roydivision — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 06:34:19 +0000

I switched about two months ago, paid for a year. It's such a relief, it's like having search of ten years ago back again. It just works, and no useless crap. Options that make sense to ME, not to the profit line.

I'm now paying for:

- Search

- Email

- News

- Backups

Of course I'd rather not spend the money, but ALL these services are leagues ahead of the ad-supported alternatives. This is how the Internet should work.

(Edit - formatting)

New comment by roydivision in "Bored of It"

roydivision — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 13:10:15 +0000

A flawed solution looking for a problem.

New comment by roydivision in "Show HN: My iOS app to practice sight reading (10 years in the App Store)"

roydivision — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 07:55:21 +0000

Guitar player here. App looks great, but shame it's only for piano. I used a different app that does pretty much the same thing and really benefited from it, the improvement was noticeable after each session.

If you add guitar support it will be an immediate download for me.

New comment by roydivision in "Apple shuffles AI executive ranks in bid to turn around Siri"

roydivision — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 13:27:34 +0000

I have no idea how Apple prioritise their bug fixing, but it really looks to me like bugs only get fixed when adding new features, if at all.

This is such a trivial big win as well, create a software dev team to focus on the outstanding bugs. Head it with one or two senior developers, make it the first step in onboarding new developers. What a great way to learn, and make a difference.

This is not rocket surgery, and Apple really do have a bad reputation here, even with the muggles.

New comment by roydivision in "Ask HN: Where do you browse and chat outside of here?"

roydivision — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 07:25:34 +0000

Mainly The Guardian and Mastodon

Other sites include 404Media, Wired, The Newyorker, BBC News.

New comment by roydivision in "The Nightmare Bicycle"

roydivision — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 07:35:23 +0000

I couldn't agree more. However the reason we have a Popcorn option on the microwave is because it makes the difference at the point of sale, not at the point of use. Most people when presented with two devices that essentially do the same thing, but one has more options will chose the one with more options because they have been lead to believe it's better.

Design is so often polluted by marketing. The direction of progress from concept to design to marketing to sale should be one way only.

New comment by roydivision in "Does iOS have sideloading yet?"

roydivision — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 08:36:07 +0000

I personally wouldn't go anywhere near sideloading applications that haven't been through Apple's verification processes, or advise anyone in my family to do so.

I also think that it is very hard to argue _against_ allowing sideloading.

These two opinions can co-exist.

Make it optional, make sure the user knows what they are doing, and has acknowledged multiple times that they understand the risks, and that they acknowledge support for any problems at all with the phone will be compromised as a result.

Realistically, 99% of iPhone users don't need to sideload, nor understand what it means, and would be worse off doing it on their phones.

Yeah yeah Apple the big corp walled garden big evil boo. Yes they make mistakes, yes they make a ton of money. But, their stuff works better than anything else on the market for the vast majority of people, and their decisions are almost always thoroughly thought through in favor of the customer experience, accessibility, security and safety.

New comment by roydivision in "Trick to find commands in the terminal quickly"

roydivision — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 08:21:19 +0000

$ #

Later, search for

New comment by roydivision in "How does Ada's memory safety compare against Rust?"

roydivision — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 07:51:26 +0000

I thought this would be comparing Rust to Ada Lovelace's code...

And I've coded in Ada...

New comment by roydivision in "Regularly eating eggs supports a lower risk of death from cardiovascular disease"

roydivision — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 07:38:31 +0000

Eggs? In this economy?

New comment by roydivision in "Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog"

roydivision — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 07:35:23 +0000

A slight tangent - does anyone have advice on anonymous blogs? I would accept an email address as being the sole contact, but nothing else.