Hacker News: segfaltnh

New comment by segfaltnh in "Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]"

segfaltnh — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:11:56 +0000

I dont think you watched the talk.

New comment by segfaltnh in "Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]"

segfaltnh — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:11:16 +0000

They didn't say it pays the bills. My guess is playing music, its the only other thing for me.

New comment by segfaltnh in "Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]"

segfaltnh — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:09:34 +0000

Oh wow, I forgot about this. That context is important. He's talking to an audience of adherents. There's something mildly fascist about that.

New comment by segfaltnh in "Small programming tricks"

segfaltnh — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 11:28:23 +0000

I have a shell function called "up" that finds a project root and jumps back to it (e.g. a dir containing something like .git)

Now I have these to complement - thanks!

New comment by segfaltnh in "Bad code is kudzu"

segfaltnh — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 11:22:54 +0000

THANK YOU! I couldn't figure out why this word was so familiar to me while reading the article.

New comment by segfaltnh in "Xanadu was waiting for agents"

segfaltnh — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:08:11 +0000

And funding them.

New comment by segfaltnh in "Xanadu was waiting for agents"

segfaltnh — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:06:27 +0000

This was my feeling trying to grok why I want or need Delta.

New comment by segfaltnh in "Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out"

segfaltnh — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:00:08 +0000

One thing worth noting is just how load-bearing it all is. Great point!

New comment by segfaltnh in "Hackers Had a Live Feed of Every ID Verification Company Scanned for over a Year"

segfaltnh — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:53:52 +0000

Sure but even when it works it slower and less total than good policy. Of course, good policy is a rare bird, too.

New comment by segfaltnh in "O&O ShutUp10 – The antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11"

segfaltnh — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:42:41 +0000

My favorite anti-spyware tool for Windows is Linux.

New comment by segfaltnh in "Ask HN: What would happen if your company stopped using all AI tomorrow?"

segfaltnh — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:01:54 +0000

I love the "IYKYK" as a kind of in joke among AI psychosis enjoyers.

New comment by segfaltnh in "Debian: Retiring from the Project (Vv221)"

segfaltnh — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 04:32:24 +0000

Can they both be important?

New comment by segfaltnh in "The UK's war on anonymity has come to America"

segfaltnh — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:21:06 +0000

Every time I see this take I remember the time my step father picked me up by my throat and body slammed me on the floor. I was 12. I've had tinnitus ever since. Children really do need protection from some parents. I'm glad you had a good upbringing, be well.

New comment by segfaltnh in "How we can reduce traffic congestion"

segfaltnh — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 03:13:15 +0000

I wasted a decade trying to live in single family homes. Now at 40 my wife and I are living in a small city in a condo and couldn't be happier. Neither of us enjoyed the workload of managing a SFH. Dont force yourself to stay if you aren't happy, you'll wish you moved sooner (I do).

New comment by segfaltnh in "Gig workers worked more but earned less in 2024: study"

segfaltnh — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 00:43:23 +0000

Thing is, the model could have been built with employees, even lowly paid ones, but then it would have been pretty transparent that they were subsidizing the rates to take market share from licensed taxis. The indirection is a feature, not a bug. Have we learned anything? Probably not.

New comment by segfaltnh in "Gig workers worked more but earned less in 2024: study"

segfaltnh — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 00:38:08 +0000

Not if the investors can get an IPO done because of their great "innovation", then the bag holders are 401ks, mostly.

New comment by segfaltnh in "More than 40% of postdocs leave academia, study reveals"

segfaltnh — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 13:02:27 +0000

No one ever thinks of the poor owners.

New comment by segfaltnh in "Context should go away for Go 2 (2017)"

segfaltnh — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 12:43:02 +0000

Scala has everything, and therefore nothing.

New comment by segfaltnh in "Context should go away for Go 2 (2017)"

segfaltnh — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 12:38:11 +0000

Thread local storage means all async tasks (goroutines) must run in the same thread. This isn't how tasks are actually scheduled. A request can fan out, or contention can move parts of the computation between threads, which is why context exists.

Furthermore in Go threads are spun up at process start, not at request time, so thread-local has a leak risk or cleanup cost. Contexts are all releasable after their processing ends.

I've grown to be a huge fan of Go for servers and context is one reason. That said, I agree with a lot of the critique and would love to see an in-language solution, but thread-local ain't it.

New comment by segfaltnh in "Docker Desktop Broken on Mac OS Update for over a Week"

segfaltnh — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 03:35:27 +0000

Docker has jumped the shark as a company, good thing the alternatives are maturing quickly. We've had pretty good (not perfect) success with the Colima project.