Hacker News: shmerl

New comment by shmerl in "I quit. The clankers won"

shmerl — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:25:20 +0000

I'd say viewing it as most important is pretty unprofessional. But isn't it the point of this extreme AI push? To replace professional skills with dummy parrots.

New comment by shmerl in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

shmerl — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 01:38:53 +0000

Who stops using a mosquito or drone fleet to do clear it?

New comment by shmerl in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

shmerl — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:27:40 +0000

> The layoffs are directly tied to Oracle’s aggressive and debt-heavy expansion into artificial intelligence infrastructure.

The actual culprit.

New comment by shmerl in "GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash"

shmerl — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:19:56 +0000

Their goal was to have a captured audience. Once the audience is captured, of course enshittification will happen.

New comment by shmerl in "Neovim 0.12.0"

shmerl — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 01:15:37 +0000

Thanks for the pointer. I guess to simulate what lazy.nvim does with loading plugins based on user commands, you can use something like this:

``` vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd("User", ... ```

But it only solves the actual lazy part. Not sure how you can solve defining plugin dependency graph for such loading that lazy.nvim allows.

I can try experimenting with it anyway.

New comment by shmerl in "How to turn anything into a router"

shmerl — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:58:59 +0000

Sure, what I mean is common router CPUs. High end desktop CPU won't break a sweat.

New comment by shmerl in "How to turn anything into a router"

shmerl — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:16:58 +0000

It becomes harder if you try to do it with 10 Gbps. Most CPUs struggle with it without dedicated accelerator chips.

New comment by shmerl in "Neovim 0.12.0"

shmerl — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:53:20 +0000

I switched from vim to neovim at the time when the former didn't support true color themes and limited colors annoyed me. neovim offered true color support in the terminal so I switched and stayed with neovim since.

One major difference is neovim allowing to use Lua for configuration and plugins. I find Lua to be neater than vimscript.

New comment by shmerl in "Neovim 0.12.0"

shmerl — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:50:10 +0000

Would be nice to also have such support for DAP, though nvim-dap is doing a good job so far.

New comment by shmerl in "Neovim 0.12.0"

shmerl — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:32:45 +0000

I'd stick to lazy.nvim for now. Lazy loading is really neat and lazy.nvim's ability to specify plugin dependencies isn't something vim.pack has either.

I'd guess if you don't care about lazy loading and OK with just loading everything all the time - vim.pack is great to have as a built-in.

New comment by shmerl in "Neovim 0.12.0"

shmerl — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:30:21 +0000

Congrats on diff mode improvements. Hopefully forge style highlighting mode for two way diffs will be available next.

New comment by shmerl in "Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people"

shmerl — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:06:10 +0000

GitLab is probably a better option for that.

New comment by shmerl in "Supreme Court Sides with Cox in Copyright Fight over Pirated Music"

shmerl — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:45:04 +0000

If anyone wonders, that's a good result. Sony was in the wrong here.

New comment by shmerl in "[dead]"

shmerl — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:53:16 +0000

Orban should end up in prison.

New comment by shmerl in "Windows native app development is a mess"

shmerl — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:08:20 +0000

> If it works now, it will work later.

Wine is better at it than Windows itself. Especially for really old programs.

New comment by shmerl in "We rewrote our Rust WASM parser in TypeScript and it got faster"

shmerl — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:23:30 +0000

More like a misleading clickbait.

New comment by shmerl in "Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?"

shmerl — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 03:08:29 +0000

What's the alternative, stay with X11? No, thanks.

New comment by shmerl in "Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies"

shmerl — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:54:55 +0000

Autocracies are corrupt by design and and corruption there is business as usual, so it's not surprising.

New comment by shmerl in "RISC-V Is Sloooow"

shmerl — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:56:48 +0000

Why not cross compile in such case on better hardware? Then run tests on the native one.

New comment by shmerl in "SSH Secret Menu"

shmerl — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:34:24 +0000

I've been using ~. on hung ssh connections for a while.