Hacker News: simtel20

New comment by simtel20 in "Leaving Mozilla"

simtel20 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:23:20 +0000

I see it as a pointed observation that the people who focus on a goal will accomplish that goal. There are organizations with administrative-focused people who work in alignment with the mission-focused people, and that also follows this law as well. It's just that the same dynamic can cause organisations to spiral into an extractive, stale, ossifying, change-resistent focus instead.

New comment by simtel20 in "The Joy of Folding Bikes"

simtel20 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 05:15:02 +0000

Hi fellow tikit owner! When they did the early upgrade of the cable, I thought it was just some gauge of airplane wire, threaded through the front nut and clamped or welded in place (I don't rude mine very often, it's a very early model and has a lot of the weaknesses like chain offs, and it comes unfolded too easily when I roll it). But I haven't been able to bring myself to sell it, it's still such a nice little device.

New comment by simtel20 in "S3 Files"

simtel20 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:59:49 +0000

Ok, but to be clear you said all outgoing traffic is charged. The API call price is something else, it's not part of the outgoing traffic.

New comment by simtel20 in "S3 Files"

simtel20 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:07:13 +0000

Reads from s3 via an s3 endpoint inside a vpc to an interface inside of that vpc is not billed.

New comment by simtel20 in "U.S. stocks are set to deliver their worst quarter in nearly four years"

simtel20 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:50:55 +0000

The parent comment is quoting Pam Bondi doing evasive maneuvers a couple of months ago

New comment by simtel20 in "The Los Angeles Aqueduct Is Wild"

simtel20 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:34:17 +0000

Where did you get that idea about NYC water being untreated? NYC treats its water. Chlorine is added if and when needed. Testing stations exist to evaluate water quality all around the boroughs, etc.

You can't have a city of millions of people and have the water be potable from the tap without testing and treatment

New comment by simtel20 in "Hands-On Introduction to Unikernels"

simtel20 — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 14:41:41 +0000

There were publications in the 80s that used that term iirc, and I do recall the term for how slightly incongruous it was, and how it didn't come with an explanation.

In looking into ut some more, it looks like the executive was a term from mainframes for the layer of the kernel that enforced isolation, but I must have read the term being loosely used in pc magazines. Or maybe mockingly?

New comment by simtel20 in "Flameshot"

simtel20 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:36:49 +0000

Oh, thanks for the link. I've been using flameshot for most of the past decade, but haven't been able to use it with pop-os and my monitors recently because it was derotating my monitor.

New comment by simtel20 in "Hands-On Introduction to Unikernels"

simtel20 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 13:49:54 +0000

I've only ever heard of that as the type of a DOS/Windows .exe binary.

New comment by simtel20 in "The Absent Silence (2010)"

simtel20 — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 01:09:40 +0000

I believe community should be considered more fundamental than economic consumption.

New comment by simtel20 in "The Absent Silence (2010)"

simtel20 — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 01:07:48 +0000

I think I hear you, but you're phrasing your twist as a choice made by individuals or made by their circumstances, e.g. choices that you are not a party to. However I'm asking about you in this case, alongside the "us" that comprise the people taking the time to observe and hypothesize about the world we're living in by discussing in on HN. Maybe after that it'll lead elsewhere.

New comment by simtel20 in "The Absent Silence (2010)"

simtel20 — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 20:24:24 +0000

I have started to read "The Dawn of Everything" by David Graeber and David Wengrow and while I cannot speak to most of the book, even in the first hundred or so of (ebook) pages, it challenges that frame of reference in a way that is clarifying, in the sense of being a palate cleanser, admitting different ways of thinking about these things.

New comment by simtel20 in "The Absent Silence (2010)"

simtel20 — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 16:11:22 +0000

In that context, what leads you call yourself and the rest of humanity primarily "consumers" in response to an essay? I think this has become uncomfortably (to me) normalized, and it begs the same question that Le Guin asks about whether we understand what we are doing when we are defining ourselves. A citizen and a person doesn't have to be defined as what they consume, do they?

New comment by simtel20 in "Gemini 3 Pro Model Card [pdf]"

simtel20 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:19:37 +0000

La Liga (the football company) likes to send out takedown notices to anyone who may host anything that looks like a football to protect their precious games, no matter the collateral damage or the lack of any requirements to show damage. They have the right to block anything in Spain at their discretion either by DNS or IP. They do seem to work in good faith if you talk to them, though, and if you can either remove sites or content when they ask.

New comment by simtel20 in "You can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's facial recognition app, DHS document say"

simtel20 — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 13:09:17 +0000

So you think that people who have repatriated themselves would not have any interest in adopting some or all of the values of the place they have gone to? That seems really wrong at a lot of levels, though people rarely adopt all of the values of the place they move to (whatever the circumstances).

New comment by simtel20 in "Show HN: Peanut – A Modern Money App"

simtel20 — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 22:33:35 +0000

Doesn't seem to work in Firefox on Linux when I follow the TRY NOW! link and get sent to /setup. Ironically it asks me to copy the link and open it in my browser.

New comment by simtel20 in "Bcachefs removed from the mainline kernel"

simtel20 — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 20:07:13 +0000

For a long time they were running MySQL on it iirc (outsider, just asked at meetups etc )

New comment by simtel20 in "Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs"

simtel20 — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 20:36:05 +0000

I have met people who said they use vim for programming and don't know how to use commands like `%s` and `G` to do those basic things. I don't think most people understand how to use vim, and for those cases it's about the same as using any other editor with a find, and arrow keys and delete. That is, about as much an editor as any textarea in a browser.

New comment by simtel20 in "Brazil central bank to launch Pix installment feature in September"

simtel20 — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 23:45:40 +0000

Yes, that's what I said

New comment by simtel20 in "Brazil central bank to launch Pix installment feature in September"

simtel20 — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 14:43:56 +0000

I can buy and pay for an airline ticket online with pix, and not with cash