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New comment by singlow in "SSH Secret Menu"

singlow — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 02:40:22 +0000

I find it odd that you would have commands in ~/bin but not have it be the highest priority in your PATH. I use ~/.local/bin, but would never type it because i wouldn't have bins that overlap shell commands and no other path would have priority.

New comment by singlow in "New evidence that Cantor plagiarized Dedekind?"

singlow — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 01:37:34 +0000

Complications after surgery to remove a cancerous tumor?

New comment by singlow in "Show HN: Bible translated using LLMs from source Greek and Hebrew"

singlow — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 21:52:07 +0000

Correct, the Peshitta translations of the Gospels were done in the 5th century ce. They were not closer to the Hebrew of the original as you suggested. If you like it better that's fine but it's not inherently better because it was earlier or had better understanding of original languages.

New comment by singlow in "Show HN: Bible translated using LLMs from source Greek and Hebrew"

singlow — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 19:19:41 +0000

But the Peshitta is 300 years after the Septuagint and the verse you mention was written in Greek in a gospel, not the Hebrew Bible. I don't know how the translators of the Peshitta would have any special access to sayings of Jesus that predate the Gospels we have now. I don't know if there is any hard evidence that the Gospel authors had actual eye witness written sources in the language that Jesus spoke. So you have to assume that Jesus used Gamla in Aramaic and that the Gospel writer mistranslated it when writing in Greek but that the Peshitta gives special insight by retranslating it back to the ambiguous word. Then you have to make another leap to think that it is somehow possible to manipulate a rope to be the size of a thread. Sounds like a lot of histrionics to justify Abraham going to Paradise when the simpler explanation is that it's just a concept of difficulty rather than a logical word problem. This seems less plausible than the Eye of Needle gate theory which many Christian teachers often reference.

New comment by singlow in "Thin desires are eating life"

singlow — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 22:09:02 +0000

Everything is about X, because I can redefine X to mean anything.

New comment by singlow in "The effect of shingles vaccination at different stages of dementia"

singlow — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:32:12 +0000

I think you can if you self pay, but insurance only pays in certain circumstances.

New comment by singlow in "When if is just a function"

singlow — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 00:41:07 +0000

It's only a problem if I have my browser set to use dark theme or system theme and my system theme is dark if I switch it to light theme. Everything looks good. So most likely he's using some kind of CSS framework that's automatically responding to the dark theme, but other styles that he's hand coded are not compatible with it

New comment by singlow in "I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'"

singlow — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 19:59:18 +0000

Also, you can spin up an ec2/azure/google vm pretty easy too. I do this frequently and it only costs a few bucks. Often more convenient to have it in the data center anyway.

New comment by singlow in "ChatGPT Developer Mode: Full MCP client access"

singlow — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 19:12:15 +0000

I was sure the parent was being sarcastic, but maybe not.

New comment by singlow in "OpenSSH Post-Quantum Cryptography"

singlow — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 14:48:22 +0000

So what person is running an SSH server and configuring it to use post-quantum crypto, but is using password Auth? Priorities are out-of-whack.

Not that this is a bad thing, but first start using keys, then start rotating them regularly and then worry about theoretical future attacks.

New comment by singlow in "Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized"

singlow — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 16:14:38 +0000

I was here about a year ago. Getting close to doing 5k 4 times a week, but the last 2k are more walk than run. I'm definitely more interested in getting endurance over speed, but both improve pretty steadily at this point. I guess once I'm doing 5k without walking I'll try to just increase pace. Pretty amazing how much better my quality of life is since exercising seriously for the first time in my late 40s.

New comment by singlow in "Mozilla's new terms of use are out of step with Firefox's direct competition"

singlow — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 15:30:28 +0000

I don't read it the way you say. The more restrictive terms are for use of services. If you use firefox, you have to agree not to use the Mozilla services for the prohibited categories, but there are many uses of the browser that are not using Mozilla services.

If you accessed graphic content using the browser, you are not violating the terms unless you put that content up on a mozilla service somewhere. The obvious issue would be some type of bookmark sync. If you bookmarked a graphic url you might violate the terms when it syncs to mozilla, but even then it would be hard to argue that you are granting access to your future self, so unless you used a bookmark sharing service provided by mozilla, I would say its a gray area. So disable bookmark sync. I typically disable all external services in my browser so this would not be relevant.

But my point is that even though you have to agree to the use policy when downloading the browser, it doesn't mean it governs all use of the browser.

IANAL

New comment by singlow in "Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn't illegal without proof of seeding"

singlow — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:30:38 +0000

The use of the noun copy probably came from the act of copying, but both uses predated the word copyright, so that doesn't really help answer the question.

New comment by singlow in "Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn't illegal without proof of seeding"

singlow — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:28:34 +0000

Forgery would require trying to pass off the copy as an original. As long as it is not pretending to be something it isn't, it is just a replica, not a forgery.

New comment by singlow in "Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn't illegal without proof of seeding"

singlow — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:20:45 +0000

Any proof that the word copyright was intentionally referring to the noun instead of the verb? The British Statute of Anne in 1710, the first copyright statute, definitely referred to the act of copying a book, not some abstract concept of writing samples.

New comment by singlow in "Cable-cutting tanker seized by Finland 'was loaded with spying equipment'"

singlow — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 16:33:49 +0000

> Peter the Great waged the Great Northern War for 21 years. On the face of it, he was at war with Sweden taking something away from it… He was not taking away anything, he was returning. This is how it was. The areas around Lake Ladoga, where St Petersburg was founded. When he founded the new capital, none of the European countries recognised this territory as part of Russia; everyone recognised it as part of Sweden. However, from time immemorial, the Slavs lived there along with the Finno-Ugric peoples, and this territory was under Russia’s control. The same is true of the western direction, Narva and his first campaigns. Why would he go there? He was returning and reinforcing, that is what he was doing.

> Clearly, it fell to our lot to return and reinforce as well. And if we operate on the premise that these basic values constitute the basis of our existence, we will certainly succeed in achieving our goals.

Returning and reinforcing means restoring the USSR or Russian Empire's territory to Russia.

New comment by singlow in "Java's SimpleDateFormat: YYYY vs. Yyyy"

singlow — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 16:25:02 +0000

In case no one else noticed, Yyyy is not real. Its caused by automatic capitalization of yyyy in the HN title.

New comment by singlow in "Cable-cutting tanker seized by Finland 'was loaded with spying equipment'"

singlow — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 09:07:40 +0000

These articles both demonstrate Putin's desire to restore historical Russian boundaries. He usually references the Empire rather than the USSR.

http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/67828

http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/68606

New comment by singlow in "Fish have a brain microbiome – could humans have one too?"

singlow — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 15:43:48 +0000

Countdown until the nutrition influencers start pushing them.

New comment by singlow in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

singlow — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 20:51:24 +0000

Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.