Hacker News: skirmish

New comment by skirmish in "Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce"

skirmish — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 23:48:42 +0000

Did you ask for a raise immediately since they thought you were so essential?

New comment by skirmish in "Do dentists know what they're doing?"

skirmish — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 22:07:38 +0000

I told my dentist how much I liked my water flosser, and he immediately said "that's fine but it's not very effective, you still need to use regular floss too".

New comment by skirmish in "Thinking will become a hobby"

skirmish — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:43:02 +0000

Simple living is beneficial for deep thinking; see Walden [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden

New comment by skirmish in "What's Earth's dominant species by mass?"

skirmish — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 01:48:37 +0000

Most of the effort goes into eliminating the 5-year cycle and hanging on as long as possible.

New comment by skirmish in "Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?"

skirmish — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 23:49:43 +0000

Because deceit and lies exist.

New comment by skirmish in "HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents?"

skirmish — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 06:56:46 +0000

I tried putting my agent in an LXC / Incus container but then I also needed it to process videos stored on a NAS, and that was not easy at all. I tried a FUSE-based NFS client [1] but it was very flaky and would randomly report files having zero length and fail processing.

[1] https://github.com/facebookarchive/nfusr

New comment by skirmish in "A wandering black hole caught feeding on the run"

skirmish — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 22:55:14 +0000

Quantum entanglement does not enable FTL communication: [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem

New comment by skirmish in "Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses"

skirmish — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 01:02:42 +0000

  --no-mmproj-offload

See the documentation: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/blob/master/docs/multi...

New comment by skirmish in "Why your boss doesn't seem to care about your tech career anymore"

skirmish — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:23:33 +0000

So you are saying: backstab your manager and get them fired so you can take their place?

New comment by skirmish in "GrapheneOS project: pixel 11 no longer supports hardware memory tagging (MTE)"

skirmish — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:23:44 +0000

The supposed "security team" is busy fighting Google engineers connecting to internal systems to do their work. E.g. somebody figured how to control the coding AI agent from their phone -- red alert, ban all access from phones to AI for everybody (even with corporate accounts).

New comment by skirmish in "GrapheneOS project: pixel 11 no longer supports hardware memory tagging (MTE)"

skirmish — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:20:39 +0000

They do know, I experienced it myself.

I had a testing phone and my regular phone, I kept swapping the same Verizon SIM between them. It worked for maybe 3 swaps, then Verizon blocked my account and sent me an email: suspicious activity detected, the SIM is blocked and cannot be restored, the contract has been terminated, you will receive the refund in mail.

Good riddance, US Mobile is so much cheaper and pleasant to use. I am scared to swap SIMs with them now though.

New comment by skirmish in "Humanity has the debate about AI consciousness backwards"

skirmish — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:57:03 +0000

> Whether AI is conscious or not is independent of the social acceptance of the idea, unless you believe in thoroughly discredited and quite radical forms of social constructionism.

Yet all science is social, until you convince other people to take your ideas seriously, you are just another crank/loony.

How is social constructionism thoroughly discredited? Wikipedia shows some people poking with nits that don't look serious to me at all.

New comment by skirmish in "Black hole singularity is a surface not a point"

skirmish — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 05:53:22 +0000

Why would that happen? In a different coordinate system (Kruskal–Szekeres coordinates) nothing special happens at the event horizon at all.

New comment by skirmish in "Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk"

skirmish — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 01:49:46 +0000

A pair of adjustable dumbbells in the corner of the living room is still very doable. Lots of bodyweight exercises too you could look into.

New comment by skirmish in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

skirmish — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:20:20 +0000

Do you read (and enjoy reading) novels? I think it is just a modern addiction to soundbites. I know I do it myself, if the text is long and unstructured, I just skim through a few sentences, done!

New comment by skirmish in "Monitors for Work"

skirmish — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 23:03:42 +0000

Google recently to SWEs: replacing a mouse requires director's approval.

Also Google: why cannot we ship anything fast and why does Gemini suck so badly.

Because good people leave when you treat them like that, stupid Google!

New comment by skirmish in "The Absurdity of Albert Camus"

skirmish — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 01:02:08 +0000

You will find them in the Existential Comics, e.g. [1], [2], [3] etc.

[1] At the Existentialist Cafe, https://existentialcomics.com/comic/660

[2] The Asteroid and the Meaning of Life, https://existentialcomics.com/comic/654

[3] Camus on a Date, https://existentialcomics.com/comic/509

New comment by skirmish in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

skirmish — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 20:31:28 +0000

Just found another mouse shape comparison site that may help:

https://www.rtings.com/mouse/tools/3d-model-shape-compare/

New comment by skirmish in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

skirmish — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 19:32:27 +0000

Mousereview reddit always recommends looking at Chinese gaming mice, they have reasonable prices, often clone popular mouse shapes from large brands (see [1]) and have the latest sensors.

[1] EloShapes find similar: https://www.eloshapes.com/mouse/find-similar

New comment by skirmish in "Demis Hassabis has a plan to harness AI safely"

skirmish — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:37:16 +0000

Quite right, there is nothing to discuss since qualia don't exist. See Daniel Dennett.