Hacker News: snarfy

New comment by snarfy in "Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels"

snarfy — Sun, 10 May 2026 01:34:27 +0000

That's entirely against Apple's whole philosophy. You are after all, holding it wrong.

New comment by snarfy in "US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos"

snarfy — Sat, 09 May 2026 12:15:22 +0000

It has no purpose to release militarily. This only weakens the US position. Know their enemies know their detection capabilities.

New comment by snarfy in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

snarfy — Fri, 01 May 2026 12:30:56 +0000

I just used this a few weeks ago, except it was time not money. And I'm on my fourth implementation because nobody wants to stop and actually have a plan.

New comment by snarfy in "Zed 1.0"

snarfy — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:09:21 +0000

Ouch, that was one of the quickest uninstalls after scrolling and reading this.

New comment by snarfy in "Zed 1.0"

snarfy — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:46:01 +0000

Can I replace Vim with Zed? Is there a vim mode?

New comment by snarfy in "Coffee with a splash of physics: how to make the most out of your brew"

snarfy — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:20:31 +0000

And here I am microwaving a cup of yesterday's brew of drip coffee that sat on the burner for two hours.

New comment by snarfy in "Ubuntu 26.04"

snarfy — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:24:05 +0000

Try Arch linux.

New comment by snarfy in "Laws of Software Engineering"

snarfy — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:30:10 +0000

I definitely hate SOLID more.

New comment by snarfy in "The Case Against Gameplay Loops"

snarfy — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:57:40 +0000

One of my current favorite games is aimlabs. Click as many dots as you can in 60 seconds. There is no game, only skill.

New comment by snarfy in "Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects"

snarfy — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:01:15 +0000

It's really just typical corporate bs.

"I've been using the same account doing the same actions for 10 years what changed"

"We updated our policy 2 years ago. We have been sending you vaguely worded emails this would happen for 2 years, straight to your junk hotmail account you setup for this, why didn't you read them?"

Nothing nefarious unless you consider bureaucracy

New comment by snarfy in "Claude Code is locking people out for hours"

snarfy — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:05:16 +0000

Yep, I want to make stuff. Writing the code by hand was just a means to an end.

New comment by snarfy in "Every GPU That Mattered"

snarfy — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:40:48 +0000

Matrox needs a mention somewhere. GPUs do raster too, and theirs optimized for an entirely different market.

New comment by snarfy in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

snarfy — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:57:18 +0000

If an app has a zip download or a Microsoft Store link, the zip download is always a superior experience. UWP is a huge fail

New comment by snarfy in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

snarfy — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:34:40 +0000

If my assigned tasks are A,B,C and I do all three 100% correctly, on time, etc, it makes zero difference on my impact.

I need to ignore those and do D,E,F instead to get promoted.

New comment by snarfy in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

snarfy — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:32:44 +0000

Cloud was taking off at the same time. Anybody in his spot would have been successful.

New comment by snarfy in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

snarfy — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:55:51 +0000

Nothing has changed.

New comment by snarfy in "Coding agents could make free software matter again"

snarfy — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:49:03 +0000

It shouldn't be needed. I would argue that is more than "against the spirit" and should not be considered fair use. Instead of creating a derivative work, they created a machine that creates derivative works.

New comment by snarfy in "What came after the 486?"

snarfy — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:33:24 +0000

I recall these being referred to as KMD

New comment by snarfy in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

snarfy — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 12:35:38 +0000

Arch is really good. Wayland works. Gaming works. For any apps that don't work like Visual Studio I run kvm/qemu + unlicensed win11 vm. I do not give a shit my vm says "activate windows"

2026 Year of Linux Desktop?

New comment by snarfy in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

snarfy — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 12:29:52 +0000

You can uninstall it from apps.

One bit of cruft with this - I downloaded an alternative app that is simply notepad.exe and put it in my path in the first folder in the path.

I could not create a file association to any files to it - Explorer would throw an error about Store app. Even after uninstalling it, a notepad.exe still remains and supercedes my path which is a stub to launch the Microsoft Store.

This is the type of slop that needs desperately fixed but I doubt ever will.