Hacker News: tacticus

New comment by tacticus in "Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video]"

tacticus — Mon, 18 May 2026 02:27:52 +0000

shame it took years to get bookmarks in.

New comment by tacticus in "Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video]"

tacticus — Mon, 18 May 2026 02:24:33 +0000

Mercurials lack of not permanent branches early on with the bizarre "we have a plugin for that" way of doing it showing up too late to change the decision

not to mention the early "just clone it into a new dir" answer before lightweight branching ...

New comment by tacticus in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

tacticus — Sun, 10 May 2026 23:44:17 +0000

> Edit: also fuck things like Lambda. It's literally the most horrible experience that the universe can muster. Moved most of our lambdas to simple boring http services on top of Go and just leave 20 instances running. Just not having to deal with CloudWatch saved us more money than Lambda could have.

imagine if instead of being a tied in to aws special interfaces lambda had shown up as closer to cloud run!

Though hopefully not the knative style that azure first went with and the LOOOOONG start times.

New comment by tacticus in "First Tesla Semi Rolls Off High-Volume Production Line"

tacticus — Mon, 04 May 2026 05:13:56 +0000

Have you seen the demo of what you can get with some wires and low friction traction options :P

New comment by tacticus in "OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors"

tacticus — Sun, 03 May 2026 23:58:16 +0000

medical industry must be going for some long term achievement in how much they disbelieve, mistreat, and degrade women going to them.

I wonder how many units of their training courses are spent on this and how much is spent on the cultural reinforcement of it.

New comment by tacticus in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

tacticus — Sat, 02 May 2026 23:41:54 +0000

the cloud used because execs have already got a microsoft contract. (not to mention the fun licensing problem)

New comment by tacticus in "An update on GitHub availability"

tacticus — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 23:13:47 +0000

and many of those azure regions are a single DC or single cage in a single dc that you can walk past to find the bigger netflix pop.

New comment by tacticus in "An update on GitHub availability"

tacticus — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 23:04:14 +0000

> Azure support was completely worthless.

It's quite incredible that a support bill in the >10k per month range from azure makes the public google (not even GCP with a support contract) support look not crap

New comment by tacticus in "Microsoft VibeVoice: Open-Source Frontier Voice AI"

tacticus — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:26:25 +0000

got to love how they're trying to hide the links.

New comment by tacticus in "OpenClaw is a security nightmare dressed up as a daydream"

tacticus — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 22:25:45 +0000

get a travel agent?

Probably more reliable and corp ones exist.

New comment by tacticus in "OpenClaw is a security nightmare dressed up as a daydream"

tacticus — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 22:23:55 +0000

nope.

It won't even help you understand that the 20 second task you've been putting off for 6 months causing anxiety will only take 20 seconds (nor will we learn from this)

New comment by tacticus in "MAUI Is Coming to Linux"

tacticus — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 22:07:31 +0000

> accessibility is like implementing braille and things for deaf and colourblind etc.

- larger fonts

- Better contrast controls,

- Non abstract art iconography,

- larger buttons and keyboard navigation,

- understanding that there are many types of colourblindness with different requriements,

- the ability to set lightmode on your app and website due to the issues reading text for anyone with astigmatisms,

- reducing the amount of animation or motion blur

The range of what accessibility is isn't small and some of it is going to be required for the vast majority of products. Also accessibility requirements change over time. eyes and hearing degrade. the desire to waste energy trying to find some stylish button that has no border and almost no contrast to indicate where it is goes away

New comment by tacticus in "Despite Doubts, Federal Cyber Experts Approved Microsoft Cloud Service"

tacticus — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:42:46 +0000

> microsoft unable to explain and show security model to federal cyber experts.

New comment by tacticus in "Temporal: The 9-year journey to fix time in JavaScript"

tacticus — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 02:13:40 +0000

> There wouldn't be Chrome-only sites and tools if Safari wasn't holding the web back

Given the number of chrome-only sites that block firefox and not safari i think there are other issues in front end land

New comment by tacticus in "NRC issues first commercial reactor construction approval in 10 years [pdf]"

tacticus — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 03:16:31 +0000

> Well past time to stop listening to anything those grifting charlatans have to say.

Are you describing the "just build nukes" party here?

Cause we've been waiting a while for this nuke solution to actually ship but every example is far more expensive all while the nuke lovers block solar and wind for the same reasons.

New comment by tacticus in "RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs"

tacticus — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:55:44 +0000

Those US companies that the US government bought part of and funded their expansions with no controls over the cartel...

New comment by tacticus in "xAI joins SpaceX"

tacticus — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 06:17:35 +0000

given the max bandwidth of a starlink sat is in the 100Gb on a good day range why would you want to limit a DC to less bandwidth than a single cheap fibre?

Also in LEO you're going to have reentry become more of an issue (starlink burning up in the atmosphere isn't some free garbage removal it will have a measurable impact on the chemical make up (assuming it even burns up and doesn't just squash more farm buildings), Power supply more of an issue and still have huge problems with heat and radiation.

New comment by tacticus in "xAI joins SpaceX"

tacticus — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 06:14:12 +0000

> SpaceX already has Starlink. They might need pretty high bandwidth

you mean the network that has less capacity than a fibre pair per coverage area?

New comment by tacticus in "xAI joins SpaceX"

tacticus — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 06:10:25 +0000

5 to 7 months given they want 100kw Per ton and magical mystery sauce shielding is going to do shit all.

New comment by tacticus in "Tesla ending Models S and X production"

tacticus — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 06:00:16 +0000

> They are also much better at hiding debt

Through bonds? or SVPs to fund the building of datacentres?