Hacker News: tapete1

New comment by tapete1 in "Even more batteries included with Emacs"

tapete1 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:07:39 +0000

I have asked LLMs several Emacs-related questions and _never_ got a reply that works. And at generating elisp code they are especially awful.

New comment by tapete1 in "I put a datacenter GPU in my gaming PC"

tapete1 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:48:04 +0000

So you are the AI?

I mean, seriously, which human says "the compute"?

New comment by tapete1 in "It's Not Just X. It's Y"

tapete1 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:45:05 +0000

I stopped reading at "Nerd rating".

New comment by tapete1 in "The Coming Layoffs and the Revenge of the Measurers"

tapete1 — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:19:42 +0000

> I'm tired of people who, when they don't like an article, comment that it was "obviously written by AI" instead of arguing its merits.

The point is that this article is extremely badly written; an over-influated piece of text that could easily be ¼ as long. We assume that it is written by AI merely because AI tends to produce not-worth-reading texts like this.

New comment by tapete1 in "Bitmap fonts make computers feel like computers again"

tapete1 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:44:19 +0000

You are wrong in this regard. If you complain about "6 inches of whitespace on each side", you should read this on a proper device (i.e. a desktop computer) or just inject some CSS to fix the site (this is HN, after all).

But knowing that the article is AI generated is useful, because that tells me to not to read it.

New comment by tapete1 in ""I can't do that, Dave" – No agent yet"

tapete1 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:21:12 +0000

> MacBook

That explains the writing style.

New comment by tapete1 in "The Software Development Lifecycle Is Dead"

tapete1 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:08:59 +0000

Yeah, this "article" is extremely badly written.

New comment by tapete1 in "What functional programmers get wrong about systems"

tapete1 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 12:29:39 +0000

Yeah there is something funny going on with the scrolling.

New comment by tapete1 in "TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe"

tapete1 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 07:37:41 +0000

This is true. If the user was capable of testing his backups, he would not be using a Mac in the first place.

New comment by tapete1 in "Prediction: Microsoft will eventually ship a Windows-themed Linux distro"

tapete1 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 09:59:01 +0000

Of course Linux clients in your network can be controlled by group policy. You just need to roll out a enterprise-grade distribution like red hat.

See for example:

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_...

https://documentation.ubuntu.com/adsys/latest/how-to/use-gpo...

New comment by tapete1 in "A deep dive on agent sandboxes"

tapete1 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 08:44:51 +0000

Why not just use the standard Linux tool bubblewrap?

New comment by tapete1 in "A deep dive on agent sandboxes"

tapete1 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 08:44:41 +0000

Why not just use the standard Linux tool bubblewrap?

New comment by tapete1 in "A deep dive on agent sandboxes"

tapete1 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 08:44:16 +0000

Of course not. But it is not needed, as Mac users are not interested in data safety.

New comment by tapete1 in "Fossil versus Git"

tapete1 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 12:39:26 +0000

> agents know git far better than fossil.

That does not matter though. If you need an AI agent for SCM you are already lost and should take a step back.

New comment by tapete1 in "Org Mode syntax is one of the most reasonable markup languages for text (2017)"

tapete1 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 11:36:26 +0000

> The fact that Markdown is widely used quite successfully demonstrates that it is adequate for a wide variety of tasks. Just because $x is used for lots of tasks does not mean that it is adequate for that. People use Excel for lots of tasks that it is clearly not adequate for; (like time tracking). I knew someone who wrote his letters with Excel.

New comment by tapete1 in "Xfce is great"

tapete1 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 07:19:26 +0000

> You hit control-a and it goes to the start of the field.

We "PC" users have a dedicated key for that on our keyboard, it is called "home". We even have the opposite, a dedicated key called "end".

New comment by tapete1 in "We might have been slower to abandon StackOverflow if it wasn't a toxic hellhole"

tapete1 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 07:02:16 +0000

lol true. It is like "problematic".

New comment by tapete1 in "X-Clacks-Overhead"

tapete1 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 09:49:18 +0000

Damn. I was not aware that Kevin Mitnick has passed away.

New comment by tapete1 in "I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year"

tapete1 — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 10:27:07 +0000

Same. I mean you can tell about the level of tech literacy just by reading that OP uses NordVPN.

New comment by tapete1 in "I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year"

tapete1 — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 10:26:01 +0000

You can get all the domain stuff for less than 1 € from any competent hoster, e.g. netcup. For cloud drive, if you really want to put your own files on someone else's server, there are tons of cheaper options, e.g. 2 TB for 10 €/month from strato. Gemini is of course something that no one needs.