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New comment by temporallobe in "Firefox Containers Preview"

temporallobe — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 11:58:54 +0000

I have been using profiles for years in Chrome/Vivaldi for similar reasons. I do a lot of web app development and this is extremely useful for testing. In fact I have 10 different profiles on one of my setups so that I can easily simulate multiple users accessing the same app and each profile can remember its own passwords, settings, cookies, and session data, etc. Firefox’s MAC seems like it’s not quite as isolated as a separate profile but I can see how it would be useful for end-users who want to have different “identities” in the same profile.

New comment by temporallobe in "LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps"

temporallobe — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:36:54 +0000

Not sure why optical is a problem in 2026! I have a 2014 Samsung plasma dumb-TV and pipe the optical straight to my old (2002-ish) Yamaha receiver with absolutely zero issues (no sync drifting) and it sounds like a dream compared to the soundbar on my other TV.

New comment by temporallobe in "REO Trucks I4 4WD Pickup Truck Starts at $21,500"

temporallobe — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 19:04:25 +0000

Would be nice to see actual pics instead of silly silhouettes. I am in the market for exactly this kind of truck (especially a manual) but this doesn’t inspire me to want to buy it.

New comment by temporallobe in "Show HN: 18 Words"

temporallobe — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:08:01 +0000

I would suggest instead of a countdown timer, use time as a score (less time used = higher score) so at least the player can advance. Also it’s no fun and extremely annoying to make the player wait 12 hours for the next challenge, which turns me off to even wanting to play again.

New comment by temporallobe in "Clojure 1.13 adds support for checked keys"

temporallobe — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:49:30 +0000

We just updated one of our projects to 1.12.5, but I might push for 1.13 as this could be very useful, although an alpha version might raise questions.

New comment by temporallobe in "Ask HN: Who is quitting? (July 2026)"

temporallobe — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:54:28 +0000

Some years ago, I got so sick of spending endless hours at my desk writing rspec automation tests that I suddenly had a strong urge to become a forest ranger.

New comment by temporallobe in "Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For"

temporallobe — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 23:01:37 +0000

> I think people understand the situation when they "purchase" digital media. They know it might not last forever.

I don’t think this is true at all because 1) truly nothing is forever, i.e., even physical media degrades over time or gets lost, stolen, etc., and 2) the customer is absolutely led to believe that “purchase” means ownership similar to having a physical copy, as long as that service provider exists. Otherwise it’s clearly a rental.

New comment by temporallobe in "Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For"

temporallobe — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:53:06 +0000

Would live to hear an attorney’s opinion on this - why isn’t this considered to be something like “constructive theft” just like constructive abandonment or constructive dismissal? Sony deceived millions of customers by implying that purchasing something meant permanent ownership (as permanent as digital media can be), then through legal trickery and without consent, essentially “took” away their digital property. I wonder if legal concepts such as “constructive larceny” or “theft by conversion” could be applied here, or if this would be considered destruction of property?

New comment by temporallobe in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

temporallobe — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:23:56 +0000

Guess I’ll be boring and stick to my old hardware and games (PS3, Switch, GameCube, Wii, and even my SNES Classic).

New comment by temporallobe in "5k menus from the New York Public Library’s Buttolph Collection (1880-1920)"

temporallobe — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:58:26 +0000

As a foodie, I love this. In many respects, menus don’t seem to have drastically changed over the past 175ish years but it looks like a “Boiled” category was common early on, which I assume was because boiled foods were popular and/or easy for restaurants to make in bulk.

New comment by temporallobe in "Developers don't understand CORS (2019)"

temporallobe — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 21:25:35 +0000

I read through the comments to make sure I wasn’t the only one…Nobody understands CORS because it’s too complicated and too conflicting. The standards and the headers are always changing too, so mostly what happens is that we developers just tinker with it until it works, then ship the product and call it a day. Even when it works, you may still end up with errors and warnings in the dev console, but as long as things appear to be working, we leave it alone.

New comment by temporallobe in "South Korean forums will need to scan every images with AI censorship tools"

temporallobe — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 02:50:57 +0000

What is CMS in this context?

New comment by temporallobe in "My thoughts after using Clojure for about a month"

temporallobe — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:43:32 +0000

I’ve been using Clojure for almost 10 years and it still feels like a foreign language to me. I call it “parenthetical hell”.

New comment by temporallobe in "Rubish: A Unix shell written in pure Ruby"

temporallobe — Sat, 23 May 2026 12:07:16 +0000

As an avid Rails Console (basically an application-aware Ruby REPL) user, this seems familiar. Nice work.

New comment by temporallobe in "God Damn AI is making me dumb"

temporallobe — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:11:19 +0000

I only really use GH CoPilot and while it’s really damn good at predicting what I’ll do next, I find it really makes me lazier. It’s like using GPS - it’s much faster, easier, accurate, and reliable than not using it, but I have found I don’t remember routes like I used to, as if that part of my brain just stopped working. If we don’t use a skill, our brains seem to want to almost immediately reclaim those resources for something else.

New comment by temporallobe in "Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML"

temporallobe — Sat, 09 May 2026 14:51:22 +0000

This is shockingly true. Most newer FE devs I have encountered are mostly trained on the popular frameworks and lack understanding of the underlying fundamentals, e.g., they only know TypeScript + SCSS and some smattering of HTML but more often know whatever templating engine and MVC(ish) backend the framework uses. It’s really helpful to understand what the browser is actually doing and all the “stuff” the framework spits out on the other end.

New comment by temporallobe in "Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML"

temporallobe — Sat, 09 May 2026 14:41:43 +0000

I can code up a complex HTML table by hand faster than I create a basic MD table, but other than that, I find it difficult to achieve a good writing flow with pure HTML, even with all the automation. I author a lot of API docs, READMEs, and how-to guides, and find MD to provide the perfect mix of decently powerful markup and flexibility with supporting raw HTML when needed. The only constraint is that some markup renderers don’t support or severely restrict HTML passthrough (I ran into this with GitHub recently).

New comment by temporallobe in "Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2"

temporallobe — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:59:18 +0000

I bought a Switch 2 about 6 months ago. My biggest disappointment with it so far has been the lack of first-party games.

New comment by temporallobe in "Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac"

temporallobe — Mon, 04 May 2026 11:56:14 +0000

I wasn’t even aware a native port was available for Mac. I tried it with Wine and it was awful. These days my colleagues and I are using Zed as the de facto high-performance text editor.

New comment by temporallobe in "Zed 1.0"

temporallobe — Fri, 01 May 2026 04:19:42 +0000

I use Zed and VSCode together. Zed for a “clean” version of my workspaces (no annoying plugins, no agents, etc.), and VSCode with all the plugins + GitHub Copilot. I really appreciate what Zed has become and how performant it is, and plan to use it more exclusively.