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New comment by terminalbraid in "People who grew up with high economic connectedness earn more"

terminalbraid — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:39:29 +0000

Clickbait title

New comment by terminalbraid in "Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did"

terminalbraid — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:44:13 +0000

Chromium being open source is not a mistake. Letting google be the sole driver and not forking it has been. People who want control over their browsers have options. It's a fight because most people don't care about these things.

New comment by terminalbraid in "Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did"

terminalbraid — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:43:15 +0000

They have control over what they distribute. Chromium and Firefox are both open source and people can (and should) use derivatives they find acceptable.

New comment by terminalbraid in "Atomic Clocks"

terminalbraid — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:50:23 +0000

> Yeah but more deeply time is a property of the universe that the clock including atomic clocks are tracking.

I'll quote Einstein who said "time is what the clock says".

New comment by terminalbraid in "Atomic Clocks"

terminalbraid — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:45:29 +0000

First, that claim is patently false. Two objects with size accelerating directly towards each other (i.e. zero orbital angular momentum hence zero "orbit") will produce waves. A moving object will produce detectable changes in gravity so arguing about "waves" in the context of atomic clocks detecting gravity is irrelevant.

New comment by terminalbraid in "The Actual Reason Why Google "Fell Out" of the AI Race Changes Everything"

terminalbraid — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:29:34 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait

New comment by terminalbraid in "The Dark Night of Mathematics"

terminalbraid — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 21:24:10 +0000

Why does it seem like this to you when there's nothing been produced of note?

New comment by terminalbraid in "Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party"

terminalbraid — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 22:44:58 +0000

porkbun is really good

New comment by terminalbraid in "Escape IntelliJ: Scala and Kotlin LSPs on Emacs Eglot"

terminalbraid — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:18:49 +0000

This is my experience and it really sucks that Jetbrains has devolved into such a poorly run company. It's clear a lot of their real talent who cared about the programming side and refactoring left years ago. Now it seems like all their product decisions are from bog standard non-technical business people who chase buzzwords.

This is a major problem for them because they fragmented their IDE codebase so much properly maintaining it requires resources and people they don't have and would have to invest years of effort to replace. But that doesn't maximize quarterly profit, so it's left to decay and we get hourly LLM plugin updates.

IMDB now automatically creating user accounts when you are signed into Amazon

terminalbraid — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:17:22 +0000

I discovered the hard way that IMDB is now automatically creating accounts for you if you are signed in with amazon and it appears details such as my name and email are being shared without my consent. Several other people are also reporting this.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49008172

Points: 6

# Comments: 9

FreeBSD 16 Retires the Last of Its GPL Code from Its Base System

terminalbraid — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 23:24:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-16-Goes-GPL-Free

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48914250

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by terminalbraid in "Tensor Is the Might"

terminalbraid — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:09:43 +0000

Yes, this is what I'm complaining about.

> coopt: to appropriate as one's own; preempt.

The term existed for some time before programming if that's your source of confusion. Now it is a twisted and ambiguous version of itself.

New comment by terminalbraid in "Tensor Is the Might"

terminalbraid — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:48:06 +0000

> A tensor is nothing but a flat array of numbers

I'm so very, very tired of tech coopting rigorous mathematical terms.

New comment by terminalbraid in "Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows"

terminalbraid — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 16:51:52 +0000

To simulate a proton you need to solve a strongly coupled highly relativistic SU(3) gauge theory (naturally non-abelian i.e. the force carrier field itself carries charge and is self-interacting at tree order) problem with constituents that have masses orders of magnitude below the relevant energy scales (i.e. you have many matter AND force particles that can pop in and out of existence and they all strongly interact with one another).

To simulate a water molecule you do so with a weakly coupled SU(1) gauge theory (light does not interact with itself at tree order) problem where the masses of all constituents are orders of magnitude above the relevant energy scales (you can think of it as the electrons and nuclei and particles coming in and out of existence are contained in a renormalization scheme).

We have "good simulation models" of both, but the former is extraordinarily complicated compared to the latter for the reasons stated above.

New comment by terminalbraid in "Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows"

terminalbraid — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:34:56 +0000

Not in the sense that the electrons would be orbiting "outside" the star. Neutron stars are already a conglomeration of particles, including a sizeable fraction electrons that are effectively "squeezed out" of neutrons to have equivalent fermi energies. Any additional charge you add would immediately grab an "orbiting electron" into the existing system.

New comment by terminalbraid in "Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows"

terminalbraid — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:08:34 +0000

That's a fundamentally different problem and a terribly unfair comparison.

New comment by terminalbraid in "Successful companies go blind"

terminalbraid — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:48:51 +0000

Can we stop the "drop how at the start of a title" auto editing? I suspect this was to fix some flood of problems long ago, but every time I encounter it it modifies the title away from true intent of the author.

New comment by terminalbraid in "Punk, or why I don't stream anymore"

terminalbraid — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:36:06 +0000

I appreciate the commentary, but there's some irony of this being hosted on a github.io space.

New comment by terminalbraid in "Half-Baked Product"

terminalbraid — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:00:43 +0000

> The engineer knows the tech but doesn’t really understand what it takes to keep the business afloat.

This is assuming there IS a way to keep the business afloat. It's this framing of thinking that has caused more suffering, frustration, and bad will in all the places I've worked at which are just reskins of this article.

A business is entitled to it's model but it is not entitled to success. This story which is more than just a strawman or anecdote gets it right: The engineers are doing their job the best they can with unreasonable expectations set by people who do not feel they need to be constrained by reality and just have dollar signs in their eyes. The engineers do not share the same type of blame as everyone else at the company. Their failure was enabling nonsense and greed.

New comment by terminalbraid in "Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as Protection"

terminalbraid — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:18:06 +0000

Is that not already the case today? Everything on the play store is verified. Anything outside of that is not by google and you are shown something.

The whole point out of this outrage is alternative stores (like f-droid) can wholly and entirely be shut down on a whim without recourse.