Hacker News: ternaryoperator

New comment by ternaryoperator in "GitHub is sinking"

ternaryoperator — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:58:41 +0000

Looking at the suggestions for self-hosting here and in other threads, I wonder why self-hosting Fossil is not more widely done. From the comments I’ve seen from its users, it seems to work quite well.

New comment by ternaryoperator in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

ternaryoperator — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:55:00 +0000

A JVM written exclusively in go. Now, 5000+ commits into the project.

http://jacobin.org

New comment by ternaryoperator in "Apple Is Holding My Pictures Hostage Until I Accept Their New Terms of Service"

ternaryoperator — Sun, 10 May 2026 16:38:22 +0000

Yes, they’re allowed to make changes and you can either accept them (the matter being discussed here) or refuse them. But you do need to be given the option.

New comment by ternaryoperator in "Drone pilot makes US rescind no-fly zones around unmarked, moving ICE vehicles"

ternaryoperator — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:08:20 +0000

Not to mention the monetary costs of defense

New comment by ternaryoperator in "Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race"

ternaryoperator — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 22:32:02 +0000

Not sure I understand what you mean by "scientific." If you mean exactly reproducible, then almost nothing in athletics fits that definition. Every record in baseball, football, etc. would fail that definition.

New comment by ternaryoperator in "Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race"

ternaryoperator — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:35:31 +0000

And the only place this appears on ESPN is if you click on "Olympics," which has nothing to do with this race. Where coverage should be: on the home page.

New comment by ternaryoperator in "SFO Quiet Airport (2025)"

ternaryoperator — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 23:34:39 +0000

The actual quote, both from the movie and IRL is: "The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only."

New comment by ternaryoperator in "Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica"

ternaryoperator — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 07:16:17 +0000

I have the hard copy of this edition and it does contain some curious things.

For example, if you look up "boiling." You might expect to read about what happens to a liquid when it's heated to a certain temperature, or perhaps a way of cooking foods, or sterilizing equipment. But the entry covers none of those. Instead, the only entry for boiling describes a punishment for persons convicting of poisoning who were, in England, dipped into a large cauldron of boiling water.

And, in the ways that violence and torture were wantonly reveled in centuries ago, they wouldn't just submerge the criminal and let him die there. Instead, they would lower him into the boiling water for a while and then pull him out. They'd repeat the process until eventually they finally killed him. That is the EB 11 ed entry for boiling. Yow!

New comment by ternaryoperator in "NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist"

ternaryoperator — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:17:11 +0000

And let’s not get started on it’s vs. its-—a distinction that now seems irretrievably nerfed

New comment by ternaryoperator in "Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving"

ternaryoperator — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:01:39 +0000

The models test roughly equal on benchmarks, with generally small differences in their scores. So, it’s reasonable to choose the model based on other criteria. In my case, I’d switch to any vendor that had a decent plugin for JetBrains.

New comment by ternaryoperator in "Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page"

ternaryoperator — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 06:24:13 +0000

While I don't share your condemnation, I do share your critique of the design. When I tried Notion--really wanting to like it--I could find essentially zero documentation about how to do use those numerous features. After wasting a ton of time trying to get a document template I wanted, I gave up and went back to simpler tools.

New comment by ternaryoperator in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

ternaryoperator — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:35:59 +0000

The few times I've needed support, Fastmail has responded nearly immediately with the exact info I needed. So Moz would need to demonstrate excellence in customer service before I would consider any migration.

(I know that doesn't directly answer your question, but it does articulate a necessary pre-condition, and one that is hard for businesses entering a new line of service to deliver--although not impossible, of course.)

New comment by ternaryoperator in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

ternaryoperator — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:53:38 +0000

Jacobin[0] a JVM written in entirely in go. While we still have a way to go to get to feature parity for Java 21, we can sit back and watch the bytecode instructions fly by as they execute, which is something you can't do with the JDK due to the HotSpot JVM's architecture and the fact that it's written in both Java and C++.

We just crossed 5,000 commits. Also, we take testing very seriously: our test code base is presently 160% the size of our production code.

[0] jacobin.org

New comment by ternaryoperator in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

ternaryoperator — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:51:31 +0000

I can see switching from gmail, but it would have to be really compelling to get me to switch from Fastmail.

New comment by ternaryoperator in "Solod – A subset of Go that translates to C"

ternaryoperator — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:17:17 +0000

That is an interesting project, which i have been following for a while. Unfortunately, progress has slowed a lot recently. I hope development picks up…and that the author chooses a different name for the language.

New comment by ternaryoperator in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

ternaryoperator — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:58:58 +0000

There are many exceptions to what you state as an ironclad rule: i bought a display case for my baseball, i bought an album for my photos, etc. “for” can go in either direction.

New comment by ternaryoperator in "//go:fix inline and the source-level inliner"

ternaryoperator — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 23:35:25 +0000

It does not exist in Java. Comments in Java do not change code.

New comment by ternaryoperator in "Kotlin creator's new language: talk to LLMs in specs, not English"

ternaryoperator — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:27:58 +0000

Agreed. There is definitely a similarity to BDD.

New comment by ternaryoperator in "OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle"

ternaryoperator — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 01:25:44 +0000

J6 is not a strong counterexample, IMHO. Part of the problem with Epstein is "proof beyond a reasonable doubt," for which evidence is needed--and, it appears, hard to come by. Whereas with J6, there were thousands of hours of footage showing the crimes being committed (and in many cases bragged about), which made prosecutions much easier.

New comment by ternaryoperator in "Galileo's handwritten notes found in ancient astronomy text"

ternaryoperator — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 21:47:21 +0000

He studied them diligently. His book Digital Typography gives lengthy accounts of his research and includes photographs and examples of how he chose various aspects.