Hacker News: throwaway173738

New comment by throwaway173738 in "US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional"

throwaway173738 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:49:57 +0000

I don’t want my toddler exposed to secondhand pot smoke. Unfortunately it’s more common than secondhand cigarette smoke in my experience. I wouldn’t get upset on my own behalf but he’s too young to choose and it’s my responsibility to act in his behalf as much as I can.

New comment by throwaway173738 in "US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional"

throwaway173738 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:46:44 +0000

Also it doesn’t matter if there’s majority support for a lot of things because most people don’t vote. If you want to get a policy enacted make sure you and your friends vote in elections regularly.

New comment by throwaway173738 in "Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'"

throwaway173738 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:29:11 +0000

Try not to rely on Intel too much. They cut products with promise all the time because they miss quarterly numbers.

New comment by throwaway173738 in "Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'"

throwaway173738 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:26:14 +0000

I guess it counts if you can find the information from one of the many conflicting wikis out there and then figure out how to hack support for your card into the specific version of ROCm.

New comment by throwaway173738 in "Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user"

throwaway173738 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:15:30 +0000

You create two keyboards and use them both and test them separately. Then you create a keyboard update flow. And you test that. Then you make sure you test that the old keyboard shows until the user changes their password.

New comment by throwaway173738 in "Helium Is Hard to Replace"

throwaway173738 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:29:07 +0000

I would think that lighting a Vogon family picture would be about as advisable as recording a Vogon speech. That is to say not at all.

New comment by throwaway173738 in "Women are getting most of the new jobs. What's going on with men?"

throwaway173738 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:17:36 +0000

Well yeah but the real problem is a lot of jobs that go to women are not considered high status jobs. That’s the source of all of the gendering and gender imbalance of those jobs. Even computer programming was low status, which coincided with it being women-dominated once upon a time. We could fix the whole problem if we just convinced people to treat the people holding nursing, teaching, and childcare positions as if they we’re important members of society. And I mean this would fix the pay gap too.

New comment by throwaway173738 in "Women are getting most of the new jobs. What's going on with men?"

throwaway173738 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:09:47 +0000

Are you saying this should be acceptable behavior? Am eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

New comment by throwaway173738 in "Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?"

throwaway173738 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:31:45 +0000

That isn’t the problem. The problem is Google photos pushes you to back up your tens of gigabytes of photos to your free Gmail account repeatedly until you say yes just once. At that point it fills up your email account with your photos and then disables your email until you pay them. Making statements about how often they warn you this is happening isn’t very helpful. No normal person would think of that as a consequence of using Google photos.

New comment by throwaway173738 in "Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?"

throwaway173738 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:25:10 +0000

Is it really that much easier to fight Microsoft? Say what you will about tweaking settings in Linux but it lets you do just about whatever you want. And the settings changes are at least understood and documented. I’d hate to use an OS that you repeatedly have to fight with over its user hostile changes. Every time I boot Windows in a VM I’m reminded of how much harder Windows users have it because they can’t just do whatever they want with the computer, it has to be done with Microsoft’s blessing.

New comment by throwaway173738 in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

throwaway173738 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:21:32 +0000

They sure aren’t. Before github you set up remotes or emailed patches.

New comment by throwaway173738 in "Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence"

throwaway173738 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:51:13 +0000

They have realized that the real money is in sitting between us and reality arbitrating what we see or know.

New comment by throwaway173738 in "Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence"

throwaway173738 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:45:00 +0000

He can borrow against that, so it actually does matter.

New comment by throwaway173738 in "Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence"

throwaway173738 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:05:44 +0000

Maybe they’ll figure out how to make an agent train an agent.

New comment by throwaway173738 in "SQLite in Production: Lessons from Running a Store on a Single File"

throwaway173738 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:47:25 +0000

Most of us don’t work in businesses where indemnity coverage is more important than licensing costs.

New comment by throwaway173738 in "Slightly safer vibecoding by adopting old hacker habits"

throwaway173738 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:24:34 +0000

You could also just set the development machine up as a remote on the repo on your local host and then pull, diff, and merge locally. Then the llm agent doesn’t have access to any github account at all.

New comment by throwaway173738 in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

throwaway173738 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:30:09 +0000

If you keep picking fights with someone don’t be surprised if they learn how to fight. There’s literally a line in Sayings of Spartans about teaching your enemy to fight by making war with them.

New comment by throwaway173738 in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

throwaway173738 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:48:34 +0000

Trump’s party runs on a platform of subservience and fear and a lot of people either eat that stuff up or else believe their vote doesn’t count. The electoral college basically keeps the populous parts of the country hostage to the rural areas. And the rural areas believe that they contribute all the taxes for all the federal programs their parents created. We’ve basically become completely demoralized as a nation since the Baby Boomers took over for their parents and we’re busy continuing the plot. It won’t be over until we pull our heads out of our butts and start building things together or we become a third-world country.

New comment by throwaway173738 in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

throwaway173738 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:42:49 +0000

Vance is actually worse. He’s basically a sock puppet for Peter Thiel.

New comment by throwaway173738 in "USD Purchasing Power in Real Time Since 2000"

throwaway173738 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:34:43 +0000

I think the problem here isn’t the preference that we create with the way inflation is chosen as a target but that we try to exert influence at all. It should be possible for many people to lead good lives without investing cash in the stock market. And the stock market should be a good place to raise capital. But when our retirement savings are bundled up in the stock market it creates a perverse incentive to manipulate the market to prevent us from losing our retirement savings.