Hacker News: tpict

New comment by tpict in "Remix Breaks Up with React"

tpict — Fri, 23 May 2025 11:31:13 +0000

I’m curious what’s meant by

Designing for bundlers/compilers/typegen (and any pre-runtime static analysis) leads to poor api design that eventually pollutes the entire system

Is this in reference to React Router v7 that just shipped?

New comment by tpict in "Tenets"

tpict — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 22:35:35 +0000

I feel insane whenever the Svelte reactivity thing is touted to me as an improvement over React state. Surely it’s not so hard to internalise JS equality rules that such a huge break from convention is necessary?

PS. I looked up the reactivity token docs on the Svelte website to make sure I was remembering correctly, but it repeatedly crashes the latest version of Safari on iOS. Oops!

New comment by tpict in "SETI@home is in hibernation"

tpict — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 02:33:02 +0000

My dad’s Power Mac running the SETI screensaver is one of my earliest memories of the Internet. Makes me a little sad

New comment by tpict in "I created an eBay account and bought an item, today I got indefinitely suspended"

tpict — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 17:05:24 +0000

I had a similar situation happen with Mercari last year. I bought some used audio equipment and 30 minutes later my account was terminated for "prohibited items or conduct". I still wonder every now and then what part of the listing triggered the banhammer. Guess who never used Mercari again?

New comment by tpict in "Ask HN: Why is there no way to lower amber alert volume on headphones?"

tpict — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 14:41:14 +0000

On a similar note to the linked article: the low battery alert of the AirPods Pro can be ear-shattering, and there's no means of reducing the volume. I suspect it tries to scale volume with environmental noise because it ranges from "startling" to "painful".

New comment by tpict in "Python 3.11.0 final"

tpict — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 13:02:55 +0000

I don’t disagree with the “early TypeScript” comparison, but what’s the issue with args, *kwargs?

New comment by tpict in "Asdf – language tool version manager"

tpict — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 23:04:30 +0000

I wonder how many millions of lines of shell configuration have died by people switching to asdf. Fantastic tool

New comment by tpict in "Cloud services like AWS or Google Cloud Platform may be the wrong choice"

tpict — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 13:04:17 +0000

I can see how this makes sense for a startup etc that has passed some threshold of operational complexity. As an “indie hacker” there is no way I’d be able to move out of the cloud without my costs going up by an order of magnitude.

New comment by tpict in "The coffee maker that ate my kitchen"

tpict — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 18:29:06 +0000

did this capture the entire article? I feel like I'm missing something

New comment by tpict in "The Japanese tradition of raising and eating wasps (2019)"

tpict — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 17:49:17 +0000

The GP’s sentiment is common in the comments. I absolutely understand the gut reaction–regional Eastern specialties are rarely presented with the warmth and openness that this article has. I feel like stepping around “Japanese” as a cultural description in this case would only serve to isolate the community in the reader’s mind. As the article says, there is more to Japanese cuisine than seafood. Why should this tradition not be included?

New comment by tpict in "Show HN: HiFiScan, a Python app to optimize your loudspeakers"

tpict — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 17:29:58 +0000

I'm finding the "this is a horrible idea" responses amusing. I don't know if there's something fundamentally different about the way this project works versus Dirac/XT32 or if the naysayers aren't familiar with it. Or maybe there's an anti-room correction sect of audiophiles that have remained hidden to me.

New comment by tpict in "Not using useCallback is premature optimization"

tpict — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 03:33:53 +0000

Yep, it will flag any references to variables in the outer scope that it doesn’t know for certain are stable.

New comment by tpict in "Not using useCallback is premature optimization"

tpict — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 22:47:59 +0000

Do you have a reduced code sample? I can’t quite picture the stale state issue.

(I suppose this is a good example in favour of the opposing “useCallback is premature optimisation” opinion)

New comment by tpict in "Vite – Next Generation Front End Tooling"

tpict — Sun, 03 Jul 2022 20:29:27 +0000

Last time I checked NPM the weekly downloads were still heavily slanted in favour of version 4. I wonder if that plays into perception of it.

At work, an engineer in a different team recently recommended we switch to Vite because it’s “so much faster”. Warm builds are 700ms with our very uninteresting Webpack 5 config. It’s hard to imagine that the cost of reconfiguring our entire build would be worth it.

New comment by tpict in "Sad Trek – How an exhausted liberalism killed sci-fi’s sunniest franchise"

tpict — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 03:37:42 +0000

There’s nothing to read into here. The writers of these shows are chiefly interested in set pieces that will sell CBS subscriptions via dramatic trailers. They aren’t considering the implications for the ST universe any more than they’re considering the internal consistency of any single episode.

New comment by tpict in "Getting to Gnome Mode"

tpict — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 12:51:26 +0000

It must take an incredibly sheltered perspective to frame goblin mode as something that happens to tech employees who have the luxury of a WFH policy.

New comment by tpict in "SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking Elon Musk"

tpict — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 16:33:32 +0000

It’s almost identical to some of the top comments!

New comment by tpict in "Americans are poorly served by their grocery stores"

tpict — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 01:02:19 +0000

I haven’t been back in a few years, but the selection of onions in my local Kroger would be staggeringly exotic next to the offerings of Tescos of the north-east.

New comment by tpict in "Americans are poorly served by their grocery stores"

tpict — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 23:31:38 +0000

As a British expat, the “yellow onions” you see in US supermarkets are most familiar.

New comment by tpict in "Ask HN: How do you deal with rude interviewers?"

tpict — Wed, 11 May 2022 16:46:08 +0000

I once had a phone screen for a full stack SWE position where the interviewer was laser focused on the fact that I had previously held the title "web developer". The entire interview was spent defending myself from accusations that web developers "don't write code", or that "they're more about design" etc, while my resume described past job duties that were a 1:1 match with the JD. The canned "we'll be in touch shortly" was said with a chuckle and I never heard back from them.

At the time, I was in desperate need of a new job or else have to leave the country, so it hurt to be dismissed so readily.

These days I'd be more inclined to excuse myself early, but on the other hand, who's to say that this one person is representative of the company and their culture? Maybe they're a recent hire. Maybe I would have enjoyed the subsequent interviews. My only regret is that I didn't share my experience with someone else at that company.