Hacker News: trashface

New comment by trashface in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

trashface — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:36:28 +0000

Yep its Texas.

New comment by trashface in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

trashface — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:22:50 +0000

Maybe its better under KDE but on gnome/wayland, VSCode can't even remember its window position and size or even which display it should be on - at least for me. Reminds of the bad old days of windows 3.1. I have a shell script to reset it now.

But I have to use wayland because I've got nvidia and the force composition vsync hack is just too slow to game with reliably.

New comment by trashface in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

trashface — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:37:32 +0000

Feels like there is some real momentum on linux gaming now. I mostly play older games but I've gotten most of them working acceptably in proton on my old system 76 laptop (oryp5, with a nvidia 2060; ~7 years old). The laptop actually has plenty of power for the games I play, but I underclock to keep the heat/fan speeds down (been doing the same on the win10 install on the same system), still getting acceptable framerate in proton for most of the things I do in game, non intense stuff.

Decades ago I ported some games to linux but I do think proton is the correct approach now. One underappreciated advantage is you get most of the mod environment too. In ESO for instance, there is an addon (tamriel trade center) which lets you download item prices, but it requires a windows client exe to do that. That client works on proton.

I also do some modding myself and can cross compile my rust code to windows with cargo xwin, and run it right away in proton, which is fairly amusing to behold.

I actually don't mind windows generally (been a MS user since DOS 5), but Win11 is a game changer, pun intended, and not in a good way.

New comment by trashface in "US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war"

trashface — Wed, 13 May 2026 05:54:15 +0000

That's probably fuel costs. The milk and everything else comes in on a truck (and dairy farming is also fuel intensive itself)

New comment by trashface in "US budget watchdog estimates Golden Dome will cost $1.2T"

trashface — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:06:19 +0000

New republican saint, new missile shield.

New comment by trashface in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

trashface — Fri, 08 May 2026 01:47:05 +0000

It has boosted my productivity in my side projects but its nothing I can monetize. Maybe companies have the same problem.

New comment by trashface in "Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI"

trashface — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:04:15 +0000

Windows 10 LTSC isn't a realistic option for most people.

New comment by trashface in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

trashface — Wed, 06 May 2026 15:24:07 +0000

`wallet.transfer(&mut dest).unwrap()`

New comment by trashface in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

trashface — Wed, 06 May 2026 08:54:28 +0000

Most likely indeed firing old people, but at coinbase that is probably like age 28+

New comment by trashface in "StarFighter 16-Inch"

trashface — Wed, 06 May 2026 08:40:46 +0000

I happen to be looking around for a 15 or 16 inch laptop, but these look pretty unsuitable for me. Odd CPU choices, and no apparent way to configure one with 16GB ram in this time of AI-fueled cost crisis. All but the standard are way out of my budget range - especially considering none have a dGPU. Also for idiosyncratic reasons I need a numeric keypad.

New comment by trashface in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

trashface — Tue, 05 May 2026 01:29:19 +0000

For me going to the gym (actually YMCA) is just a way to express agency in a society that increasingly is trying to rob me of that. I may be gatekept out of various other things, because I'm not attractive enough, not high income enough, not smart enough, not young enough, etc etc. But as now, nobody can stop me from going to work out.

New comment by trashface in "Usage-based pricing killing your vibe, here's how to roll your own local AI"

trashface — Tue, 05 May 2026 00:22:08 +0000

I like how in copilot now, I need to consider in vscode whether to accept a tab-complete, because if its coming from copilot it will count against my usage, whereas if it is coming from the ide tools it will not. So I'm like, making individual decisions on whether to type something myself or just "use up" some completion budget. Funny to get nickel and dimed like this by one of the biggest companies in the world.

New comment by trashface in "Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks"

trashface — Tue, 05 May 2026 00:18:49 +0000

Or people who have cognitive issues have trouble staying employed...

New comment by trashface in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

trashface — Sun, 03 May 2026 14:04:42 +0000

For me it just inserted "Copilot" and I was only using inline completion, not agents. A bit weird too since my VSCode doesn't even have copilot installed as an extension (I had just started using that editor again on an old linux install and was wondering why I was even getting AI completions).

New comment by trashface in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

trashface — Sun, 03 May 2026 14:00:09 +0000

Was this rolled out to individuals (especially non paying accounts) early? I was hit by this over a week ago on my side project, but it seems to be just blowing up now.

New comment by trashface in "Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March"

trashface — Sun, 03 May 2026 13:48:21 +0000

FWIW I've done some d3d9 and d3d11 tinkering and my stuff looks like it works pretty good under proton.

New comment by trashface in "Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?"

trashface — Sun, 03 May 2026 03:51:51 +0000

Its bad for people on the margins, which is a lot of people these days.

New comment by trashface in "Canonical Under Attack"

trashface — Sun, 03 May 2026 03:46:42 +0000

Their hiring process apparently leaks through to the general design of ubuntu, which is trash.

New comment by trashface in "The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced"

trashface — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:28:49 +0000

Eh, the anti-gay sentiment was really bad in the 90s. A couple of my college buddies came out and instantly lost half their friends.

New comment by trashface in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

trashface — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:23:40 +0000

That works until openai does the same thing. Pretty clear as an industry they want to establish a new price floor for non-trivial coding use.