Hacker News: univerio

New comment by univerio in "A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)"

univerio — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:58:31 +0000

I think just written in an ambiguous way: "dish" here refers to the food contained in the vessel and not the vessel itself.

New comment by univerio in "Residential Networking over Telephone"

univerio — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 19:10:17 +0000

If you have coax, I've found MoCA to be more reliable than powerline.

New comment by univerio in "Git Bisect-Find"

univerio — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 02:41:49 +0000

Yes! But for me it's very rare (< 1/yr) and I'm like a kid in a toy store every time I get to bust it out. My employer uses squash commits so that's not a problem for us, but you're right that commits far enough back will be unlikely to be in a buildable state.

New comment by univerio in "Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes"

univerio — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 23:47:33 +0000

It seems to resolve against 1.1.1.1 but not 8.8.8.8.

    $ dig www.hackingbutlegal.com @1.1.1.1

    ...
    www.hackingbutlegal.com. 1730 IN CNAME target.substack-custom-domains.com.
    ...

New comment by univerio in "EU reaches deal to make USB-C a common charger for most electronic devices"

univerio — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 17:55:54 +0000

There's a specific PD profile (15V IIRC) that your charger needs in order to be able to power the dock, and older MacBook chargers didn't have it.

New comment by univerio in "Open-sourcing the Sorbet VS Code Extension"

univerio — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 03:33:19 +0000

stdlib rbis are shipped with Sorbet. A limited selection of gem RBIs are available at https://github.com/sorbet/sorbet-typed.

New comment by univerio in "Tuple: Pair Programming Tool for macOS"

univerio — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 23:59:39 +0000

+1 on making video better. The janky video feature feels like such an afterthought compared to the impeccable screensharing/pairing feature. I've had to resort to using Tuple with Zoom just for the video sometimes because the webcam freezes for no reason.

I'll also offer one related piece of feedback: the "calling" metaphor for initiating a session is quite awkward. Compared to Zoom, where you share a link/code once and then you're free to join/leave the room, in Tuple you have to ask the other person to call you every time you drop; this in particular does not play well with the forced version upgrades -- you ask the other person to call you out-of-band, and you answer, except oops, you need to upgrade Tuple, so you upgrade and restart Tuple, and now Tuple has forgotten about the last call so now you have to ask the other person to call you out-of-band again! This is a UX wart that I'd love to see fixed!

New comment by univerio in "Early-Retirement Update"

univerio — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 19:25:42 +0000

It does read a bit absurd with the over-the-top proper nouns, but this being the author's description of their past beliefs led me to interpret this as their being self-critical about the less nuanced opinions they once held about their lifestyle, rather than seriously looking down their nose at the people who have chosen a different lifestyle.

New comment by univerio in "USB-C was supposed to simplify our lives, but instead it’s a total mess"

univerio — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 17:59:28 +0000

The Switch dock requires the 15V PD profile, which the (old) 61W adapter from 2016 did not support, but the newer 61W adapter from 2018 does.

New comment by univerio in "Rust: Zero-Cost Abstraction in Action"

univerio — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 18:42:38 +0000

I assume it's doing `(N-2)(N-3)/2 + 2N - 3` instead of `N(N-1)/2` due to overflow concerns? But couldn't `(N-2)(N-3)` also possibly overflow, just supporting a larger range of `N`?

New comment by univerio in "Brain research on boys’ preference for video games and girls’ for social media"

univerio — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 21:49:45 +0000

I assume an example of a "life-simulation" game is the Sims? What are "hidden-object" games?

New comment by univerio in "An x86 Assembler in 256 LOC (2017)"

univerio — Mon, 27 May 2019 23:50:55 +0000

What are the proper abstractions necessary?

New comment by univerio in "Pilotwings demos act differently depending on when the cartridge was made"

univerio — Sat, 11 May 2019 03:08:52 +0000

> you carefully dump acid on them, and you visually extract the ROM data.

Super interested in how that works. Do they literally map out the chip at a transistor/gate level?

New comment by univerio in "Fast Directory Listing on Linux"

univerio — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 00:17:15 +0000

You could use it if available, and fall back to existing behavior if not. (Not sure if it would be faster, but probably worth experimenting with.)

New comment by univerio in "Loop invariants can give you coding superpowers"

univerio — Wed, 03 Apr 2019 17:09:26 +0000

This is a great technique; I learned it in David Gries' Intro to CS at Cornell, but a lot of my classmates didn't think so, which elevated this to meme status at Cornell: https://quotes.cs.cornell.edu/quote/1369/

New comment by univerio in "Comparing Rust and JavaScript Ergonomics with a Simple Linked List"

univerio — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 21:14:32 +0000

Unfortunately JSON.stringify makes no guarantees about the order of keys in an Object, so that can break in subtle ways.

New comment by univerio in "Comparing Rust and JavaScript Ergonomics with a Simple Linked List"

univerio — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 17:57:06 +0000

For JS, implement a Map data structure that is keyed by the value (not identity) of arbitrary objects.

New comment by univerio in "Amazon driver arrested after taking GPS 'bait' package off Washington Co. porch"

univerio — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 23:08:18 +0000

> [...] he did it because Amazon has an incentive program that pays drivers $5 for each undelivered package they return.

Not sure I understand the program and how it benefits Amazon in any way.

New comment by univerio in "Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 71"

univerio — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 23:29:11 +0000

Does this mean we can finally login to U2F-required Google accounts from iCal?

New comment by univerio in "Ask HN: Codebase at my work is a complete mess, what should I do?"

univerio — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 03:30:02 +0000

Are you familiar with the term "human resources"?