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New comment by weaksauce in "90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks"

weaksauce — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 23:31:21 +0000

yeah I am an aviation nerd and knew that but I was just trying to figure out how much they knew for such an outlandish claim.

New comment by weaksauce in "90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks"

weaksauce — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:32:08 +0000

do you actually understand how modern airplanes work in practice or is this just based off the fact that an airplane can land by itself?

New comment by weaksauce in "How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet"

weaksauce — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:42:09 +0000

apple pay is pretty damn convenient and seemingly secure. open a webpage and scan the apple qr like code and it's all done without much worry. maybe there's a mitm attack but i feel like you have a better shot at getting a refund from apple(i admit i've only used it a few times and nothing substantial or expensive)

i believe it also autofilled the address form for me.

New comment by weaksauce in "Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs"

weaksauce — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:49:46 +0000

i'd suggest trying out toshy... it's a game changer for linux. you get almost all of the mac keyboard shortcuts working out of the box. there's a few rough edges sometimes but generally it feels like you're using a mac wrt shortcuts. even stuff like diacritics and textbox emacs shortcuts work if you want.

New comment by weaksauce in "Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs"

weaksauce — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:47:32 +0000

karabiner-elements works very well to remap keys in macos even in very complex ways if you want. (multimodal ways held does something with other key presses but pressed by itself would emit a different code like esc or capslock)

New comment by weaksauce in "Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days"

weaksauce — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:16:13 +0000

local area network traffic was sent out and received by the device to the tune of 1TB of traffic. not internet data but local area network data which is not ideal for a coffee machine either way you slice it. if it were some kind of local bonjour or whatever the open standard is called service that was just alerting the network of their name it would be understandable but the coffee maker is streaming the equivalent of about 17 high def movies every day to the local network.

New comment by weaksauce in "Nearly 200 people under observation after Irkutsk lab worker dies from plague"

weaksauce — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 18:32:05 +0000

not only that but there are knock on effects like people hoarding toilet paper etc.

New comment by weaksauce in "An Update on Orion for Linux and Windows"

weaksauce — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 20:02:52 +0000

having written a few extensions... they are basically the same API with a few differences you need to account for. there's polyfills that can unify the experience a bit more too.

Make Tmux the OS

weaksauce — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 19:29:07 +0000

Article URL: https://matduggan.com/what-does-my-dream-os-ui-look-like/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49937540

Points: 234

# Comments: 138

New comment by weaksauce in "SvelteKit 3"

weaksauce — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 02:20:57 +0000

i'd expect the fact that svelte doesn't have a shadow dom that gets recomputed all the time that it would be a significant performance and memory benefit for most apps. i'm not an expert though so idk if that's 100% accurate

New comment by weaksauce in "What About Rails?"

weaksauce — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 22:09:58 +0000

vary similar processes. vibe code/vibe create a presentation. he also knew what "shape the graph should look like" but still had errors in his powerpoint. if you can't trust it with a powerpoint i'm not sure why you can trust it for other low stakes things.

New comment by weaksauce in "The Test"

weaksauce — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:50:22 +0000

billionaires are a flaw in the system. it's an obscene amount of wealth for one person to have. A million is a lot for most people but a billion is 1000 of those.

New comment by weaksauce in "What About Rails?"

weaksauce — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:52:23 +0000

dhh did just what you did and apparently made a bunch of mistakes in his powerpoints.

New comment by weaksauce in "I said no and Apple said yes"

weaksauce — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:21:54 +0000

that's really ignoring two big points. 1. windows and macs don't "just work" either... they have their fair share of pain points that you have to accept and/or workaround. 2. linux is different than windows and is different than macos in the sense that you've spent a long time learning the quirks of windows and macos and have the fixes mostly ready. once you learn the quirks of linux it's basically the same.

After the learning curve of linux desktop(well kde) it's basically the same as macos for me and for most people that would use it. most of the computing is done in the browser and that's basically the same experience in any os.

New comment by weaksauce in "Second Circuit allows government to search electronic devices at the border"

weaksauce — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:55:15 +0000

...which is about 2/3rds the population of america.

New comment by weaksauce in "Small programming tricks"

weaksauce — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 19:02:11 +0000

if you enable history substring search in zsh you can get that feature anywhere in the command and not just the start. it's very useful if you remember some snippet of the command like it had the word debug in it etc. in fish that is built in and on by default.

though one function that i recently added will narrow your history down based on a space separated set of filters which i found useful

    function hgrep
        set -l cmd history
        for pattern in $argv
            set cmd "$cmd | grep -- "(string escape "$pattern")
        end
        eval $cmd | cat
    end

use `hgrep ruby debug foo` would filter for a line that contained all the words ruby, debug and foo.

New comment by weaksauce in "Homebrew 7.0.0"

weaksauce — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 16:52:35 +0000

do you have any kind of succession plan in place in case you get incapacitated for one reason or another? anyone you trust enough for that?

I Am a Flat-Rate Monthly Responsibility Service

weaksauce — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:25:39 +0000

Article URL: https://matduggan.com/i-am-a-flat-rate-monthly-responsibility-service/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49663001

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by weaksauce in "NTSB issues investigative update on B-767 runway excursion accident in Miami"

weaksauce — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:20:08 +0000

> This exact thing could happen 20 times with everything turning up relatively ok and we only heard about it because they didn’t make that final call correctly either

This concept is called normalization of deviance and is the cause of a lot of accidents in aviation and other fields.

New comment by weaksauce in "NTSB issues investigative update on B-767 runway excursion accident in Miami"

weaksauce — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:54:52 +0000

mind you those numbers are seconds until the cvr stopped recording. they were a few hundred feet from the end of the runway when they initiated the go around and like the other poster said the turbines do take time to spool up from idle. they were so far out of normal spec for landing that it was absolutely pilot fault but not at the far end of the runway. they were not stabilized on approach way further back about 5 min or so. (if you're not stabilized on approach you are required to go around). they even called for flaps 30 halfway down the runway which is also not allowed for a stabilized approach.