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New comment by zajio1am in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

zajio1am — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:58:17 +0000

A related quote from A. N. Whitehead:

> It is a profoundly erroneous truism ... that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.

New comment by zajio1am in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

zajio1am — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:02:33 +0000

Note that for eIDAS 1, a Czechia e-identity provider uses U2F tokens.

New comment by zajio1am in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

zajio1am — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:01:02 +0000

Why not just use U2F or certificates on crypto-tokens?

New comment by zajio1am in "Big-Endian Testing with QEMU"

zajio1am — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:42:53 +0000

As bits are generally not addressable / not ordered, it makes no sense to call CPU architecture big/little bit-endian. That makes sense only for serial lines/buses.

New comment by zajio1am in "Big-Endian Testing with QEMU"

zajio1am — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:11:16 +0000

'Arabic' numbers comes originally from India, from Brahmi numerals. And Brahmi script was left to right. So big-endian was 'normal' even originally, it was Arabs who kept left-to-right numbers within right-to-left script (and therefore use little-endian relative to direction of Arabic script).

New comment by zajio1am in "Big-Endian Testing with QEMU"

zajio1am — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:07:59 +0000

There is one reason not mentioned in the article why it is worth testing code on big-endian systems – some bugs are more visible there than on little-endian systems. For example, accessing integer variable through pointer of wrong type (smaller size) often pass silently on little-endian (just ignoring higher bytes), while read/writ bad values on big-endian.

New comment by zajio1am in "A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky"

zajio1am — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:14:41 +0000

You can do radiative cooling in space (you just need big radiators). You cannot do that reasonably in desert.

New comment by zajio1am in "Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables"

zajio1am — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 05:09:03 +0000

The same system is used all over EU.

New comment by zajio1am in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

zajio1am — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:13:43 +0000

I could easily change mobile phone OS to ungoogled one (e.g. LineageOS) or fully Linux, than changing jurisdiction to non-EU.

New comment by zajio1am in "Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode"

zajio1am — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:31:47 +0000

Is this relevant for people that use regular (per-token credit-based) API key?

New comment by zajio1am in "Starlink Mini as a failover"

zajio1am — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:09:54 +0000

When here is local power outage and everyone switches to 4g/5g, it is overwhelmed and unusable.

New comment by zajio1am in "Asian governments roll out 4-day weeks, WFH to solve fuel crisis caused by war"

zajio1am — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:33:09 +0000

No. EU laws are of two kinds: directives and regulations. Directives work roughly as you describe, while regulations have direct effect like regular laws.

New comment by zajio1am in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans."

zajio1am — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:47:44 +0000

> Wouldn't it work better to just write the thing in whatever language they can actually write in and then do a straightforward translation in a single pass?

Nontrivial translation tools are AI(neural net)-based tools (although not necessary LLM). Whole transformer neural net architecture was originally designed for translation.

New comment by zajio1am in "“Car Wash” test with 53 models"

zajio1am — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:27:14 +0000

Maybe that is because i am non-native speaker, but 'garage' i understand primarily as a place where car is parked, not a car repair shop. So it makes perfect sense to walk there in order to repair the car (that is already there).

New comment by zajio1am in "Running My Own XMPP Server"

zajio1am — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:27:03 +0000

XMPP had rather bad name. Well-known design issues causing message losses, fractioned ecosystem due to varying implementation of extensions, unsuitability for mobile clients, absence of synchronization between clients, absence of end-to-end encryption. Most of these issues were (much) later fixed by extensions, but Matrix (or Signal for those who do not require federated one) was already there, offering E2EE by default.

Even today, E2EE in XMPP is rather inconvenient compared to Matrix due to absence of chain-of-trust in key management.

New comment by zajio1am in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

zajio1am — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:08:34 +0000

One could argue that answers given by LLMs make sense. By assuming reasonability of the asking side, the answering side could assume that both options are possible and use abductive reasoning to conclude that the car to wash is already at the car wash station (and the question is about using another car to drive there).

New comment by zajio1am in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

zajio1am — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 13:28:03 +0000

No, it just ensures that humans acting through such legal fiction have the same rights as humans acting directly.

New comment by zajio1am in "End of an era for me: no more self-hosted git"

zajio1am — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:06:43 +0000

600K request per day is ~ 400/minute. That is very low number. But seems to me that many webapps are so bad that even that small number causes significant load for them.

New comment by zajio1am in "Communities are not fungible"

zajio1am — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:44:14 +0000

Most of NIMBY legislature and processes that block private construction also block public construction. So most YIMBY arguments to improve the situation apply to both public and private constructions. (Not to mention that public construction has a plenty of problems specific to it.)

New comment by zajio1am in "Running Your Own AS: BGP on FreeBSD with FRR, GRE Tunnels, and Policy Routing"

zajio1am — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 18:08:06 +0000

Note that it is not a real C-class IP prefix unless it is from the 192.0.0.0/3 range, otherwise it is just a sparkling /24 IP prefix.