blikdak's comments

blikdak | 1 day ago | on: What 81,000 people want from AI

"What 81,000 users wish it could actually do"

blikdak | 4 months ago | on: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

What bugs me is the sheer number of people, and organisations, who still link to images and video or '1/20' long screeds on twitter, while the next article on their own site is bitching about how bad twatter/owner/politics etc is. Seriously if a site, blog, forum etc you know ever links to twitter then just stop interaction with them, they're lazy mofos need to do their own groundwork.

blikdak | 7 months ago | on: Replacing tmux in my dev workflow

I dunno what mess they got into with basic tumx use but yeah, just re-assign your ctrl^ key between local and remote and change your cursor and border colour you are fine. Scrollback on Windows, even using Terminal or Putty is, to me, a fail. Tell me 'cause it's a huge problem for me.

blikdak | 1 year ago | on: The Overengineered Resume with Zola, JSON Resume, Weasyprint, and Nix (2023)

OMg really hope you got 10x jobs that workflow.

blikdak | 2 years ago | on: Why Europe is dismantling its dams

A dam is many things; is it for generating electricity? Is it political or ideological? Does it give a geographical advantage? Is it extortionate? Is it for drinking water? Is it beavers? This thing doesn't explain what it thinks a dam is.

blikdak | 2 years ago | on: Why are Apple Silicon VMs so different?

AI generated nonsense, transition from intel to arm architecture has nothing to do with virtio.

blikdak | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why do search functions everywhere not return what I search for?

Greed

blikdak | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is Google becoming useless as a search engine, or is it just me?

True, it's not malice or stupidity, it's just "making money".

blikdak | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is Google becoming useless as a search engine, or is it just me?

Google used to have an option to exclude sites from search - but then advertising... bit painful especially with all the scraping and frequent domain changes now, but better than nothing. IIRC there's some browser extensions which can do this for you.

blikdak | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Should a professional software dev know how many bits go in a byte?

Yes. Try adding 1 to a number which is already (in binary) all '1's. If you don't know the size of a byte, or an 'int' or a 'long int' etc for the language you are using you will be mystified why it is now 0, or maybe some other number your language decided was sensible to use (signed vs. unsigned etc). Then extrapolate that times 100 when dealing with floating point etc and presenting a sensible total in your shopping cart web app. If you don't know this stuff learn it or stay away from programming.

blikdak | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Has the quality of Google search declined for anyone else, or just me?

They want to make as much money as possible so they can go into space, or fund their extropian fantasies, and can afford to pay lots of unimaginative people like lawyers, marketing and bean-counting people lots of money to achieve it. Advertising is the crutch.

blikdak | 4 years ago | on: Tell HN: All .fj domains have gone offline

Is there anyone here in Fiji who can say they are OK?

blikdak | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What password managers can you recommend?

MacOS with iCloud has shared Keychain 1st party. People should stop thinking this integration is an app, it's a function of your entire online environment including how your OS talks to it. FBG

blikdak | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why is today's Internet experience so user hostile?

Greed

blikdak | 4 years ago | on: Renesas enters FPGA market with the first ultra-low-power, low-cost family

I just ran a synthesis of their include demo Blinky and it ended with:

End of script. Logfile hash: 00b456ea46, CPU: user 3.19s system 0.13s Yosys 0.10.0 (git sha1 a743417f0, clang 12.0.0 -fPIC -Os) Time spent: 63% 17x read_verilog (2 sec), 6% 1x synth_xilinx (0 sec), ...

11/21/21 12:03 PM > Finished running Yosys with status: 0

(!!!)

blikdak | 4 years ago | on: Tell HN: Google issue tracker does not allow viewing issues unless signed-in

Is this for an Open Source or other project? Not that I think there's any distinction at Alphabet anymore of course.

blikdak | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: How can an older worker going back to CS after a break find a position?

Well said. If you don't spend the time looking after your kids when they're younger you'll end up spending a lot more time sorting out problems when they're older.

blikdak | 4 years ago | on: Neighbour manages to pollute the 2.4 ghz spectrum with his 120 IoT devices

devrant.com looks like bro low pants to me.

blikdak | 4 years ago | on: Neighbour manages to pollute the 2.4 ghz spectrum with his 120 IoT devices

devrant looks like bullshit to me. Just saying.

blikdak | 5 years ago | on: Ruined over Ripple/Xrp Losses

To be fair this is the risk you take when you gamble.