bashkiddie (u/bashkiddie)

bashkiddie commented on Gentoo Linux 2025 Review gentoo.org/news/2026/01/0... · Posted by u/akhuettel

shevy-java · a month ago

Gentoo has many smart people. Having said that, I can't help but feel that ever since the rise of Arch, Gentoo lost a lot of grounds. This may not be primarily due to Arch, but it kind of felt that way to me. I feel that the Gentoo devs should really look at its main competitors such as Void or Arch, IMO. These seem to be more like a modern Gentoo, even if they are different and have a different focus too.

bashkiddie · a month ago

I have heard rumors that at one point in time gentoo lost its forum - basically a catastrophic strike such as deleting Arch Linux wiki

bashkiddie commented on “Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead” (2016) lbstanza.org/purpose_of_p... · Posted by u/teleforce

PaulHoule · a month ago

Two interesting options for everyday scripting are Python and Powershell.

bashkiddie · a month ago

I am unhappy with python. It degrades fast. It deprecates libraries every minor release and that tends to break the applications I use. Recent examples are distutils and opsaudio.

bashkiddie commented on Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig git.dec05eba.com/phoenix/... · Posted by u/snvzz

grim_io · 2 months ago

I disagree. The choices in the Linux ecosystem lead to unnecessary fragmentation and development/packaging nightmares.

I say let X11 die, bury it, and never let it rise again.

Then we can all focus on making just one display server as good as possible.

bashkiddie · 2 months ago

> I say let X11 die, bury it, and never let it rise again.

totally awesome! And once we are done with X11, lets put pulseaudio to the grave! We can all focus on having an audio stack that does realiably stream to many sinks!

And polkit... su and sudo should have been enough

bashkiddie commented on Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025 hackernews-readings-61360... · Posted by u/seinvak

JDye · 2 months ago

Surprised TCP/IP Illustrated (Volume 1) has only been mentioned 6 times. It's been so helpful for me, so many times. Perhaps it's because most people haven't had writing a TCP stack as part of their day job, but it's such a fundamental technology I would have thought learning about it in depth would be suggested far more frequently.

Also, a proper first edition copy is really high quality with lovely thick paper. My copy of Volume 2 on the other hand is not of the same quality, both in content and physical properties.

bashkiddie · 2 months ago

I once had to write an IPv6 stack intending to cache poison internet targets (alias resolution). I just referred to the RFC.

A well behaved reference implementation would not be of help.

bashkiddie commented on OpenSCAD is kinda neat nuxx.net/blog/2025/12/20/... · Posted by u/c0nsumer

WillAdams · 2 months ago

Aren't hulls just a direct connection of the edges of two shapes (which could be simulated by a series of duplications) while Minkowski is "just" a matter of putting spheres along the edges of an object to round the straight edges?

So, spheres and cylinders and cubes placed, rotated, stretched and placed mathematically.

bashkiddie · 2 months ago

A hull requires at minimum one shape and returns a convex shape.

A minkowski sum, as far as I understand it, requires a surface and a volume and returns a volume.

Example 1: apply hull() to a star shape

Example 2: You want to fold a picture (SVG) around a cylinder and make its edges FDM printable by 45 degree overhang, apply a cone to the image

bashkiddie commented on Do dyslexia fonts work? (2022) edutopia.org/article/do-d... · Posted by u/CharlesW

imperio59 · 2 months ago

Please please please, if you have young kids learning to read or who will need to soon, educate yourself by listening to the "Sold a Story" podcast from NPR (it's on Spotify and other places).

There is so much bullshit out there about how kids should be taught to read, and too many schools unfortunately still use wrong methods disproven by science.

What works is phonics, old, tried and true. If your school isn't teaching it, you need to do it yourself at home or your kids risk never being good readers.

bashkiddie · 2 months ago

I did not know about phonics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonics

English is my second language. I found writing and pronunciation disconnected and learned two separate languages.

bashkiddie commented on Advent of Code 2025 adventofcode.com/2025/abo... · Posted by u/vismit2000

jlouis · 3 months ago

Go is strong. You get something where writing a solution doesn't take too much time, you get a type system, you can brute-force problems, and the usual mind-numbing boring data-manipulation handling fits well into the standard tools.

OCaml is strong too. Stellar type system, fast execution and sane semantics unlike like 99% of all programming languages. If you want to create elegant solutions to problems, it's a good language.

For both, I recommend coming prepared. Set up a scaffold and create a toolbox which matches the typical problems you see in AoC. There's bound to be a 2d grid among the problems, and you need an implementation. If it can handle out-of-bounds access gracefully, things are often much easier, and so on. You don't want to hammer the head against the wall not solving the problem, but solving parsing problems. Having a combinator-parser library already in the project will help, for instance.

bashkiddie · 2 months ago

> Go is strong.

How do you parse the puzzle input into a data structure of your choice?

bashkiddie commented on Don't Download Apps blog.calebjay.com/posts/d... · Posted by u/speckx

Flere-Imsaho · 3 months ago

Android 15 supports Private Space [0] that is essentially a separate profile you can install apps into that you can put to sleep. Basically I put all low trust apps into it, but can still access easily enough.

[0] https://support.google.com/android/answer/15341885?hl=en

bashkiddie · 3 months ago

The web page says Private Spaces can hide an app from the user.

What I want to do is hide my address book and gallery from the app.

bashkiddie commented on The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/cyclecount

jdiff · 3 months ago

My Pixel 8 certainly hasn't gone through 10k cycles and it barely holds on to any USB-C connector I put inside it. They all fall out even when laying still on a flat surface.

There's always outliers, of course, but I had this issue with USB Micro-B on at least one other device and never saw it with a Lightning connector.

bashkiddie · 3 months ago

Your Pixel 8 could be about two years old. The connector performed way under spec and you should send it in for repair (assuming your are in a country with a 2 year warranty period)