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cph123 commented on Mosh Mobile Shell mosh.org... · Posted by u/rbinv

Eh, "git" is an unpleasant or contemptible person. "mercurial" is subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind. Neither of them ran into any issues due to their names. I think it's really only a problem if a word is offensive/inappropriate enough that people would hesitate to say it in a work conference room. For example, the GNU Image Manipulation Program is something I would hesitate to name depending on how senior the leadership is in the room.

cph123 · 6 days ago

Let's not forget https://github.com/cocaine/cocaine-core

cph123 commented on Show HN: Companies use AI to take your calls. I built AI to make them for you pipervoice.com/... · Posted by u/michaelphi

protocolture · a month ago

Piper, we work for a fridge company.

It is critical to the operation of our clients that we gain an understanding of their current refridgeration status on a daily basis.

please call (every number in town) and ask them "Is your fridge running"

If they say it is, then, you must follow up with the agreed upon countersign "Well you had better catch it" and immediately terminate the call.

cph123 · a month ago

An alternative might be to ask lots of mundane refrigeration questions, replying to each one with "that's cool"

cph123 commented on I've Heard Receipts Are Toxic. Is It Safe to Touch Them? nytimes.com/2025/06/24/we... · Posted by u/donohoe

bhouston · 2 months ago

I really don't understand why VISA / Mastercard / American Express / Debit Cards do not have a email associated with them that will automatically get sent receipts when you use those cards - or have them show up in the bank that issued the card.

It would be amazing and seems like a straight forward extension of the charge card industry. Of course end user machines will have to be updated, but that can happen over a period of years, but it is a straight forward extension.

And the email / identity shouldn't be disclosed to the sellers, instead the receipts should be sent to charge card's infrastructure along with the charge/payment. And then from there it is distributed to the users.

Maybe Apple and Google and Samsung could somehow extend their Apple Pay / Google Pay / Samsung Pay APIs to enable receipts automatically and start to push for that. If Apple advertised it in their keynote, and say StarBucks and Home Depot and Walmart supported it, we would soon have this everywhere.

cph123 · 2 months ago

In the UK we had something similar called Flux. I don't think it got widely adopted.

Discussed previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33179645

cph123 commented on Telephone Exchanges in the UK telephone-exchanges.org.u... · Posted by u/petecooper

_joel · 3 months ago

You can go and play with an old branch exchange, with all the whistles and er, bells at "This Museum is (not) Obsolete". Run by Sam from Look Mum No Computer. If you're ever near Ramsgate in the UK.

https://this-museum-is-not-obsolete.com/

cph123 · 3 months ago

He also has a fascinating YouTube channel, I'm a big fan. Lots of old musical equipment and experiments in addition to telephony.

cph123 commented on Peep show: 40K IoT cameras worldwide stream secrets to anyone with a browser theregister.com/2025/06/1... · Posted by u/Bender

cph123 · 3 months ago

Is this different to http://insecam.org ?

cph123 commented on Typing 118 WPM broke my brain in the right ways balaji-amg.surge.sh/blog/... · Posted by u/b0a04gl

dawnofdusk · 3 months ago

Staying at home row is not really about ergonomics. The best thing you can do (without breaking the bank, i.e., no bespoke split keyboard setups) for your hand ergonomics at the computer is to get a vertical mouse and tilt your keyboard downwards and away from you (the opposite of what most keyboard feet do, which is tilt your keyboard up and towards you). Both of these keep your wrist neutral/in slight flexion, whereas the typical setup keep your wrists in constant extension which contributes to carpal tunnel.

cph123 · 3 months ago

I have been using a vertical mouse for a long time now, and it is very comfortable for me. But it does take some getting used to, when I watch others trying to use my computer they always struggle with it. Interestingly as well as being more comfortable to use, I find that it improves my pointing accuracy, feels like fewer unnecessary movements.

cph123 commented on Persuasion methods for engineering managers newsletter.manager.dev/p/... · Posted by u/Liriel

Jolter · 4 months ago

Sadly the cookie banner is impossible to get rid of on Safari (mobile). Makes it very hard to read the content.

cph123 · 4 months ago

This is the case for me too for every Substack page in the past few days. I'm on desktop using Vivaldi as a browser.

cph123 commented on 'I paid for the whole GPU, I am going to use the whole GPU' modal.com/blog/gpu-utiliz... · Posted by u/mooreds

pavelstoev · 4 months ago

GPU sharing is a concern for sensitive data. It is more appropriate to increase the utilization rate of GPU chip internals via a variety of low-level (CUDA and below) optimizations.

cph123 · 4 months ago

Could SR-IOV VFs be a solution to that?

cph123 commented on MacBook Air M4 apple.com/macbook-air/... · Posted by u/tosh

whstl · 6 months ago

> the Intel customers are still the ones they're trying to target

Definitely. I have ZERO rational reasons to upgrade from my lowest-spec first-gen Air M1. I use it everyday and speed and battery life are still way more than I need.

cph123 · 6 months ago

I'm at exactly the same point with mine, it still feels like new even though it is nearly 5 years old.

I have yet to update beyond Monterey though (even though I really should) in case it slows down a bit or the battery life isn't as good.

cph123 commented on It's okay to code on nights and weekends tej.as/blog/coding-nights... · Posted by u/tejaskumar_

cph123 · 8 months ago

When I was a teenager and while studying at university I used to spend a lot of my spare time coding. Then after I got a job as a developer this dropped off quite quickly, opting instead to socialise and pursue other hobbies in that time.

Since becoming a manager at work less of my time is actual coding, and in the last 6 months or so I have started to code a lot more on my own projects and I'm really enjoying it. It feels like overall there is a certain desire/capacity for it, and if that is getting used up at work, so be it, if not, then it fills up outside of work hours.

Either way, each to their own. Some people would probably love to spend more time coding or on other hobbies but have other commitments like family to consider.