evil-olive (u/evil-olive)

evil-olive commented on Show HN: I built the first tool to configure VPSs without commands the-ultimate-tool-for-con... · Posted by u/Wiar8

evil-olive · 2 days ago

> I built the first tool to configure VPSs without commands

no, your LLM wrote a 700-line shell script (https://github.com/Wiar8/the-ultimate-tool-for-configuring-V...) and a flashy website to go with it.

evil-olive commented on Sealos – AI Native Cloud Cloud Operating System github.com/labring/sealos... · Posted by u/fanux

evil-olive · 2 days ago

> Sealos is an AI-native Cloud Operating System built on Kubernetes

I am once again asking for a moratorium on calling something an "operating system" unless it is an actual operating system

it runs on k8s. k8s runs on Linux. Linux is the operating system.

I get that it's tempting to call yourself an "operating system" as a way of signalling "we have big ambitions, bigger than a library, bigger than a framework, bigger than a platform..."

but...just stop. it's annoying and misleading. your GitHub repo is 60% TypeScript. you built a fancy GUI frontend to k8s.

evil-olive commented on It's 2026, Just Use Postgres tigerdata.com/blog/its-20... · Posted by u/turtles3

yalldidwhat · 3 days ago

Did someone really downvote the creator of Redis?

evil-olive · 3 days ago

I was one of the downvoters, and at the time I downvoted it, it was a very different comment. this is the original (copied from another tab that I hadn't refreshed yet):

> Tell me you don't understand Redis point is data structures without telling me you don't understand Redis point is data structures.

regardless of the author, I think slop of that sort belongs on reddit, not HN.

evil-olive commented on Owl Browser – AI-assisted, privacy-focused browser for power users · Posted by u/Tye45

evil-olive · 5 days ago

> Tech notes • Built on top of [insert engine/framework here] • AI features powered by [your model / API stack — as much as you can disclose] • Uses [security measures, sandboxing approach, architecture notes] • Cross-platform support for [list platforms]

c'mon, put a little more effort into your slop.

evil-olive commented on The super-slow conversion of the U.S. to metric (2025) thefabricator.com/thefabr... · Posted by u/itvision

threemux · 19 days ago

I'd part with cups and teaspoons/tablespoons and the like, but you'll pry inches/feet/yards and fahrenheit from my cold, dead hands. They're both more convenient for daily use. I think I'd prefer to keep miles as well but I don't have a good reason for that one.

Fahrenheit has more precision without using decimals for the thing 99% of people are using temperature measurements for: air temp. Where I live, we generally experience 5 degrees F - 100 degrees F at different points of the year. That's 95 degrees of precision with no decimal. In C, that's -15 to 37.8, a mere 52.8 degrees. The difference between 75 (usually a beautiful day) and 85 (hot) is 23.8C to 29.4C. Everything packed into this tight range.

Inches/feet being base 12 divides better into thirds and fourths, which is very useful in construction.

For science, sure, I'll use metric.

evil-olive · 18 days ago

> Inches/feet being base 12 divides better into thirds and fourths, which is very useful in construction.

all of the math normal people use in everyday life happens in base 10.

"it's easy because it's base 12" is an absolutely ludicrous idea.

what's 7'5" divided by 3? divided by 4?

what happens if you need to divide by 5?

and sure, there are various mental math tricks you can learn to make this easier...or you could just use the metric system.

7'5" is 226cm. that's a normal, boring, everyday, base 10 integer.

you don't need to learn a special set of "mental math for base 12" tricks. instead you can re-use the same mental math tricks you use for every other base 10 number.

evil-olive commented on The super-slow conversion of the U.S. to metric (2025) thefabricator.com/thefabr... · Posted by u/itvision

eddyg · 19 days ago

Fahrenheit forever!

    0°C.................100°C
    Cold                 Dead

    0°F.................100°F
    Really Cold    Really Hot

evil-olive · 18 days ago

I see this argument repeated every single time someone tries to defend Fahrenheit.

if "room temperature" was smack in the middle, at 50 degF, you might have a point.

but no, it's pure post-hoc rationalization.

being naked at 0 degF will kill you. being naked at 100 degF will (usually) not. they're not remotely equivalent.

instead, think of it this way - human beings are mostly water, and 0 to 100 degC is "percentage of the way from water's freezing point to boiling point".

room temperature is "about 20% of the way to boiling". 40% or higher starts to cause our bodies to overheat. a typical sauna will be somewhere between 50 and 70% of the way.

evil-olive commented on The super-slow conversion of the U.S. to metric (2025) thefabricator.com/thefabr... · Posted by u/itvision

TheCoelacanth · 18 days ago

The extra precision is fake.

They might have measured precisely at the weather station, but local variation in temperature makes that extra precision meaningless unless you are located exactly where the measurement happened.

Even in a climate controlled room, there will be a degree or two of variation between different parts of the room.

evil-olive · 18 days ago

for another example of this: a lot of people "know" that the average human body temperature is 98.6 degF.

that extra decimal point gives people false confidence about the measurement being more precise than it is.

because so much science (even in the US) happens using the metric system, the actual measured average [0] is 37 degC, and 37.0 degC == 98.6 degF. the nuance of the average being more of a confidence interval (37 +/- 0.5 degC, possibly larger) gets lost as well.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_body_temperature

evil-olive commented on New York proposal requires 3D printer manufacturers to prevent printing guns tomshardware.com/3d-print... · Posted by u/josephcsible

evil-olive · 23 days ago

here's a primary source: https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/keeping-new-yorkers-safe-go...

> Create a first-in-the-nation policy that requires the establishment of minimum safety standards for 3D printer manufacturers to ensure their products are equipped with technology that blocks the printer from creating firearms and component parts.

I can imagine two ways of implementing this:

a) create a database of all known 3D-printable gun parts, and require 3D printers to load a copy of that database and refuse to print any blueprint if it's in the database

b) require 3D printer manufacturers to implement logic that takes a blueprint and identifies "is this a gun part?"

option A would create a giant, publicly accessible database of 3D printable guns. which seems like the opposite of Hochul's intention.

option B...seems like it's equivalent to the Halting Problem? like, quite literally undecidable. they want to make an algorithm mandatory but the best you can ever do at the problem is a heuristic.

evil-olive commented on When hardware goes end-of-life, companies need to open-source the software marcia.no/words/eol... · Posted by u/Marciplan

fermuch · a month ago

The only thing you'd achieve doing that is to change the "main function" of a device to somethings silly, like a thermostat being sold as an art decor with the optional additional of functioning as a thermostat too.

evil-olive · a month ago

> change the "main function" of a device to somethings silly, like a thermostat being sold as an art decor

that seems like it can be addressed by making sure that the regulators who enforce these laws have more object permanence than a 6 month old baby.

like, if I try to sell a "metal sculpture" that by sheer coincidence is capable of firing 9mm ammunition, I'm going to have the ATF knocking on my door real quick, and they're not going to be fooled by me claiming "no that's art"

evil-olive commented on Why didn't AI “join the workforce” in 2025? calnewport.com/why-didnt-... · Posted by u/zdw

evil-olive · a month ago

> But for now, I want to emphasize a broader point: I’m hoping 2026 will be the year we stop caring about what people believe AI might do, and instead start reacting to its real, present capabilities.

yes, 100%

I think that way too often, discussions of the current state of tech get derailed by talking about predictions of future improvements.

hypothetical thought experiment:

I set a New Year's resolution for myself of drinking less alcohol.

on New Year's Eve, I get pulled over for driving drunk.

the officer wants to give me a sobriety test. I respond that I have projected my alcohol consumption will have decreased 80% YoY by Q2 2026.

the officer is going to smile and nod...and then insist on giving me the sobriety test.

compare this with a non-hypothetical anecdote:

I was talking with a friend about the environmental impacts of AI, and mentioned the methane turbines in Memphis [0] that are being used to power Elon Musk's MechaHitler slash CSAM generator.

the friend says "oh, but they're working on building nuclear power plants for AI datacenters".

and that's technically true...but it misses the broader point.

if someone lives downwind of that data center, and they have a kid who develops asthma, you can try to tell them "oh in 5 years it'll be nuclear powered". and your prediction might be correct...but their kid still has asthma.

0: https://time.com/7308925/elon-musk-memphis-ai-data-center/