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orsorna commented on RFC 3092 – Etymology of “Foo” (2001) datatracker.ietf.org/doc/... · Posted by u/ipnon

zahlman · 17 hours ago

> First on the standard list of metasyntactic variables used in syntax examples (bar, baz, qux, quux, corge, grault, garply, waldo, fred, plugh, xyzzy, thud)

I've seen foo, bar, baz, qu+x, plugh and xyxxy actually in use, not the others.

I've not used "qux" or followed the convention of adding more u's. From me it's been just foo, bar, baz, quux and then some Monty Python inspired ones: spam, ni, ecky, ptong.

Although eventually I learned enough about how to name things that I don't feel the temptation any more. I'll gladly pay that bit of joylessness to understand myself months later.

orsorna · 15 hours ago

I've never seen qu+x, except in the title of that Gundam installment released last year, Gundam gquuuuuux. I found this speculation on myanimelist sufficient, but there's no real confirmation afaik. https://myanimelist.net/forum/?goto=post&topicid=2209708&id=...

orsorna commented on Nanobot: Ultra-Lightweight Alternative to OpenClaw github.com/HKUDS/nanobot... · Posted by u/ms7892

volkk · 4 days ago

we kind of already are with our phones and Slack, the difference at this point is negligible. i personally won't have airpods in 24/7 with my kid (or ever) so if i were doing something like this, it would be through my phone, which is already something i use fairly often. not too much difference there IMO (at least anecdotally speaking)

orsorna · 4 days ago

I don't know what kind of work you do on a daily basis. But, the difference between sending a Slack message and sending a message to kick off an agent to chain a bunch of tasks together is a vastly lower activation barrier. I think many people will jump over that lower barrier out of FOMO, to avoid being outcompeted by those who already jumped.

As an IC though, me sending a slack message is perhaps less impactful than a PL responding to a report :)

orsorna commented on Nanobot: Ultra-Lightweight Alternative to OpenClaw github.com/HKUDS/nanobot... · Posted by u/ms7892

mpolichette · 4 days ago

I don't disagree, but I think there is the otherside of that same coin... What if we could do other stuff while remaining productive.

Rather than the example of missing first steps, what if we had, "Ok Claude, prepare a few slides for my presentation, I'm going to watch my childs mid-day recital..." maybe you get a success/failure ping and maybe even need to step out for part of the event, but in another world you couldn't have gone at all.

orsorna · 4 days ago

I expect the opposite, where if you are not exploiting your newly freed time with more work, you will be left behind.

This is the premise of the comic Power Nap.

https://www.powernapcomic.com/powernap/

orsorna commented on A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw brandon.wang/2026/clawdbo... · Posted by u/brdd

orsorna · 5 days ago

That's why it doesn't seem worth it if you are not running the model locally. To really get powerful use out of this you need to be running inference constantly.

The pro plan exhausts my tokens two hours into limit reset, and that's with occasional requests on sonnet. The 5-8x usage Max plan isn't going to be any better if I want to run constant crons, with the Opus model (the docs recommend using Opus).

Good Macs are thousands but Im waiting to find someone who's showing off my dream use case to jump at it.

orsorna commented on Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors notepad-plus-plus.org/new... · Posted by u/mysterydip

simlevesque · 7 days ago

Probably related to this: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v869-about-taiwan/

orsorna · 7 days ago

And this https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v781-free-uyghur-edition/

I distinctly remember their GH page being flooded with issues written in Chinese.

orsorna commented on If you tax them, will they leave? theatlantic.com/economy/2... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross

m463 · 12 days ago

I think this would break all kinds of things, for example home equity loans.

orsorna · 11 days ago

Something like HELOCs would certainly be an exception.

The point is to disallow people who make a man's yearly salary every 60 seconds from getting <2% loans against an asset pool that would take hundreds of years for the average American to amass, if ever.

orsorna commented on Show HN: The HN Arcade andrewgy8.github.io/hnarc... · Posted by u/yuppiepuppie

susam · 12 days ago

This is great. Thank you for building and sharing it.

May I request you to consider moving this project to a community organisation like https://github.com/<your-new-org> so that we, the HN folks, can maintain it as a community? Curated list projects often start with a lot of enthusiasm and I follow several similar ones focused on personal websites and blogs. While some of the curators remain active and maintain their project even years later, some do not. This isn't a complaint. I know life happens and circumstances change. So it is understandable that some of these projects become inactive later.

But it becomes a little problematic when someone wants to have their creation added to the curated list but cannot do so because the maintainer is no longer active. Of course, volunteers can fork the project and maintain it as a community but this is easier said than done. Once a 'Show HN' thread like this becomes successful, future visitors are more likely to end up on the original but no-longer-maintained curated list than the newer community maintained fork. For that reason, when I created my list of curated personal websites, I did so under the organisation <https://github.com/hnpwd> from the very start, and now we have multiple maintainers and contributors helping out with the curation.

Hosting the project under a community org with multiple maintainers could give it a better chance of staying active in the long term. This is only a request. I do not mean to impose or pressure you in any way. Please feel free to ignore the suggestion and thank you again for the work regardless.

orsorna · 12 days ago

The org should also curate selections. Particularly only games that have been well received in past HN discussions, and if they have, the org might add them to the directory.

orsorna commented on The Rebirth of Pennsylvania's Infamous Burning Town atlasobscura.com/articles... · Posted by u/pbshgthm

imajoredinecon · 15 days ago

Neat read on the whole, but was fun to see how huge the author believes Estonia is:

> When Estonia, for example, became independent of the Soviet Union, some 245 million square miles of collectivist farmlands were simply abandoned.

orsorna · 15 days ago

To convert that figure to a more relatable number: the surface area of the Earth is just about 197 million square miles. With such an error I'm having a hard time trusting the article content.

orsorna commented on What twenty years of DevOps has failed to do honeycomb.io/blog/you-had... · Posted by u/mooreds

jhawk28 · 23 days ago

DevOps is dead because it's run by a bunch of ops people who don't know how to do dev and a bunch of dev people who don't know how to do ops. The only tooling problem is that a bunch of companies created "DevOps tools" that then get dictated to use: K8s, terraform, etc. The only way this works is if you build the application to fit within those frameworks. Writing an indexer that is massively parallel and is mainly constrained by CPU/Memory. Instead, you have devs building something that gets thrown over the fence to a devops team that then containerizes it and throw it on K8s. What happens if the application requires lots of IOPS or network bandwidth? K8s doesn't schedule applications that way. "Oh you can customize the scheduler to take that into account". 2 years later, it's still not "customized" because they are ops people who don't know how to code. If you do customize it, the API is going to change in a few months which will break when you upgrade.

orsorna · 23 days ago

Would you say it's truly dead or that it fails to meet the performance bar you've described?

The reality is that most devs do not consider a holistic picture that includes the infrastructure they will be deploying to. In many cases, it's certainly a skill issue; good devs are hard to find. And to flip the coin, it's hard to find good ops people too.

The reason DevOps continues to linger, however vague a discipline it is, is because it allows the business to differentiate between revenue generating roles and cost center roles. You want your dev resources to prioritize feature work, at the beckon of PMs or upper management, and let your "DevOps" resources to be responsible for actually getting the product deployed.

In essence, it's a ploy to further commoditize engineering roles, because finding unicorns that understand the picture top-to-bottom is difficult (finding /top/ talent is difficult!). In this way, DevOps is well and alive, as a Romero zombie.

orsorna commented on Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha? · Posted by u/Rooster61

orsorna · a month ago

Your inflammatory accusation aside, is there even any indication that OP worked to push such efforts? Believe it or not, I think most HN users are not directly contributing to writing tools that "enshittify" the internet and are collecting a wage writing other kinds of software.