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tiborsaas commented on What's up with all those equals signs anyway? lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2026... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

Pinus · 7 days ago

As far as I can remember, most mail servers were fairly sane about that sort of thing, even back in the 90’s when this stuff was introduced. However, there were always these more or less motivated fears about some server somewhere running on some ancient IBM hardware using EBCDIC encoding and truncating everything to 72 characters because its model of the world was based on punched cards. So standards were written to handle all those bizarre systems. And I am sure that there is someone on HN who actually used one of those servers...

tiborsaas · 7 days ago

Thanks, I really expected a tale from the 70's, but did not see punch cards coming :)

tiborsaas commented on What's up with all those equals signs anyway? lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2026... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

tiborsaas · 7 days ago

> We see that that’s a quite a long line. Mail servers don’t like that

Why do mail server care about how long a line is? Why don't they just let the client reading the mail worry about wrapping the lines?

tiborsaas commented on EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity eu-inc.org/... · Posted by u/tilt

neximo64 · 20 days ago

Can't work legally speaking. There has to be a single sponsoring member state. Just sadly how the EU is designed.

The only way would be to copy it individually so it is the same in each member state which breaks the purpose of it.

tiborsaas · 20 days ago

Maybe the task is to make the changes to get this to work legally speaking.

tiborsaas commented on EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity eu-inc.org/... · Posted by u/tilt

elric · 20 days ago

> It's very simple.

Is it? I doubt it. There isn't a large country on earth where the salaries don't differ across regions.

tiborsaas · 20 days ago

It's probably the most complex and impossible to solve take, it's not even true in the US or any other place in the world.

It doesn't even work in a single country for the simple reason that governments have very different ideas how to redistribute taxes. If one country can't do it well, how could the EU?

tiborsaas commented on Europe could 'weaponize' $10T of US assets over Greenland bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/saubeidl

IAmBroom · 21 days ago

> Protest every weekend?

Have protests ever stopped the creation of a dictatorship, in history?

> build momentum until this can't be ignored?

Your answer to "how do we stop this" is "do something until it stops."

> perhaps write to congressmen?

"Dear official who actively supports subverting our democracy: Please don't."

> attend townhall meetings and ask questions to your representatives?

Filed under "Rearrange the desk chairs."

> try to raise awareness to your friends who don't vote?

This (alone) would have the ability to change things... but at this point, they are hiding that shameful fact. Non-voters and supporters of third parties in the US are effectively supporting the status quo.

You didn't suggest this, but I already employee a spicy bumpersticker that complains about Trump, and give stern looks to the screen when the news reports on abuses of law.

tiborsaas · 20 days ago

> Have protests ever stopped the creation of a dictatorship, in history?

It sends a message to the less active people who might turn off news that somethings is ain't right. Next time they might even vote.

tiborsaas commented on The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button paulmakeswebsites.com/wri... · Posted by u/dbushell

teaearlgraycold · 21 days ago

Worse still is the misunderstanding that React is simple. It’s an endless stream of cache invalidation bugs. Linters are getting better at catching these. But they also have false positives.

tiborsaas · 21 days ago

What is cache in this context? useState? What do you mean by cache invalidation in react apps?

tiborsaas commented on Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky "Helicopter" music video radiancefields.com/a-ap-r... · Posted by u/ChrisArchitect

poly2it · 22 days ago

See 4D splatting.

tiborsaas · 22 days ago

Brain dances!

tiborsaas commented on Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic? · Posted by u/publicdebates

defo10 · 25 days ago

I‘m a cofounder of a German loneliness startup. My core insight is that loneliness often stems from a badly adjusted internal social threat function ( f(social event)=perceived threat ).

This function runs subconsciously all day long. From talking to strangers to reaching out to a friend, the lonely mind is much more aware of negative outcomes, so your mind protects you by telling you things like „I don’t talk to strangers because I would annoy them“ or „I don’t reach out to that friend because he’s probably busy“. And that makes it much much harder for lonely people to maintain a healthy social life.

As for the fix, you can try to set the social event up in a way that has less room for perceived threat. Think of third places, regularly scheduled meetings, etc. Or you can work on the function itself (=your thinking patterns). If you look at research on loneliness interventions, working on this function is the most effective way to help individuals overcome persistent loneliness.

Now the sad thing is that people don’t like to hear that the most effective way to combat loneliness is to work on their own perceptions, which makes the sales pitch rather challenging.

tiborsaas · 25 days ago

Isn't it cheating if you have a cofounder in a loneliness startup? :)

tiborsaas commented on Show HN: WebTiles – create a tiny 250x250 website with neighbors around you webtiles.kicya.net/... · Posted by u/dimden

tiborsaas · a month ago

Navigation seems fundamentally broken. I can zoom in and out, can't navigate left/right/up/down. Cursor keys don't work.
sometimes as it works randomly