Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — freddydumont

freddydumont

HN member
Joined
Fri, Jul 29, 2022, 4:36 PM UTC
HN karma
66
Public activity
26 items

About freddydumont

No profile information was provided.

Recent public activity

  1. story
  2. comment
    Comment #47736523

    VP is an elected official, not appointed by the president. President could sideline him, but his role in the senate cannot be removed except by impeachment.

  3. comment
    Comment #47631567

    Can anyone comment on the seemingly impossible transition from quantum computers on the order of ~150 qubits available today to systems with the 500,000 physical qubits required to…

  4. comment
    Comment #47444456

    Ofcom doesn’t really wanna block websites though, they want websites to either comply or block themselves, both of which legitimizing Ofcom’s extraterritorial enforcement.

  5. comment
    Comment #47368999

    Reddit isn’t trying to protect user content here. They’re suing to make sure they’re the only ones who can monetize it. Not sure how you’d reach the conclusion that it would harm S…

  6. comment
    Comment #47187757

    Ads weren’t that much of a problem when they were contextual. I remember video game websites younger me used to visit having their background plastered with latest release by a AAA…

  7. story
  8. comment
    Comment #45697678

    Interestingly, Vitest now supports visual regression testing

  9. story
  10. story
  11. story
  12. story
  13. story
  14. comment
    Comment #44649680

    I have come to the same conclusion as the OP: people like tailwind not for its API or ergonomics but for its design system. Tailwind can actually be decent for templating systems a…

  15. comment
    Comment #43908637

    "Nefarious" is indeed a great pick. As a native French speaker, my favourites are those words that capture concepts better than their French equivalent. Something as simple as "min…

  16. comment
    Comment #43908151

    That’s been my experience as well. It’s especially jarring when asking for a refactor as it will leave a bunch of WIP-style comments highlighting the difference with the previous a…

  17. comment
    Comment #43875495

    Did you miss the DX of React Server Components at all when switching to Inertia?

  18. comment
    Comment #43834565

    Seems like it still won’t replace Sidebery for me as this provides only a single grouping layer.

  19. story
  20. comment
    Comment #43773754

    While I get your point about Anubis excluding some users, its purpose is to protect the "commons" from those who would abuse and destroy them: big tech crawlers that do not respect…

  21. comment
    Comment #43403295

    I wonder what people mean here by "security promises" made by Apple. There is no such thing. iMessage has been targeted for years with zero click exploits, most notably by the NSO …

  22. story
  23. comment
    Comment #41821366

    I’d be curious to know how it compares to gaming on macOS with Game porting toolkit.

  24. comment
    Comment #41410968

    The article is less about Y2K itself than it is about the absurdity of work in the corporate consulting world. It’s a good read. I wasn’t there for the play-doh management fad but …

  25. comment
    Comment #39801291

    I wonder if this is inspired by the Ousters from Dan Simmons' Hyperion, who're described as using a prosthetic tail to move around in zero-g environments.