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kemayo

9,870 karma · joined August 9, 2010

I am a developer. I write the codes that makes the things go ping. I'm not one of those fancy entrepreneurs. Sorry.

I work at Wikimedia, but this is very much not me making official statements.

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kemayo··on 2DWillNeverDie
Reminds me greatly of Between Horizons, if one wants to see a full game in a similar style: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1921980/Between_Horizons_...
kemayo··on Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test
Wow, with a lens that big on a smartphone I'd certainly hope it was fantastic: https://www.dxomark.com/smartphones/Huawei/Pura-80-Ultra
kemayo··on Apple Watch Ultra 4
Isn't that what it already does if you have the action button set to "workout"?
kemayo··on Coyote v. Acme (1990)
I actually thought the big screen worked well for it. It was cramming a lot of background detail in that was fun to see.
kemayo··on Coyote v. Acme (1990)
I saw it last night with my spouse. It was good, we laughed at a bunch of the visual gags.

It's not as good as Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which is the obvious comparison, but it's legitimately fun.

kemayo··on Trade (and Tariffs)
The experience of the trade deficit with the grocery store and the movie theater is more enjoyable, overall. I get films and ice cream and a good time out of it. From my employer I get a lot of sitting in meetings -- they have to pay me to make me put up with that!

My point is that reducing it entirely to "did I gain or receive cash-money from this?" isn't a particularly useful framing.

kemayo··on Trade (and Tariffs)
Look, my trade deficit with my barber is a real problem in our relationship. I need them to give me $20 for something, damnit.
kemayo··on Trade (and Tariffs)
The context here is that president Trump has an interesting view of trade deficits / surpluses. Specifically, he frequently cites cases where the US has a trade deficit with another country -- where the US is spending more in that country than that country is in the US -- as if that country is "taking money" from the US.

This is a bit peculiar, because it ignores the whole "the money we are spending is being exchanged for goods that come back to the US" part of the trade. I.e. it's not a problem that I have a "trade deficit" with the grocery store, because I have my groceries.

https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/trump-brag...

kemayo··on Trade (and Tariffs)
You seem to be assuming that productivity scales linearly with time spent working, which doesn't seem to inherently be true.

If your factory workers spend twice as long working, it's likely that more widgets will get made. I'm not certain you can generalize too far from that, though.

kemayo··on Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
> Facebook, Instagram, Reddit were more in mind when I said that.

This might be me showing I have strange views, but I don't even think of those as being in the same category of service, so I didn't think of them as a point of comparison.

kemayo··on Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
> It's the one major social network I'm on where it is easy to view only posts from the people I follow, in reverse chronological order.

Oh weird, I'd rate X as medium-hard for that amongst the microposting sites I look at. Mastodon and Bluesky both default to almost-that, varying mostly in whether you need to jump through hoops to not see reposts.

X was always the one that (a) doesn't default to it, and (b) would keep "forgetting" and pushing you back to the algorithmic feed.

kemayo··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
Granted I've never seen something like this where the chain includes a government agency saying "it's totally on this guy", but normally you can get good results from writing a dispute letter to the debt collection agency telling them to prove that you really owe this debt. The state of the industry normally means that they will not have gotten anything like actual proof from the hospital, just a line item in a spreadsheet... and if they can't prove it they're legally barred from contacting you about it or reporting it to credit bureaus.

(I've never done it, but I suspect you could get rid of a significant percentage of real debts like this, just on the strength of the industry's terrible record keeping practices.)

kemayo··on Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot
Same, I had no sense of the decoy message at all until I read that comment.
kemayo··on Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming
> "Usage of Odin in a world-class product" is enough to count as notable

I'm not even sure that would count, really. A world-class product that gets a lot of coverage is notable, for sure, but that wouldn't be enough to make some implementation detail of that product notable unless the sources really leaned on it.

kemayo··on Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming
Makes sense. The Brainfuck article has a bunch of citations to published journals and books, so it's notable -- people are talking about it in ways that Wikipedia recognizes. That's what "notability" means -- "are unrelated trustworthy people talking about it?"

This is the Odin article as it existed when it was deleted by that AfD: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft:Odin_(progr...

The references aren't good. I don't have any pre-existing opinion of Odin, since I had never heard of it before I saw this HN post, and those references don't convince me that it matters to anyone.

I'm fairly inclusionist, so I'd personally think it's worth keeping the article if they could point to Odin being used by any notable project, or by a bunch of small projects. But the only user it claims for the language is a company I'd never heard of that doesn't have a wikipedia article.

kemayo··on CarPlay Is Additive
Here's an explanation of CarPlay Ultra, which really is the phone driving your dash and instrumentation: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/05/carplay-ultra-the-nex...

There's only a couple of Aston Martin cars that support it, but there's supposed to be more coming. See: https://www.stuff.tv/features/apple-carplay-ultra-compatibil...

kemayo··on Supreme Court upholds broad conception of birthright citizenship
Is it "defrauding" if someone's just following the rules, though? And, at that, is it worth building your citizenship rules around something incredibly rare? (Estimates seem to think it's something like 15k babies a year.)
kemayo··on Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity
There's this quote from the 2010 interview with Waterson:

> If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, ten, or twenty years, the people now "grieving" for Calvin and Hobbes would be wishing me dead and cursing newspapers for running tedious, ancient strips like mine instead of acquiring fresher, livelier talent. And I'd be agreeing with them.

kemayo··on Siri AI
Siri has always been pretty useful for the things I use it for: setting timers and reminders, and turning off my lights after I'm in bed.
kemayo··on Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API
Someone did the research-digging a while back about this, if you want a third-party view: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45136376
kemayo··on Odysseus – self-hosted AI workspace
> Odysseus

Is the person best known for exploiting security vulnerabilities to get into places you'd rather they didn't, and then getting lost and taking forever to get places the ideal namesake for your AI workspace project?

kemayo··on Ghostty is leaving GitHub
Genuinely surprised that I'm only 2,187. Weird to think about how quickly I must have jumped on it.
kemayo··on Not buying another Kindle
Even new Kindles don't support EPUB, per-se. The Send-to-Kindle service started supporting EPUB, and converts them to AZW3 or KFX for actual delivery to your Kindle.

But you cannot just USB an EPUB onto your Kindle without any conversion process. (Calibre does make it very simple, though.)

kemayo··on Tailscale's new macOS home
> Personally I think they should offer a way to extend the Control Center and push devs who want persistence towards that.

They actually added that in macOS 26. Just like on iOS, apps can now offer custom actions that you can add into the control center.

kemayo··on EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
I'm not sure you appreciate why PHP was successful. You might be completely right about all this, but the LAMP-stack "just upload this file to shared hosting" workflow is what made apps like WordPress win out, and the barrier remains significantly higher to do the equivalent with Rust.
kemayo··on AirPods Max 2
You want Beats, which is owned by Apple. Your $200 budget pair is the Beats Solo 4: https://www.beatsbydre.com/headphones/solo4-wireless/MUW43/s...
kemayo··on Claude now creates interactive charts, diagrams and visualizations
It's a mismatch with our intuition about how much effort things take.

If there's humans involved, "I took this data and made a really fancy interactive chart" means that you put a lot more work into it, and you can probably somewhat assume that this means some more effort was also put into the accuracy of the data.

But with the LLM it's not really very much more work to get the fancy chart. So the thing that was a signifier of effort is now misleading us into trusting data that got no extra effort.

(Humans have been exploiting this tendency to trust fancy graphics forever, of course.)

kemayo··on Temporal: The 9-year journey to fix time in JavaScript
> Developers would often write helper functions that accidently mutated the original Date object in place when they intended to return a new one

It's weird that they picked example code that is extremely non-accidentally doing this.

kemayo··on Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise
It's a mediawiki feature: there's a set of pages that get treated as JS/CSS and shown for either all users or specifically you. You do need to be an admin to edit the ones that get shown to all users.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Interface/JavaScript

kemayo··on Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config
As an aside, it does seem like a bit of a bad sign for a feature that you know up-front that it'll be so polarizing that you need to have an always-visible top-level "hide this forever!" button.
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