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pinoy420··on Study finds gaps in evidence for air-cleaning technologies to prevent infections
Are you allergic to going outside?

I watched a grand designs episode where the parents (well, inflicted by the wife) Munchausen by proxied these allergies onto their kids. They were obsessive about having an allergy free house and spent hundreds of thousands building one with, basically a lesser version of what you explained up there.

Revisiting several years later, the children had integrated with society (amazing that they weren’t homeschooled) and lo and behold - allergy free.

The provocative host coaxed out of the parents that they believed that the house did bugger all in terms of helping their children.

I wonder how the kids are doing now without their namby mother

pinoy420··on Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?
My local MP won’t do anything and basically dismissed me as a pedo/terrorist for even considering talking against the OSA.

What can be done if those who represent you, don’t?

pinoy420··on The forgotten meaning of "jerk"
No you didn’t. Hacker news moment.
pinoy420··on Prime Number Grid
It looks the way it does because we like to see patterns even where there are none. E.g. you see a number 696969 and this seems more significant than 482649 for whatever reason
pinoy420··on Node.js is able to execute TypeScript files without additional configuration
Bun has lots of issues and lots of incompatibilities with a lot of packages.
pinoy420··on Progress towards universal Copy/Paste shortcuts on Linux
Command c command v works fine for me because I don’t “optimise” my experience.

It’s a fun game to do I guess but if you become “more productive” by having a slightly quicker mechanism to find a file through 9 different chords on your terminal only interface - you likely aren’t solving problems that are worthwhile.

pinoy420··on Cross-Site Request Forgery
Not really. If I have a service where I need one click to perform an action and store data. It has to be a GET. You can’t post from a url… purist dogma for the sake of purist dogma
pinoy420··on Who got arrested in the raid on the XSS crime forum?
No it’s to do with censorship of Pooh in china.
pinoy420··on Curious about the training data of OpenAI's new GPT-OSS models? I was too
5 seems to do a better job with copyrighted content. I got it to spit out the entirely of ep IV (but you have to redact the character names)
pinoy420··on GPT-5 leaked system prompt?
Multiple layers = one huge if contains else..

It’s a lot less complicated than you would be lead to believe

pinoy420··on How we rooted Copilot
Back when openai released python interpretation it was trivial to do what they did there. There was no open network access, the only thing of interest was a little insight in to how their developers program. A couple of internal configuration files.

This is literally the same.

pinoy420··on Tokyo's retro shotengai arcades are falling victim to gentrification
There’s often a romantic expectation that charming relics like these, old market stalls or arcades etc etc, should simply continue to exist. But what’s often overlooked is that these aren’t just aesthetic artefacts they’re run and sustained by real people with real lives, modern needs, and evolving values. It has dwindling longevity.
pinoy420··on Signs of autism could be encoded in the way you walk
Hacker news (or social media in general) echo chamber
pinoy420··on Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights
What happens if you lose it?
pinoy420··on New Linux udisks flaw lets attackers get root on major Linux distros
Given this. Why is every linux device not rooted then.
pinoy420··on After 25 Years, Linux Format Magazine Is No More
These were significantly more cool when internet access was rare
pinoy420··on Google shared my phone number
That is what it says when you do it though.
pinoy420··on Show HN: Job board aggregator for best paying remote SWE jobs in the U.S.
No.
pinoy420··on Show HN: Job board aggregator for best paying remote SWE jobs in the U.S.
Agree. These are insane
pinoy420··on Python’s new t-strings
Now instead of being explicit all it takes is someone unfamiliar with t strings (which will be almost everyone - still few know about f strings and their formatting capabilities) to use an f instead and you are in for a bad time.
pinoy420··on Gemini 2.5 Flash
XY problem
pinoy420··on I struggled with Git, so I'm making a game to spare others the pain
git reset --hard HEAD~1
pinoy420··on Making o1, o3, and Sonnet 3.7 hallucinate for everyone
A good prompt. You don’t just ask it. You tell it how to behave and give it a shot load of context
pinoy420··on Clean Code vs. A Philosophy Of Software Design
In typical HN commenter smugness. It took me less than that to realise it was bullshit. It didn’t make things clear, it made them more abstract and more resistive to change. Similarly with DDD. Just build what you need and deal with the consequences of inevitable change later. No one cares if you miraculously perfectly modelled your “definitely the final form” of your domain from day 0.

Oh and TDD?! Ah yes those perfectly defined unit cases you write for implementation details. The best comment I read recently (sorry I can’t find it) something akin to “The first unit I write is to validate the intended side effects through properly exercising associated mocks”

As with everything there is no “best way” to do something, but in software engineering… there are far more bad “best ways” than best “best ways”

pinoy420··on Vietnamese Graphic Design
Yes. I detest orientalism and the fetishisation of Japan in software development space. Thinly veiled racism.
pinoy420··on Vietnamese Graphic Design
So can google translate app or apple’s equivalent
pinoy420··on Making any integer with four 2s
Yeah but it’s not a continuous function - is that allowed?
pinoy420··on Making any integer with four 2s
Within the rules of the game
pinoy420··on Making any integer with four 2s
If floor a legitimate mathematical function?
pinoy420··on Making any integer with four 2s
2/2+2/2…

Then you just add it multiple times

And if 0 is an integer.

2/2-2/2

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