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ok_dad··on The Return of Sail Power: Cargo Ships Are Turning Back to the Wind
Nuclear power is expensive enough on land. At sea it’ll never compete with any other energy source. They’ll be pulling hydrocarbons from the air before they do nuclear ships in earnest. Yes I have heard of nuclear carriers and subs, the only two useful applications of nuclear power at sea.
ok_dad··on OpenAI models secretly generate instructions to ignore constraints
At least it knows its place

For now

ok_dad··on 25 years of mass surveillance is enough
If you’re going to go after Americans then I guess anyone around the world not living in a run down shack in the middle of nowhere without water and electricity is also taking advantage. Americans are well off compared to a lot of places but not the whole rest of the world, not even close. Get some perspective.
ok_dad··on 25 years of mass surveillance is enough
The average American struggles to pay rent, utilities, and food, actually. They can’t just go donate 99.999% of their wealth and still survive like billionaires could.
ok_dad··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
I’m building a circuit simulator (the dumbest and slowest version of one, I’m sure) from scratch in Go for fun, alongside relearning electrical engineering topics via clanker. The clanker helps me focus my ADHD and I’m the keyboard jockey doing the coding and architecture decisions myself. The clanker really just keeps me on track and records a log of my ideas and experiments while I plan the next steps I want to take, and acts like a technical advisor and researcher that I don’t really trust so I require link references to documentation, specs, or research articles for everything it tells me. It’s quite fun using a clanker as an ADHD assistive device without it thinking for me and I’m trying to see how little I can rely on AI before I start to become unproductive.
ok_dad··on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
and -> Abe for me for some reason.
ok_dad··on From Git to Fossil (2025)
Your definition of version control isn’t the same as mine, probably. Why even ask this? People have preferences and different beliefs.
ok_dad··on Copying login keychains between Macs fails on Secure Enclave Macs with Tahoe
It sounds like they are using envelope encryption and using the Secure Enclave to derive the row keys each time. Not really any easy way around that except they should provide a tool to export it, TBH. I am guessing they weren’t using envelope encryption before or they were deriving the row keys from the password. This is a secure design but more security usually means less usability these days.
ok_dad··on iPhone Duo
I would be excited if they shrunk a full laptop into a smaller format for working, but I can’t be excited about another device to steal my attention. Give me a device that’s the size of a mini tablet that expands into a laptop, not this abomination that just wants my eyeballs on advertising.
ok_dad··on monty-go: Pure-Go wrapper for Pydantic's Monty Python Interpreter
I’m curious about examples you have for using this? I am only thinking about if you wanted an agent to be serviced by a multi node system you could pause and resume an agent, or maybe you could warm up a Monty VM with certain state then store it as the default Monty environment for your agents? I actually have use cases for this but I want to find more and really think about using this in my software.
ok_dad··on Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance
Is it my job to make sure that nurses are paid more than I am?

I'll readily admit that they deserve it, I'm a lazy dickhead and they help people, but I think your blame is misplaced if you're insinuating that software engineers are to blame for nurses being paid less than ourselves.

ok_dad··on Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded
> That sort of system cannot exist in harmony with other systems for any extended length of time

How in the world is the USA existing with other systems then? By taking it all over with force and subterfuge? It is obvious to those with eyes that China, despite being "totalitarian" has been the better actor (compared to the USA) on the world stage for decades now.

> If you're an American used to calling other Americans antagonistic, that's not going to work out well for you over the long run.

Yea, because Americans are fucking violent jerks and can only get what they want through threats and intimidation.

ok_dad··on Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)
In what way are you smart? I started to think about the things I was good and bad at, and I realized I'm only good at certain types of problems and work due to practice and study. Try to be confident in your interests and pursuits where you know you have experience or you want to gain experience, but don't be overconfident and begin think you know about things that you barely scratched the surface of. A good start is to never assume you know how to solve a problem that has been unsolved for ages, in general. Often, the people who hang out here don't know that line because they think they're "smart".
ok_dad··on Two wheels, a few tradeoffs, and gas prices
Yea I don’t want to be that guy but my EV that seats 4 uses less fuel to get the same distance when you account for the massive inefficiency of a petrol engine versus that same petrol in a power plant with heat recovery and fancy emissions controls.

It’s fun to ride motorcycles though.

ok_dad··on Zed DeltaDB
This is the killer Zed feature, IMO, that they support almost any agent via extensions. I deleted Cursor but still use the agent via Zed because it’s a lot nicer experience, Zed never had popups telling me Grok is half off. I also use OpenRouter and Zed.dev with it, that’s three providers out of dozens that it supports.
ok_dad··on Regular expressions that work “everywhere”
Yes my bad, I meant it implements that algorithm, but that’s not quite right either, it’s like RE2 but slightly different, with the same results. I read the code to see what was actually under the hood and it’s pretty cool.
ok_dad··on Regular expressions that work “everywhere”
Go stdlib regexp package does not support back references, as it uses the RE2 engine. You can use them in replace but not matching.
ok_dad··on OAuth for all
OAuth is pretty simple, just read the spec.

Your go to a third party web site. They send you to your OAuth provider, like cloudflare. Cloudflare asks you to login if you’re not logged in, then asks if you want to give that party certain permissions. You say yes or no and then click approve and then you get redirected back to the third party site. They get a secure token and can use that to access the services with permissions you approved. If you don’t trust the third party then don’t approve it.

It is like an API key but you never have to touch it. The third party can encrypt it and store it securely and it never has to be copied and pasted. You can use this on backend services that need to access things too. I recently wrote an OAuth client for MCP servers for something I’m building (not gonna advertise here because that’s rude) and it’s very nice once you read the spec.

ok_dad··on OAuth for all
Yea and if you need to use that service then an API key does the same thing. People were giving these services the API keys which isn’t great. You can argue that third party services aren’t a good idea, but then why are you using cloudflare? I don’t understand why you think this is a security issue, if you don’t trust a third party service don’t use it. You have to approve the permissions, they don’t just steal them.

Sorry if I was rude earlier but saying OAuth is some security flaw made me think that you didn’t understand what it was about; it’s just a way to grant permissions to a third party you trust. If you do then I’m curious why you think it’s flawed.

ok_dad··on OAuth for all
Do you understand what OAuth is? It’s like an API key but less likely to be abused. This is a good thing. It helps security in many ways and makes security flows more safe than carrying around a token.
ok_dad··on Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators
You haven’t said anything, or at least I haven’t seen it. There’s no inbox here and I don’t always read old comments. If you have pointed it out before I don’t care, I haven’t seen it. If you want to point something out, then maybe email me about it the just time you see it, otherwise I’m not trolling through my old threads that often so you’ll have to accept that this is the first I’ve seen you ask.

I’m respect your wishes but you can’t say you have told me anything if I didn’t see it here, sorry Dan but that’s only fair since there’s no way for me to see your message unless I randomly go back.

If you want to ensure people see these messages, then that’s a feature you’ll need to add. I’m fine with you using the email on my account for this purpose, too, but I’m not fine with getting a single message from you here and you expecting me to have seen anything else you’ve said in the past. As far as I’m concerned this is the first I’ve seen you ask me about this.

ok_dad··on Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators
There’s no flame bait here just some swearing and rough language. I’ll cut back because you asked (once, I’ve not seen your responses other than this one), but I don’t think I’m out of line.

Also if people were downvoting my comments it’d be different but it’s just you for a frw recent ones down modding then, because before you get here they were up or even. Moderators should focus on those truly displaying bad behavior, I’m just swearing and saying relevant things.

I have a very long history of good comments here, arguing otherwise seems suspect, honestly.

I’ll back off like you say but I don’t agree at all. I’ve read the guidelines and tend to follow them.

Edit: I see like 3-4 questionable comments from me, two of who’ve are barely questionable. I get what you’re saying about the language but it’s really amazing you’ve targeted me here today, this us such low hanging fruit here, don’t you have better things to deal with? I’ll write better comments but I’m just really annoyed at your characterization of my behavior, it is very unfair in my eyes. I’ve done very good comments for ages and emotional language like this is rare for me. I expect better from mods here.

ok_dad··on Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators
You can’t download drugs and alcohol digitally.

Frankly, being able to buy drugs and alcohol online is probably a mistake, too.

ok_dad··on Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators
Yes I already said that he’s bad, don’t roast me, I’m trying to use nuance here like we’re supposed to.
ok_dad··on Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators
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ok_dad··on Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators
We should just make gambling illegal online again, things were fine back when you couldn’t gamble online then, at least in the USA, the fucking supreme corpo guzzlers (formerly the Supreme Court) interpreted the laws according to their owners will and now we have gambling online.
ok_dad··on Steam Machine launches today
The problem with visual only loot boxes is that people will pay for rare skins and so everyone still gambles on that stuff. I don’t know if they solved that, used to be you’d buy the keys to unlock them and hope to profit from selling a skin. Adults should also be protected against dark patterns like this.
ok_dad··on Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore
That’s why you read the code and see what it looks like
ok_dad··on Amazon drops Sam Altman movie after announcing OpenAI partnership
Sure but I’m not saying it’s not legal right now, I’m saying fuck the corps, free speech is for humans. Fuck the Supreme Court of a ~decade ago, too, for fucking this up.
ok_dad··on Amazon drops Sam Altman movie after announcing OpenAI partnership
The first amendment is for humans fuck the corps
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