daemoncoder's comments

On: Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025

[daemoncoder]

This is excellent clarity of thought.

On: The new science of “emergent misalignment”

[daemoncoder]

It seems possible to me at least, that social media can distort or negate any parentally installed firmware, despite parents best intentions and efforts.

[osullivj → daemoncoder]

I agree. From 1st hand experience. Social media counters the socialisation and other awareness we grew with in the late 20th C

On: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

[daemoncoder]

First thing I did after getting the csv export was throw together a python script to save all the URLs as PDFs based on the title. Not horribly robust, but a csv list of failed URLs will be ready when I wake up in the morning.

On: Crimean bridge: Who – or what – caused the explosion?

[daemoncoder]

So is trolling: one of the meanings is: fishing by trailing a baited line along behind a boat

On: History and effective use of Vim (2019)

[daemoncoder]

There's an AutoHotkey script for that!

On: South Africa is running out of Marmite

[daemoncoder]

But Pa won't.

[mkl → daemoncoder]

"Pa will" was Vegemite's version of that pun with its original name "Parwill": https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/650489/vegemites-history...

On: Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox (2012)

[daemoncoder]

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/unix-power-tools/059600...

I used this a great deal, when I first started out on serious UNIX tasks (1996+)

On: How the Rosetta Stone yielded its secrets

[daemoncoder]

And so it goes on: Egyptian temples defaced by early Christians, Palmyra temples destroyed by Isis...

On: A read query can write to disk: a Postgres story

[daemoncoder]

I like to say they should remove the block from under the accelerator pedal.

On: In-demand tech skills are the last thing to look for in IT hires

[daemoncoder]

I have the opposite problem: colleagues who don't want to learn how to do anything new.

[halfmatthalfcat → daemoncoder]

I work alongside a principal engineer who refuses to learn anything beyond what they learned 5+ years ago. It seems they got to the Senior level and just gave up learning. Makes no sense to me and is a detriment to all the more junior engineers in our team.