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New comment by CurtHagenlocher in "Microsoft plans first voluntary employee buyout in company's 51-year history"

CurtHagenlocher — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:03:55 +0000

Today I learned that "senior director" is apparently L67. (I guess it's not a title you typically see on product teams.)

New comment by CurtHagenlocher in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

CurtHagenlocher — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 01:20:28 +0000

Nothing brings home the Orwellian nature of USA 2026 more for me than the word "warfighter".

New comment by CurtHagenlocher in "Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years"

CurtHagenlocher — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 17:55:37 +0000

Isn't that "88" a little too on-point?

Bringing Polars to .NET

CurtHagenlocher — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 21:06:47 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/ErrorLSC/Polars.NET

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46928024

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by CurtHagenlocher in "Bought a Broken CNC Lathe They Don't Want Me to Fix [video]"

CurtHagenlocher — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 04:18:57 +0000

Watching the CNC lathe cut threads in the toolpost lever was a thing of beauty.

New comment by CurtHagenlocher in "The Invitability of Rust"

CurtHagenlocher — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 17:34:53 +0000

It's clearly a typo for "inevitability".

New comment by CurtHagenlocher in "'Calvin and Hobbes' at 40"

CurtHagenlocher — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:15:03 +0000

One thing I always notice after trips abroad is the extent to which American newscasters are practically yelling at their audience. This is a stark contrast to many European countries, where the tone is calmer and more measured.

New comment by CurtHagenlocher in "Tech billionaire Peter Thiel's lectures about the antichrist"

CurtHagenlocher — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 16:07:58 +0000

Anything that prevents Peter Thiel from doing what he wants must be evil.

New comment by CurtHagenlocher in "AI startup Flock thinks it can eliminate all crime in America"

CurtHagenlocher — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 20:37:29 +0000

Even if true, it would only be for one of the narrowest possible definitions of "crime". What can Flock do about mail fraud? About domestic violence? About wage theft? About falsified studies that lead to substances being misclassified as harmless? About price fixing? Does the majority of criminal activity even take place in "public" spaces?

New comment by CurtHagenlocher in "Never write your own date parsing library"

CurtHagenlocher — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 18:53:13 +0000

In 2009 I made a note that Excel's main date parsing function was over 1000 lines of code -- not including helpers.

New comment by CurtHagenlocher in "Matterport walkthrough of the original Microsoft Building 3"

CurtHagenlocher — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 14:00:31 +0000

Similarly, buildings 40 and 41 were (at least pre-remodel) roughly mirror images of each other. Roughly a week after moving from 41 to 40 -- long enough to start navigating based on "caveman memory" but not long enough to override a year's worth of previous memories -- I accidentally went into the women's restroom instead of the men's because they too were mirrored.

New comment by CurtHagenlocher in "Matterport walkthrough of the original Microsoft Building 3"

CurtHagenlocher — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 13:57:20 +0000

These were taken between 2014 and 2018, because I seem to recall that the "accent walls" were painted in fall of 2014 and the buildings were emptied for demolition in 2018.

New comment by CurtHagenlocher in "AI in 2030: Part II"

CurtHagenlocher — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 15:43:24 +0000

Why look, if I take my five data points and fit them to an exponential curve, it shows there will be exponential growth in the future.

New comment by CurtHagenlocher in "The insane growth of America's millionaire class – The Hustle"

CurtHagenlocher — Mon, 19 May 2025 17:57:12 +0000

> The net worth of the mean American household is $1.06m, according to

Shame on any publication which uses mean instead of median to talk about wealth.

New comment by CurtHagenlocher in "Google to back three new nuclear projects"

CurtHagenlocher — Thu, 08 May 2025 15:21:13 +0000

In the United States, anti-nuclear activism predates both Chernobyl and Three Mile Island. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clamshell_Alliance and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abalone_Alliance for two examples.

New comment by CurtHagenlocher in "Globalization did not hollow out the American middle class"

CurtHagenlocher — Thu, 08 May 2025 13:42:29 +0000

The first comment asks the important question: Why, "despite all of this prosperity, do so many Americans still feel angry, disillusioned and frankly, even cheated"?

One thing which can't be captured by these numbers (no matter how accurate) is when people end up settling for something perceived to be of lower value. So for instance, it might be that my income has gone up faster than the cost of the things I'm buying, but I'd rather buy a house (out of reach) than buy rent.

New comment by CurtHagenlocher in "Instant SQL for results as you type in DuckDB UI"

CurtHagenlocher — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 14:32:45 +0000

The blog specifically says that they're getting the SQL AST so presumably they would not execute something like a DELETE.

New comment by CurtHagenlocher in "China invites European countries to form united front against Trump tariffs"

CurtHagenlocher — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 20:56:59 +0000

Ever heard of a guy named "Samuel Slater"?

New comment by CurtHagenlocher in "U.S.-born man from Georgia held for ICE under Florida's new anti-immigration law"

CurtHagenlocher — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 19:58:08 +0000

I predict they'll argue that because he lived in Mexico from ages 1 to 16 that he effectively relinquished citizenship. Which is BS, of course, but I'm reminded of the Sartre quote "Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert."

New comment by CurtHagenlocher in "Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos"

CurtHagenlocher — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 16:56:08 +0000

Control-F Privacy. Hmm.