Hacker News: Droobfest

New comment by Droobfest in "How Complex is my Code?"

Droobfest — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 05:25:10 +0000

Wealth inequality is a direct cause of authoritarianism and is not benign.

New comment by Droobfest in "PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch"

Droobfest — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 12:22:03 +0000

I did too, it ran Linux.

New comment by Droobfest in "How to escape the Linux networking stack"

Droobfest — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 20:51:57 +0000

From 2016: https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-use-the-linux-kernels-tcp...

New comment by Droobfest in "A visual introduction to big O notation"

Droobfest — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 03:15:43 +0000

This looks logically sound to me, thanks!

New comment by Droobfest in "A visual introduction to big O notation"

Droobfest — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 06:26:01 +0000

I’m sorry but no. Maybe it’s my ignorance of TM’s, but O(log n) doesn’t read all input by definition. It doesn’t follow that it is therefore _independent_ of the input size.

What makes a/your TM special that this is the case?

I don’t mean to take too much of your time though, maybe I’m too dumb for this.

Edit: I can sort of see how O(log n) is impossible or at least O(n) in a TM, but to reduce it to O(1) makes no sense to me

New comment by Droobfest in "A visual introduction to big O notation"

Droobfest — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 03:27:04 +0000

What is the relationship between n and N? log(n) is still unbounded so I can’t make sense of your comment.

New comment by Droobfest in "Is a Universal Basic Income System Even Possible?"

Droobfest — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 14:38:09 +0000

Depends how the printed money is distributed

New comment by Droobfest in "Every company should be owned by its employees"

Droobfest — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 12:56:05 +0000

Obviously by how well they teach, but if we give them a stake in their teaching performance, their teaching should improve even more…

New comment by Droobfest in "Rent in Cities Skylines 2 was too high, so the devs removed landlords"

Droobfest — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 01:56:09 +0000

If it’s a federal or state tax break it shouldn’t affect cities’ revenue too much?

New comment by Droobfest in "Why is x & -x equal to the largest power of 2 that divides x?"

Droobfest — Sun, 26 May 2024 06:02:05 +0000

This immediately reads like gobbledygook to me, while the parent is easy to follow.

I’m not trying to dunk on you, but I can’t help to note that the denseness of math is too much for an idiot like me.

New comment by Droobfest in "Hertz Charging a Tesla Renter for Gas Was Not an Isolated Incident"

Droobfest — Mon, 20 May 2024 05:07:42 +0000

This would only give employees a giant incentive to tank the company this way…

New comment by Droobfest in "Ubuntu 23.04 – 'Lunar Lobster'"

Droobfest — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 06:55:13 +0000

There is nothing wrong with apt and dpkg. It’s just that Ubuntu infected apt with their poison by making ‘apt install firefox’ install a snap package and they’re poised to do it with more packages (maybe they already have).

I personally can’t think of anything software related that Ubuntu provides over Debian for normal desktop users. Only the Ubuntu 6-month release schedule can be a bit nicer.

New comment by Droobfest in "Canonical releases Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster"

Droobfest — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 04:14:38 +0000

Debian testing doesn’t get security updates. I’d rather run Debian sid (unstable). But tbh I don’t run Debian myself.

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting

It is a good idea to install security updates from unstable since they take extra time to reach testing and the security team only releases updates to unstable

New comment by Droobfest in "Where does the wealth go when asset prices go down? It vanishes into nothingness"

Droobfest — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 06:27:18 +0000

CFDs are zero-sum. They don’t create or remove wealth in aggregate.

New comment by Droobfest in "Log4Shell Log4j vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) – cheat-sheet reference guide"

Droobfest — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 21:00:19 +0000

Replying to myself but I guess it's the second one.

https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/blob/04637dd9102175...

New comment by Droobfest in "Log4Shell Log4j vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) – cheat-sheet reference guide"

Droobfest — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 20:43:42 +0000

so is it:

-Dlog4j.formatMsgNoLookups=true

-Dlog4j2.formatMsgNoLookups=true

? Every project seems to list one or the other, even this cheat-sheet seems to list both in a random way...

New comment by Droobfest in "Chinese authorities say overtime '996' policy is illegal"

Droobfest — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 12:56:46 +0000

It's a matter of risk that I'm paying for to avoid, not absolute quality. I would not wager my life on a random doctor in Africa even while 90% of doctors there might be more skilled than in London. I'm paying to eliminate the risk of encountering the worst 10%. In that light, yes I would personally expect the doctors in London to be able to avoid the worst outcomes better on average. Whether that's warranted is another discussion.

This goes for loads of stuff. I would wager a $30 meal to be fresher than a $5 meal on average. I'm not saying there aren't any $5 meals that are fresher than some $30 meals, but just that the $30 has a lot lower chance to make me sick.

New comment by Droobfest in "Restaurant workers quit at record rate"

Droobfest — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 01:53:27 +0000

Economic darwinism for the small businesses. Economic socialism for the big companies.

New comment by Droobfest in "A Plea for Lean Software (1995) [pdf]"

Droobfest — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 15:36:16 +0000

This is what api's are for. A telemetry service asks each service for the specific data, combines them and outputs the combined metrics. This doesn't really break a barrier, but it does increase overhead.

New comment by Droobfest in "Lesser Known Terminal Editors"

Droobfest — Sat, 12 Jun 2021 07:00:59 +0000

I really wish micro was the default editor on Linux, nano's hotkeys are completely bonkers.