Hacker News: Nezghul

New comment by Nezghul in "In kids, EEG monitoring of consciousness safely reduces anesthetic use"

Nezghul — Sun, 04 May 2025 16:43:58 +0000

What is the level of unconsciousness during anesthesia? Is it "sleep-like" unconsciousness or "neurons do basically nothing" level? Whenever I read about anesthesia I am wondering if we are not accidentally killing people (and creating new ones) like in teletransportation paradox. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletransportation_paradox

New comment by Nezghul in "Why Companies Don't Fix Bugs"

Nezghul — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 09:13:58 +0000

In my last company I had like 10 product managers above my head. Each one was managing a bunch of new features ordered by different clients. As a developer you could work with different product manager every day because every task was linked to specific product manager. Do you think any of them would care about such bug that do not block their precious feature for which they will get bonus if it's done in time? Of course not. And if you tried to speak with someone higher about that issue you would hit the wall of "And which client will pay for us fixing our own bugs?" As if better product would not have better marketing and bring more money in the future. Everything is always about money now. Monkey sees money - monkey has neuron activation.

New comment by Nezghul in "I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs"

Nezghul — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 22:15:43 +0000

I'm also programmer and such bugs immediately reminds me of all my managers demanding exact time it would take me to fix such bug and me telling them it could take from 1 day to 1 year was never taken seriously :(

New comment by Nezghul in "Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon"

Nezghul — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 05:49:09 +0000

If the law is unethical then you may be pushed to do "bad" things. For example if you are a Jew living with family in a Nazi Germany and someone know your secret and he feels he need to disclose it to the authorities then you may consider... murdering him. Would you really be a bad guy?

New comment by Nezghul in "Liskov Substitution: The real meaning of inheritance"

Nezghul — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 05:36:13 +0000

> class Square : Rectangle() { ...

What if instead of Rectangle class we would have ReadonlyRectangle and Rectangle? Square could then inherit from ReadonlyRectangle, so code expecting only to read some properties and not write them could accept Square objects as ReadonlyRectangle. Alternatively if we really want to have only Square and Rectangle classes, there could be some language feature that whenever you want to cast Square to Rectangle it must be "const Rectangle" (const as in C++), so again we would be allowed to only use the "safe" subset of object methods.

New comment by Nezghul in "Stop Trying to Schedule a Call with Me"

Nezghul — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 09:21:05 +0000

Would never happen. I was working for a company which for C++ projects used open source CMake package manager called Hunter. Thousands of packages (ours and third-party) for multiple platforms were causing building and linking problems constantly. Literally every day devops would waste hours on those issues. Many of the problems come from our not-understanding of the build processes and some were Hunter bugs so we were happy to jump to every new release. And one day the Hunter maintainer make announcement that he will abandon the project if someone would not help him financially. I pointed this out to my manager. He said that it's very unfortunate but he would need to talk to his manager who would need to talk to next manager and so on, some finance department would need to allocate funds for that but they would not do that without the approval of some other department and so on. So my manager said we must wait, see what Hunter maintainer would do and if he really abandon the project then we will think what next. Ruslo (Hunter maintaner) abandoned the project so I told my manager that we should simply contact Ruslo and try to hire him as he clearly would be the right person to solve all our building problems. Guess what... My manager would need to contact his manager and so on, and so on, so nothing was done.

New comment by Nezghul in "Bird-inspired drone uses legs to walk and jump into the air"

Nezghul — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 17:45:33 +0000

Future warfare would be really fun. You would have to eliminate every single animal you find because it could be drone.

New comment by Nezghul in "Preferring throwaway code over design docs"

Nezghul — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 04:13:11 +0000

I wish my employers would value throwaway code or design docs.

New comment by Nezghul in "Prioritize work at the task level"

Nezghul — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 17:52:15 +0000

I recently read a lot of Microsoft "The Old New Thing" blog where a few times were mentioned "Le Chatelier’s Principle as interpreted by John Gall: Every system resists its proper functioning". It was the first thing I thought of when reading about assigning quality of service, and here is your comment :P

New comment by Nezghul in "The first release candidate of FreeCAD 1.0 is out"

Nezghul — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 23:55:47 +0000

I personally consider FreeCAD very far from stable. All I need to do is to open random example projects to speedrun to some warning/error/exception/segfault.

New comment by Nezghul in "Windows on ARM Is Here to Stay"

Nezghul — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 12:40:04 +0000

btw. any news when the next ARM laptops will appear?

New comment by Nezghul in "Neofetch developer archives all his repositories: "Have taken up farming""

Nezghul — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 14:29:12 +0000

It's like all my dogs (according to what my family told me).

New comment by Nezghul in "Xz: Can you spot the single character that disabled Linux landlock?"

Nezghul — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 08:42:23 +0000

That "check_c_source_compiles" function should first test if the provided code snipped is "valid C code in general" and only then check if it compiles in given system.

New comment by Nezghul in "Beetle grows ‘termite’ on back to steal food"

Nezghul — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 04:45:24 +0000

Wouldn't it be easier to just... look like a termite instead of having abdomen looking like a termite?

New comment by Nezghul in "Lie still in bed"

Nezghul — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 11:48:34 +0000

What if I am capable of thinking with closed eyes?

New comment by Nezghul in "The Perfect Laptop"

Nezghul — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 20:55:03 +0000

So you don't like when cursor is moving on click?

New comment by Nezghul in "F-16 training for Ukrainian pilots successful: U.S. makes course “much shorter”"

Nezghul — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 20:53:18 +0000

I don't get it why they didn't start that training year ago, even if it was not known if F-16 will be send to Ukraine or not.

New comment by Nezghul in "Show HN: Watch ChatGPT debate itself on a given topic"

Nezghul — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 11:11:16 +0000

I asked if we should put people in jail for reproduction, as children do not give any consent to being born, will suffer in life and die in the end. Both debaters started patting their backs that reproduction is not unethical but something should be done with people who neglect their child.

New comment by Nezghul in "No safe efficient ways to do three-way string comparisons in Go"

Nezghul — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 07:43:53 +0000

Well, if You want to compare strings according to some rules then... write a custom comparator.

New comment by Nezghul in "What they don't teach you about sockets"

Nezghul — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 19:22:22 +0000

I very often see "reconnect loops" in various codebases and I wonder are they necessary? Wouldn't the same effect be achieved by for example increasing timeouts or some other connection parameter?