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New comment by YesThatTom2 in "Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe"

YesThatTom2 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:46:35 +0000

The difference is now the US has a leader that is actively encouraging its downfall.

Unethical Ways to Manage Technical Debt

YesThatTom2 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:44:04 +0000

Article URL: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3830399

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49260936

Points: 2

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New comment by YesThatTom2 in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

YesThatTom2 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 11:16:33 +0000

(Replying to my own post). Also, it’s gotta be mentally draining to be told by the president they have to win but also always let Russian attacks though.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/defens...

New comment by YesThatTom2 in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

YesThatTom2 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 11:09:47 +0000

I suspect the Cold War of cyber warfare that is happening is orders of magnitude bigger than the public knows.

Imagine knowing this and not being able to get emotional support from your friends and family.

New comment by YesThatTom2 in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

YesThatTom2 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 11:07:39 +0000

That turned out to be false. Normal attrition / vacation time.

New comment by YesThatTom2 in "SPF Record Syntax: Mechanisms, Qualifiers, Modifiers, and Macros"

YesThatTom2 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:01:03 +0000

SPF flattening is difficult to get correct and then you have to check it every so often to update it.

DNSControl automates this. https://docs.dnscontrol.org/language-reference/domain-modifi...

(It’s open source)

New comment by YesThatTom2 in "Go 1.27 Interactive Tour"

YesThatTom2 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 14:47:10 +0000

"The best way to teach something new is to compare it to something the audience already understands."

Could someone take the example, reduce it to a non-generic version for two types I DO understand, then show that with the new feature I can collapse them into the Box/Map example in the doc?

I have 10+ years of Go experience and I can't make heads or tails of "(b Box[T]) Map[U any](f func(T) U) Box[U]"

Controlling VSCode from the Terminal

YesThatTom2 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 23:54:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.yesthatblog.com/post/0155-controlling-vscode-cli/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364114

Points: 1

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New comment by YesThatTom2 in "Peter Salus has died"

YesThatTom2 — Tue, 19 May 2026 04:03:25 +0000

He was also executive director of both the USENIX Association in its very early years.

New comment by YesThatTom2 in "USDA Projects Smallest US Wheat Harvest Since 1972 Due to Plains Drought"

YesThatTom2 — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:50:19 +0000

“Dictators stay in power until there are food riots” is what every sociologist I know tells me.

I hope the “riots” are in the form of voting.

New comment by YesThatTom2 in "Ada, its design, and the language that built the languages"

YesThatTom2 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:36:16 +0000

Ada was also ignored because the typical compiler cost tens of thousands of dollars. No open source or free compiler existed during the decades where popular languages could be had for free.

I think that is the biggest factor of all.

New comment by YesThatTom2 in "FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account"

YesThatTom2 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:30:05 +0000

I’m old enough to remember when the FSF said that blocking spam was censorship. Good to see them wake up.

New comment by YesThatTom2 in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

YesThatTom2 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:56:47 +0000

Whatbmakes you say that? Devs use stacked PRs in small and large repos today.

New comment by YesThatTom2 in "Dr. Dobb's Developer Library DVD 6"

YesThatTom2 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:32:58 +0000

I will speculate the DDOS attacks are funded by companies and governments that benefit from not being held accountable for their past deeds. I suspect X, Google, China, PRNK, Hungary, etc

New comment by YesThatTom2 in "Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)"

YesThatTom2 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:08:31 +0000

If Dijkstra blamed Knuth it would have been the best recursive joke ever.

New comment by YesThatTom2 in "Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)"

YesThatTom2 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:59:50 +0000

I hear you, friend!

While you were seeing those problems with Java at Google, I saw seeing it with Python.

So many levels of indirection. Holy cow! So many unneeded superclasses and mixins! You can’t reason about code if the indirection is deeper than the human mind can grasp.

There was also a belief that list comprehensions were magically better somehow and would expand to 10-line monstrosities of unreadable code when a nested for loop would have been more readable and just as fast but because list comprehensions were fetishized nobody would stop at their natural readability limits. The result was like reading the run-on sentence you just suffered through.

New comment by YesThatTom2 in "SSH has no Host header"

YesThatTom2 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 06:11:37 +0000

This is the way.

New comment by YesThatTom2 in "Don't template YAML, poke it"

YesThatTom2 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:02:51 +0000

Oh, damn! I should have picked a name that references "you'll poke your eye out!"

New comment by YesThatTom2 in "Don't template YAML, poke it"

YesThatTom2 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:02:23 +0000

Poking values into your YAML or JSON files has benefits over building them with templates.

Don't template YAML, poke it

YesThatTom2 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:02:23 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/tomontime/datapoke

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47404833

Points: 1

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