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New comment by aetimmes in "Woman in Brazil enslaved for 55 years by 3 generations of the same family"

aetimmes — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 13:24:22 +0000

Because exploitation is a two-actor system and poverty is a unary operator.

New comment by aetimmes in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

aetimmes — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:38:42 +0000

Last I checked, they're on Fastly who already support IPv6.

New comment by aetimmes in "AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip"

aetimmes — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 12:26:19 +0000

None. Every component is seeing huge demand.

New comment by aetimmes in "Make macOS consistently bad unironically"

aetimmes — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:42:17 +0000

I think we're already seeing the operating systems that AI can build, and I don't think they've been an improvement.

New comment by aetimmes in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

aetimmes — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:34:24 +0000

Only a small fraction of a typical barrel of oil is allocated to energy generation. The majority goes to transportation/industrial use-cases. The transportation usage can be allayed with sonar energy, but the industrial use-cases cannot.

New comment by aetimmes in "GPT-5.4"

aetimmes — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 23:44:12 +0000

> is extremely woke

What does this mean to you?

New comment by aetimmes in "I'm not worried about AI job loss"

aetimmes — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 01:03:49 +0000

Datacenters were very automated when RAM was infinite. As the world becomes compute-constrained, the economics may increase the demand for smart hands mixing-and-matching server components to turn two broken servers into one working server.

New comment by aetimmes in "Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update"

aetimmes — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:15:38 +0000

Running ad blockers for me is a matter of principle. The amount of tracking and telemetry that exists on the Internet is 1. massively invasive from a privacy perspective and 2. massively wasteful from an energy, bandwidth and time perspective.

If you have something worth selling, then sell it.

New comment by aetimmes in "Mexican Navy ship crashes into Brooklyn Bridge leaving two people dead"

aetimmes — Sun, 18 May 2025 13:21:11 +0000

Jumping into water from roughly the height of the Brooklyn Bridge is generally what people do when they _want_ to end their own lives.

New comment by aetimmes in "Google Play sees 47% decline in apps since start of last year"

aetimmes — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 23:57:29 +0000

It's called "20 BlueStacks instances in a trenchcoat"

New comment by aetimmes in "Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes"

aetimmes — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 09:01:31 +0000

And under the bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

New comment by aetimmes in "US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU"

aetimmes — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 11:20:35 +0000

Optimistic to assume that the US will have voting in 3.5 years.

New comment by aetimmes in "Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water"

aetimmes — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 08:22:31 +0000

You're free to get your water straight from the ground, then.

New comment by aetimmes in "War story: the hardest bug I ever debugged"

aetimmes — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 14:24:49 +0000

(disclaimer: I know OP IRL.)

I'm seeing a lot of comments saying "only 2 days? must not have been that bad of a bug". Some thoughts here:

At my current day job, our postmortem template asks "Where did we get lucky?" In this instance, the author definitely got lucky that they were working at Google where 1) there were enough users to generate this Heisenbug consistently and 2) that they had direct access to Chrome devs.

Additionally - the author (and his team) triaged, root caused and remediated a JS compiler bug in 2 days. The sheer amount of complexity involved in trying to narrow down where in the browser code this could all be going wrong is staggering. Consider that the reason it took him "only" two days is because he is very, _very_ good at what he does.

New comment by aetimmes in "So you want to build your own data center"

aetimmes — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 15:06:42 +0000

I think the word GP is objecting to isn't "your own" but rather "build".

For people who have taken empty lots and constructed new data centers (ie, the whole building) on them from scratch, the phrase "building a datacenter" involves a nonzero amount of concrete.

OP seems to have built out a data hall - which is still a cool thing in its own right! - but for someone like me who's interested in "baking an apple pie from scratch", the mismatch between the title and the content was slightly disappointing.

New comment by aetimmes in "Bluesky is on the verge of overtaking Threads in all the ways that matter"

aetimmes — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 04:34:01 +0000

I mean, it's all just quicksort under the hood, right? By extension...

New comment by aetimmes in "Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson"

aetimmes — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 06:15:38 +0000

> Right before the recent Twitter acquisition, the various bits of info that came to the limelight included the "minor detail" that they had more than doubled their headcount and associated expenses, but had not doubled either their revenue or profits.

Every tech company massively inflated their headcount during the leadup to the Twitter acquisition because money was free.

I interviewed at Meta in 2021 and asked an EM what he would do if given a magic wand to fix one problem at the company. His response: "I would instantly hire 10,000 more engineers."

Elon famously did the opposite and now revenue is down 80%.

New comment by aetimmes in "Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson"

aetimmes — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 06:02:32 +0000

Google search is dying because of business reasons, not technical ones. The ads branch is actively cannibalizing search quality to make people perform more searches and view more ads.

"Microservices" have nothing to do with it.

New comment by aetimmes in "Speeding Up Your Website Using Cloudflare Cache"

aetimmes — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 00:07:01 +0000

Care to explain why?

New comment by aetimmes in "Ask HN: Going low-level – what to learn next?"

aetimmes — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 10:59:55 +0000

Read through Understanding Software Dynamics by Richard Sites and work through the example problems in the book.

He discusses exactly what you're describing (L1/2/3 cache hit rates, their performance implications, how compiler optimizations can fool us into thinking we have a good hit rate, etc).

Also take a look into Intel VTune and Processor Tracing to understand how performance counters like Instructions per Cycle are calculated.