Hacker News: ageofwant

New comment by ageofwant in "US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago"

ageofwant — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 14:27:46 +0000

Yes good, and now because their value is appreciated they can be paid what they will be paid in the private sector, perhaps ~180k/y instead of 60k/y. So if you fire 2/3 of the workforce and pay those that remain what they are "worth", you have saved exactly what ?

New comment by ageofwant in "US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago"

ageofwant — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 14:14:36 +0000

You have clearly never worked in any sizeable workforce, and I can assure you your basic presumption that large private sector workforces does not have broken processes is childishly naive. The "problem" is you, making assumptions of waste where there is none to speak off, unless you can provide some actual data to back that up. The average federal employee earns about $60k/y, they are not there for the money. Firing all federal employees will same about 7h of borrowing.

I'm sorry but the narrative you have invested in so deeply is not founded in reality, not that I expect anyone explaining facts to you will make any appreciable difference.

Enjoy the pain you elected to bring upon yourself, you deserve the government you got.

New comment by ageofwant in "Htmx, Rust and Shuttle: A New Rapid Prototyping Stack"

ageofwant — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 16:26:41 +0000

Rust is many things, "rapid development" is not one of those things.

New comment by ageofwant in "PyPI Security"

ageofwant — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 05:00:12 +0000

no it doesn't

New comment by ageofwant in "The Bvp47 - a Top-tier Backdoor [sic] of US NSA Equation Group"

ageofwant — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 16:06:10 +0000

'app sandboxing' is one part, of a small part, of a subsection of a general thread model, why would you pick that when you talk about 'secure'? And LOL no, Linux has SELinux, apparmor, firejail, flatpak, snap, docker, lxc, and various hypervisors for 'app sandboxing', Linux does not have 'basically none', it has arguably to many.

New comment by ageofwant in "Hyprland Is a Toxic Community"

ageofwant — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 15:45:07 +0000

They did decide. They decided they did not need one. Please respect the decision.

New comment by ageofwant in "The Bvp47 - a Top-tier Backdoor [sic] of US NSA Equation Group"

ageofwant — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 15:41:57 +0000

I flagged it because your silly clickbait title is a misinterpretation of both the contents of the article and narrates a enormous jump to a ridiculous conclusion. Its fake tiktok gosh-wow horseshit and does not belong on hacker news.

New comment by ageofwant in "The Bvp47 - a Top-tier Backdoor [sic] of US NSA Equation Group"

ageofwant — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 15:33:12 +0000

No, popular Linux distros, with default configuration, is considerably more secure than Windows, and probably more secure than MacOS. This is universally accepted and basic infosec ken. You thought very wrong, fix your ken.

New comment by ageofwant in "The Bvp47 - a Top-tier Backdoor [sic] of US NSA Equation Group"

ageofwant — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 15:15:23 +0000

No what is striking is that you don't understand what a "backdoor" is. The article does not describe what everybody agrees a "backdoor" is.

New comment by ageofwant in "Llama.cpp: Full CUDA GPU Acceleration"

ageofwant — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 14:17:11 +0000

The point is, as you pointed out, that you code against the appropriate level of abstraction. You write a ML workflow appropriate language like Python in something like C++/rust, and ML flows in Python. That should really not be that hard to understand.

Loab

ageofwant — Sun, 27 Nov 2022 14:21:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-26/loab-age-of-artificial-intelligence-future/101678206

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33763094

Points: 2

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New comment by ageofwant in "I don’t believe in sprints"

ageofwant — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 14:12:53 +0000

I absolutely have to 'like' it because I have to do it. Scrum masters and Product Owners love to inflict Agile bullshit, but they do not suffer from it. They have little understanding of the process of software development and imagine themselves to be capable of 'adding value'. Agile is a failed experiment kept alive by people who have no skill other than working the work.

New comment by ageofwant in "Why are Pakistan’s floods so extreme this year?"

ageofwant — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 15:57:10 +0000

Pretty disheartening to see the downvotes in a forum like hn which are supposed to be informed about these things. If people that are supposed to be able to critically assess data and have access to as much information they need to verify any claims come to the conclusion that you are full of shit, what hope is there to educate grandpa screaming at the wokes on the street.

New comment by ageofwant in "Why are Pakistan’s floods so extreme this year?"

ageofwant — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 15:53:00 +0000

Dams destroy ecosystems, reduce biodiversity and often just silt up. A related but far better idea is to encourage water retention on a far bigger scale by building johads or berms everywhere. See the Paani foundation's work in next door India.

New comment by ageofwant in "Finland’s Green Party endorses nuclear power"

ageofwant — Tue, 24 May 2022 01:42:03 +0000

I did not say it was a small problem, I said the current problem of stopping CO2 pollution and removing what we already have pumped into the environment over the last 200 years are orders of magnitude larger.

New comment by ageofwant in "Finland’s Green Party endorses nuclear power"

ageofwant — Mon, 23 May 2022 14:25:37 +0000

Nuclear waste is process and reactor specific. These are engineering problems and are several magnitudes of order smaller problems to deal with that dealing with carbon waste.

New comment by ageofwant in "Finland’s Green Party endorses nuclear power"

ageofwant — Mon, 23 May 2022 14:22:46 +0000

Australia exports millions of tons of thermal coal annually, we have vast gas fields of WA. These are profitable because a international market exist. The market exist because of a lack of affordable alternatives. So no, with enough baseload tech Australia will be probably be OK without nuclear. Solar to H2/Ammonia for example.

New comment by ageofwant in "Finland’s Green Party endorses nuclear power"

ageofwant — Mon, 23 May 2022 14:01:23 +0000

Perhaps adopting nuclear energy is not the only thing I care about ?

New comment by ageofwant in "Finland’s Green Party endorses nuclear power"

ageofwant — Mon, 23 May 2022 13:45:14 +0000

The Greens' idiotic anti-nuclear stance has empowered and embolden decades of coal and oil exploration and proliferation. As a Green voter I desperately hope this pattern gets adopted and replicated here in Australia the sooner the better.

New comment by ageofwant in "“Crime Pays but Botany Doesn’t” crosses citizen science with environmentalism"

ageofwant — Sat, 07 May 2022 13:07:05 +0000

Joey is the reason "Asterachea" and "Now go fuck yourself, goodbye" is now part of my daily vocabulary.