Hacker News: andyzweb

New comment by andyzweb in "Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever"

andyzweb — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 19:37:08 +0000

Correction: SIPS is the scriptable image processing system, SIP is system integrity protection.

New comment by andyzweb in "TikTok goes dark in the US"

andyzweb — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 17:41:37 +0000

Those criteria seem pretty good. All those companies should be broken up and required to make certain divestitures until they no longer to-big-to-fail, oligarchical, anti-competitive etc.

New comment by andyzweb in "Encryption at Rest: Whose Threat Model Is It Anyway?"

andyzweb — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 16:21:59 +0000

there have been a few attempts at adding TDE to postgresql. I think the cybertec patches are probably the most notable https://github.com/cybertec-postgresql/postgresql/tree/15tde...

New comment by andyzweb in "Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?"

andyzweb — Wed, 08 May 2024 02:34:05 +0000

UMENU https://www.troubleshooters.com/umenu/index.htm

New comment by andyzweb in "Common DB schema change mistakes in Postgres"

andyzweb — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 19:14:07 +0000

it might work but keep in mind schema changes in cockroachdb very different under the hood. for one they are not transactional and run in the background https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/online-schema-chan...

New comment by andyzweb in "Ask HN: Uncommon Web Languages?"

andyzweb — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 18:38:18 +0000

P-star https://www.p-star.org/

New comment by andyzweb in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2022)"

andyzweb — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 19:52:24 +0000

can we chat over email? contact is hn username at gmail.com

New comment by andyzweb in "Why Postgres?"

andyzweb — Tue, 24 May 2022 16:41:08 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA3SBgcZwtE. Good talk by a core developer

This is another presentation from a core developer: https://momjian.us/main/writings/pgsql/optimizer.pdf

New comment by andyzweb in "My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll"

andyzweb — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 00:48:14 +0000

For me it was moving in with my fiance. I read out loud to her every night till she falls asleep.

New comment by andyzweb in "The Miseducation of Maria Montessori"

andyzweb — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 15:55:25 +0000

Can you clarify if you mean "tailored" or if you are making Taylorism into a verb "taylored"? Since it appears so close in your comment to "mass manufacturing" I'm having difficulty distinguishing the meaning.

New comment by andyzweb in "Why is China smashing its tech industry?"

andyzweb — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 17:50:07 +0000

What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state, Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do.

- Arthur Jensen (Network, 1976)

New comment by andyzweb in "I've got a broken combine harvester – manufacturer won't give me software key"

andyzweb — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 12:14:54 +0000

citizen/soldier/farmer the Romanitas ideal. Also kind of rolls up into the whole Cincinnatus thing.

New comment by andyzweb in "macOS extensions are moving away from the kernel"

andyzweb — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 12:04:11 +0000

I thought it might have been some kind of reference to the bless(8) command.

New comment by andyzweb in "What would you pay for autonomous driving? Volkswagen hopes $8.50 per hour"

andyzweb — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 12:08:03 +0000

Maybe not bought but we rented a house where the owner padlocked 2 bedrooms shut and said if we wanted to use them it was an extra $200 a month to use them as home offices.

New comment by andyzweb in "Perseverance rover’s descent and touchdown on Mars [video]"

andyzweb — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 00:11:53 +0000

Was that the budget for the whole thing? If that’s what it cost to put that thing up there why aren’t we doing this once a month.

New comment by andyzweb in "GameStop Opened at $300+ Today"

andyzweb — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 15:24:43 +0000

something something the market can remain irrational longer than you can stay solvent

New comment by andyzweb in "Massachusetts voters pass right-to-repair expansion opening up car data"

andyzweb — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 13:36:38 +0000

can you provide any insight / links about what happened with the 2013 law? I remember very little and feel a little ashamed about that.

New comment by andyzweb in "Neuralink Progress Update [video]"

andyzweb — Sat, 29 Aug 2020 11:27:03 +0000

Reminds me of cyberbrain sclerosis from Ghost In The Shell.

New comment by andyzweb in "Can't you just right click?"

andyzweb — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 10:50:09 +0000

my mistake. thank you for the correction.

New comment by andyzweb in "Can't you just right click?"

andyzweb — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 10:03:29 +0000

I believe the offer is for anyone you’ve distributed the program to. So if it was Bill who shared a copy of the program with the random teenager it would fall upon Bill to provide him with the source and not you.