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New comment by atherton94027 in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

atherton94027 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:16:49 +0000

I'm answering the claim about Artemis being more dangerous than the space shuttle. Obviously landing on the moon is a lot riskier.

New comment by atherton94027 in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

atherton94027 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:59:23 +0000

Ah I appreciate the answer — I'll do that next time. Thank you for moderating btw, you've been doing a great job!

New comment by atherton94027 in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

atherton94027 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:03:15 +0000

This was the farthest humans ever travelled from earth, even farther than apollo 13. Intuitively the farther you go the higher the risks are

New comment by atherton94027 in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

atherton94027 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:06:47 +0000

@dang is it something on your radar? Lots of people do this on Reddit and it makes some threads unusable.

New comment by atherton94027 in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

atherton94027 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:49:31 +0000

Sorry I didn't see your reply, what was it about?

New comment by atherton94027 in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

atherton94027 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:42:58 +0000

You must be German — the French state is a lot more top down than Germany with its regions, so generally these kinds of mandates get applied broadly

New comment by atherton94027 in "Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed"

atherton94027 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 04:17:54 +0000

It really depends, support is usually the first thing companies adjust when they want to improve their margins.

Even when you're paying millions to AWS you have to get through their first line of support and they will ask silly questions until you can convince them to escalate.

New comment by atherton94027 in "404 Deno CEO not found"

atherton94027 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 16:43:56 +0000

Well the people who get laid off also have feelings, not sure why we should care more about the ceo's feelings so much that we shouldn't criticize them

New comment by atherton94027 in "Afroman found not liable in defamation case"

atherton94027 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:36:39 +0000

Canada has the same rates of gun ownership as America and you don't see cops come up with guns blazing like they do here

New comment by atherton94027 in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

atherton94027 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:18:10 +0000

> I'm not even looking very hard but have had 4 interviews in the last month.

Did you get any offers yet? It seems the issue is not lack of interviews but lack of offers. Many companies are looking for a goldilocks candidate and are happy to pass on anything that doesn't match their ideal candidate

New comment by atherton94027 in "Be wary of Bluesky"

atherton94027 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 21:07:31 +0000

Sorry I'm not sure I understand your point

New comment by atherton94027 in "Be wary of Bluesky"

atherton94027 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 20:38:20 +0000

I mean it's a repo with 1 very active contributor (https://github.com/blacksky-algorithms/rsky/graphs/contribut...), I get that they decided to skip on that

New comment by atherton94027 in "Farewell, Rust for web"

atherton94027 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 01:04:42 +0000

Not really? Iirc `HttpUrlConnection` has been around since the 90s?

New comment by atherton94027 in "Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users"

atherton94027 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:42:09 +0000

sic transit gloria mundi..

New comment by atherton94027 in "Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users"

atherton94027 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:27:06 +0000

> If it's something else, I'm sorry I just don't understand.

I'm trying to explain to you that you're speaking very authoritatively about how things were done 30 years ago but things have changed since then, Gmail won't even send a message non-delivery notification to non-DKIM hosts.

Same thing with the g-msgid I'm telling you about – google documented it explicitly as a unique identifier, see here for example: https://developers.google.com/workspace/gmail/imap/imap-exte...

So yeah, things changed.

New comment by atherton94027 in "Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users"

atherton94027 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 05:49:27 +0000

Well, gmail does not manage usenet groups and mailing lists. Delivery status notifications are considered best effort so it wouldn't make sense to block messages for that case.

Additionally, Gmail adds its own message identifier on every message (g-msgid) because it knows that message ids can not be trusted to be unique.

Finally just calling me ignorant is the cherry on top – please try to keep things civil on here.

New comment by atherton94027 in "Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users"

atherton94027 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:41:45 +0000

How is not having a message-id a security risk? It seems that Gmail is being pedantic for no reason

New comment by atherton94027 in "Testing Ads in ChatGPT"

atherton94027 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:01:23 +0000

I mean your argument is basically saying "in the future Linux will have ads, there's a race to the bottom with operating systems, just look at windows". Tough to justify this train of thought with open weight models

New comment by atherton94027 in "Postgres Postmaster does not scale"

atherton94027 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 15:40:32 +0000

Presumably sharding is a lot easier than trying to debug lockups in individual postgres thread? It's well known, we've been doing it for at least 30+ years as an industry.

New comment by atherton94027 in "Postgres Postmaster does not scale"

atherton94027 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 04:55:50 +0000

I'm a bit confused here, do they have a single database they're writing to? Wouldn't it be easier and more reliable to shard the data per customer?