Hacker News: awalsh128

New comment by awalsh128 in "Broccoli Man, Remastered"

awalsh128 — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 23:15:54 +0000

This is only an issue when you need to migrate services. I can't get into details but much of this isn't a problem anymore.

New comment by awalsh128 in "CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns"

awalsh128 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 05:08:56 +0000

Yes votes were 144 D and 213 R in the house with unanimous yes (only one no) in the Senate. Right after 9/11 people were fine giving up with their rights pretty much across the spectrum. Granted Republicans more than Democrats. I think since then it has just been the status quo for every president since Bush. I hate it but it has been engrained at this point IMO.

This all reminds me of Makeshift Patriot by Sage Francis.

New comment by awalsh128 in "Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board"

awalsh128 — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 22:42:44 +0000

Don't read Swift's A Modest Proposal then.

New comment by awalsh128 in "The Death of Arduino?"

awalsh128 — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 22:34:02 +0000

Stallman appreciates you saying so. :)

New comment by awalsh128 in "EU moves to ban Huawei from member states' 5G systems"

awalsh128 — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 23:18:39 +0000

Having a difficult time finding technical details in the security risk assessment. If anyone has a link with details?

New comment by awalsh128 in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

awalsh128 — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 18:45:43 +0000

What do you mean? The movie storyline takes place in 44 at the Battle of Normandy.

New comment by awalsh128 in "The Tiny Teams Playbook"

awalsh128 — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 20:58:38 +0000

Same. I find myself much more productive. I do like coming in every once in awhile for the rapport and cultivating working relationships face to face though.

New comment by awalsh128 in "Privacy Badger is a free browser extension made by EFF to stop spying"

awalsh128 — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 15:20:52 +0000

I don't think they are necessarily saying that. The data driven aspect is to connect users actually wanting or interested in something. The measure of this is the conversion rate, which is where the user actually clicks on the ad. You can also connect these with purchases from the ad buyer. The data driven piece is all the variables involved in developing functions that maximize this. At that point it is basically data science.

New comment by awalsh128 in "U.S. hits new low in World Happiness Report"

awalsh128 — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 22:54:46 +0000

Get off HN and back to work you.

New comment by awalsh128 in "U.S. hits new low in World Happiness Report"

awalsh128 — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 22:54:05 +0000

As a US citizen I just want affordable healthcare, housing, and a system that supports families. I think for the younger generation where this isn't attainable it causes a lot of unhappiness and leads to greater stressors. Also we are at a big low with faith in our political system across the pillars of government. I think for most of us we don't want it all, we just want our basic needs met without worrying about losing then tomorrow.

New comment by awalsh128 in "Grapevine canes can be converted into plastic-like material that will decompose"

awalsh128 — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 04:14:29 +0000

Because I forget them at home most of the time on the way to something else.

New comment by awalsh128 in "EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy"

awalsh128 — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 19:10:56 +0000

Whatever people think about Greenpeace I think it's a stretch to say they are a plant. They just lost a lawsuit recently and have to pay $660 mil for defamation against an oil company. It was a pretty ugly case.

New comment by awalsh128 in "Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems"

awalsh128 — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 16:02:47 +0000

No me no nice

New comment by awalsh128 in "Marathon Fusion claims it can turn mercury into gold while creating clean energy"

awalsh128 — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 15:59:59 +0000

Thank you. This is usually the first thing I look for when I see headlines. The actual research or how long it would take to manufacture at scale.

New comment by awalsh128 in "Protobuffers Are Wrong (2018)"

awalsh128 — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 17:30:44 +0000

Yeah, there is a lot of snark in the article which undermines their argument.

New comment by awalsh128 in "I want to be left alone (2024)"

awalsh128 — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 01:29:01 +0000

Don't forget when you choose to opt-out but then start getting random spam from other businesses because they sold your email address. Also fun is when they send email anyways.

New comment by awalsh128 in "Nullable vs. Nullable in C#"

awalsh128 — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 07:58:38 +0000

C# doesn't box value types and can be treated like an object semantically for things like generics.

IMO, we should just do away with nullability and use the optional/maybe approach as wrappers for potential values. Null shouldn't really exist ideally, especially in OO because it is a unit value and also the parent value for all objects. I appreciate nullability being introduced but it causes a fork in types by two branches at the top of the hierarchy in most cases and more conceptually just associates these optionals with this flawed concept.

New comment by awalsh128 in "Tariff's found illegal, but will stay for now"

awalsh128 — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 07:43:00 +0000

The rulings coming out from the Supreme Court wreak of bias. This isn't uncommon and is checked by more of a balanced court but holy hell. I have no concept of jurisprudence and I can still see how blatantly partisan most of the rulings have been lately.

New comment by awalsh128 in "If you have a Claude account, they're going to train on your data moving forward"

awalsh128 — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 06:24:57 +0000

Wow, a 5 year retention. That seems so arbitrary and excessive. As someone who has been involved with privacy compliance, this is crazy. Does this apply for European users too? I don't know what the business justification for this would be but I am sure some lawyer could explain this better.

New comment by awalsh128 in "Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode"

awalsh128 — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 06:16:09 +0000

One of the things you can do is provide a guidance file like CLAUDE.md including not only style preferences but also domain knowledge so it has greater context and knows where to look. Just ask it make one and then update and change as needed.