Hacker News: bburnett44

New comment by bburnett44 in "Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years"

bburnett44 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 14:15:15 +0000

I mean that’s the point right? Preferences have shifted.

New comment by bburnett44 in "Visa, Mastercard, major banks facing new litigation over 'anticompetitive' fees"

bburnett44 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 04:25:10 +0000

What cards are you using that get you 5% cash back on gas?

New comment by bburnett44 in "Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work"

bburnett44 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 04:20:31 +0000

Using 512gb of ram for a 22gb remote file does feel a bit weird for a benchmark but maybe they couldn’t get a large number of cores without lots of memory?

New comment by bburnett44 in "Engineer creates ad block for the real world with augmented reality glasses"

bburnett44 — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 12:07:56 +0000

Fully don't like elon but is it possible you need to touch grass and log off reddit/twitter

New comment by bburnett44 in "The Microsoft unit working to thwart hackers"

bburnett44 — Tue, 13 May 2025 10:55:45 +0000

I’m sure this group is good but jeez this is a lot of praise for a company whose security record is … uh … less than stellar

New comment by bburnett44 in "A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub"

bburnett44 — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 13:36:30 +0000

This is such a lame comment. He's looking at publicly available geospatial data, not trying to build a bomb.

New comment by bburnett44 in "A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub"

bburnett44 — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 12:39:42 +0000

Yeah the "sensitive geospatial data" is just open data. He also created the geospatial gists before trump was in office so he definitely didn't have access to critical data then https://web.archive.org/web/20250228230950/https://gist.gith...

New comment by bburnett44 in "World's darkest and clearest skies at risk from industrial megaproject"

bburnett44 — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 13:10:56 +0000

This is a pretty crazy comment

New comment by bburnett44 in "ASCII porn predates the Internet but it's still everywhere (2019)"

bburnett44 — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 12:48:37 +0000

I think you're missing the heavy sarcasm there

New comment by bburnett44 in "Apple Says Meta Is Making Unreasonable Interoperability Requests Under EU's DMA"

bburnett44 — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 02:13:03 +0000

It feels like there should be a user option to allow (default deny) this. Like it doesn’t have to be that the minute you install WhatsApp it gets access to all of your texts or calls. But it sucks to be stuck w iMessage when that’s just locking me into apples ecosystem

New comment by bburnett44 in "Don't squander public trust on bullshit"

bburnett44 — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 02:48:07 +0000

Oh boy, having worked w government/elected officials a lot, I can tell you that this is just for sure not true.

Sometimes bad behavior really is just incompetence

New comment by bburnett44 in "I Am Tired of AI"

bburnett44 — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 12:25:04 +0000

I think we can pretty safely say bitcoin was a dead end other than for buying drugs, enabling ransomware payments, or financial speculation.

Show me an average person who has bought something real w bitcoin (who couldn’t have bought it for less complexity/transaction cost using a bank) and I’ll change my mind

New comment by bburnett44 in "Beyond the route: Introducing granular MTA bus speed data"

bburnett44 — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 05:54:32 +0000

> universally appreciated by most

60% of the time, it works every time

New comment by bburnett44 in "Thomas Piketty: 'The Draghi report is a step in the right direction'"

bburnett44 — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 15:33:12 +0000

Isn’t the idea that the money and resources have to come from somewhere?

Raise taxes or debt for the monetary side. Divert workers and other resources on the implementation side. Both of those might be better used by the private sector

New comment by bburnett44 in "Sail – Unify stream processing, batch processing and compute-intensive workloads"

bburnett44 — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 12:40:27 +0000

Yeah but the website literally says “zero code changes”. It’s the long tail that’s dangerous since most people don’t understand it as well as a the core functions

New comment by bburnett44 in "The "email is authentication" pattern"

bburnett44 — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 14:36:02 +0000

Is a bank deposit box not insured against those things? I've never really thought about it but always assumed they would be

New comment by bburnett44 in "Apple okays Epic Games marketplace app in Europe"

bburnett44 — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 12:47:49 +0000

I’m not disagreeing with you that it’s predatory but I think the point is that by not charging up front, you get more people in the door. And even if each of those people spend less than the upfront would have been, there are so many more of them that you make money. That basic philosophy isn’t bad, it’s what most tech platforms are based on

New comment by bburnett44 in "Tech Jobs Leaving California"

bburnett44 — Fri, 10 May 2024 12:19:16 +0000

My guess is Californias percentage is on the left and Texas is right. So california went from 20.5ish to 16ish

New comment by bburnett44 in "Speeding up C++ build times"

bburnett44 — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 23:17:00 +0000

lol I initially read this as remote people workers and was super confused

New comment by bburnett44 in "A16Z blogs are just glorified marketing"

bburnett44 — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 02:13:52 +0000

Somebody came to a conference that my company hosts and complained it was self promotion. Like yeah no shit. Feels like kinda the same thing here