Hacker News: bdhess

New comment by bdhess in "Google Cloud Incident Report – 2025-06-13"

bdhess — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 23:16:48 +0000

> Rewriting a critical service like this in another language seems way higher risk than making sure all policy checks are flag guarded

So like, the requirements are unknown? Or this service isn't critical enough to staff a careful migration?

New comment by bdhess in "The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster"

bdhess — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 00:47:43 +0000

> If you honestly get hung up that LibreOffice doesn’t look like it was developed by Apple within the last 5 years then you are ultimately being disingenuous

Disingenuous? More like realistic.

I mean this ultimately boils down to “is inconsistent with the design of the rest of the computing experience.” People who care about good, consistent design and can afford to pay for it are Apple’s core market.

New comment by bdhess in "The U.S. is approving citizenship applications at the fastest speed in years"

bdhess — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 02:11:49 +0000

What is the check that we need to do for aspiring citizens that wouldn’t interest a lender?

Also, making sure the house is sufficient collateral for the loan is a whole bunch of additional overhead.

New comment by bdhess in "Notes on AWS Nitro Enclaves: Attack Surface"

bdhess — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 22:29:26 +0000

Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41655382

New comment by bdhess in "Say No to the Paywall of PCI-E Bifurcation"

bdhess — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 03:48:29 +0000

More config options means more to test and support, so more cost. The manufacturers who are buying lower end motherboards/chipsets at scale don’t need the feature. And virtually no consumer installs a PCI-E device, ever.

So basically, it’s an argument to make all computers more expensive, in order to subsidize hobbyists.

New comment by bdhess in "US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana"

bdhess — Wed, 01 May 2024 03:00:40 +0000

Stinky is very qualitative. Maybe you grew up around tobacco smokers and so don’t mind the smell? I hate it.

Quantitatively, marijuana smoke is less carcinogenic than tobacco smoke.

New comment by bdhess in "Houthi anti-ship missile systems: getting better all the time"

bdhess — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 06:34:15 +0000

Aka cede de facto authority over international waters to a buncha thugs whose official slogan includes “death to America, death to Israel”. No thanks.

New comment by bdhess in "New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to Reject Ban on Noncompete Agreements"

bdhess — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 07:20:04 +0000

I doubt you even live in New York.

New comment by bdhess in "Qatar Airways Bans YouTuber for Negative Review"

bdhess — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 04:40:43 +0000

> Isn't your gripe with the Qatari government then rather than the airline?

It’s an absolute dictatorship. The government and the airline are the same thing.

New comment by bdhess in "Apple introduces spatial video capture on iPhone 15 Pro"

bdhess — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 13:47:36 +0000

Your eyes are close together, is there really a benefit in having two?

New comment by bdhess in "Google turns to regulators to make Apple open up iMessage"

bdhess — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 18:21:05 +0000

Have you heard of email?

New comment by bdhess in "Airlines make more money from mileage programs than from flying planes"

bdhess — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 02:19:06 +0000

Virgin didn't have to be folded into Alaska. Richard Branson famously didn't want it to happen, but couldn't stop it.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/18/branson-says-alaska-air-was-...

New comment by bdhess in "The urgent need for memory safety in software products"

bdhess — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 19:25:32 +0000

> In what other industry would the market tolerate such well-understood and severe dangers for users of products for decades?

Transportation. Motor vehicles are a huge chunk of the market despite the existence of less deadly alternatives.

New comment by bdhess in "Fixing Penn Station"

bdhess — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 06:27:35 +0000

Fuck this article.

If city council had some nuts, they'd just deny Dolan his permits, and he'd be up shit's creek.

All this blather about any eventual resolution needing to make him whole or happy is pure throne sniffing.

New comment by bdhess in "Fixing Penn Station"

bdhess — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 05:54:15 +0000

The station has hundreds of staircases and dozens of entrances. If you commute into it three days a week and haven't found a path that's workable, maybe the train station isn't the problem.

New comment by bdhess in "People over-emphasize the recycling aspect of "reduce, reuse, recycle""

bdhess — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 03:50:36 +0000

If your therapist is telling you that you’re entirely justified in being angry at humans being humans, seems like you should find a better therapist.

New comment by bdhess in "Steve Wozniak used to tip from printed sheets of $2 bills"

bdhess — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 14:09:43 +0000

Imagine how obnoxious it would be if you were detained by a federal agent for totally legal behavior.

New comment by bdhess in "My grandfather was almost shot down at the White House (2018)"

bdhess — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 00:43:52 +0000

The government changed because the nation changed. It's now the richest country in the world, with a population of 330 million people, and spans an entire continent from ocean to ocean. Even if you just consider the constitutional commander-in-chief duties, whoever holds the role is going to be a person of global importance.

New comment by bdhess in "Apple blocks Coinbase Wallet"

bdhess — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 03:48:18 +0000

This analogy doesn’t make sense to me. This isn’t a bank transfer, it’s a purchase of a digital artifact. Is Apple wrong to ask for 30% of IAPs in Candy Crush? Because this seems pretty much the same to me.

New comment by bdhess in "Alex Jones told to pay $965M damages to Sandy Hook victims' families"

bdhess — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 12:57:37 +0000

You have the public figure rules backwards. Times v Sullivan provides a higher bar when the /target/ of the alleged defamation is a public figure.