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New comment by brennebeck in "Show HN: TakoVM – Isolated model and tool execution used by enterprises"

brennebeck — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 06:47:02 +0000

Maybe try giving useful feedback instead of repeatedly commenting ‘slop’ on posts?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#:~:text=swi...

New comment by brennebeck in "Static HTML Comments"

brennebeck — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 04:04:37 +0000

Do you happen to have a link for that? It seems pretty counterintuitive given the state of modern PC hardware.

New comment by brennebeck in "Judge rejects Purdue Pharma's $4.5B opioid settlement"

brennebeck — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 13:02:13 +0000

>The idea that opioids are addictive is a myth.

They have literal physical withdrawals. The body becomes dependent on them. What else would you call that?

New comment by brennebeck in "Congressional inquiry faults Boeing and FAA failures for deadly 737 Max crashes"

brennebeck — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 13:41:08 +0000

Shouldn’t all three bear some fault? The big company for not proactively supporting their staff to report (e.g. benefits), the pilot for doing something ethically wrong, and the regulatory body for encouraging the broken system?

New comment by brennebeck in "Fewer premature babies born since Covid-19 lockdown"

brennebeck — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 08:03:45 +0000

Here you go: https://shieldgeo.com/maternity-and-paternity-leave-in-germa...

> In addition to maternity leave, there is the option for the mother or father to take extended parental leave for up to a total of 24 months, with a parental allowance of 300 to 1200 Euros (depending on salary), paid by the government for the initial 14 months.

My brother used this for his first child, so I’m quite certain it exists.

New comment by brennebeck in "Parsoid in PHP, or There and Back Again"

brennebeck — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 06:51:53 +0000

So, remove the majority of dynamic websites from the internet, basically? I don’t see how that’s helpful. I get you’re (probably) being hyperbolic, but the fact remains that it’s a highly useful language for generating dynamic web content.

New comment by brennebeck in "Every Google result now looks like an ad"

brennebeck — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 22:22:41 +0000

Wouldn’t having strong SEO incentive competition to buy ads? Of course it also incentives them to work on SEO, but the only way to ‘get above’ a top ranking site would be to buy an ad, no?

New comment by brennebeck in "Apple’s “monopsony” power, and the woman who named it"

brennebeck — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 12:54:40 +0000

In that case wouldn’t it make sense to try to get your friends to use another group chat?

I get people love to use the iMessage groups, but every friend I have on Android create a WhatsApp group, etc. and it’s pretty trivial to use and maintain, especially with close friends.

New comment by brennebeck in "Facebook crawls links in PDFs you send in Messenger"

brennebeck — Sat, 26 Oct 2019 16:15:47 +0000

Probably Signal.

New comment by brennebeck in "On Recent Controversial Events"

brennebeck — Fri, 18 Oct 2019 01:54:01 +0000

I think you need to pick a better example. I don’t believe a CEO saying “diversity is important, but not our only goal” would be pilloried by either of the currently polarized sides, while one that said “diversity is the best” would, likely, be pilloried by one side.

New comment by brennebeck in "Cortex: Deploy machine learning models in production"

brennebeck — Fri, 18 Oct 2019 01:25:06 +0000

Couldn’t you just search ‘clojure cortex’? As this isn’t actually clojure?

New comment by brennebeck in "Mark Zuckerberg misunderstands the threat of TikTok"

brennebeck — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 13:28:24 +0000

I don’t really think Apple, Google, or Microsoft fit in that set...

New comment by brennebeck in "Bats use private and social information as they hunt"

brennebeck — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 10:28:20 +0000

Why? I get you’re being flip, but I don’t get the connection? Politically, HN tends to be more libertarian (gross generalization, obviously).

New comment by brennebeck in "Firefox moving to 4 week releases"

brennebeck — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 08:34:18 +0000

Doesn’t gentoo essentially do that for (most?) everything?

New comment by brennebeck in "WeWork parent pulls IPO following pushback: sources"

brennebeck — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 04:04:23 +0000

Not to be flip, but pretty sure the gp is referring to losses, I.e. burning vc money and not earning enough revenue to break even.

New comment by brennebeck in "CDC says stop vaping as mystery lung condition spreads"

brennebeck — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 06:58:00 +0000

The people formerly smoking cigarettes that switched have likely benefited quite a bit, or will.

New comment by brennebeck in "Dqlite – High-Availability SQLite"

brennebeck — Fri, 30 Aug 2019 14:18:58 +0000

https://github.com/canonical/dqlite/blob/master/doc/faq.md#a...

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/io_submit.2.html

New comment by brennebeck in "Chicken Hypnotism"

brennebeck — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 10:13:23 +0000

This isn’t entirely true. Pythons will happily eat a dead mouse. In fact, it’s even common to buy and store frozen mice and rats for small pythons. In my personal experience: 1) snakes that were fed frozen mice from a young age handle it better and 2) the mice needed to be microwaved or heated in some form. Generally, only my small ball pythons were frozen fed, though. My Burmese, carpets, and greens were all live fed.

Edit: first sentence referring to python eating patterns, to clarify.

New comment by brennebeck in "The Path to Dijkstra’s Handwriting (2013)"

brennebeck — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 09:36:10 +0000

Posted elsewhere in the thread: http://lucacardelli.name/indexArtifacts.html

New comment by brennebeck in "Planet: Imaging the entire Earth every day"

brennebeck — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 07:57:10 +0000

I think the GP is pointing out that Chromium had G services, period.