Hacker News: burnthrow

New comment by burnthrow in "Boston public schools suspend advanced learning classes"

burnthrow — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 16:50:19 +0000

> few students with poor parents (disproportionally people of color) will stay in shitty regular school.

I'm white and this was me. If it weren't for these programs, I'd either be in jail or working retail/fast food. Congratulations on provoking me, I'm going to take a long hiatus from HN now and go build something. I've changed my password to a randomly generated (ephemeral) string on this and my main account; I won't be back to contribute.

New comment by burnthrow in "Rust, Zig, and the Futility of “Replacing” C"

burnthrow — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 15:57:12 +0000

Yes but we're talking about today. And C's smallness/simplicity means that bootstrapping on new architectures is straightforward. Meanwhile Rust needs 64bit, etc. just to build. Rust's early embrace of compile-time complexity (ZCA) means this will always be a fundamental problem for the language. In fact it's getting worse over time.

New comment by burnthrow in "Rust, Zig, and the Futility of “Replacing” C"

burnthrow — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 09:21:23 +0000

> pointing out that such information is available somewhere if I look hard enough does not disprove anything.

I didn't look very hard, I went to the language reference and searched for "?" in the Tokens section.

New comment by burnthrow in "Rust, Zig, and the Futility of “Replacing” C"

burnthrow — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 08:44:21 +0000

Were you looking for this?

https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/reference/expressions/opera...

New comment by burnthrow in "Rust, Zig, and the Futility of “Replacing” C"

burnthrow — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 08:16:57 +0000

I'm amazed by the hostility of these comments, including personal attacks, and by this post being flagged. The author isn't some nobody who just finished a boot camp, but a very skilled C hacker. He makes a good argument for the importance of portability, a topic that seldom comes up in the C/Rust discussions I've read.

New comment by burnthrow in "McDonald's and other chains are giving their drive-thrus the Jetsons treatment"

burnthrow — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 04:59:58 +0000

Ordering isn't the bottleneck at In n Out, it's the food made fresh, sometimes for custom orders. The menu itself couldn't be much simpler. The kids taking down the orders work quickly and are always at the end of the line. That they're friendly humans and not a confused AI is an added benefit.

On the other hand this should work for McDonalds, where nobody's expecting friendliness or much of anything; it's basically a feed trough.

New comment by burnthrow in "Slouching Toward Post-Journalism"

burnthrow — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 03:21:10 +0000

That's the great thing about math: It doesn't care how sincerely you believe that 6 and 9 are the same number. In other words, the kind of game you're talking about can only go on for so long before cold reality makes itself known.

New comment by burnthrow in "Slouching Toward Post-Journalism"

burnthrow — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 02:31:12 +0000

I've worked in newsrooms and disagree with this saintly image of truth-seekers. Yes, the rank and file reporters are not looking to grind an axe; even if they were, they'd be too busy to do it. The well-known writers have huge egos and strong opinions. The editors are even worse.

Also, please don't cast aspersions like "only seems accurate" and "conspiracy theories." There is no conjecture in this editorial: It's somebody's opinion about recent, real developments in major newspapers.

New comment by burnthrow in "The Mac price crash of 2021"

burnthrow — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 22:27:13 +0000

I stand corrected, that is crazy!

New comment by burnthrow in "SolarWind, enough with the password already"

burnthrow — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 20:47:57 +0000

She's wrong to imply that if only SolarWinds had followed her iPad password policy, the attack would have been stopped. And she's mistaken about Orion's use case, which has nothing to do with email security.

And while Russia conducted this attack, I'm tired of the Russian scarecrow: SolarWinds' job here has nothing to do with Russia.

But mostly I'm jaded by ambitious SoCal pols neglecting their districts to score easy points on national issues.

New comment by burnthrow in "The Mac price crash of 2021"

burnthrow — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 20:29:11 +0000

Wait for a screen larger than 13"!

New comment by burnthrow in "The Mac price crash of 2021"

burnthrow — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 19:46:50 +0000

Nobody's paying that much for a 2013 MBP. The will have to lower the price considerably before it's "going."

New comment by burnthrow in "SolarWind, enough with the password already"

burnthrow — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 19:42:51 +0000

People focus on the password because it's the only part of the story they can relate to or understand. Orange County Rep. Katie Porter:

> "I've got a stronger password than 'solarwinds123' to stop my kids from watching too much YouTube on their iPad ... You and your company were supposed to be preventing the Russians from reading Defense Department emails!"

Words fail.

New comment by burnthrow in "Free Land – Living Off Grid With No Money"

burnthrow — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 19:08:20 +0000

Sartre.

New comment by burnthrow in "So Long as You Carry a Cellphone, the Government Can Track You"

burnthrow — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 17:27:13 +0000

I seriously doubt that most laypeople think that.

New comment by burnthrow in "When Death Comes: An Oncology Nurse Finds Solace in Mary Oliver"

burnthrow — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 11:01:32 +0000

> Just say nothing, and be there for the longest time, silent and knowing.

Please don't do this.

New comment by burnthrow in "Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL (2016)"

burnthrow — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 11:00:17 +0000

2016

New comment by burnthrow in "Sneakerheads have turned Jordans and Yeezys into an asset class"

burnthrow — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 10:52:09 +0000

Too old to recognize the brand, but I'm not following the logic here at all. What kind of clothing manufacturer do you find most appropriate for a street tough?

New comment by burnthrow in "Sneakerheads have turned Jordans and Yeezys into an asset class"

burnthrow — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 09:21:40 +0000

Your dictionary is sure getting a workout in this thread.

New comment by burnthrow in "$100M in Jobless Claims Went to Inmates"

burnthrow — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 02:28:28 +0000

If you're prevented from working a real job, you should receive jobless benefits.