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New comment by cheez in "Testing Database Transactions in Go"

cheez — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 18:49:28 +0000

Most people use queues to do this. At least I do.

New comment by cheez in "Wind and solar are cheaper than thought, admits UK government"

cheez — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:23:05 +0000

Yep.

If the people who run wild wonderful off grid (great channel) have taught me anything, it's that battery backup is essential.

New comment by cheez in "Gallup: 81% of Black Americans Want Police to Retain Local Presence"

cheez — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 03:36:51 +0000

Protests are a temporary thing. Our area has none.

New comment by cheez in "Gallup: 81% of Black Americans Want Police to Retain Local Presence"

cheez — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 02:32:04 +0000

I walk with the dog and sometimes the kids every day, so I see police patrolling around. Had an interesting conversation the other day with the police officer:

  - So officer, how have things changed since covid?
  - Sir, you won't believe the stuff I get called for. Getting teenagers off their cell phones, wife angry that husband didn't do his share of the chores
  - What about what people associate with "crime"?
  - Down.

As crime declines overall (it has been for many years now), I believe we really need to rethink the jobs we ask police officers to do. They are hammers and they go into situations that don't require hammering and bad things happen.

New comment by cheez in "Palantir S-1"

cheez — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 21:17:18 +0000

Palantir is basically a private arm of multiple levels of governments.

New comment by cheez in "Show HN: HyScale – An abstraction framework over Kubernetes"

cheez — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 13:09:38 +0000

Not an expert. Comparison to terraform?

New comment by cheez in "Warming Greenland ice sheet passes point of no return"

cheez — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 20:46:21 +0000

I'm sure if you break it out by whether they have any responsibilities or not, it would be different. Not generational. My generation was the same.

New comment by cheez in "Emacs xwidget-webkit enhancement suite"

cheez — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 13:16:39 +0000

can you elaborate? My understanding is this is a separate process.

New comment by cheez in "Warming Greenland ice sheet passes point of no return"

cheez — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 13:02:49 +0000

No they wouldn't.

Every single plebeian on earth wants the polar bears to survive. But their own economic, day-to-day survival is first. These thoughts you have are only for those with the luxury of time.

Edit: so if you TRULY want to help the earth, help your own kind first.

New comment by cheez in "Congratulations for reaching a million, Gordon Linoff"

cheez — Sun, 23 Aug 2020 18:14:17 +0000

http://blog.data-miners.com/2014/08/an-achievement-on-stack-...

remove https

New comment by cheez in "Show HN: Using Rust to write shell-script like tasks"

cheez — Sun, 23 Aug 2020 10:53:31 +0000

Oh this plumbum is nice.

New comment by cheez in "Jeff Bezos convinced 22 investors to back his new company Amazon in 1994 (2018)"

cheez — Sun, 23 Aug 2020 10:50:24 +0000

Yeah im not referring to that. Every year there is at least one million dollar idea in stocks that doesn't involve penny stocks.

New comment by cheez in "Jeff Bezos convinced 22 investors to back his new company Amazon in 1994 (2018)"

cheez — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 22:12:03 +0000

In the last 10 years (well... even the last year) I have passed up many multi million dollar ideas. All that means is there will be another.

New comment by cheez in "Build tools around workflows, not workflows around tools"

cheez — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 18:34:47 +0000

You said it better than I ever could have!

New comment by cheez in "Build tools around workflows, not workflows around tools"

cheez — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 16:43:09 +0000

What I do is decide that I am in charge of defining the machine, and the tools implement the machine. The tools are a means to an end. If the tools don't exist to implement the machine, I write them. If they do exist, great.

New comment by cheez in "Build tools around workflows, not workflows around tools"

cheez — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 16:42:03 +0000

I'm not sure if I'm misreading you, you're misreading me, or we're on the same page :-)

Ideally, I map out workflow and find tools that fit the workflow in the Unix philosophy. Well-defined, do one thing well. As opposed to monoliths that purport to do everything.

My experience has been that doing things in this way builds a system that is extremely robust to significant changes.

New comment by cheez in "Build tools around workflows, not workflows around tools"

cheez — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 15:52:56 +0000

That's funny. I was the opposite. When I was younger, I would just say "lets default to other people's solution to similar problems and move on" but as time went by, I've become more "let's define our problems well and find surgical solutions by others". It's a slight difference but makes a huge difference in productivity.

Another way to say it is instead of taking someone else's blueprint, we build our own blueprint and use pre-fabricated parts to realize the blueprint.

In the end, sometimes solutions look very similar but there is that one little bit that gives you a competitive advantage that no one else has.

New comment by cheez in "Blockchain, the Solution for Almost Nothing"

cheez — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 12:23:55 +0000

My opinion is that it's like tcp/ip, new plumbing (ethereum). So expect protocols and apps to be built on top of it, similar to HTTP and browsers. You just need one killer app to make all the hype worth it.

That killer app might be elections or possibly decentralized trading of electronic assets like stock ownership.

New comment by cheez in "Blockchain, the Solution for Almost Nothing"

cheez — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 04:27:47 +0000

Responding to title only: of course, but the things it _is_ a solution for will be world changing.

New comment by cheez in "The universe has made almost all the stars it will ever make"

cheez — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 03:58:10 +0000

Nope, I thought the same thing and said it in my comment. But you are smarter than me, clearly :-)