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New comment by coolThingsFirst in "Never Give Them Your Face"

coolThingsFirst — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:32:48 +0000

I am against this but acting like LinkedIn isn’t basically a database of pictures is naive.

You want to date your pic ends up on a server.

That’s just the way this works.

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "The Doom Justifies the Valuation"

coolThingsFirst — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 02:06:30 +0000

If this is true: "AI is gonna take everyone’s jobs" then AI is the terminal technology and everyone who doesn't want to be poor forever needs to throw all their money in it.

Of course it impacts company valuation.

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "The Doom Justifies the Valuation"

coolThingsFirst — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 01:55:58 +0000

Dumb thing to ask tbh.

Dangerous new tech with military applications sounds harder to ignore than AI that spits out text.

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "The Doom Justifies the Valuation"

coolThingsFirst — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 01:54:23 +0000

Yet the measures taken far exceeded the damage than if we had let the virus take its course.

The problem wasn't the mortality rate, it's the fact that the media can cleverly turn something in a huge deal by talking endlessly about it. During COVID, there was no other news except the virus on news for 24/7.

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "New U.S. college grads now have higher unemployment than the average worker"

coolThingsFirst — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 22:53:09 +0000

the bar is higher and higher for less and less. donezo as a career.

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "Most men lie about how tall they are"

coolThingsFirst — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:56:52 +0000

Giant of a man standing at 5'10, felt no need to ever lie about my height.

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "The four programming questions from my 1994 Microsoft internship interview (2023)"

coolThingsFirst — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:55:54 +0000

It is bizarre. C is bizarre, there is no string type and there should've been a string type. scanf is an invitation for buffer overflow attacks. I know how poorly designed languages look like and C despite its strengths is still a poorly designed language.

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "Angular v22"

coolThingsFirst — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:44:04 +0000

Overkill. React mogs.

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "Every Byte Matters"

coolThingsFirst — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:19:33 +0000

Why doesn’t the machine fill up the other cache lines as well why is 64 bytes only and then a miss?

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "Why China got rich and India didn't"

coolThingsFirst — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:33:16 +0000

Beside the point, why is the US in decline?

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "The four programming questions from my 1994 Microsoft internship interview (2023)"

coolThingsFirst — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:49:02 +0000

C is pretty bizarre but I expect someone writing it professionally to know that even passing void compareStrings(char str1[], char str2[]) is equivalent to compareStrings(char * str1, char * str2) so no way to get the length of it with sizeof(str1) and strlen walks the string until it finds the null terminator.

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "The four programming questions from my 1994 Microsoft internship interview (2023)"

coolThingsFirst — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:13:53 +0000

today it's paxos/raft questions for an internship writing Next.js for 10$ an hour.

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "Cars collect a startling amount of data about you"

coolThingsFirst — Fri, 29 May 2026 06:04:34 +0000

I know, especially, unemployed cats.

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "Can we have the day off?"

coolThingsFirst — Thu, 28 May 2026 11:12:17 +0000

Yes, the next year off as well because they will fire you.

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "The Eternal Sloptember"

coolThingsFirst — Mon, 25 May 2026 05:19:03 +0000

spill the tea, fired or quit?

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "The Eternal Sloptember"

coolThingsFirst — Mon, 25 May 2026 05:06:29 +0000

Geohot's next venture will be writing a book titled "Fear & Trembling".

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "Ruby for Good"

coolThingsFirst — Sun, 24 May 2026 22:04:35 +0000

I wonder if Google was the X factor why Python edged out Ruby.

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "Ruby for Good"

coolThingsFirst — Sun, 24 May 2026 19:15:02 +0000

Why does Ruby still have this artisinal aura to it, never seen C/C++ For Good gathering.

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "We reduced a real Node.js production Docker image from 1.2GB to 78MB"

coolThingsFirst — Sun, 24 May 2026 02:40:49 +0000

What problem does Docker solve which is fundamental? None. Zero. Zilch. I've used it two times and except burning dev time with its random BS has no benefit whatsoever. I guess if you run a 200K line app and working with 20 devs will make things slightly easier?

On M1 launching the docker containers lagged the entire system.

Trying to mount a volume caused issues. (known issue) The official web app advertisies it as multiplatform which it's not.

Anything more complex than hello world become a nightmare on Docker. PM2 as process manager and simple bash scripts demolish Docker which sounds too good in theory but is half-baked in practice.

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "We reduced a real Node.js production Docker image from 1.2GB to 78MB"

coolThingsFirst — Sat, 23 May 2026 23:53:43 +0000

That's not going to work, that's a static file.

Golang gives you a web server as a staticly linked binary.