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New comment by darkmarmot in "Scientists warn Atlantic current at risk of shutting down"

darkmarmot — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:33:53 +0000

As someone in the Venn diagram intersection of "software engineer" and "studied climate/astrophysics/planetary science" in school, reading comments here is painfully disheartening. Virtually everyone highly engaged in this field is anticipating multiple, systemic apocalyptic scenarios that will end modern life as we know it. I'd assume that most of the people reading have enough of a calculus background to understand some of the underlying math. I implore you to find a good book or course on it.

New comment by darkmarmot in "Cartoon Network Flash Games"

darkmarmot — Sat, 09 May 2026 04:19:53 +0000

I worked on their Power Play downloadable system to embed games in a local player and also did stuff like add Mojo Jojo and new levels to games like Power Puff Girls Fast and the Flurrious. They had a mini golf game with a 3d golf club I embedded that I spent more time playing than working on :)

New comment by darkmarmot in "Cartoon Network Flash Games"

darkmarmot — Sat, 09 May 2026 04:18:38 +0000

Alas no. I worked on their Power Play downloadable system to embed games in a local player and also did stuff like add Mojo Jojo and new levels to games like Power Puff Girls Fast and the Flurrious. Fun times :)

New comment by darkmarmot in "Cartoon Network Flash Games"

darkmarmot — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:43:41 +0000

Doh, I did some work on some CN games back in the day -- but don't see any of those here. Hopefully they keeping adding to it!

New comment by darkmarmot in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

darkmarmot — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 19:18:12 +0000

Alas, we're back to 1989. Bush did the same to Noriega in Panama when he stopped playing ball with the CIA.

New comment by darkmarmot in "I am just sooo sick of AI prediction content, let's kill it already"

darkmarmot — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 18:31:32 +0000

This is what I'm seeing currently at work. YMMV.

New comment by darkmarmot in "Google Antigravity"

darkmarmot — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:40:49 +0000

Besides search, Android kinda killed Nokia and friends for the consumer phone market.

New comment by darkmarmot in "China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990"

darkmarmot — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 06:38:03 +0000

We're on the verge of ecological collapse, undergoing an insane mass extinction event with ocean acidification and methane release going off the charts. I can't even begin to conceive of your reality.

New comment by darkmarmot in "Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context"

darkmarmot — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 05:01:57 +0000

I work in distributed systems programming and have been horrified by the crap the AIs produce. I've found them to be quite helpful at summarizing papers and doing research, providing jumping off points. But none of the code I write can be scraped from a blog post.

New comment by darkmarmot in "Reflections on OpenAI"

darkmarmot — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 02:37:15 +0000

VGT?

New comment by darkmarmot in "Leveraging Elixir's hot code loading capabilities to modularize a monolithic app"

darkmarmot — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 20:56:51 +0000

Yes! Thanks for the interest, hope they're helpful!

for HL7: https://hexdocs.pm/elixir_hl7/main.html

for MLLP: https://hexdocs.pm/mllp/readme.html

New comment by darkmarmot in "Leveraging Elixir's hot code loading capabilities to modularize a monolithic app"

darkmarmot — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 17:49:30 +0000

We run a large distributed cluster (currently 4 DCs spanning the US) and use hot code reload for live patches when needed and rolling deployments for our standard releases.

New comment by darkmarmot in "Leveraging Elixir's hot code loading capabilities to modularize a monolithic app"

darkmarmot — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 17:47:11 +0000

I think that's a good point. Our largest pain point with Elixir is definitely the size of the community and the associated dearth of niche libraries. The technology behind it, though, is solid enough that once those libraries exist, things really take off. My team wrote several open source medical libraries for Elixir and we've seen it really expand into the healthcare market.

New comment by darkmarmot in "The $25k car is going extinct?"

darkmarmot — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 01:38:22 +0000

i am still fine in my used 2012 12k prius.

New comment by darkmarmot in "Journalists Wary of Travelling to US Due to Palantir Surveillance"

darkmarmot — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 16:36:32 +0000

see the novel kiln people and the transparent society essays by David Brin

New comment by darkmarmot in "1,145 pull requests per day"

darkmarmot — Fri, 23 May 2025 04:53:38 +0000

good god, i would quit in a heartbeat.

New comment by darkmarmot in "Around the World, Many People Are Leaving Their Childhood Religions"

darkmarmot — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 19:08:35 +0000

Santa Clause was also my complete religious breaking point as a child!

New comment by darkmarmot in "We replaced our React front end with Go and WebAssembly"

darkmarmot — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 03:53:51 +0000

Is there a video of this ui??

New comment by darkmarmot in "Constraining writers in distributed systems"

darkmarmot — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 02:47:45 +0000

We use something like this at scale, similar to Riak's design. We use it to store things like the active state of millions of hospital patients in RAM for high availability (zero downtime when DCs or nodes fail). One copy per data center with a writer at one of the DCs. Our current cluster has 32 nodes (8 per DC -- we should have 5 DCs across the US but only have 4 at the moment). You can learn more about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ0CvjAJXz4.

New comment by darkmarmot in "Ask HN: Should we bring software dev in-house?"

darkmarmot — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 04:37:13 +0000

It's not hard to learn and my current Fortune 100 has had zero trouble hiring for it.