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New comment by darksaints in "A false smoke alarm almost drowned Jane Street's only NYC datacenter"

darksaints — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 21:20:11 +0000

That feels like Amazon's entire management philosophy. Always drop the most important thing to work on at a moment's notice because we need to put out the fires caused by not prioritizing the most important things to work on.

New comment by darksaints in "Quili AI"

darksaints — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 16:13:02 +0000

If you have the same rainfall today as you do tomorrow, but tomorrow someone steals all of the water and leaves you with none, is that a drought? Not technically...but who the fuck cares about the technicality?? You don't have any water!

New comment by darksaints in "Postgres 19 is late because so many more bugs are being found now"

darksaints — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 16:23:12 +0000

You’re probably right about some third party libraries, but not about all or even most of them. Package repositories are full of half baked packages that are the result of a single person scratching their own itch once upon a time and thereafter forgetting about it. The more harmful part happens when those get imported into other third party libraries that give the image of being better supported. Supply chain attacks are the new null pointer.

New comment by darksaints in "Police chief unplugs cameras after Flock ignores contract cancellation"

darksaints — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 20:09:42 +0000

All I had to see to know what Flock stands for was a video of the CEO calling people terrorists for opposing Flock.

Why do we let narcissists run so much of our world?

New comment by darksaints in "Tesla Semi catches fire on I-880"

darksaints — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 17:24:08 +0000

Not only that, but the fires can burn hot enough to melt the asphalt, and at high enough temperatures the bitumen in the asphalt will vaporize and feed the flames.

New comment by darksaints in "US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans"

darksaints — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 15:46:55 +0000

Yeah, I’d say the only thing that deserves classification would be weapon technical designs (but not existence/purpose), and maybe short term operational details for law enforcement or military planned actions.

New comment by darksaints in "Tesla Semi catches fire on I-880"

darksaints — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 15:43:13 +0000

Yes

New comment by darksaints in "US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans"

darksaints — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 15:39:02 +0000

I'm increasingly of the opinion that state secret classification of our law enforcement systems should only exist for a year max. We've abused the system to shield evil people from accountability and to hide evil actions by our government, and that has to change.

New comment by darksaints in "Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce"

darksaints — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 16:22:00 +0000

Well they’re the ones that cost the most money!

New comment by darksaints in "Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology"

darksaints — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 14:52:49 +0000

https://www.wsj.com/world/ukraine-starlink-elon-musk-trump-d...

New comment by darksaints in "Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology"

darksaints — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 14:46:49 +0000

Hilarious that you believe words that come out of Musk’s mouth. How embarrassing.

New comment by darksaints in "Dam removals are bringing fish back across the northeastern United States"

darksaints — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 21:13:04 +0000

I think you probably meant Andrew Carnegie

New comment by darksaints in "90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks"

darksaints — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:50:07 +0000

About 80% of my software engineering job is bugging overseas contractors to finish work on my ticket requests.

New comment by darksaints in "Show HN: SolidCraft – Open-Source Parametric CAD in Rust (With MCP Support)"

darksaints — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:56:49 +0000

Are you running with this port because of the slowness that Truck has had in merging new code from outside contributors? It seems like that was the reason for the MonsterTruck fork of Truck, which also has some promising features that aren't present in Truck.

Personally, I've been planning out work to create a build123d-like python scripting environment which wraps the Truck kernel, in the hopes that one day Truck will be mature enough (so many problems with fillets!) to surpass OpenCASCADE.

As much as I hate Design By Committee, a CAD kernel is a massive undertaking and it would be nice to not have 20 different projects all working on cool features that are not compatible with others because every project took its own path. It might be worth finding others actively working in this space and see if there could be a shared vision that we could all work towards together. Things like fillets, solutions to the topological naming problem, etc., are gonna take a lot of smart minds working together to really solve.

I'd gladly shell out a bunch of tokens to help create that vision, but I'd have to say I'm not exactly the person to architect that vision myself.

https://crates.io/crates/monstertruck

New comment by darksaints in "Seattle City Council votes to ban surveillance pricing in sale of groceries"

darksaints — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 19:14:23 +0000

Just because surveillance capitalism and hyper-targeted advertising are the ways that some companies subsidize their loss leaders does not mean that it is the only way.

Also, the value that companies like Facebook bring to the world is negative, and the fact that it is free only makes it worse.

New comment by darksaints in "Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes"

darksaints — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:04:59 +0000

> Public shame and malice towards individuals who violate expected norms is actually a fairly good deterrent toward would-be bad actors. I'm sure there are many millions of instances per day where people decide not to do untoward things because they care about their reputations

I do agree for most people. But the problem is that the worst people have no shame. People like Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, etc., used to try to fake humility and act like normal people, but that ship has sailed and now they seem to take glee in acting like shitbags and getting away with it. Which is why we need laws.

New comment by darksaints in "Gemini 4 Argon"

darksaints — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:22:09 +0000

> Argon agents are working on migrating C/C++ codebases to Rust across Google

If anybody at google is reading this, please please pretty please prioritize or-tools. I absolutely love the project and use it all the time, but for the entire life of the project they've never had a repeatable working build system, and the whole SWIG framework is a nightmare to deal with. There's so much potential as an open source project, and a lot of external researchers would love to contribute, but the codebase is an example of everything wrong with the C++ ecosystem.

New comment by darksaints in "Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents""

darksaints — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 06:38:52 +0000

All opposition to Trump's lame ideas are treason. At this point, I've committed treason 134 times. What's one more?

New comment by darksaints in "Seattle City Council votes to ban surveillance pricing in sale of groceries"

darksaints — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 21:12:22 +0000

No it won't.

See? I can make unsubstantiated sweeping claims too.

New comment by darksaints in "Bend 2 and the Vibe-Coding Trap"

darksaints — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:28:34 +0000

I've been thinking about this a lot lately, because I've noticed a trend in my own life that has happened countless times: I have a tendency to look at problems that others in different fields have found difficult to solve, and think I have a great idea that could change that field. And then I push to develop my solution to that problem, run into real world problems with my solution, refine and adapt, try a different solution, run in a loop until I settle on the fact that the people who are in those fields also have great ideas, they just are more aware of the constraints and that's the reason why the hard problems don't have easy solutions.

There is an absolutely enormous amount of hubris to being an engineer. I don't necessarily think its a bad thing...a certain amount of hubris is necessary for progress to be made. Our minds are creative and we can come up with amazing things, but something in there always makes us think we can do it better than the people who are stuck doing it daily. We fool ourselves into thinking they're too stuck in their mindset to have a more creative solution.

And the funny thing about LLMs is that while they can enable our competence, they enable our hubris even more.