Hacker News: darren0

New comment by darren0 in "Pledging Another $400k to the Zig Software Foundation"

darren0 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:23:31 +0000

It will not make you unhappy. It will just not make you happy. Big difference. The saying "money can't buy happiness" is in fact true no matter how much people want to rationalize the opposite.

New comment by darren0 in "Why do some gamers invert their controls?"

darren0 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 22:16:40 +0000

No, it was Top Gun on NES.

New comment by darren0 in "iPhone Air"

darren0 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 06:33:07 +0000

Pixel 9a is the closest to a no bump phone out of the major brands.

New comment by darren0 in "Our $100M Series B"

darren0 — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 14:41:45 +0000

It's pretty fundamental to the personality of people in sales to be driven by getting the sale and getting compensated based on the deal size. If you remove that carrot, it just doesn't work. Some sales people will make millions, some will make nothing.

New comment by darren0 in "Members of British punk rock band UK Subs denied entry into the US"

darren0 — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:56:11 +0000

"He was informed the flagging was for two reasons: first, he was told he had an incorrect visa, but he was also told that there was another reason that the agents would not disclose to him.

“I can’t help but wonder whether my frequent, and less than flattering, public comments regarding their president and his administration played a role – or perhaps I’m simply succumbing to paranoia,” he said."

This is most likely a very mundane event. Was his visa actually incorrect, because the second speculation is irrelevant if that is the case. I don't know, it would be nice if they clarified that point.

New comment by darren0 in "Finland applies the “Housing First” concept (2020)"

darren0 — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 13:57:14 +0000

"With 4 out of 5 people keeping their flats, “Housing First” is effective in the long run. In 20 percent of the cases, people move out because they prefer to stay with friends or relatives – or because they don’t manage to pay the rent. But even in this case they are not dropped. They can apply again for an apartment and are supported again if they wish."

There are no preconditions, but there are conditions to maintain. In this case, rent being required apparently. This is the recipe for success that I've seen. And if they don't maintain the conditions they get kicked out with the opportunity to come back and try again.

New comment by darren0 in "Why Linux is not ready for the desktop, the final edition"

darren0 — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 23:04:17 +0000

Stop trying to make fetch happen.

New comment by darren0 in "Gah – CLI to install software from GitHub Releases"

darren0 — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 16:35:43 +0000

Seems very similar to https://dist.sh/ but distillery seems a bit more robust.

New comment by darren0 in "XFCE 4.20 aims to bring preliminary Wayland support"

darren0 — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 20:17:26 +0000

The transition to Wayland also seems to correlate with the adoption of client side decorations (CSD). This "modern" approach destroys the traditional UX of XFCE as seen by recent changes in the settings manager. I fear for the future of XFCE. The advantage of XFCE for me has always been that it's a stable implementation of a traditional Win98/XP UX. I hope they don't adopt more Gnome3 patterns.

Show HN: Clio, Copilot for DevOps CLIs

darren0 — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 15:48:16 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/gptscript-ai/clio

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41047304

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by darren0 in "Tesla Didn't Pay Any Federal Income Taxes for 5 Years, Got $1M Tax Refund"

darren0 — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 02:56:02 +0000

A tax refund means you paid too much taxes and the government refunds the excess. The size of the refund means nothing except how good you are in predicting taxes.

New comment by darren0 in "Fixing for loops in Go 1.22"

darren0 — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 00:48:04 +0000

Next they can fix nil checks on interfaces.

New comment by darren0 in "Writing a Kubernetes Operator"

darren0 — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 14:37:08 +0000

I’m not sure why this is a top post. The definitions of controller and operator are completely wrong. The example code is for creating a custom api server which is only done in the most advanced of advanced use cases. The implementation of the apiserver is too naive to demonstrate they have any understanding of the complexity that supporting watch will cause.

New comment by darren0 in "Acorn: A simple application deployment framework for Kubernetes"

darren0 — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 17:24:22 +0000

In some ways. The same team that created Rio created Acorn.

New comment by darren0 in "Acorn: A simple application deployment framework for Kubernetes"

darren0 — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 17:21:34 +0000

This exact use case is built into acorn. In the getting starting guide redis/postgres are included in the acorn, but in production those services can easily be overwritten with any k8s service and the embedded containers will not be ran. This is referred to as linking: https://docs.acorn.io/running/linking-acorns The docs only refer to linking acorns but the exact same thing works with linking a k8s service to an acorn.

Disclosure: acorn creator.

New comment by darren0 in "Tesla owners asking what happens if 'full self driving' isn't real"

darren0 — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 03:26:56 +0000

The most important thing to learn from this article is the reference to "27 eight-by-ten color glossy photographs and circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one"

New comment by darren0 in "An Unlikely Database Migration"

darren0 — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 04:02:58 +0000

Without knowing it, they reinvented the Kubernetes informer which I've proven can scale way past their current scale.

New comment by darren0 in "GoDaddy Boots AR15.com"

darren0 — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 05:40:00 +0000

GoDaddys founder does not sit on the board and has no active role in the company.

https://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/news/2018/10/03/bob-pars...

New comment by darren0 in "In 1980s Los Angeles, a bank was robbed every hour (2019)"

darren0 — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 05:36:34 +0000

I grew up (in the 80s) by a bank that was routinely robbed. It was conveniently located by a freeway on ramp and had a drive thru.

Over time they closed the drive thru and eventually removed direct street access to the bank to try to discourage robbers.

Ah the good old days.

New comment by darren0 in "K0s – Zero Friction Kubernetes"

darren0 — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 06:28:15 +0000

k3s still defaults to sqlite. For HA dqlite was dropped in favor of embedded etcd in k3s 1.19.