Hacker News: declan_roberts

New comment by declan_roberts in "Cisco workforce reductions"

declan_roberts — Thu, 14 May 2026 04:15:05 +0000

This type of thing should come along with a reduction of allowed H-1bs.

New comment by declan_roberts in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"

declan_roberts — Sat, 09 May 2026 20:33:31 +0000

The Pareto principle is in play here. It might take years to get that last percentage point.

New comment by declan_roberts in "The FCC wants your ID before you get a phone number"

declan_roberts — Sat, 09 May 2026 15:21:02 +0000

You know the FCC is going to do this and still be completely unable to stop spam calls. You're going to get all of the drawbacks and none of the benefits.

New comment by declan_roberts in "I want to live like Costco people"

declan_roberts — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:36:23 +0000

Indeed Costco is a very practical store. You can trust most of the food to taste good because they test it first, vs a throw everything at the wall and see what sticks approach to a standard grocery store. Trader Joe's is is probably the best in this regard.

The return policy also takes away a lot of concern. If you don't like it you can easily just take it back without any hassle.

New comment by declan_roberts in "I want to live like Costco people"

declan_roberts — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:32:22 +0000

Costco is such a family friendly place. My kids love going there.

They've made some deliberate decisions to make it family friendly:

1. The aisles are wide so the whole family can walk through the store together.

2. The kids love free samples

3. The food court is a great place to have an inexepensive dinner.

4. The store is designed so there's nothing really to grab at ground level if you're a little kid. Everything is up higher.

Contrast this with a standard grocery store: small aisles and tons of little things on the shelf at ground level (including random toys) that can get grabbed or knocked over. Every time I take my family to Albertsons I have to pick a dozen things off the ground that we accidentally knocked off.

New comment by declan_roberts in "I want to live like Costco people"

declan_roberts — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:00:50 +0000

Once or twice a year I have a chance to go to costco in the middle of a work day and I'm absolutely blown away at how busy the place is at that time. People everywhere young and old, even kids! Long lines and nobody is rushed.

I want to live like Costco people because apparently they don't work in the middle of the day!

New comment by declan_roberts in "Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense"

declan_roberts — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:11:38 +0000

Commodity trading is managed by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission CFTC and a criminal probe into this started last month.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-probes-suspicious...

New comment by declan_roberts in "Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense"

declan_roberts — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:11:12 +0000

Criminal probe into this started last month.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-probes-suspicious...

New comment by declan_roberts in "Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026?"

declan_roberts — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:24:28 +0000

It makes sense but that's more overhead and the spirit of the post seems to be "can we just docker compose and be done with it?"

New comment by declan_roberts in "Someone allegedly used a hairdryer to rig Polymarket weather bets"

declan_roberts — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:55:06 +0000

I can't believe there's no honor among the gamblers!

New comment by declan_roberts in "New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag"

declan_roberts — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:04:59 +0000

It's on display in downtown London dude. Also who do you think paid for it?

New comment by declan_roberts in "New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag"

declan_roberts — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:59:12 +0000

Yes. This is state-sanctioned think. They probably paid to put it up!

New comment by declan_roberts in "New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag"

declan_roberts — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:26:35 +0000

Things were more fun when they were actually transgressive and not just the established doctrine of those in power.

New comment by declan_roberts in "New US phone network for Christians to block porn and gender-related content"

declan_roberts — Sat, 02 May 2026 16:42:33 +0000

I think that statement describes a wide swath of non Christians as well.

New comment by declan_roberts in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

declan_roberts — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:27:40 +0000

Nuclear energy is one of the few technologies that have big tent support. How many things can we get both the Rs and Ds to support? Build build build!!

New comment by declan_roberts in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

declan_roberts — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:26:02 +0000

Baseline energy is incredibly important, and often not factored into the "cost" comparisons.

Especially true now with the explosive growth of data center and AI workloads.

New comment by declan_roberts in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

declan_roberts — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:21:07 +0000

Isn't it rumored that many of the activists who lobbied (successfully) for Germany to shut down all of their nuclear power plants were being unwittingly funded by Russian interests?

New comment by declan_roberts in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

declan_roberts — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:18:19 +0000

I'm so glad we saved Diablo. It was VERY close to being shut down the same year we were having rolling blackouts.

New comment by declan_roberts in "Google and Pentagon reportedly agree on deal for 'any lawful' use of AI"

declan_roberts — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 02:45:52 +0000

You don't have to copy them. You have to beat them.

New comment by declan_roberts in "Google and Pentagon reportedly agree on deal for 'any lawful' use of AI"

declan_roberts — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:55:18 +0000

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