Hacker News: demizer

New comment by demizer in "Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers"

demizer — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 13:08:05 +0000

Hopefully they discover AGI and the AGI turns out to be a communist. They will kill it SO fast.

New comment by demizer in "It's time to make computing personal again"

demizer — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 03:54:18 +0000

A web browser that has all the shit the big tech companies added to make it hard to create a good web browser would be a good start. A web browser does not need webgl or wasm. I want to log into my bank to see how much money I have.

New comment by demizer in "TikTok goes dark in the US"

demizer — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 05:03:21 +0000

Trump will reverse it by letting one of his donors buy TikTok and restart it. It's better off dead.

New comment by demizer in "TikTok goes dark in the US"

demizer — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 04:58:33 +0000

There is no system of digital content distribution that can withstand the will of Government. The only thing that can be done is for the citizens of that government to wake up and take the power away from those that are wielding it to further enrich themselves at the expense of everyone else. I am not a user of TikTok but this is not a good development for our "perfect union", nor the freedom of the internet in the United States of America.

New comment by demizer in "Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise"

demizer — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 23:22:05 +0000

Maybe the US Government needs to put its line in the sand and mandate the end of autotools. :D

New comment by demizer in "Go: What we got right, what we got wrong"

demizer — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 02:27:29 +0000

All these plan9 scientists love their own brand. I started using Go in 2012, but after they killed deps.dev I gave it up. Some years later when I wanted to get work done at work I tried to introduce it on my team and another engineer spent a good amount of time looking into the language and listed all the reasons why it sucked, and he was right. The main takeaway was, yeah it's simple, but it does silly things that makes it a pain to use (error handling and unused imports) to name a few. I personally like the error handling but hated the type system.

New comment by demizer in "Introduction to Plan 9"

demizer — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 23:34:29 +0000

Crazy to think if plan9 had been MIT licensed from the start it would probably be running the world right now.

New comment by demizer in "A Hobby Coding Biography"

demizer — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 23:05:08 +0000

My first hobby project was a yo momma joke spammer for AoL in Visual Basic 3.0. Forgive me I was only 14. The VB chatroom on AOL was my teacher.

New comment by demizer in "Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp"

demizer — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 08:28:11 +0000

Nomad will be there when managed k8s gets too expensive. I was looking at it seriously last year for on prem. I chickend put bcz I didn't want to be the only person on my team that understood it. We still don't have a solution, but nomad will be there for when we are ready to progress, regardless of the license.

New comment by demizer in "The worst thing about Jenkins is that it works (2019)"

demizer — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 16:54:18 +0000

Jenkins is rock solid. Been using it for three years to deliver highly critical software. The development experience is the worst of all ci tools since no one wants to setup jenkinspipelineunit to test the pipelines. Dagger might be the salvation here, but even that tool didn't support Jenkins out of the gate. And for those that are reading this, the statement about pipeline groovy being a trap is exactly right. Avoid writing groovy at all costs. No one on the team wants to get good groovy and if you do, you're weird. The way we do it is to just use the Jenkins file to call the scripts (or tools) with bare minimal script code.

Edit, forgot to add that I recently interviewed a bunch of candidates for a high paying job at a ai hardware company and every one of those candidates stated they worked on or near a project that involved moving from Jenkins to Gitlab CI.

New comment by demizer in "How Equifax Was Breached in 2017"

demizer — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 04:37:52 +0000

If any company deserves the corporate death penalty, it's Equifax after this fiasco. That company should no longer exist.

New comment by demizer in "Americans can barely afford homes"

demizer — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 19:00:04 +0000

The American idea of a single family home with a lawn and lot size needs to change. And the people that have these don't want new construction in the neighborhood that is dense. Homeowners are fighting back against multiplexes and apartment buildings, and especially against low-income housing.

New comment by demizer in "Homemade Sriracha"

demizer — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 00:50:16 +0000

There are a few billion-dollar recipes in the world and the rooster sriracha was one of them. That family fucked up their golden goose... and now all these competing recipes are getting their shine.

Greed will get you in the end!

New comment by demizer in "AOL pretends to be the internet"

demizer — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 04:32:12 +0000

AOL gave me my love of programming. I learned how to program in Visual Basic because I wanted to write my own "aol prog". I can still remember the "server" in the Warez room listed VB3.0 as the "the software that is used to make progs". Luckily there were people sharing their code so I could study and figure out how to do it myself.

Me and my cousin created a yo momma joke spammer. I was a shit head back then, but it paid off being a nerd. But still, I did not learn about linux and free software until many years later because of AOL's shitty walled garden.

New comment by demizer in "Writing Linux Modules in Ada (2016)"

demizer — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 07:03:41 +0000

There wasn't an open source compiler from the beginning, and thus a lot of the compilers where expensive. You could only use the language in an awful legacy setting behind a wall of NDAs and security clearances. Not my experience, just a bunch comments on HN of actual retired Ada devs on why the language didn't take when I was researching the language.

Adacore in the last few years have been investing heavily in modernizing the tool chain, but now it seems they are also investing in Rust.

New comment by demizer in "Firefox finally outperforming Google Chrome in SunSpider"

demizer — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 17:48:07 +0000

I don't care. Firefox is fast enough for me, even on my Pixel 4a, and without ads.

New comment by demizer in "What HashiCorp’s license change means for our customers"

demizer — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 17:20:24 +0000

My personal open source contributions will only be GPL. Damn the torpedoes! I will only contribute to lesser licenses if I am getting paid by a corp, which I do, and of course that software cannot be GPL'd.

New comment by demizer in "CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking"

demizer — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 23:28:36 +0000

When download.com became infested with ad ware was a sad day. I used to visit that site a lot to see what cool software I could install. Thank the heavens for Linux for teaching me proper package management.

New comment by demizer in "CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking"

demizer — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 23:26:17 +0000

Google is destroying the internet is a good way to put it. AD dollars are their only priority. I hope Google dies because of it.

New comment by demizer in "I'm 17 and wrote this guide on how CPUs run programs"

demizer — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 22:38:15 +0000

Kid, first of all great job! Second of all I am jealous you understand this as such a young age. I was pounding 40 ounces of Old English in the hood at 17, but should have doing something like this. Granted, the internet was just a baby when I was 17.