<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: dharmab</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dharmab</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:17:18 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=dharmab" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dharmab in "Gorgeous-GRUB: collection of decent community-made GRUB themes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>On Arch, I think you could install a second "backup" copy of Arch Linux on a recovery partition that your motherboard firmware can boot into directly, and then use the `arch-chroot` program to recover your main OS. I'm sure something similar exists for other distros?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2025 00:57:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43883608</link><dc:creator>dharmab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43883608</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43883608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dharmab in "Redis is open source again"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Please link to where I said not to use copyleft licenses. Check the usernames carefully.<p>Note that I don't agree that GPL and MIT are equivalent, or that GPL becomes a non-copyleft open source license if not enforceable. IANAL but it might revert to the regular copyright law for wherever you publish software, not an open source license.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2025 18:20:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43873154</link><dc:creator>dharmab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43873154</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43873154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dharmab in "De minimis: US small parcels loophole closes pushing up Shein, Temu prices"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>From talking to friends workings in imports and manufacturing, they expect what will happen is weeks or months of delay on most shipments as CBP is utterly unequipped to deal with the volume.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2025 12:17:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43868755</link><dc:creator>dharmab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43868755</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43868755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dharmab in "De minimis: US small parcels loophole closes pushing up Shein, Temu prices"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The $800 limit was set during the Obama administration, well after internet direct to consumer sales existed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2025 12:13:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43868722</link><dc:creator>dharmab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43868722</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43868722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dharmab in "De minimis: US small parcels loophole closes pushing up Shein, Temu prices"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>$800 was set out of desperation. CBP was overwhelmed and underfunded, so the executive increased the de minimis to significantly higher than any other country ti relive their workload. The proper solution would have been for Congress to increase funding to maintain a reasonable de minimis (many countries use around $50-200), but that wasn't happening.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2025 12:08:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43868656</link><dc:creator>dharmab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43868656</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43868656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dharmab in "De minimis: US small parcels loophole closes pushing up Shein, Temu prices"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No, the argument for de minimis is that the cost to collect taxes on a $20 parcel is less than the collected tax.<p>Granted, the US' $800 de minimis, which was created because of a lack of funding to deal with the volume of shipping, was probably a bad decision in retrospect. But removing it entirely is another extreme.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2025 12:02:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43868605</link><dc:creator>dharmab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43868605</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43868605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dharmab in "De minimis: US small parcels loophole closes pushing up Shein, Temu prices"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It applies to each parcel, not an entire shipping container.  Note that a parcel can contain multiple physical boxes for a single order.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2025 11:58:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43868579</link><dc:creator>dharmab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43868579</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43868579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dharmab in "Redis is open source again"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I didn't say you should avoid non-copyleft licenses? Indeed, all of my own OSS projects are non-copyleft.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2025 03:07:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43865810</link><dc:creator>dharmab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43865810</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43865810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dharmab in "Redis is open source again"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>From the blog post it seems like existing users kept using Redis but new users adopted alternatives instead.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 18:22:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43861472</link><dc:creator>dharmab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43861472</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43861472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dharmab in "Redis is open source again"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are good legal reasons to avoid the GPL; there are open legal questions about whether the GPL and its variants are enforceable.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 18:21:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43861444</link><dc:creator>dharmab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43861444</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43861444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dharmab in "Redis is open source again"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I make an open source, MIT licensed piece of software. I don't accept unsolicited contributions, but I document that people are free to fork the code and provide instructions on how to develop, test and build on your machine.<p>Am I "fake open source"?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 18:19:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43861415</link><dc:creator>dharmab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43861415</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43861415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dharmab in "All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Netscape Navigator was sold to consumers as boxed software at retail. IIRC it was around $60.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 05:36:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43854035</link><dc:creator>dharmab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43854035</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43854035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dharmab in "Show HN: Tariff Calculator for Amazon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Note that tariff categories can be pretty tricky. For example, a board game might be imported as a toy (125%) or as a table or parlor game (20%). Both categories are valid choices, and it simply depends on which the importer specified on the paperwork.</p>
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<p>Is your comment pro-SLURM or anti-SLURM?<p>I took a serious look at SLURM for my problem space and among my conclusions were:<p>- Hiring people who know Kubernetes is going to be far cheaper<p>- Kubernetes is gonna be way more compatible with popular o11y tooling<p>- SLURM's accounting is great if your billing model includes multiple government departments and universities each with their own grants and strict budgets, but is far more complex than needed by the typical tech company<p>- Writing a custom scheduler that outperforms kube-scheduler is far easier than dealing with SLURM in general</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 02:25:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43840560</link><dc:creator>dharmab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43840560</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43840560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dharmab in "EA Lays Off Hundreds, Cancels 'Titanfall' Game"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am encouraged by the recent success of Clair Obscur. Sandfall has demonstrated you don't need hundreds of devs or a 100 million marketing budget to make a great AAA quality game.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2025 22:44:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43838938</link><dc:creator>dharmab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43838938</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43838938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dharmab in "The Homebrew Channel repository is archived (Apr 28, 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wrong Homebrew. Totally unrelated to this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2025 06:55:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43829409</link><dc:creator>dharmab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43829409</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43829409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dharmab in "Drinking champagne could reduce risk of sudden cardiac arrest, study suggests"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://xkcd.com/882" rel="nofollow">https://xkcd.com/882</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2025 06:04:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43829125</link><dc:creator>dharmab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43829125</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43829125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dharmab in "Virginia passes law to enforce maximum vehicle speeds for repeat speeders"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The Japanese GPS based limiters were accurate enough to handle that, when Top Gear tested them around 15 years ago.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2025 08:56:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43819089</link><dc:creator>dharmab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43819089</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43819089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dharmab in "Virginia passes law to enforce maximum vehicle speeds for repeat speeders"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No, because rich car enthusiasts can afford track time.<p>Performance mods are surprisingly affordable if you do all the labor yourself.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2025 07:10:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43818469</link><dc:creator>dharmab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43818469</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43818469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dharmab in "Virginia passes law to enforce maximum vehicle speeds for repeat speeders"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Could that not be allowed by the GPS based limiter system that Japanese sports cars have used in Japan for decades?<p>if carOnAutoBahn { setLimiter(155) }</p>
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