Hacker News: donarb

New comment by donarb in "Tell HN: After 10 years of experiments, custom username emails receive no spam"

donarb — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 23:52:11 +0000

You should've just changed the address to 'spamsung'.

New comment by donarb in "A shortage of Dijon mustard in France"

donarb — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 14:25:55 +0000

Or horseradish mustard, pretty good stuff.

New comment by donarb in "Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012)"

donarb — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 21:43:37 +0000

"The fix is temporary, unless it works" -- Red Green

New comment by donarb in "House Democrats to propose ban on lawmaker stock trading – report"

donarb — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 19:42:59 +0000

What? Republicans in Congress will routinely vote against funding legislation and then show up at ribbon cuttings bragging how they fought to get the funding for their district. Just out and out lie about voting for it.

New comment by donarb in "Tesla remotely converts battery pack, cutting 1/3 of range"

donarb — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 22:54:28 +0000

Link to one story is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32244975

New comment by donarb in "Tesla remotely converts battery pack, cutting 1/3 of range"

donarb — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 22:37:46 +0000

Yep, here's the article about it.

https://electrek.co/2020/02/07/tesla-takes-away-autopilot-us...

New comment by donarb in "After bus fire, CT pulls electric fleet from service"

donarb — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 14:46:31 +0000

AAA has offered mobile charging for electric vehicles for over 10 years.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15346575/placebo-on-wheel...

New comment by donarb in "Google Launches Carbon, an Experimental Replacement for C++"

donarb — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 14:57:29 +0000

Const variables are traditionally initialized at compiled time. In Swift, let may be initialized at runtime and then becomes immutable.

New comment by donarb in "Did Einstein say that? (2018)"

donarb — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 14:58:56 +0000

"Don't believe everything you read on the internet." -- Abraham Lincoln

New comment by donarb in "Being on call sucks"

donarb — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 15:01:48 +0000

Years ago, I was a second-shift operator in a computer center for an insurance company. We ran production jobs on an IBM mainframe. When jobs would crash we would write up the error on an ABEND form (IBM called crashes ABENDs for ABnormal END), collect the printout and call the programmer responsible. One night a production job crashed late in my shift about 10:30-11 pm and I woke up the programmer responsible. He seemed really groggy and it took a few minutes for me to describe the crash to him. I would always try to be helpful and suggest options for recovery (you got to know the programmers and what their recommendations would be based on the type of production job). Usually they would hold the job, restart it or say they were coming in to fix, this was back in the day where if they could log in remotely, it was with a clunky CRT terminal.

The programmer told me to just restart the job, I noted that on the form. I came in the next day and my boss called me into his office, his boss was there too. They wanted to know why I restarted the job, which caused all kinds of corruption to the database. They had spent the better part of the day recovering the database, then running the batch job, which meant that that system was unavailable for use by the agents.

The programmer swore up and down he did not tell me to restart the job, said I never called him! He was that deep into sleep. But on the form I noted the time I called him and his response to restart the job, so they believed me.

This highlights a problem with people responsible for multi-million dollar systems being woken up in the middle of the night and having to make quick critical decisions.

New comment by donarb in "Pipenv: Promises a Lot, Delivers Little (2020)"

donarb — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 15:10:58 +0000

I've started to get away from virtual environments and just use Docker containers where all the pip dependencies can live as first class citizens. Also eliminates having to source the activate file or wonder if I'm calling the correct version of Python when I want to ssh in and run some code by hand in the container.

New comment by donarb in "Greg Robinson fixed NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, reluctantly"

donarb — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 00:34:26 +0000

And if SpaceX was available with a larger payload, engineers would have built the same folding telescope, only much larger and more costly.

New comment by donarb in "The Crime That Killed Shinzo Abe"

donarb — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 15:07:39 +0000

Which is why "Prime Minister's Questions" time is so valuable and entertaining.

New comment by donarb in "Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement"

donarb — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 22:55:51 +0000

But for Musk's machinations, said stock price would not be down 40%. He caused the stock to drop.

New comment by donarb in "Most of the world’s grain is not eaten by humans"

donarb — Sat, 25 Jun 2022 23:17:13 +0000

Limit? The US federal government has over 100 million acres of public land for animal grazing.

New comment by donarb in "AT&T lawyer stopped Plan 9 release CD with songs by Lou Reed, Debbie Harry"

donarb — Sat, 25 Jun 2022 22:59:53 +0000

I recall that Microsoft's Visual C++ user license had a clause that forbid you from creating a C++ compiler with it.

New comment by donarb in "Apple has a bug in its disk I/O throttling code that affects raw disk copies"

donarb — Sat, 18 Jun 2022 14:52:07 +0000

> not being able to dock the task bar to the side, though you can't do that on macOS either

In System Preferences > General you can set the dock to the left, right or bottom of the screen.

New comment by donarb in "Apple Passkey"

donarb — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 01:10:00 +0000

There's nothing to backup/import. If you have an iPhone, you use your fingerprint or Face ID. If you sell your iPhone and buy an Android, you use your fingerprint or face recognition on that device.

New comment by donarb in "Apple Passkey"

donarb — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 01:07:30 +0000

It eliminates phishing since there is no password to share and the authorization is locked to a specific domain.

New comment by donarb in "Remembering Apple’s Newton, 30 years on"

donarb — Tue, 31 May 2022 20:51:28 +0000

I had a Newton back then. Most of those who joked about the handwriting recognition were tech reporters who played with it for all of five minutes. Once you used the device on a regular basis, the recognition got better, similar to today's iPhone keyboard.