Hacker News: dpe82

New comment by dpe82 in "Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality"

dpe82 — Sat, 23 May 2026 18:57:20 +0000

Oh don't worry, the enforcement is extremely selective.

New comment by dpe82 in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

dpe82 — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:26:55 +0000

Thinking about it as a system:

If every university were subject to similar constraints, the average "quality" of research proposals would go down (everybody would have less time to spend on it) but since the pool of research dollars is assumed constant everyone would still get roughly their same slice - just with less overhead.

New comment by dpe82 in "Cisco Workforce Reductions"

dpe82 — Thu, 14 May 2026 03:37:42 +0000

The press release states it clearly.

New comment by dpe82 in "AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved"

dpe82 — Fri, 08 May 2026 22:28:07 +0000

In a proper 2-loop cooling system, the primary loop (with direct electronics contact) and secondary loop (with seawater/external cooling source) are hydraulically isolated by a heat exchanger. The salt water or whatever never gets anywhere near the electronics.

New comment by dpe82 in "Days without GitHub incidents"

dpe82 — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:08:04 +0000

Forgejo is just the one I landed on, but like I said - there are options!

New comment by dpe82 in "Days without GitHub incidents"

dpe82 — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:54:03 +0000

I recently moved all my projects to a self-hosted forgejo instance and have found it quite satisfactory so far. And it's fast! If you're in the market for a github alternative, take a look - there are options.

New comment by dpe82 in "Why TUIs are back"

dpe82 — Mon, 04 May 2026 07:08:15 +0000

TUIs, apparently. :)

New comment by dpe82 in "Why TUIs are back"

dpe82 — Sun, 03 May 2026 20:42:26 +0000

A year ago I would have agreed with you, but now anyone can build a perfectly reasonable native app.

New comment by dpe82 in "Warp is now open-source"

dpe82 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:51:22 +0000

If someone expects to be compensated for their work they should be upfront about it. IMHO it's dishonest/immoral to freely give something away with no expressed expectation of reciprocity and then get upset when someone doesn't reciprocate.

New comment by dpe82 in "Warp is now Open-Source"

dpe82 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:47:41 +0000

I don't really understand the controversy; there are plenty of licenses an author can choose that restricts commercial use of a project. It feels a bit dishonest to release something under a permissive license and then be upset when someone uses your stuff well within the ways you said is perfectly ok.

New comment by dpe82 in "Soul Player C64 – A real transformer running on a 1 MHz Commodore 64"

dpe82 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 02:01:36 +0000

  YOU> hey
  C64> HELLO! RE SOUNDS ME. MEFUL!

60s per token for that doesn't strike me as genuinely useful.

Very, very cool project though!

New comment by dpe82 in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

dpe82 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:53:57 +0000

Let's be generous and pretend the rest of the hardware is free but double the energy budget of the H100 to account for all of it along with cooling. You're still at only $1k/yr; $10k over 10 years, or 25% of the TCO (ignoring all other costs).

New comment by dpe82 in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

dpe82 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:17:28 +0000

Power is not the most expensive part of data center lifetime cost; especially these days when you're filling them with several billion dollars of nvidia chips. It's still an important consideration of course, but not the only one.

New comment by dpe82 in "What game engines know about data that databases forgot"

dpe82 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:27:16 +0000

Yeah that was my second thought. ECS' favoring of structs-of-arrays over traditional arrays-of-structs for game entities boils down to the same motivations and resulting physical layout as column-stores vs row-stores.

New comment by dpe82 in "What game engines know about data that databases forgot"

dpe82 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:56:49 +0000

This seems cool but man it's hard to get over the very, very obvious AI writing.

New comment by dpe82 in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

dpe82 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 01:28:43 +0000

None. The magic is still in the model.

New comment by dpe82 in "Senators want datacenters to come clean on power consumption"

dpe82 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:08:45 +0000

How about we legalize construction of new power sources and let the market figure it out?

New comment by dpe82 in "Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia"

dpe82 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:25:58 +0000

My very fuzzy back of the envelope says easily 10s of thousands per day.

New comment by dpe82 in "We indexed the Delve audit leak: 533 reports, 455 companies, 99.8% identical"

dpe82 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 20:49:57 +0000

Genuinely curious: if you just need an independent audit report to check a box, do you really care how good a job the auditor did?

New comment by dpe82 in "The Los Angeles Aqueduct Is Wild"

dpe82 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:58:57 +0000

Old men yelling at the sky don't often seek rationality or nuance in their cries.