Hacker News: dpratt

New comment by dpratt in "JVM Options Explorer"

dpratt — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:10:31 +0000

Modern JVMs will detect orchestrator-set cgroup limits and size themselves accordingly. If you, for example, set a cpu limit for a pod to “1”, the JVM will size itself as if it was running on a single core machine.

New comment by dpratt in "Intuiting Pratt Parsing"

dpratt — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:18:51 +0000

I will never forget the amusing attention I got from the professor when this topic was covered during my undergrad. It's only happened once, sadly, but this is only seconded by the time I was assisting a junior engineer with a related problem and was able to say "Oh, that's just a Pratt Parser. Let me show you."

New comment by dpratt in "Nissan eyes shifting Rogue production to U.S. due to tariffs"

dpratt — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 18:16:23 +0000

In the same range of the probability of it happening anywhere else, but (if you’re honest with yourself) a bit lower. Seizure of property and/or nationalization of whole industries is not a novel concept.

New comment by dpratt in "Java 24"

dpratt — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:46:01 +0000

JEP 484: Classfile API is going to be huge. It will take a while for full adoption, but finally being able abstract the backend of ByteBuddy/ASM/etc will be a gigantic boon. Being able to read/write classifies is one of the biggest hurdles at upgrade time.

New comment by dpratt in "Chicory: A JVM native WebAssembly runtime"

dpratt — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 16:57:35 +0000

This looks very cool - I'm going to read into the implementation, there's something about producing JVM bytecode from WASM instructions and then having the JVM JIT compile it into native instructions that amuses me.

New comment by dpratt in "Monocle: Optics Library for Scala"

dpratt — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 04:02:57 +0000

Imagine my disappointment when I spent the time to set up a Cassandra instance and it did not immediately materialize a demigod woman who knew the answers to everything but was cursed to have no one believe her.

New comment by dpratt in "Riot Games: Peeking into Valorant's Netcode (2020)"

dpratt — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 18:05:48 +0000

Any discussion of the game’s requirement to install kernel-level anticheat hooks that inspect the memory of every process running on the system?

New comment by dpratt in "Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public"

dpratt — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 14:53:18 +0000

Well, it's nice to know that Sable's entire portfolio is going into the public domain, it's a shame that the likely 50-100 other shell companies owned by this troll still have an arsenal of useless, but incredibly complicated, patents to use to extort money.

A just world would involve piercing the corporate veil and imposing personal consequences on the owner of this company.

New comment by dpratt in "Watching "Grizzly Man" with a bear biologist"

dpratt — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 15:13:30 +0000

How much do you weigh?

New comment by dpratt in "ChromeOS will soon be developed on large portions of the Android stack"

dpratt — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 16:00:29 +0000

I will start to believe the "7 years of updates" promise for Pixel phones when the first model that was released with this promise is approximately 7.5 years old. At that point, I may begin to reconsider my opinion. I fell prey to Google marketing when they released the very first Pixel model - I spent an exorbitant amount of money on it, only to have it utterly abandoned and deprecated, with support and updates dropped just over a year later.

As in all things relating to anything stated by Google with respect to the privacy, availability or expected lifetime of a consumer product, the maxim is not even "trust but verify", it should be "distrust, watch carefully, and assume the worst".

New comment by dpratt in "Power over fiber"

dpratt — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 15:14:08 +0000

"Danger: Not Only Will This Kill You, It Will Hurt The Whole Time You're Dying"

New comment by dpratt in "Jepsen: MySQL 8.0.34"

dpratt — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 15:55:05 +0000

| its case insensitive by default

This is obviously up for debate, but subjectively I find this to be an absolutely terrible design decision.

New comment by dpratt in "Why don't we get our drinking water by taking salt out seawater? (2008)"

dpratt — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 22:45:35 +0000

Yet another example of how the American education system is falling behind the rest of the world. Students in the US only learn one kind of math, but apparently the rest of the English speaking world is taught multiple kinds of maths.

New comment by dpratt in "A record-high share of 40-year-olds in the U.S. have never been married"

dpratt — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 14:37:17 +0000

I’m not entirely sure - it would be interesting to break down the cohort of the 78% of never-marrieds who live alone. Presumedly, they are single or not in a serious relationship, which might indicate that there’s a deeper societal and cultural problem than just marriage.

New comment by dpratt in "Illinois prohibits weapons, facial recognition on police drones"

dpratt — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 18:58:07 +0000

There is no way this would ever even pass initial consideration at the Federal level, in that there is no incentive for the Federal government to limit the weaponry available to it's law enforcement apparatus. They would see such a law as containing no upside for the government itself, and therefore it will be, at best, laughed out of committee and more likely any Congressman or Senator who proposes it will mysteriously find that a lot of his or her donors are suddenly turning on him.

New comment by dpratt in "America Has Too Much Pork"

dpratt — Wed, 31 May 2023 19:51:32 +0000

It’s delicious and nutritious in moderation?

New comment by dpratt in "The long road to recover Frogger 2 source from tape drives"

dpratt — Wed, 24 May 2023 22:35:07 +0000

At the very least, and the cost for this perhaps would be prohibitive, but some mechanism to duplicate the raw flux off the tape onto another tape in an identical format, a backup of the backup. This would allow for attempts to read the data that may be potentially destructive to the media (for example, breaking the tape accidentally) and not lose the original signal.

New comment by dpratt in "NYC skyscrapers sit vacant"

dpratt — Thu, 18 May 2023 15:22:40 +0000

Nobody predicted this except pretty much everybody who thought about what the long-term effects of COVID would be on commercial real estate around mid-2020 or so.

New comment by dpratt in "Journalist writes about discovering she’d been surveilled by TikTok"

dpratt — Fri, 05 May 2023 17:02:55 +0000

"They were both temporarily excluded from the public eye, but they were not arrested."

Does a rose by any other name smell as sweet?

New comment by dpratt in "Journalist writes about discovering she’d been surveilled by TikTok"

dpratt — Fri, 05 May 2023 17:01:18 +0000

I have very little to fear, on a personal level, from the CCP. They may or may not be collecting data on me, and I find that distasteful and somewhat scary, but they are not a direct threat to my personal liberty, safety or civil rights.

The NSA, CIA and the US intelligence-industrial complex, however, is a direct and credible threat to me. Perhaps not today, and hopefully not tomorrow, but as history has shown us, governments change, sometimes wildly so, in a short period of time while still holding the trappings and lip-service of their predecessors. If you dismiss the concerns about warrantless data collection, tracking, active suppression of free discourse and political targeting of people who ideologically threaten those in power (no matter the political background), well, you just haven't been paying attention.