<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: drpossum</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=drpossum</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 22:48:25 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=drpossum" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drpossum in "Spammers are better at SPF, DKIM, and DMARC than everyone else"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>ugh</p>
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<p>Did the International Journal of Research in Human Manipulation and Subjugation think their methods were too weak to get published there?</p>
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<p>Not sure why that is in any way relevant, but thanks.</p>
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<p>"Worth" doing a lot of heavy lifting here.</p>
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<p>Then do it for Russia too.  I also don't care if I get "dragged" for suggesting it.  Capitulating to poor leadership is enabling poor leadership and the world is in a bad state because of it.<p>Literally the only reason it <i>doesn't</i> happen is because there's too much money to be made for people who are not you and me.<p>Frankly if it did happen, <i>someone</i> would bridge it and I'm sure that rogue bridge ain't gonna be poisoning anything.  They'd be a hero and a broker.</p>
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<p>Do you use it exclusively yourself?</p>
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<p>> Clojure seems to be a more widely used and active version<p>This is a pretty gross oversimplification and it's also a mischaracterization to say it's "a more widely used and active version".  I wouldn't even put it in the same catagory as traditional lisps since those will compile down to executables and clojure run in the JVM</p>
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<p>[flagged]</p>
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<p>This was actually very popular with offshoring and the results spoke for themselves.  I made a lot of money cleaning up those dumpster fires and it's hard for me to not encourage more of it.</p>
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<p>Thank you for clarifying.</p>
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<p>I enjoy a good heckling probably more than most people, but this is just mean and thoughtless.</p>
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<p>[flagged]</p>
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<p>> I’m noticing more and more politicians using this as a way to simply gather more votes with a "cause US bad"<p>You typed that like they're wrong</p>
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<p>> I don't have anything of substance to say<p>Thanks for saying something anyways.  I wish more people would follow your example.</p>
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<p>Why even do automated testing too?  Devs should just test their code.  If they were doing their jobs there would be no bugs./s<p>Your opinions are so regressive you really should consider going into management.</p>
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<p>That doesn't validate your assertion that particles are just "an approximation".   Just because it's used in perturbation theory doesn't mean it's exclusive to it.<p>You're also manifestly wrong on "the free particle is the only system we can exactly solve".</p>
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<p>Very timely.</p>
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<p>I'll bite:  Explain yourself.<p>Also, for context, my question was posed because the idea of "particle number" as well as "quantum states of particles (which are countable) represented in a Fock space" and in general the idea of particles are, like, page 2 of any QFT textbook.  It doesn't approximate anything in the theory.  Creation and annihilation of particles (and hence the well-defined concept of a particle) is fundamental to the construction of the theory itself, perturbative or not.</p>
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<p>Maybe your judgement about your developer friends or your trust of in the ability of the industry to evaluate developers is wrong.</p>
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<p>So in a non-perturbative QFT calculation which has a well defined particle-number operator, that's just "an approximation" within the theory?  What is it approximating?</p>
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