Hacker News: dvlsg

New comment by dvlsg in "RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?"

dvlsg — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:59:01 +0000

> ruining HN with 10 articles on the front page per day about how software engineering is dead.

Even this article, which is theoretically about playing games on a MacBook and not about AI, has devolved into AI discussions. It's honestly kind of tiring.

I suppose the article invites it by putting an AI blurb up top, and I suppose I'm also not helping by adding my own comment, but _still_.

New comment by dvlsg in "The Onion to Take over InfoWars"

dvlsg — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:46:24 +0000

It's honestly kind of chilling just how effective smear campaigns can be.

I don't think there's any reasonable person who could read the full medical description of the injuries sustained and think "yeah 2.7 mill was too much".

New comment by dvlsg in "Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse"

dvlsg — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 15:05:12 +0000

Yeah, I also don't understand their take. HN also dictates what their users can and can't read. There's tons of stuff that can't be posted here without being removed. That's a good thing.

New comment by dvlsg in "This is not the future"

dvlsg — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:57:25 +0000

Wood smoke can go beyond your own home and land on your neighbors, depending on where you live.

New comment by dvlsg in "Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation"

dvlsg — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 16:13:08 +0000

There's plenty of smaller metal and hardcore bands with a DIY and community first mentality that often barely break even to travel and play shows.

New comment by dvlsg in "Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more"

dvlsg — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 20:13:00 +0000

One of my favorite jokes relies on this.

Q: Where does a general keep his armies?

A: In his sleevies!

New comment by dvlsg in "Proposal: JavaScript Structs"

dvlsg — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 19:36:45 +0000

There's technically a proposal to add immutable lists and records floating around somewhere. I think it's kind of old at this point. I'm still hoping it makes it through, though.

New comment by dvlsg in "Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand"

dvlsg — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 16:26:26 +0000

FromSoft, potentially. Even if you only start counting years at Demon's Souls (2009), that still gets them to 15 years.

New comment by dvlsg in "Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark'"

dvlsg — Fri, 10 May 2024 18:59:39 +0000

Yeah, it feels like the replacement is the issue, not necessarily the destruction.

I don't want to just program a song on an iPad. I would like to perform it on a piano, which means I can't crush my piano and replace it with an iPad.

New comment by dvlsg in "Ask HN: How to do simple heartbeat monitoring?"

dvlsg — Mon, 06 May 2024 17:22:54 +0000

Depending on your expected traffic patterns and volume, no responses to report for an extended period of time is its own data point.

New comment by dvlsg in "Power Metal: is it really about dragons? (2018)"

dvlsg — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 05:22:21 +0000

Fleshgod Apocalypse has a classically trained opera singer.

I often hear the joke that Beethoven wrote the best guitar solos. Moonlight Sonata's 3rd movement on guitar is a fun listen .

New comment by dvlsg in "Deno in 2023"

dvlsg — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 20:23:26 +0000

> Node, as far as I know, has none.

Atomics are probably the closest. https://v8.dev/features/atomics

New comment by dvlsg in "Shouldn't FROM come before SELECT in SQL? (2011)"

dvlsg — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 18:42:14 +0000

Oh for sure. This is definitely one of those "inherited some weird & inconsistent legacy system" situations.

Honestly, it didn't even register as a potential issue in my mind until I had a chance to use LINQ query syntax in C#, and thought it was kind of nice to have the `from` up front. It's a minor annoyance at most, at any rate.

New comment by dvlsg in "Shouldn't FROM come before SELECT in SQL? (2011)"

dvlsg — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 17:06:30 +0000

I'm not sure. I think it's fairly common for something like "Now was the column name on this table description_primary or primary_description? I can't remember... Oh well, I'll just SELECT * and figure it out later" to happen. Starting with FROM would at least eliminate that backtracking.

New comment by dvlsg in "Idempotency"

dvlsg — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 18:35:46 +0000

Interestingly, the mathematical definition (and functional programming definition) of idempotency is slightly different. Or I've seen it used slightly differently, anyways - specifically, a function is idempotent if the result of f(x) is the same result as f(f(x)).

I've seen this lead to some confusing back and forth between software engineers, where one engineer means one definition, and the other engineer meant the other definition.

New comment by dvlsg in "Return to office is 'dead,' Stanford economist says"

dvlsg — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 17:21:57 +0000

An interesting choice of words. "I don't have the data to back it up" seems to want to imply "we don't have the data at all". But I don't buy that Amazon, of all companies, doesn't have the data. I assume they have it, and it doesn't back what they're trying to push.

New comment by dvlsg in "Spotify will end service in Uruguay due to bill requiring fair pay for artists"

dvlsg — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 15:53:54 +0000

Can't speak for every case, but local concerts usually only made a bit of money when we were the ones hosting the show somewhere, inviting other bands, and selling tickets. Even then it was a bit of a gamble. More than a few lost us money.

Otherwise, if we weren't hosting, the money we were paid for playing wasn't even enough to cover band expenses (instrument maintenance, travel costs, etc). Selling merch helped. Selling LPs / EPs was usually just an attempt to make back the cost of recording them in the first place.

If the band was signed, things were different depending on their specific deal. But those bands probably don't count as just "local" anymore, at that point.

New comment by dvlsg in "Redis Insight: GUI App for Redis"

dvlsg — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 18:19:28 +0000

It's in `brew` as well, looks like.

https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/redisinsight

New comment by dvlsg in "64-bit bank balances ‘ought to be enough for anybody’?"

dvlsg — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 19:00:33 +0000

Technically you can have noticeable differences before you even make it to 1 cent. For example, if you're trying to determine if a result of a calculation is negative, 0, or positive for whatever reason. With floats/doubles, you would probably need to consider "0" to actually be "a number sufficiently close to 0, if not 0 exactly" and then remember to handle that everywhere.

It can also be noticeable if you're just trying to calculate something like "is the invoice paid off". Maybe your view layer is showing $0.00 balance to the end user, but the backend hasn't correctly rounded off those extra bits from a floating point calculation, so your backend logic is now saying the invoice is not actually fully paid off, even if the end user has no idea what they could possibly still owe.

New comment by dvlsg in "You Don't Need UUID"

dvlsg — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 18:02:23 +0000

I don't think it's a matter of not being able to index on it, but that mostly random UUIDs (like v4) can lead to some interesting index fragmentation you have to stay on top of somehow.