Hacker News: earthboundkid

New comment by earthboundkid in "Operational issue – Multiple services (UAE)"

earthboundkid — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:28:03 +0000

In terms of deliberate attacks on a DC, an adversary that can bomb a blast resistant bunker can easily bomb the data lines going in and out, to say nothing of external power supplies. I guess you can at least repair the lines after the attack, but it's pretty easy to knock it offline if that's your goal. I just don't see the value in making a DC blast resistant compared to the huge costs.

Operational issue – Multiple services (UAE)

earthboundkid — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 19:24:30 +0000

Article URL: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47209781

Points: 248

# Comments: 119

New comment by earthboundkid in "Egyptian Hieroglyphs: Lesson 1"

earthboundkid — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 17:09:11 +0000

They are pretty well founded. You can read old rhyme dictionaries and see how the words evolved eg when borrowed by Japan at one time and then when borrowed again a couple of hundred years later. We can’t ever know 100% but it’s not idle speculation either.

New comment by earthboundkid in "Egyptian Hieroglyphs: Lesson 1"

earthboundkid — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:46:50 +0000

Different field, but it drives me crazy that people talk about Chinese philosophy and insist on using Mandarin pinyin for it. Mandarin is language that evolved from Classical Chinese thousands of years later! There are other, equally valid contemporary derived pronunciations like Cantonese or even Japanese and Korean. The reason to use Mandarin is because it is the most widely spoken language derived from Classical Chinese, but it's 100% not how Confucius or any of them spoke!

Does Anyone Use Old Models?

earthboundkid — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 03:26:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/old-models/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44781883

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by earthboundkid in "AI for my 10-year-old son"

earthboundkid — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 03:16:22 +0000

I've seen this movie. It's long and boring and ends with the blue fairy resurrecting Haley Joel Osment.

The Age of the Double Sell-Out

earthboundkid — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 03:15:43 +0000

Article URL: https://culture.ghost.io/the-age-of-the-double-sell-out/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43395408

Points: 14

# Comments: 4

New comment by earthboundkid in "Why does target="_blank" have an underscore in front? (2024)"

earthboundkid — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 16:43:44 +0000

The main problem with frames is that you need to use JS to get it to be responsively sized. If they would fix that, frames would be perfect. They actually do what people just think Web Components do. I.E. they are actually isolated from the styles of the host page and have an actual security boundary preventing malicious execution.

New comment by earthboundkid in "Marsha P Johnson: A Chrome extension to highlight trans erasure"

earthboundkid — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:41:38 +0000

Impersonating a woman/man was a crime. See the intro to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X__VKNw0XiI&t=234s

New comment by earthboundkid in "All Kindles can now be jailbroken"

earthboundkid — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 23:42:47 +0000

My Kindle was bricked by an Amazon OTA update. Checkmate, atheists.

Marsha P Johnson: A Chrome extension to highlight trans erasure

earthboundkid — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 19:16:59 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/HamptonMakes/marsha-p-johnson

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43051964

Points: 96

# Comments: 45

New comment by earthboundkid in "Do any languages specify package requirements in import / include statements?"

earthboundkid — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 17:28:28 +0000

You can do it using gofmt, by writing

gofmt -w -r '"github.com/abc/def" -> "github.com/abc/def/v2"' .

That won't do subpackages though.

New comment by earthboundkid in "Do any languages specify package requirements in import / include statements?"

earthboundkid — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 17:24:16 +0000

Python has None, which frequently caused me problems in production, so that's not different, except Go can at least tell between a string and nullable string pointer.

Reversing a string is not a basic operation. A) why would you ever need to do it in the real world? B) reversing Unicode is non-trivial due to composing characters. There are packages available for Go that implement grapheme segmentation. If you need it, you can import one.

New comment by earthboundkid in "The Myth of Bananaland"

earthboundkid — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 14:28:56 +0000

The Dole who took over Hawaii (Sanford Dole) was cousin to the pineapple company guy (James Dole). So, not the same guy, but also not unrelated either.

Godot Isn't Making It

earthboundkid — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 18:11:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wheresyoured.at/godot-isnt-making-it/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42368731

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

New comment by earthboundkid in "The two factions of C++"

earthboundkid — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 16:52:07 +0000

It's really important to be clear about the lessons to be learned from Python 3.

1. Forward compatibility is more important than backward compatibility. 2. Automated refactoring tools don't help with 1.

The problem wasn't that they broke a lot in Python 3. It was that you couldn't write your Python 2 in such a way as to be compatible with it until well into the transition process as the six package got popular and the devs fixed needlessly broken things in Python 2.

New comment by earthboundkid in "Hyrum's Law in Golang"

earthboundkid — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 23:32:49 +0000

I wrote "// Due to Hyrum's law, this text cannot be changed." AMA.

New comment by earthboundkid in "How gophers brought Mount St. Helens back to life in one day"

earthboundkid — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 17:28:07 +0000

> The Greek theoria (θεωρία) meant "contemplation, speculation, a looking at, things looked at", from theorein (θεωρεῖν) "to consider, speculate, look at", from theoros (θεωρός) "spectator", from thea (θέα) "a view" + horan (ὁρᾶν) "to see".

"Theory" should refer only to the beatific vision or its analogical precursors in temporal existence achieved through mystical union with the Uncreated Light!

New comment by earthboundkid in "Using SQLite as storage for web server static content"

earthboundkid — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 22:40:18 +0000

I'm continually going through this thought process:

1. I should make blog engine using flat files. That way I can diff the plain text.

2. But flat files are hard to read/write structured data from, so I should use SQLite instead.

3. But SQLite is hard to diff. GOTO 1.

New comment by earthboundkid in "Scientists working to decode birdsong"

earthboundkid — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 19:10:13 +0000

Yeah, I don't necessarily buy the whole Chomskian program. I'm willing to be persuaded that the reason kids learn to speak despite their individual poverty of stimulus is that there was sufficient empirically experience stimulus over evolutionary time. The Chomskian grammar stuff seems way too Platonic to be a description of human neuroanatomy. But be that as it may, it's clear the stimulus it takes to train an LLM is orders of magnitude greater than the stimulus necessary to train an individual child, so children must have a different process for language acquisition.