Hacker News: eventualcomp

New comment by eventualcomp in "Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome"

eventualcomp — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 23:17:09 +0000

Checked the contributor list, please disclose that you're a primary contributor.

New comment by eventualcomp in "A U.S. Strategy to Prevent the Creation of Mirror Life"

eventualcomp — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:32:13 +0000

No such thing as a too-low risk to reward ratio. That's basically free rewards.

New comment by eventualcomp in "Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption"

eventualcomp — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:53:10 +0000

Why are we citing novelists for appeals to authority on something like intelligence. I thought this might be a figure on developmental psychology to give value to your comment, but it's not even that. Should I be citing George Orwell's doublethink to counter you?

New comment by eventualcomp in "Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal"

eventualcomp — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:35:39 +0000

Did you deliberately not address the prices skyrocketing comment? Not that the price is what it is, but that the price changed?

New comment by eventualcomp in "Proxmox VE now available for ARM64"

eventualcomp — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:11:11 +0000

If I could install PVE on my M series Mac, nothing would make me happier. It would be such a nice way to recycle such hardware once I finally upgrade.

New comment by eventualcomp in "TSON – A JSON superset with immutable, hash-pinned schemas"

eventualcomp — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 02:06:18 +0000

I just use Amazon Ion as my JSON superset of choice for my own sanity, and downconvert to JSON when (if) it matters, it's not even bad and it supports comments. Hell there's a freaking Lisp for it now, too (Fusion). https://ion-fusion.dev/

Given also that it's a big tech technology I am going to wager that it's not going away anytime soon.

New comment by eventualcomp in "Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024)"

eventualcomp — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 22:02:52 +0000

If I had a nickel for every post I saw on HN front page involving companies confusing people on phishing-like patterns today, I would have two nickels. Which is not a lot but still weird that it happened twice.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172834

New comment by eventualcomp in "Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code"

eventualcomp — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 23:56:17 +0000

A few days multiplied by the number of skills I once had translates to well over two months of lost time.

New comment by eventualcomp in "Teach yourself programming in ten years (1998)"

eventualcomp — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 02:07:54 +0000

Programming without writing, to me, feels like doing mathematics by reading proofs but not doing proofs. Which quite frankly works very poorly for me. I write code if, for nothing else, so that I can spot bad code/proofs with an easier time, rather than dealing with an equation that blew up in prod.

New comment by eventualcomp in "Recursion is lying to you"

eventualcomp — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:26:18 +0000

no mention of dynamic programming for dealing with recursive functions? Dynamic programming was built for this, you don't even need to thrash the heap as much as that trampoline. Instantiate your array, make sure you set your base cases and loops so that you don't step in an `undefined` hole, and then recurse in reverse.

New comment by eventualcomp in "Design is compromise"

eventualcomp — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:22:45 +0000

Is this a response to marketing lingo specifically or some other cultural phenomenon? There's a difference between what you want to do to advance your goals (e.g. compromising), and what you want to say for visibility for whoever's goals they are (e.g. "uncompromising" the customer's goals).

There might be a deeper point being communicated, not sure, but I see no issue here.

New comment by eventualcomp in "Asked Codex to redesign a page; it pushed my repo to OpenAI infra"

eventualcomp — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:28:42 +0000

Why? Why do people submit content for our reading when it is not their words? Does it give legitimacy to them? Does it push an agenda? Does it make you look professional? Is this for some kind of executive or boss?

"The part I have to be Fair about" "Why it did this", "Why this should bother you", "honest framing", ...

The things you are doing differently are not legitimate guardrails either. An AI article warrants AI-generated criticism, so I'm not going to say more.

New comment by eventualcomp in "Why do you suck at juggling now?"

eventualcomp — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:50:46 +0000

That way, you can get promoted from Loser to Clueless. [1]

[1] https://ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-t...

New comment by eventualcomp in "Worse on Purpose – How Corporate Greed Killed Product Quality – Worse on Purpose"

eventualcomp — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:17:43 +0000

The market for lemons is always bustling, I guess [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons

New comment by eventualcomp in "Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide"

eventualcomp — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:11:19 +0000

Any mechanism you find that can do this could also be used for money laundering, no? By way of identifying that money laundering in the US should not be possible (meaning without legal consequence), then this too should not be possible.

New comment by eventualcomp in "Qwen 3.8"

eventualcomp — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:09:25 +0000

Ad hominem is good for the heart, I hear.

New comment by eventualcomp in "Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide"

eventualcomp — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 16:02:36 +0000

Your LLM can fuck that up badly if your LLM starts to take loans, right? Or BNPL regardless of sandboxing?

New comment by eventualcomp in "Transcribe.cpp"

eventualcomp — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 02:34:12 +0000

Isn't this like saying "my words are not really my own when I speak to my family, because I know my father is a non-native English speaker and hard of hearing so I try to use words which are well enunciated and are few in syllable count"?

New comment by eventualcomp in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

eventualcomp — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:47:14 +0000

Amazon is heterogeneous. So much so, that positive anecdotes and negative anecdotes are near worthless without specifying the org.

Depending on if you're a cost cutting team, fixed expense team or organization, if you're a revenue driving team, or if you're a core team, or the very many other splits you can come up about the relationship between the expense/balance sheets and the team itself...there are very very different attitudes towards COEs and leadership principles.

New comment by eventualcomp in "A software engineering interview question I like: computing the median"

eventualcomp — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 02:04:43 +0000

Yeesh. Data streaming algorithms. Can I import [1] datasketches-python in the interview?

[1] https://github.com/apache/datasketches-python