Hacker News: globalreset

New comment by globalreset in "Toyota CEO: "Our ammonia engine is the end of EV's" [video]"

globalreset — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 23:48:42 +0000

I'm surprised about the negativity in the comments. I'm happy someone is testing alternative approache. If they're wrong, they just wasted a bit of their own capital. If they are right - we might all benefit. You've got to treat technology as means to an end, not a religion that requires conformity.

New comment by globalreset in "WTF is going on with R7RS Large?"

globalreset — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 14:49:12 +0000

TL;DR: They can't balance the parenthesis.

New comment by globalreset in "Hono and Htmx and Cloudflare is a new stack"

globalreset — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 23:55:35 +0000

Like `style` or `input`?

People got so stuck on JS for decades that they've forgot that HyperText in HTML is there for a reason. It was always supposed to be more than just UI descriptor markup.

It is JS who is out of place in web. A little script in form of DHTML that grew into becoming a cancer that it is now.

New comment by globalreset in "Why does email development have to suck? – Explaining all the 's and 's"

globalreset — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 21:27:16 +0000

Text. Just use damn text. Nobody wants to look at your logo. Why biz people have to ruin everything.

New comment by globalreset in "Htmx is part of the GitHub Accelerator"

globalreset — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 17:05:07 +0000

Htmx doesn't prevent anyone from using JS, and using a tiny bit of localized JS is explicitly encouraged.

New comment by globalreset in "Negative developer comments about Agile and Scrum on social media"

globalreset — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 23:15:11 +0000

It doesn't matter if we get rid of The Agile. If you make The Agile go away, there will be something else, equally horrible.

The internal incentives in hierarchical organizations is to balloon the management, which suffocates the bottom of the pyramid. That's just how the world works, for most people, not just SWE. The Agile is horrible because corporate management makes everything horrible.

If you don't like it work in a small, carefully selected startup, or make your own company. Otherwise just accept that you're just a corporate drone and you have to endure the shitty corporate system to pay your bills. At least you get paid decently, because there's not that many people to replace you like in other professions.

New comment by globalreset in "Today I realized I now trust Microsoft more than Google. What is happening?"

globalreset — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 18:07:49 +0000

You got to be an idiot to trust any public or vc company. You can use their products and services when it makes sense, you should never trust them.

New comment by globalreset in "People Drawn to Conspiracy Theories Share Psychological Features (2019)"

globalreset — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 16:09:12 +0000

This is an idiotic propaganda piece, not anything to do with science.

New comment by globalreset in "Pijul: Version-Control Post-Git [video]"

globalreset — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 04:51:06 +0000

I disagree. Merge conflicts are just a fact of life, and line-granularity has good usability properties (displaying and editing). `git` has issues, but I don't see merge conflict granularity being an issue, especially when project enforce consistent&automatic formatting.

I agree however that while Pijul is technically very interesting, it doesn't seem to have any killer features that would overcome the cost of switching to a niche version control.

New comment by globalreset in "Tech workers react to UPS drivers landing a $170k a year package"

globalreset — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 05:37:38 +0000

To contrast tech workers against working class, and redirect resentment. It's not billionaires that turned the system against working class. It's the nerds at Google that make six figures, duh.

New comment by globalreset in "Some tactics for writing in public"

globalreset — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 16:21:47 +0000

> fear of repercussions is mostly gone.

Is it? Because AFAICT people censorship themselves online all the time for the fear of repercussion. It's like being on tape 27/7 where anyone that doesn't like you can watch your old tapes and loook for problems.

New comment by globalreset in "US Rating Cut to AA+ from AAA by Fitch"

globalreset — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 00:18:16 +0000

Wake up: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A091RC1Q027SBEA (that's US Government hitting 1 trillion USD in interest payments every year).

New comment by globalreset in "AWS: IPv4 addresses cost too much, so you’re going to pay"

globalreset — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 17:36:37 +0000

At very least some free tier for NAT64 gateways, or shared DNS64/NAT64 alike https://nat64.net/public-providers for Amazon users would be nice. I'm fine with ipv6-only connectivity for a lot of hosts, but once in a while they need to download some software / updates from github.com which is still ipv4-only. Paying fixed extra cost for every subnet just for 100MB/mo download per host is meh.

New comment by globalreset in "Sex-specific differences in myocardial injury incidence after Covid mRNA Booster"

globalreset — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 05:56:03 +0000

> mRNA-1273 vaccine-associated myocardial injury was adjudicated in 22 participants (2.8% [95%CI, 1.7%–4.3%]).

New comment by globalreset in "FedNow Is Live"

globalreset — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 20:42:33 +0000

... https://www.thebalancemoney.com/who-owns-the-u-s-national-de...

New comment by globalreset in "Flame retardant found in US breast milk"

globalreset — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 14:48:49 +0000

You just take the most unfavorable interpretation of what he said and add some jumps to conclusion to arrive at what fits your pre-existing opinion.

New comment by globalreset in "Kraken Technologies: How we organise our large Python monolith"

globalreset — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 07:49:57 +0000

Large part of biggest crimes I've seen in software comes down to picking some allegedly good property and optimizing for it irrespective of costs and limitations it involves. Encapsulation, modularity, flexibility, readability, purity, testability - you name it. Some dubious, some reasonable - no matter what, it usually involves costs and drawbacks.

I have 99 big problems developing software, and not being able to read it from start to end ain't one.

I'm a bit jealous for people advocating such things, being able to work on software tiny enough to even be able to think this is practical. Literate programming could work for tiny software that can be approximately flattened to a 1d "story": "beginning -> end" with only minor detours.

Most of projects I worked with was large enough that things are optimized precisely for not having to understand large parts that were abstracted away (and the problem is to try to do it without introducing too much complexity).

New comment by globalreset in "Kraken Technologies: How we organise our large Python monolith"

globalreset — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 05:31:01 +0000

That sounds like one of the things they could write about in dailywtf.

First, who has time to read a project from start to beginning. Second, as the time changes the dependencies between parts will change as well.

New comment by globalreset in "“The days of using untyped languages on non-trivial projects are over.”"

globalreset — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 17:38:13 +0000

People use Rust for everything and love it. :D

New comment by globalreset in "The subtle magic of tsnet"

globalreset — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 19:32:18 +0000

Love both Tailscale and Xe's writing as well, and indeed, all these (rather irrelevant) images are just breaking the flow of reading/skimming the content. I guess I'll just watch the video instead.