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New comment by gritspants in "Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake"

gritspants — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 18:10:33 +0000

It is only a single counterpoint in a sea of depressing examples but you may enjoy the story of Yvon Chouinard, owner of Patagonia, who gave it all away to trusts for protecting the environment.

New comment by gritspants in "The New AI Superpowers: Focus and Followthrough"

gritspants — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:19:44 +0000

Then just set aside some time to be bored. People generate some of their best ideas during this time.

New comment by gritspants in "Pre-2022 Books"

gritspants — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:16:46 +0000

Some on my bookshelf:

> Crafting Interpreters, by Robert Nystrom

> Re[Coding] America, by Jennifer Pahlka

> Systems Performance, by Brendan Gregg

New comment by gritspants in "Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot has died in a plane crash"

gritspants — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 19:00:51 +0000

MC rider. Many accidents occur during the early years, particularly as the new rider gets comfortable. There's a transition period where your muscle memory kicks in for basic riding skills, but not developed enough to keep you out of trouble. It is an incredible feeling of false confidence that makes you feel invincible. It's possible to be 'smart' and reduce risk during this period, but I'm not advocating people generally go out and start riding either.

New comment by gritspants in "Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech"

gritspants — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:12:27 +0000

Seems this has more to do with Palestine and Google's involvement with Israel to provide cloud computing.

New comment by gritspants in "Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust"

gritspants — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:37:32 +0000

Identity? Most folks don't think that way anymore. I try to funnel them from Python to GO. I want to ship binaries. I want them to think about dependencies and if they really need them.

New comment by gritspants in "India's surprise baby bust"

gritspants — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:43:44 +0000

I grew up blue collar and pitched in with my father's work from a very young age. As a child I was able to balance out the time and expense of raising me by contributing back to the household. I have children and they just cannot contribute to my white collar job. They can participate in some chores, but they are essentially a massive money pit. Daycare is more than my mortgage. Public school gets out at like 2:30. It's just so exhausting sometimes.

New comment by gritspants in "Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over AI risks"

gritspants — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:26:11 +0000

If anything Florida (Desantis in particular) more closely resembles traditional conservatism in the US, as opposed to MAGA populism. I think, or hope, that's a good thing in the long run as AI shapes up to be a horseshoe political issue.

New comment by gritspants in "KDE at 30"

gritspants — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:11:24 +0000

I hope someone comes along with a better recollection than I have. When KDE 1 came out there were some bitter licensing discussions on /. and elsewhere, largely regarding Qt. I had high hopes for Enlightenment and later Gnome but they mostly seemed to fail.

New comment by gritspants in "Tracking Starbucks' 'widely recyclable' cups: none ended up at recycling"

gritspants — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:42:09 +0000

I think you and your environment are very different from the average consumer. At least in the office there's a shared community. I think you'd shudder to see what comes to the Starbucks/Dunkin drivethru.

New comment by gritspants in "Tracking Starbucks' 'widely recyclable' cups: none ended up at recycling"

gritspants — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:13:38 +0000

I don't mind the downvotes but, what? No responsible company is going to want a bunch of unused cups interacting with their gear.

New comment by gritspants in "Tracking Starbucks' 'widely recyclable' cups: none ended up at recycling"

gritspants — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:26:55 +0000

Bringing your own is a health hazard. It spreads germs all over the equipment.

New comment by gritspants in "MS SQL Arrow"

gritspants — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:30:37 +0000

Disappointed with the lack of Linux performance, though they're working on it. If you're dealing with MS/Azure SQL Server this is a god-send. For years I had to carefully configure CI/CD pipelines, dockerfiles, etc to enable devs to interact with our database.

MS SQL Arrow

gritspants — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:30:37 +0000

Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/introducing-apache-arrow-support-in-mssql-python/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48110556

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by gritspants in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

gritspants — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:45:09 +0000

There's no reason to tie every software companies rise and fall to AI. Several years ago they changed their enterprise licensing costs. It was such an aggressive and needless cash grab (1k/dev). The writing has been on the wall for a long time.

New comment by gritspants in "Coursera and Udemy are now one company"

gritspants — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:18:02 +0000

I recommend anything by jonas schmedtmann for js/ts/react to work colleagues.

New comment by gritspants in "AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures"

gritspants — Fri, 08 May 2026 19:52:40 +0000

I'm here for white-hate culture. You should, you should know better.

New comment by gritspants in "Let's talk space toilets"

gritspants — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:21:38 +0000

I've often wondered - what is the exact amount of vacuum (pressure?) that you can get away with without disemboweling someone?

New comment by gritspants in "YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney"

gritspants — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:33:30 +0000

Then... why are you using it? I used to get some degree of infotainment out of it but then it became this. Here's an idea: I had a need for some custom metal machining (aluminum). I just looked up some local companies and found a guy who was happy to work it into his shop. I've had some other needs, and just wound up hiring some guys to teach me (stick welding). It's not free, but there is incredible value doing it the old way.

New comment by gritspants in "Claude Code Routines"

gritspants — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:37:39 +0000

Here's the problem I keep running into with AI and 'history'. We all know where this is going. We'll pick our winners and losers in the interim, but so far, this is a technology that mostly impacts tech practitioners. Most people don't care, in the sense that you're a taxi driver. Perhaps you have a manual transmission and the odd person comments on your prowess with it. No one cares. I see a bunch of boys making fools out of themselves otherwise.