Hacker News: grnmambahttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=grnmambaHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 25 May 2026 01:20:55 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by grnmamba in "Rishi Sunak will be next UK prime minister"]]>Odd accusation since Sunak is Hindu.

]]>Mon, 24 Oct 2022 14:57:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33317538grnmambahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33317538https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33317538<![CDATA[New comment by grnmamba in "No Congress 2022: Looking forward to decentralized alternatives and Camp 2023"]]>. Germany is (sadly) not running a China-style Zero Covid plan.

Assuming sarcasm

]]>Tue, 18 Oct 2022 14:25:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33247690grnmambahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33247690https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33247690<![CDATA[New comment by grnmamba in "North Paw"]]>It looks like an electronic shackle offenders under house arrest get

]]>Mon, 17 Oct 2022 20:10:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33238907grnmambahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33238907https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33238907<![CDATA[New comment by grnmamba in "We are stuck with egrep and fgrep (unless you like beating people)"]]>How does the article lead to this conclusion?

]]>Thu, 13 Oct 2022 14:33:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33191536grnmambahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33191536https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33191536<![CDATA[New comment by grnmamba in "Meta Meets Microsoft"]]>I think in the near future we'll have deep neural nets that create and puppet an VR avatar for us, while we're sitting normally in front of our PCs. Kind of like a recursive version of a v-tuber: you pretend you're wearing a VR headset and listen to the pointless rambling during meetings, while your boss pretends that everyone is being so much more productive.

]]>Wed, 12 Oct 2022 14:52:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33177840grnmambahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33177840https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33177840<![CDATA[New comment by grnmamba in "Microsoft Partners with Meta to Bring Teams, Office, Windows, and Xbox to VR"]]>Teams is still trying extremely hard to provide a usable text chat, and now they want to go to VR?

The hubris!

]]>Tue, 11 Oct 2022 21:46:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33169656grnmambahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33169656https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33169656<![CDATA[New comment by grnmamba in "California starts sending out stimulus checks up to $1,050"]]>Banana republic

]]>Fri, 07 Oct 2022 17:21:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33124305grnmambahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33124305https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33124305<![CDATA[New comment by grnmamba in "Intel Laptop Users Should Avoid Linux 5.19.12 to Avoid Damaging the Display"]]>Because macos doesn't have hardware destroying bugs?

Bug free software doesn't exist. Hardware destroying bugs are thankfully very rare, but they do exist.

https://www.macrumors.com/2019/02/22/adobe-premiere-pro-fix-...

]]>Wed, 05 Oct 2022 10:48:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33093715grnmambahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33093715https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33093715<![CDATA[New comment by grnmamba in "Putin announces annexation of Ukrainian land, Europe's largest since WWII"]]>That'll show him the next time he opens HN!

]]>Fri, 30 Sep 2022 14:38:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33035500grnmambahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33035500https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33035500<![CDATA[New comment by grnmamba in "Atlassian Exceeds 99.9999% of Availability Using Sidecars, Fault-Tolerant Design"]]>Headline: "Smoking does not cause cancer."

Article: "This study proves that smoking does not cause skin cancer."

]]>Thu, 29 Sep 2022 14:57:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33021618grnmambahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33021618https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33021618<![CDATA[New comment by grnmamba in "Atlassian Exceeds 99.9999% of Availability Using Sidecars, Fault-Tolerant Design"]]>This is the worst attempt at corporate propaganda I've seen in a while.

https://www.atlassian.com/engineering/post-incident-review-a...

]]>Thu, 29 Sep 2022 13:31:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33020373grnmambahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33020373https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33020373<![CDATA[New comment by grnmamba in "Gmail sends IRS and FBI emails to spam"]]>I never imagined the day would come where I'd agree with one of Google's product decisions.

]]>Thu, 29 Sep 2022 08:34:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33017877grnmambahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33017877https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33017877<![CDATA[New comment by grnmamba in "Meta has banned the personal Facebook accounts for everyone on our team"]]>Signal is another centralized platform which explicitly prohibits using 3rd party clients.

]]>Thu, 29 Sep 2022 08:27:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33017849grnmambahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33017849https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33017849<![CDATA[New comment by grnmamba in "Guix for Development"]]>In the context of pytorch: nvidia

]]>Sun, 25 Sep 2022 00:09:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32967762grnmambahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32967762https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32967762<![CDATA[New comment by grnmamba in "Guix for Development"]]>Can't say the N word in Guix

I think Guix is more than ready for providing development environments, even for proprietary apps on open source technology stacks (but Nix will probably be easier to pitch). As an operating system much less so.

]]>Sat, 24 Sep 2022 22:08:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32966965grnmambahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32966965https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32966965<![CDATA[New comment by grnmamba in "Magnus Carlsen Finally Speaks on Chess Cheating Scandal, Sows Even More Chaos"]]>Facts don't generate clicks

]]>Fri, 23 Sep 2022 09:08:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32949567grnmambahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32949567https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32949567<![CDATA[New comment by grnmamba in "President Putin has announced a partial mobilization in Russia"]]>A direct war between NATO and Russia will go nuclear and cause tens of millions of casualties in the best case

If you want to go and fight, do it yourself

]]>Wed, 21 Sep 2022 09:41:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32922689grnmambahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32922689https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32922689<![CDATA[New comment by grnmamba in "Microsoft Teams stores auth tokens as cleartext in Windows, Linux, Macs"]]>"It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway", as one Microsoft blogger would say.

]]>Wed, 14 Sep 2022 17:28:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32840384grnmambahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32840384https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32840384<![CDATA[New comment by grnmamba in "Is GitHub Down?"]]>Not completely down but many requests are timing out

Github uptime has been pretty bad in the last weeks.

]]>Mon, 12 Sep 2022 11:48:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32808735grnmambahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32808735https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32808735<![CDATA[New comment by grnmamba in "Prevent DoS by large int-str conversions"]]>It might be a DoS for a webserver that's supposed to be IO-bound.

Turning on that behavior for all python code in a patch release with only a global override is sloppy.

]]>Thu, 08 Sep 2022 08:20:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32762813grnmambahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32762813https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32762813