Hacker News: infamousclyde

New comment by infamousclyde in "Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda"

infamousclyde — Sat, 23 May 2026 00:25:42 +0000

This was a great read, and a bit of a break from the noise. Kept me engaged the whole time. You’re a good guy.

New comment by infamousclyde in "Advent of Code 2025"

infamousclyde — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 14:15:42 +0000

I’ve always used AoC as my jump-off point for new languages. I was thinking about using Gleam this year! I wish I had more profound reasons, but the pipeline syntax is intriguing and I just want to give it a whirl.

New comment by infamousclyde in "A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code"

infamousclyde — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 09:06:04 +0000

Jon Gjengset (of MIT Missing Semester, Rust for Rustsceans, etc) shared a stream doing complex changes of increasing complexity to a geospatial math library in Rust. He’s an excellent engineer, and was able to pick apart AI-suggested changes liberally. The caveat is that the video is a bit long, but segmented nicely.

I think he had a positive experience overall, but it was clear throughout the stream that he was not yielding control to a pure-agent workflow soon.

https://youtu.be/eZ7DVHAK8hw?si=vWW4kz2qiRRceNMQ

New comment by infamousclyde in "Jujutsu for everyone"

infamousclyde — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 09:05:02 +0000

To the author: I really enjoyed your style of writing. This had more explicit and realistic examples compared to other HN tutorials on the subject, and that made it easy to inhale in one sitting. Thanks for your work!

New comment by infamousclyde in "Being full of value‑added shit"

infamousclyde — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 01:49:19 +0000

Similarly, there’s a special military unit whose motto is “Facta Non Verba”— deeds, not words. Talk is cheap!

New comment by infamousclyde in "What we get wrong about athleticism"

infamousclyde — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 17:44:22 +0000

I mean… Men are faster than women in the general case. It’s not really up for debate— it’s grounded in biological differences. Testosterone is essentially a steroid that women are not working with. There is a clear divide in the competition at all levels of the sport to facilitate this and promote a fair level of competition.

The ultra marathoning statistics are fine, but they also have significantly smaller viewership and uptake in the general population. Consequently, it’s more of the Wild West, and as a result, I don’t think it accurately reflects the global running scene.

New comment by infamousclyde in "What we get wrong about athleticism"

infamousclyde — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 17:35:02 +0000

My wife is an Olympian in a track event and we have also discussed this at length. CrossFit’s trademark of “the fittest on earth” for the champion of their international competition (… the name escapes me…) always elicits an eye rolls from her. If you asked her, she would say Decathletes are the crème de la crème.

New comment by infamousclyde in "Olympians turn to OnlyFans to fund dreams due to 'broken' finance system (2024)"

infamousclyde — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 03:32:05 +0000

Thanks for your sanity. My wife is a (Canadian) Olympian and I almost feel betrayed by the level of condescension towards sports in this forum that I am normally aligned with. Like engineers denigrating the arts because it doesn’t generate value— it makes me think some folks are not experiencing what life has to offer.

New comment by infamousclyde in "My speed cubing page"

infamousclyde — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 08:03:50 +0000

Recently attending the World Championships for Athletics in Budapest, supporting my fiancée in the 5000m. I'm not super athletic myself, but one of the country's notable figures is Ernö Rubik, inventor of the Rubik Cube.

They had a social media thing going around where you could tag your country for a chance to get featured. From a 14 second PB in my youth, it was still pretty trivial to get somewhere in the 25-30 second range on the janky stock cubes they distributed to all the athletes. It was probably the most I did for Team Canada during that trip.

New comment by infamousclyde in "Ask HN: What's your favourite hobby and how did it start?"

infamousclyde — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 19:39:56 +0000

I like running (now). I never played sports growing up, and would not consider myself particularly athletic. I joined my country's military as an officer, and always found myself running at someone else's pace, which was also awful.

When I finished my undergraduate degree, I found I had a huge vacuum of time. So, I started running. I signed up for a marathon with some friends and the training was fun, because I was running (!) the show. I ended up running pretty well, and kept it up.

Nevertheless, I met a girl while running who really put me through the ringer on a "running first date"-- She turned out to be an Olympian in track. This past week, I actually got to watch her compete at the World Championships in Budapest in the 5000m, and was even luckier to propose to her about two days ago.

I still think it's kind of funny, as a guy who really hated exercise growing up. She's a great foil to my dorkiness. Anyways, feel free to ask us anything about running. We're just killing time right now.

New comment by infamousclyde in "Ask HN: What are some easy ways to earn some side money?"

infamousclyde — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 18:33:06 +0000

This is purely anecdotal, but I had to complete Conflict of Interest administration for concurrent outside employment while serving as an officer in the military full-time. Basically-- follow internal policy governing this, to cover your backside.

New comment by infamousclyde in "Zoom terms now allow training AI on user content with no opt out"

infamousclyde — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 16:31:01 +0000

"There Will Come Soft Rains", more or less.

New comment by infamousclyde in "Marijuana addiction: those struggling often face skepticism"

infamousclyde — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 01:42:02 +0000

Well done, must have taken some fortitude.

New comment by infamousclyde in "Case study: Algorithmic trading with Go"

infamousclyde — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 17:30:52 +0000

"That are still software based" is interesting. Are there hardware-based trading systems?

New comment by infamousclyde in "Case study: Algorithmic trading with Go"

infamousclyde — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 17:29:35 +0000

I guess my presumption was that algorithmic trading was a very tight feedback loop, with as many controlled variables (i.e., GC) as possible, so I think it just subverted some of my misplaced expectations.

New comment by infamousclyde in "Case study: Algorithmic trading with Go"

infamousclyde — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 18:10:33 +0000

Fascinating application of the language and a terrific write-up. I would presume a GC language would normally be a disqualifying factor in real-time trading, but I think I'm coughing up some premature optimization, especially with what looks like a pretty beefy rig. Congratulations though, this is spectacular.

New comment by infamousclyde in "Implementing a distributed key-value store on top of implementing Raft in Go"

infamousclyde — Sat, 27 May 2023 12:27:58 +0000

This was really great, thank you so much for sharing.

New comment by infamousclyde in "Software developer gets $5M judgement against My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell"

infamousclyde — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 22:06:25 +0000

Oh my god, same. I'm not exactly a cybersecurity whiz, but going through the details, it was like "Is this a PCAP? Is this a PCAP?". Good lord, this was a silver platter.

New comment by infamousclyde in "Will wealthier people access better AIs?"

infamousclyde — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 23:16:52 +0000

This is the premise of "Two Phones" by Kevin Gates. The lyrics are more or less just paraphrasing this comment.

New comment by infamousclyde in "A runner who leads every pack and then vanishes"

infamousclyde — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 16:03:32 +0000

As a guy who has run basic training for recruits in the military, I would say the most common is shin splints (by far), followed by tendonitis, plantar fasciitis, IT band syndrome, and in exceptionally rare cases, compartment syndrome (although I have seen it, and this requires surgery to correct).

Prevention is key for these-- particularly by familiarizing your body with the loads incrementally. While some may have the aerobic fitness to complete a 5k (even if they're new to running-- a cyclist or swimmer, perhaps) the musculo-skeletal adaptations involved with consistency haven't occurred yet, and injury is a lot more likely. Even elite runners, when they're "getting back into it" start with alternating run-walks to avoid the "too much, too fast" loading.

Most of these can be addressed by seeing a physiotherapist, and normally involve cutting mileage or pace significantly and/or strengthening weak supporting muscles.