<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: james412</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=james412</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:27:21 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=james412" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by james412 in "The Rise and Fall of Pret a Manger"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Pret and Itsu (same founders) have been my default shops for many years because you simply don't have to think, walking in and out in under 2 minutes is absolutely to be expected, and if you're a bit autistic and enjoy routine, can have precisely the same choc bar + coffee + salad + sandwich with identical consistency on every single visit<p>Their food is hardly amazing, but it is wonderfully consistent. Truly hope they survive and flourish once more, London simply would not be the same without them</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://twitter.com/anilvohra69/status/1305983073486430208">https://twitter.com/anilvohra69/status/1305983073486430208</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24507793">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24507793</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2020 17:55:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://twitter.com/anilvohra69/status/1305983073486430208</link><dc:creator>james412</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24507793</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24507793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by james412 in "Cloudflare and the Wayback Machine, joining forces for a more reliable Web"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>T+10 years I very much expect CloudFlare's core business to have expanded significantly. I remember that time my Googler friend told me they were about to release that one thing they'd absolutely never do, Chrome came out a few weeks later, now look at Firefox<p>You need to pay attention to the silent positioning of these companies to even guess at where they might go, so deals with things like archive.org may have some unseen substance to them that might only become obvious much later</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2020 16:05:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24506336</link><dc:creator>james412</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24506336</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24506336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by james412 in "Cloudflare and the Wayback Machine, joining forces for a more reliable Web"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Was worried about CF getting their claws dug into archive.org, but on reading, this is a decidedly non-evil deal, actually it sounds wonderful. Still, I worry if there might be some unseen long term interest in the archive.<p>Never forget Dejanews</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2020 15:29:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24505849</link><dc:creator>james412</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24505849</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24505849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by james412 in "Pb-jelly – A Protobuf code generation framework for Rust, developed at Dropbox"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Perhaps I misunderstand the text in the README. Who is "we" in this case? Is the software writing its own README?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2020 17:11:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24494743</link><dc:creator>james412</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24494743</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24494743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by james412 in "Pb-jelly – A Protobuf code generation framework for Rust, developed at Dropbox"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I know it's common and perhaps even fashionable, but FWIW language like "We take an opinionated stance" utterly puts me off caring about this package<p>It's a piece of software, it has a design that is either fit for purpose or not. When ego becomes entangled in that design process, it's a strong indicator of the kind of experience one might have trying to get fixes or enhancements merged, or even the kind of attitude you'd find when attempting to report a bug.</p>
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<p>You might be pleased to notice Google Scholar is pretty much still the old design, such a breeze to use</p>
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<p>42 links, a text box, vector logo, 20kb and that's generous<p>Autocomplete function, dropdown menu JS, 10kb max<p>Considering this page is viewed by millions, and doesn't even contain the logic to render search results</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2020 15:53:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24482695</link><dc:creator>james412</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24482695</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24482695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by james412 in "Web Performance Profiling: Google.com"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A cold cache google page load here pushes 725kb just to render a logo and search box. To avoid fingerprinting my cache is always cold.<p>Google search is a huge dog</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2020 15:34:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24482407</link><dc:creator>james412</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24482407</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24482407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by james412 in "Your Phone Is Your Castle"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They've taken so long to deliver Librem 5 that even normies have started reverting back to candybar phones in the meantime</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2020 20:51:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24463864</link><dc:creator>james412</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24463864</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24463864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by james412 in "C’s Biggest Mistake (2009)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Pointer tagging is a completely different tech that requires no runtime knowledge of the length of an array</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2020 16:07:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24461729</link><dc:creator>james412</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24461729</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24461729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by james412 in "The EmDrive just won't die"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> McCulloch says that the thrust appears to be between one and four micronewtons—exactly the amount his theory predicts<p>Somehow I thought physics was meant to be a little more precise than this</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2020 16:05:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24461712</link><dc:creator>james412</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24461712</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24461712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by james412 in "C’s Biggest Mistake (2009)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>C-the-language has no concept of size-tagged arrays at runtime, and I guess it's baked in deeply due to the various guarantees made about sizeof(array), &array[0], and ability to cast &array[0] back to the original array. The iAPX hardware would have gone unused</p>
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<p>There's nothing of the spirit of the early hacker days in this repo, it's following GH's documentation and cutpasting some tunnelling instructions. I think it says more about the common misunderstanding of what hacking originally meant that this comparison was attempted at all<p>(FWIW, spoken as someone who spent many months wardialling by hand and poking around as the rest of the household slept during his school days)</p>
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<p>This is actively encouraging people to abuse a free service that <i>many</i> people depend on. It's incredibly irresponsible to see it posted here.<p>Stealing a worker for up to 6 hours likely running on real Apple hardware because that's how OS X is licensed, man, there are no words. Free CI is difficult enough to supply as it is without freeloaders tying up a limited pool of workers because they're too lazy to run something locally</p>
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<p>Would you withdraw your savings from a bank because the cashier didn't understand HTML 5? Why should we not assume operating a cash drawer is roughly equivalent to HTML 5 knowledge?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2020 23:02:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24437486</link><dc:creator>james412</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24437486</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24437486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by james412 in "Nikola: How to Parlay an Ocean of Lies into a Partnership with GM"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You think he's a fraud simply because he bullshitted his way through some computer sales pitch? In a way, I have a ton of respect for people willing to even try this kind of thing in public<p>If he could talk lucidly about things like HTML I'd think that lent more credence to the possibility he didn't have a clue about hydrogen<p>edit: for the downvoters, if you haven't seen one of these "bear thesis" articles before, understand you must do at least as much homework as the bear claims to have done before accepting anything you read. Of course Nikola is a dodgy company, but it's also a social phenomenon. That's the value in it for the likes of GM, and also for the average investor -- including the professionals.  At one stage YouTube was the largest video piracy company on the planet before a larger company swallowed them up and cut deals to legitimize what they'd done. Meanwhile, everyone knew the brand. You can consider what's happening here to be something roughly comparable</p>
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<p>IP addresses sharing a route have a common prefix. This is not true of MAC addresses. They are allocated essentially randomly. If you wanted to route solely using MAC addresses, every router in the world would need a lookup table containing every MAC address, route aggregation would be impossible<p>That's not /the/ reason why a MAC address is involved. It's because that's the address for a physical device at a lower layer in the stack. As others mention, IP is media-independent, it cannot depend on a lower tier addressing scheme without becoming fused to that medium</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2020 20:58:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24436507</link><dc:creator>james412</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24436507</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24436507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by james412 in "SEC Charges Interactive Brokers with Repeatedly Failing to File SARs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is in the process of being implemented: <a href="https://www.sec.gov/news/pressrelease/2016-240.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.sec.gov/news/pressrelease/2016-240.html</a><p>better article: <a href="https://www.refinitiv.com/perspectives/future-of-investing-trading/the-consolidated-audit-trail-cat-unpacking-challenges-and-solutions/" rel="nofollow">https://www.refinitiv.com/perspectives/future-of-investing-t...</a><p>I can't even begin to wrap my head around the infrastructure you'd need to handle this much daily traffic, considering it'll almost definitely be stored longer term, never mind how you'd go about querying it in any sensible manner. It's something upwards of 100 million trades per day</p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side_lobe" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side_lobe</a></p>
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