Hacker News: jason0597

New comment by jason0597 in "Why do people still use VBA?"

jason0597 — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 12:58:33 +0000

I work as an Equipment Reliability Engineer at a nuclear power station. The only programming we are allowed to use is Microsoft Excel Macros, nothing else. There’s a reason why VBA is still alive.

New comment by jason0597 in "Googlers angry about CEO’s $226M pay after cuts in perks and 12,000 layoffs"

jason0597 — Thu, 04 May 2023 22:32:51 +0000

My apologies, I've been up for 18hrs today

New comment by jason0597 in "Googlers angry about CEO’s $226M pay after cuts in perks and 12,000 layoffs"

jason0597 — Thu, 04 May 2023 22:31:15 +0000

Certainly not for money, he lives in a simple house and drives a simple car. Probably because he just likes his job

New comment by jason0597 in "Googlers angry about CEO’s $226M pay after cuts in perks and 12,000 layoffs"

jason0597 — Thu, 04 May 2023 22:26:50 +0000

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New comment by jason0597 in "Ask HN: Do You Host Your Own Email?"

jason0597 — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 17:56:42 +0000

No, I pay fastmail [1] to do it all for me. I am reading in the comments that a lot of people have success with self-hosting, and maybe I will look into it someday when I am not busy every hour of every day studying chemical engineering, but for now I am happy to pay £50/yr to have someone else deal with hosting, clean IP addresses, DNS/SPF/DKIM, or whatever else is necessary to make sure my emails land in people's inboxes.

[1]: https://www.fastmail.com/

New comment by jason0597 in "Ccache – a fast C/C++ compiler cache"

jason0597 — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 08:57:20 +0000

make recompiles source code files by detecting the last modified date on a file, hence it only recompiles source files as necessary. So if you have 10 source files with 5000 lines of C in them, and you only change one of them, it will not recompile everything, it will only recompile that source file which has changed.

Which makes me agree with the parent above, I don't see how exactly Ccache is supposed to be used. Maybe for a distributed source directory with many developers working on it?

New comment by jason0597 in "Show HN: Rssnix – Unix-style filesystem-based RSS/Atom/JSON Feed fetcher/reader"

jason0597 — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 23:05:55 +0000

Because it means less eyeballs on the front page, hence less ad revenue

New comment by jason0597 in "Doing what you love when the money won’t follow"

jason0597 — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 21:05:01 +0000

I think that's an exaggeration of how it works in Europe, it is not the case that it "sucks so bad people end up buying private healthcare anyways"

New comment by jason0597 in "Investors bought a quarter of US homes sold last year"

jason0597 — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 20:02:20 +0000

The level of crime in Rotterdam is lower than in San Francisco though

New comment by jason0597 in "Lessons I wish I had learned before I started teaching differential equations [pdf] (1997)"

jason0597 — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 14:01:08 +0000

This is exactly my experience with my differential equation lessons in my maths classes at Year 1 and Year 2 undergraduate chemical engineering. The way we were told to just follow the instructions and not have any critical thinking at all about what we were doing made me so unmotivated that I sort of gave up learning differential equations. I was lucky this was during lockdown, so I was assessed by online tests and was able to get through it, but my god was the teaching so so unengaging.

New comment by jason0597 in "Housing is at the root of many of the rich world’s problems (2020)"

jason0597 — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 17:09:21 +0000

When AMD or NVIDIA sell GPUs to scalpers, and those scalpers resell the GPUs and keep the profit, there's outrage about it. Nobody ever says to "build more GPUs" to fix the problem.

When houses and new developments get snatched up by investors and landlords as buy-to-lets (or even by Blackrock and pension funds), there is little outrage and calls for restricting who can buy them. The same argument is rehashed over and over and over again. Just build more houses!

I feel that there is a disconnect between these two schools of thought. I personally believe that, while indeed more houses should be built, we should also have a serious discussion about whether houses should be sold en-masse to very wealthy investors

New comment by jason0597 in "Using the same Arch Linux installation for a decade"

jason0597 — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 09:23:38 +0000

Same stuff can happen with Windows too with unexpected updates. Not sure about Mac though, I've never used one.

New comment by jason0597 in "“It’s time for Apple to fix texting”"

jason0597 — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 11:12:11 +0000

> https://twitter.com/techemails/

Slightly off-topic, but wow. What an absolutely brilliant twitter account.

New comment by jason0597 in "More invested in nuclear fusion in last 12 months than past decade"

jason0597 — Sat, 23 Jul 2022 23:05:42 +0000

I am genuinely surprised that there is so much interest in the comments here and excitement about fusion energy powering the future. Yet I see surprisingly few numbers or physics being discussed. Kind of disappointed for a forum that is supposedly technically-minded and able to speak mathematics.

There was this great MIT paper [1] published a while back that's still to be rebuked, talking about the serious technical challenges. Furthermore, there's Maury Markowitz's blogs that have been around for more than a decade showcasing why economically future can never work competitively on the grid [2].

Fusion is great science, it may eventually return a net positive in energy, but it has so many problems that make it impossible to use commercially.

[1]: http://orcutt.net/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/The-Trou...

[2]: https://matter2energy.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/why-fusion-wi...

New comment by jason0597 in "Unboxing a $100 Chromebook"

jason0597 — Sat, 23 Jul 2022 10:18:59 +0000

As per the comment:

> it is also nice knowing that I never have to worry about losing my device since all of my actual work is on a server I can login to using just about any other device including my phone.

New comment by jason0597 in "Congress' push to regulate Big Tech is fizzling out"

jason0597 — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 14:33:10 +0000

> People wanted cars because, for most of the US, they are the only practical transportation method.

And that's because government zoning at the time prioritised suburban single-family house zoning, which in turn created the car-dependent culture. It didn't have to be this way, Rotterdam isn't built this way for example.

New comment by jason0597 in "Congress' push to regulate Big Tech is fizzling out"

jason0597 — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 13:41:12 +0000

> I think you’re misdiagnosing the cause. Nearly everyone I know—my circle skews highly educated and well compensated—cares more about social issues than economic ones.

Of course they would. They are very well educated and very well compensated. Their needs are taken care of, economics isn't at the top of their political concerns list. However, they do not represent the majority of the US, they only represent a tiny minority.

https://www.legalreader.com/low-wage-jobs-are-the-new-americ...

New comment by jason0597 in "Ask HN: Will creative people have jobs in 10 years?"

jason0597 — Tue, 31 May 2022 10:50:28 +0000

No I don't think so. People still pay a pretty penny to watch live music, and the human and emotional interaction with an artist just can't be matched.

America's Lost Boys and Me

jason0597 — Thu, 26 May 2022 21:51:32 +0000

Article URL: https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/americas-lost-boys-and-me

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31523768

Points: 2

# Comments: 8

New comment by jason0597 in "Tech Layoff Tracker"

jason0597 — Thu, 26 May 2022 11:05:07 +0000

I think the fact that companies like Klarna are downsizing is good overall. Klarna literally offers nothing but interest free loans (3 instalments typically), and they tear out your eyeballs if you miss the payments with ridiculous interest rates. Their normal business model makes zero profit, and they solely depend on people missing payments so they can gouge them. Clearly not viable at all...