Hacker News: jeff_carr

New comment by jeff_carr in "A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months"

jeff_carr — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:10:07 +0000

I'd rather have Brazil be accurate for the future than Idiocracy. Both suck, but Robert Di Nero as the hero HVAC guy is excellent.

New comment by jeff_carr in "Coreutils for Windows"

jeff_carr — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:11:08 +0000

Christ. I'm guessing it's to be BSD so they can pull it back and keep it proprietary at any time also. Never trust Microsoft to act in good faith. We USE THE GPL for a reason.

New comment by jeff_carr in "US national debt reaches a record $37T, the Treasury Department reports"

jeff_carr — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 07:02:32 +0000

Ridiculous claim. Both parties are exactly the same on this issue. It's politics and nothing more. No one has any idea what to do about it.

Well, mathematicians do, but nobody listens to us.

New comment by jeff_carr in "Why DeepSeek is cheap at scale but expensive to run locally"

jeff_carr — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 19:14:41 +0000

I am impressed. Your personal website is down. HN doesn't allow private messages.

I'm Jeff Carr. I co-founded digital ocean. I assume I can't post email addresses here, but I will try. lets see how smart things are from banning me. I am: wit AT wit com

New comment by jeff_carr in "Long live American Science and Surplus"

jeff_carr — Thu, 29 May 2025 03:02:49 +0000

> a GoFundMe for a for-profit enterprise rubs me the wrong way

It should. They should be selling shares. The Green Bay Packers are similar.

New comment by jeff_carr in "Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes"

jeff_carr — Wed, 14 May 2025 13:28:51 +0000

> Huh? Chinese government is insanely bureaucratic.

Indeed. It takes a pretty big bureaucracy to be able to ban the wikipedia. Oh, and ban gmail & all of google. And all news sites in general. Can customize your bus schedule though I guess.

New comment by jeff_carr in "Universe expected to decay in 10⁷⁸ years, much sooner than previously thought"

jeff_carr — Mon, 12 May 2025 16:12:05 +0000

/remindme in 10^60 years

New comment by jeff_carr in "CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract [updated]"

jeff_carr — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 12:50:50 +0000

The contract with MITRE has been extended.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2025/04/16/cve-...

My guess indefinitely.

DOGE might be a bunch of idiots, but in the entire DOD, there are non-idiots.

New comment by jeff_carr in "xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B"

jeff_carr — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 14:17:03 +0000

> This whole thing seems like a big pyramid scheme.

That's because his scam of charging $8k over the price of a Tesla for "self driving" was complete vaporware. It never worked and it never was going to work. I am disappointed I fell for it.

There should be a class action lawsuit against TESLA for everyone that purchased the $8k self driving "feature". We were all told it was "being rolled out". It was a total lie.

New comment by jeff_carr in "The earliest versions of the first C compiler known to exist"

jeff_carr — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 23:57:43 +0000

The first 4 commits in GO are:

commit d82b11e4a46307f1f1415024f33263e819c222b8 Author: Brian Kernighan Date: Fri Apr 1 02:03:04 1988 -0500

    last-minute fix: convert to ANSI C
    
    R=dmr
    DELTA=3  (2 added, 0 deleted, 1 changed)

:100644 100644 8626b30633 a689d3644e M src/pkg/debug/macho/testdata/hello.c

commit 0744ac969119db8a0ad3253951d375eb77cfce9e Author: Brian Kernighan Date: Fri Apr 1 02:02:04 1988 -0500

    convert to Draft-Proposed ANSI C
    
    R=dmr
    DELTA=5  (2 added, 0 deleted, 3 changed)

:100644 100644 2264d04fbe 8626b30633 M src/pkg/debug/macho/testdata/hello.c

commit 0bb0b61d6a85b2a1a33dcbc418089656f2754d32 Author: Brian Kernighan Date: Sun Jan 20 01:02:03 1974 -0400

    convert to C
    
    R=dmr
    DELTA=6  (0 added, 3 deleted, 3 changed)

:100644 000000 05c4140424 0000000000 D src/pkg/debug/macho/testdata/hello.b :000000 100644 0000000000 2264d04fbe A src/pkg/debug/macho/testdata/hello.c

commit 7d7c6a97f815e9279d08cfaea7d5efb5e90695a8 Author: Brian Kernighan Date: Tue Jul 18 19:05:45 1972 -0500

    hello, world
    
    R=ken
    DELTA=7  (7 added, 0 deleted, 0 changed)

:000000 100644 0000000000 05c4140424 A src/pkg/debug/macho/testdata/hello.b

New comment by jeff_carr in "Show HN: "Git who" – A new CLI tool for industrial-scale Git blaming"

jeff_carr — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 11:43:57 +0000

Yes, that is awesome. I wonder if "go" works like that also?

New comment by jeff_carr in "Flappy Bird in 1000 lines of C"

jeff_carr — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 17:25:21 +0000

Cool. It's worth mentioning again, because it seems to not be quite as common knowledge as it should be, C has been deprecated by GO.

New comment by jeff_carr in "SP1: A performant, 100% open-source, contributor-friendly zkVM"

jeff_carr — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 17:23:01 +0000

L. Ron Hubbard has entered the chat.

New comment by jeff_carr in "It's raining PFAS in South Florida – study"

jeff_carr — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 17:35:42 +0000

Trump can just take the whole NOAA budget himself now and replace them with a legal pad and a black sharpie. I assume that's the plan. Say, we can just steal anything from any budget now right?

New comment by jeff_carr in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

jeff_carr — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 17:31:24 +0000

Thank god Biden legalized weed. Oh, wait, nope, they didn't even bother to do that.

New comment by jeff_carr in "Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages"

jeff_carr — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 05:08:16 +0000

> This is bad for the entire industry.

This is Microsoft continuing to demonize free software and Linux. If they actually cared, they would support an open source solution to the problem. SOMETHING THEY ABSOLUTELY OPPOSE. That is the core issue. Say it over and over, Microsoft _DOES NOT WANT A SOLUTION TO THESE PROBLEMS_.

New comment by jeff_carr in "Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages"

jeff_carr — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 05:06:08 +0000

Not at all correct! Nothing of what was said is true. The actual reality is:

* Microsoft makes piles of money from Gaming * Microsoft got involved with Gaming to damage Linux adoption and corporate support (Sony/Linux/Playstation) * Microsoft spends massive amounts of attention on gaming to lock in the general public to Windows * Microsoft continues to lose to Linux * Microsoft uses cheating to lie about open source being 'something something' cheaters

The fact of the matter is that Microsoft has absolutely no interest in an open source solution to these problems and are using these issues to lie, mislead and spread FUD in some absurd fantasy world where only some superior microsoft driven closed source solution is the only possible way this can be solved. All of that is a complete lie. Nothing more.

A smart linux and free software lawyer would be wise to file a class action lawsuit for discovery documents inside Microsoft where one would undoubtedly find piles of emails between the executives hell bent on doing everything to damage Linux adoption have stupidly wielded this unidentified axe which is actually a -4 cursed boat anchor.

Anyone that tells you that computer security or trust can only be done with proprietary software is lying to you for their own benefit.

New comment by jeff_carr in "AMD Unveils Its First Small Language Model AMD-135M"

jeff_carr — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 02:17:52 +0000

Has anyone tried it? I mean, I would, but as far as I can tell understand I need 4 boxes with 4 GPU's. Plus an interconnect. I mean, I could put in an order for my homelab but at around $80k per box and maybe $20k for the right switches and some other gear, my wife will probably frown at me ordering a $340,000 rig to try this code that I don't know what to do with it if it works.

Maybe some other heavy hitter out there can explain what all this whatchamacallit newfangled synergy producing matrix algebra does after you have it running?

New comment by jeff_carr in "Trove of dinosaur fossils found high in B.C. mountains"

jeff_carr — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 17:58:55 +0000

Black rock around white bone could be volcanic ash or mud buried the bones, then pushed down into the mantle just right, heated it under lots of pressure and cooked it all into rock like a kiln?

New comment by jeff_carr in "Cautionary tale on using Chase bank for indie business"

jeff_carr — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 19:23:44 +0000

There are lots of us that made good money over the years and your books were important to lots of us.

Sell signed copies of your books for $1000 at the klein bottle store so we can buy them. Let us help you have fun in your retirement! (A signature or signed bottle would be awesome too.)