Hacker News: knightofmars

New comment by knightofmars in "Restaurant Menu Tricks (2020)"

knightofmars — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 00:14:56 +0000

we're currently in a nostalgia cycle, "2024 Classic Recipe"

New comment by knightofmars in "Tech Layoffs Keep Coming. Why Is Head Count Barely Budging?"

knightofmars — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 05:17:01 +0000

It can go "swell", but when it doesn't then it's a train wreck of the worst sort. And boy do the blame and the finger pointing go into overdrive when the wreck happens.

New comment by knightofmars in "White House urges devs to switch to memory-safe programming languages"

knightofmars — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 03:56:39 +0000

The description of memory safe languages referenced in the original article(s).

https://media.defense.gov/2023/Apr/27/2003210083/-1/-1/0/CSI...

New comment by knightofmars in "Consumers are increasingly pushing back against price increases – and winning"

knightofmars — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 00:37:16 +0000

Preface, I'm not a vegan or vegetarian. I also hunt and have killed and butchered animals for meat.

That people consider meat an inelastic good shows a cultural and commercial brainwashing. The idea that an individual or family could go without meat is practically heresy in the United States. Frankly, it's ridiculous and shows a fundamental lack of imagination and willingness to accept that reality doesn't guarantee anyone's ability to acquire cheap hamburger, chicken breasts, bacon, or any other meat.

New comment by knightofmars in "Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]"

knightofmars — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 14:10:16 +0000

Absolutely, this is a often ignored or missed aspect of building systems. Quantifying risk in a fashion that all parties have the same understanding of said risk can be very difficult. There has to be a common language and agreed upon thresholds of risk. After developing shared understanding of risk, it's much easier to highlight and change the behaviors of individuals and the teams.

New comment by knightofmars in "Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]"

knightofmars — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 14:00:49 +0000

This is absolutely not petty, you are doing your job (to provide value to the organization) and doing it extremely well. The work you are doing provides more value to your organization than you seem to realize. If I were your manager I would be pushing to get you a raise/promotion with this as the reason.

New comment by knightofmars in "Posing as Americans, Chinese accounts on X aim to divide and disrupt"

knightofmars — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 01:33:05 +0000

"Believe it. Men have ever been the same / And all the golden age is but a dream." - Congreve, 1700

New comment by knightofmars in "Expert sounds alarm on new wave of US opioids crisis"

knightofmars — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 17:05:04 +0000

Florida has a history of being supported by and enabling drug money.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/aug/03/cocaine...

New comment by knightofmars in "Big Pharma hiked the price of 775 drugs this year so far: Report"

knightofmars — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 00:24:43 +0000

The free market will fix it. People who need these drugs can just shop around and get a better deal. What's the alternative? Socialism? gasp (This is sarcasm.)

New comment by knightofmars in "Older Americans say they feel trapped in Medicare Advantage plans"

knightofmars — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 01:53:05 +0000

A significant number, yes. Because "socialism".

New comment by knightofmars in "US healthcare illustrated: The impossibility of getting a bill for five stitches"

knightofmars — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 14:06:02 +0000

And lobbying makes sure they won't.

New comment by knightofmars in "LockBit says it's leaked 50GB of stolen Boeing files after ransom fails to land"

knightofmars — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 17:49:59 +0000

It's still impossible to prove the files were deleted even if they don't release after the initial payment. All it takes is a single individual in a group to make a backup or have a default policy of keeping a backup "just in case".

One should assume at this point that it's not a question of whether the files will be leaked but when.

New comment by knightofmars in "Restoring the Everglades to ensure South Florida's freshwater supply"

knightofmars — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 03:29:53 +0000

The CIA worked to overthrow the democratically elected government of Guatemala to protect the interests of United Fruit Company (now Chiquita Banana).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company

New comment by knightofmars in "Mass producing the most expensive rice cooker [video]"

knightofmars — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 13:51:59 +0000

Turns out the bowl is relatively easy to replace via the Zojirushi website as well. I've done it twice and even contacted them once to ask if they had any in stock. They responded in a day and then updated their web store inventory.

New comment by knightofmars in "Solution 26370: Removing a new Texas Instruments calculator from the package"

knightofmars — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 00:43:39 +0000

A handheld can opener will remove plastic shells if the shape of the package allows.

New comment by knightofmars in "Ancient tools thought to be made by humans were made by monkeys: archaeologists"

knightofmars — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 22:07:48 +0000

To add context, I don't believe this comment was intended as a joke and others shouldn't down-vote it as such due to the sibling comment made in poor taste.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

New comment by knightofmars in "Queueing Theory: An introduction for software development"

knightofmars — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 01:32:28 +0000

Came here to post the same. I found it to be a valuable resource all around.

https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Product-Development-Flow-G...

New comment by knightofmars in "What if public transit was like Uber? A small city ended bus service to find out"

knightofmars — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 21:37:46 +0000

Feel free to give us accurate numbers.

New comment by knightofmars in "Why SaaS prices are still going up when companies are spending less"

knightofmars — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 19:57:37 +0000

Um, capitalism?

New comment by knightofmars in "Ask HN: For older devs, do you feel like you have missed your prime time?"

knightofmars — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 23:31:17 +0000

This surprises me. Having a security background in software engineering is worth an exceptional amount to the right parties.