Hacker News: krakensden

New comment by krakensden in "A Year of Tech Solidarity"

krakensden — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 15:07:55 +0000

No, we're too rich.

New comment by krakensden in "“We have obtained fully functional JTAG for Intel CSME via USB DCI”"

krakensden — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 16:18:14 +0000

AMD and ARM have 'TrustZone', which is not the same, but if you don't trust it maybe you're in trouble.

New comment by krakensden in "Corporate Unpersoning"

krakensden — Sat, 04 Nov 2017 14:47:54 +0000

Is it really true that there is no censorship at the dns level? The creeps at the daily stormer seem to have been run off the internet, it seems sort of like the reason dns has been 'safe' in the past is that people didn't lobby the dns providers.

New comment by krakensden in "Soylent can no longer ship to Canada"

krakensden — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 14:33:11 +0000

Nutrition science has an ugly history of wrongness and capture by industry. I am also extremely wary of psychology, which puttered along doing bad work for decades before the current replication crisis. We could all have a foodfight about Economics for fifty years.

There is a bunch of foundational stuff in science that is great, but like any human endeavour, there is also plenty of garbage and nonsense.

New comment by krakensden in "Study finds putting people in prison increases re-offence rate vs. probation"

krakensden — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 14:27:30 +0000

People call Texas' climate harsh all the time, it's pretty darn hot there in the summer.

New comment by krakensden in "Nothing Is Too Strange for Cities Wooing Amazon to Build There"

krakensden — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 15:10:06 +0000

Probably not, most cities in the US purposefully restrict growth, and most of the affordable ones are only affordable through lack of demand and the slack from white flight, decades ago. Texas is the big exception, they have a ton of cheap land and very few rules.

New comment by krakensden in "Allocation Efficiency in High-Performance Go Services"

krakensden — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 00:31:36 +0000

The interface problem seems like something the compiler team should fix or mitigate. I worry this post is going to cause a lot of premature restrictionism.

New comment by krakensden in "Apple Scales Back Its Ambitions for a Self-Driving Car"

krakensden — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 14:56:58 +0000

I see the Waymo cars puttering around. The existence proof is there.

New comment by krakensden in "Instagram photos reveal predictive markers of depression"

krakensden — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 15:20:26 +0000

And in 10 years, this will be a part of your Citizen Score.

I should burn this nickname and be more diligent about persona management. Or get off social media entirely.

New comment by krakensden in "Mercedes kills their only electric car"

krakensden — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 15:20:17 +0000

People seem pretty enthused about it in meatspace, if not online.

New comment by krakensden in "Why I’m Frustrated with Go"

krakensden — Sun, 23 Jul 2017 14:55:04 +0000

People say this, but it isn't really true- you could use the sort.Interface interface like everyone else. Consumer wants to use your custom map with their custom type? Make sure it supports Less.

Speaking of sort.Interface, people say they want generics, but I think there is an implicit ask for operator overloading, too. Or the code they are asking to not write is probably still going to be there.

New comment by krakensden in "The Decline of Investment in San Francisco Startups"

krakensden — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 15:46:53 +0000

The higher the %, the more expensive the market rate apartments have to be, which creates its own pressures. It also seems that every time a developer caves, no one is satisfied, and people are back demanding a higher number.

New comment by krakensden in "Concourse CI"

krakensden — Mon, 17 Jul 2017 15:27:02 +0000

The really important things for me are, Concourse has no text boxes to edit in your browser, so it is possible to version and automate the configuration of your automation, and all Concourse resources (plugin equivalents) are zero dependency- so you can have multiple versions in one pipeline, and no accidentally breaking everything to get one new feature.

New comment by krakensden in "Concourse CI"

krakensden — Mon, 17 Jul 2017 15:22:19 +0000

The version of Garden it uses basically just shells out to Docker. Run 'top' on a busy Concourse worker, it's fun.

New comment by krakensden in "Concourse CI"

krakensden — Mon, 17 Jul 2017 15:17:03 +0000

100+ jobs will break your browser. RabbitMQ has been complaining about it for a while.

New comment by krakensden in "Remacs – A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust"

krakensden — Mon, 17 Jul 2017 15:05:17 +0000

Requirements.txt + virtualenv, everything is fine.

Really, significantly easier to not screw up in a large org than bundler, because dependencies don't leak by default.

New comment by krakensden in "Concourse CI"

krakensden — Mon, 17 Jul 2017 06:09:13 +0000

The standalone binaries work great, you don't need BOSH or cloudfoundry.

New comment by krakensden in "As opioid overdoses exact a higher price, communities ponder who should be saved"

krakensden — Sun, 16 Jul 2017 23:17:30 +0000

Medicare Part D is the bit of law involved. Here is a randomly googled column with some history from a reputable paper: http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-medica...

New comment by krakensden in "On being the employee who “needs improvement”"

krakensden — Sat, 15 Jul 2017 15:17:08 +0000

If you're worried about that, make them public. Middle managers are easier to get than programmers, so you may have leverage walking up the chain to your boss's boss.

New comment by krakensden in "Despite money and effort, homelessness in SF as bad as ever"

krakensden — Tue, 27 Jun 2017 22:00:02 +0000

San Francisco was like this before the current tech boom, too- http://www.salon.com/1999/11/03/sf/ it dates back to the 1980s- http://projects.sfchronicle.com/sf-homeless/overview/

Really nothing to do with YC.