Hacker News: michaelwww

New comment by michaelwww in "I hate living in my tiny house (2019)"

michaelwww — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 23:39:51 +0000

I didn't really get what they hate about it. I read some mild annoyances, which I had a hard time understanding because I grew up in an 800 sq ft house with 2 parents and 5 kids, then served on a submarine in the US Navy. I'm probably an outlier in the low direction in terms of Americans and their space requirements.

New comment by michaelwww in "Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon"

michaelwww — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 05:00:08 +0000

I get what you're saying but I don't think it's that depressing or surprising, but that's a big discussion better had in other places.

New comment by michaelwww in "Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon"

michaelwww — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 21:26:31 +0000

If you owned Twitter and the site was suddenly flooded with calls to attack election officials and raid election offices what would you do? You'd probably meet with your lawyers and find out what kind of liability you had, then you'd field calls from advertisers saying they are all leaving unless you stop it. You'd also field calls from all your friends telling you that you need to stop it. Then you'd go for a walk and contemplate how you feel about people using your site to facilitate armed rebellion. Then you'd figure out how much money you were willing to lose over doing it your way. The most sensible thing to do at the point is pull the plug for a few weeks for "technical issues related to the purchase' and go home and get a good nights sleep.

New comment by michaelwww in "Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon"

michaelwww — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 20:45:54 +0000

> What exactly is he supposed to do?

When Twitter is flooded with threats of violence and calls to form mobs will he just do nothing? Is that what you are suggesting? He can take the site dark if he wants and he may have to.

New comment by michaelwww in "Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon"

michaelwww — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 20:22:53 +0000

It will be easy to switch to another platform and there will be tools to help as this post indicates. 4chan users are having fun saying the N word on Twitter and Le Bron James is complaining about it. And this is only day 2. I certainly think people should be able to exercise free speech, but that doesn't mean I have to listen to it. I can go somewhere else if Twitter gets too depressing.

New comment by michaelwww in "Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon"

michaelwww — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 20:09:50 +0000

I find this whole situation to be incredibly depressing, especially with Musk tweeting out a fact free insinuation about Paul Pelosi (since deleted without apology.) The proverbial shit is going to hit the fan on Twitter on election night Nov 8 in America and I don't think Musk is prepared to handle it. I'd love to live in a country where we could have nice things, but apparently America is not it.

New comment by michaelwww in "Michael Crichton’s and John Grisham’s ambition types"

michaelwww — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 17:55:44 +0000

I haven't read Grisham but that's how I felt about Crichton's books. His books were treatments designed to made into a movie and read like that.

New comment by michaelwww in "TMG (language): A self-hosted compiler from scratch on paper"

michaelwww — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 20:28:07 +0000

Ken Thompson interviewed by Brian Kernighan at VCF East 2019 (min 39, sec 46)

https://youtu.be/EY6q5dv_B-o?t=2386

Describes how Douglas McIlroy designed a language, wrote a compiler in the language that he designed that didn't exist yet and hand converted this compiler to assembly. Ken Thompson says it's one of the most impressive things he's ever seen in his life.

TMG (language): A self-hosted compiler from scratch on paper

michaelwww — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 20:23:40 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMG_(language)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33218272

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by michaelwww in "Crimean bridge: Who – or what – caused the explosion?"

michaelwww — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 20:56:35 +0000

From the size of it, I'd say it's about the size of Timothy McVeigh's Oklahoma city bomb, which was a 16 ton truck filled with fertilizer. All trucks over this bridge were supposedly inspected, so I think it would have to be a more compact explosive. Perhaps the secret services have classified explosives the could produce this kind of explosive punch just from a car trunk load?

New comment by michaelwww in "Ten Years of TypeScript"

michaelwww — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 20:25:11 +0000

Debate (almost 10 years ago) TypeScript vs. Dart about the best way to improve JavaScript

Anders Hejlsberg (Microsoft) and Lars Bak (Google): TypeScript, JavaScript, and Dart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AqbCQuK0gM

New comment by michaelwww in "Tesla previews humanoid robot, but Musk cautions it is not ready just yet"

michaelwww — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 02:59:58 +0000

not ready just yet? It looks like it barely does anything

https://twitter.com/BriannaWu/status/1576021072239300608

New comment by michaelwww in "US Government plans to develop AI that can unmask anonymous writers"

michaelwww — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 21:52:14 +0000

You're right, the novelty would wear off quickly, but it doesn't hurt anything for me to organize a data set about myself just in case

New comment by michaelwww in "US Government plans to develop AI that can unmask anonymous writers"

michaelwww — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 21:26:05 +0000

I'm old so I've been planning on this for awhile. I have a folder that contains all my personal data: photos and videos, journal, all my saved social media posts, all my emails and all my anonymous handles leading to everything I've ever written online. My thinking is an AI could create a reasonable facsimile of myself that my descendants could have a conversation with. I think it'd be better than a autobiography since Joyce Carol Oates convinced me by something she tweeted that no one reads autobiographies, not even close family, unless you are famous.

New comment by michaelwww in "Santa Cruz is a Housing Nightmare"

michaelwww — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 20:12:22 +0000

I'm not even sure what NIMBY means but if it means concerned about the development in my hometown then I'm NIMBY.

New comment by michaelwww in "Santa Cruz is a Housing Nightmare"

michaelwww — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 19:48:26 +0000

I repeat, the University should build dorms on their land up on the hill. They have plenty of it, but they want to preserve it's natural beauty

New comment by michaelwww in "Santa Cruz is a Housing Nightmare"

michaelwww — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 19:46:35 +0000

The locals wonder why UCSC doesn't build housing on their land? Admittedly, it's a beautiful spot up on the hill and housing blocks in the meadow would be a crying shame from an aesthetic standpoint. So don't expand the university to preserve the meadow.

New comment by michaelwww in "Santa Cruz is a Housing Nightmare"

michaelwww — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 19:42:56 +0000

Ok, I'm NIMBY. So? I'm sure you would too if they were to build a 5 story apartment building overlooking your backyard. My point is that Santa Cruz and San Jose are very different. Santa Cruz is a spot of natural beauty worth preserving. There really aren't many beach towns like it on the coast. The closest one to the North is probably Pacifica 50 miles north. Santa Cruz doesn't have much more land available while San Jose has a lot of land. Also it makes sense to build up in San Jose, which it's doing. San Jose has a lot of room for growth, Santa Cruz does not. San Jose is a like many other California cities, Santa Cruz is unique, which is why massive amounts of tourists come from the Central Valley and Santa Clara Valley to enjoy a day at the beach at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk.

New comment by michaelwww in "Santa Cruz is a Housing Nightmare"

michaelwww — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 19:35:36 +0000

I guess we could just let the homeless smoke meth and shoot heroin in the Redwood forests like we used to and not do anything

New comment by michaelwww in "Santa Cruz is a Housing Nightmare"

michaelwww — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 19:22:05 +0000

They are... several huge apartment blocks downtown that are ugly as sin but necessary. The homeless problem in Santa Cruz is mostly about drugs and mental illness. People who couldn't keep an apartment if you provided them with one.