Hacker News: mmrezaie

New comment by mmrezaie in "EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'"

mmrezaie — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:18:15 +0000

I did some admin work for the startup around 5 years ago and I have to say EU countries specially mine Sweden is far more clear. In USA you are basically hopeless without a lawyer. but I did a search and for clarity of rule I searched and this came up using AI:

World Bank’s broad “Regulatory Quality” measure supports that direction: Sweden scored 95.28/100 and the US 90.57/100 in its latest comparable 2023 data. I couldn't find EU wide score.

I wanted to help someone to get work visa and I thought it is like Sweden and you just fill a small form, oh boy! We hired a lawyer for just filling the US side application.

New comment by mmrezaie in "LXD is now under Canonical"

mmrezaie — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 13:29:41 +0000

We use canonical tech in 3000 nodes in 4 different data centers. I would be afraid if LXD is going to be locked with juju for orchestration. Juju is not something the industry has been using and it is the source of most our problems e.g. performance overhead, scalability issues and juju not being mixable with other orchestration tools.

I wish LXD team try to keep it open and stop entangling lxd with the rest of canonical tools.

We do not deploy lxd on scale using snap. We build it and have as part of our packer pipeline on rockylinux 8.

Rocky Linux claims to have found 'path forward' from CentOS source purge

mmrezaie — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 07:10:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/28/rocky_linux_rhel_ripples/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36517350

Points: 14

# Comments: 21

New comment by mmrezaie in "Final nail in the coffin of Red Hat rebuilds?"

mmrezaie — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 20:11:02 +0000

Is there a link to rockylinux or almalinux expectation of this news? I just finalized choosing Rockylinux for our next generation HPC clusters!

[edit] this is the link: https://rockylinux.org/news/2023-06-22-press-release/

New comment by mmrezaie in "Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge"

mmrezaie — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 09:52:55 +0000

I think this is a common practice nowadays until the regulations resolved it. Even Google chrome now asks if you changed the default search engine by mistake.

New comment by mmrezaie in "Samsung plans $17B chip plant in Taylor, Texas"

mmrezaie — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 00:53:06 +0000

Bad logic. If the governance e.g., TA is not manipulating market e.g. giving this sort of subsidies in case of failure then market could find the right place. Instead of behind the scene talks, a measurable study would be done and then fabs would be finding a suitable place to establish. I am not saying Samsung has not done studies on the location. Just pointing out the fallacy in the dangerous logic.

New comment by mmrezaie in "Unhook: Hide YouTube Recommendations"

mmrezaie — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 12:59:10 +0000

Not sure why one needs to give so much information to this app while you can view YouTube using brave and hope for fewer data leaks.

New comment by mmrezaie in "Joe Rogan, confined to Spotify, is losing influence"

mmrezaie — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 21:08:22 +0000

I think we all know JRE is not about two people having shit conversation. I used to listen to it since 2016. In the past couple of years, JRE is all about let's bring out what triggers the other side; no matter what the other side is all about.

I have friends I have lost because of this, whom I have no idea how to respond to their messages anymore; Intelligent and educated ones.

Regular people argument doesn't apply in here.

New comment by mmrezaie in "Only Kabul Left Standing as Jalalabad Falls"

mmrezaie — Sun, 15 Aug 2021 09:41:37 +0000

I just saw some videos of teenage girls being dragged to be forced married on the street. Not sure how I can unsee it, really.

New comment by mmrezaie in "Only Kabul Left Standing as Jalalabad Falls"

mmrezaie — Sun, 15 Aug 2021 08:16:18 +0000

Since the last administration, Afghan government was not involved in negotiations with Taliban, and this sudden not calculated retreat. Can someone explain what is the mentality of the people who are agreeing with this. I have not seen one military person interview saying this is what they wanted.

9 Reasons Python Sucks

mmrezaie — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 08:57:06 +0000

Article URL: https://ldpreload.com/blog/9-reason-python-sucks

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27994334

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by mmrezaie in "NSO Group Hacked"

mmrezaie — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 08:37:46 +0000

I agree with these statements. Although I do not understand why this is not making any nosie internationally? NSO (ergo the supporting state) seems to be stealing data from EU leaders as well. Is this mean we have many NSO like companies out there that we do not know about and each country has one and everyone knows about these? Does anyone know what is the Swedish NSO?

New comment by mmrezaie in "UK to depart from GDPR"

mmrezaie — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 10:14:18 +0000

We are counting on this. Actually investments in Sweden for data centers has rissen more than 20-40 percent at the normal rate.

I know that some purchases of cloud services are halted for now to be sure about this. Data movement is going to be increasingly an important matter. It should have been from the begining but here we are.

New comment by mmrezaie in "Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder"

mmrezaie — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 19:00:39 +0000

Honestly that support is meaningless for some areas I know. In our Data Center we have hit problems with old packages and at the end you will end up with a lot of your own packages. In the end I find Debian to be a good base, and you build the rest by yourself. Even though I use Fedora for Desktop, I always have a feeling Debian is the server choice which I can extend further.

New comment by mmrezaie in "Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder"

mmrezaie — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 18:58:19 +0000

For packages like Kubernetes or big data packages one should not use anyone else's builds. I have been finding problems in Cray's modules and eventually we are using our own builds we can reproducibly support using Spack.

New comment by mmrezaie in "Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder"

mmrezaie — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 18:37:00 +0000

By understanding the stability I mean the other two are as stable as far as I have experienced them in the last decade.

New comment by mmrezaie in "Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder"

mmrezaie — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 18:36:14 +0000

I am really interested to know why should anyone go with this when Debian or Ubuntu LTS exist. The two later have not changed their policies in the last decade, and they have a clear path for upgrading. CentOS was always a clear choice for device drivers support, but I never understood the stability claims.

New comment by mmrezaie in "Will R Work on Apple Silicon?"

mmrezaie — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 15:03:21 +0000

Fortran is domninant in HPC (Maybe not dominant, but there are a lot of software in HPC written in Fortran). R uses some performance oriented libraries which most likely implemented in Fortran.

New comment by mmrezaie in "Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in your terminal"

mmrezaie — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 13:57:55 +0000

> ... heavily bloated and resource hungry editors such as VS Code and JetBrains ...

Normally they are fine, but add the indexers and code parsers then everyone is bloated. On my emacs + lsp, lsp is the one using a lot of cpu/memory resources.

> Emacs is still actively used today ... I would change much of the Readme.

New comment by mmrezaie in "AMD to Acquire Xilinx"

mmrezaie — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 21:36:12 +0000

Dicipline of the company is more important than the talent. Oracle has a lot of talent, but they lack the discipline of generating anything novel. They buy the idea. Anyhow semi-conductor industry is different. Apple or Amazon played it in my opinion better although in vastly different markets.