Hacker News: posedge

New comment by posedge in "Meta lays off 11,000 people"

posedge — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 17:01:00 +0000

I'm surprised by this direct and candid tone.

New comment by posedge in "The image in this post displays its own MD5 hash"

posedge — Sat, 24 Sep 2022 09:52:11 +0000

Given that an md5 hash is 128 bit, by simple brute force, you would need to try 2^128 variants (in expectation) to find the matching hash. Thats rougly 10^38 combinations. That's a huge number, I can't imagine that the author simply hashed variants until one happened to match, there must habe been some other technique involved.

New comment by posedge in "Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch"

posedge — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 18:31:25 +0000

I agree with most of what you said, but can't think of a single game that looks good on the Switch (by today's standards). Can you name some examples?

New comment by posedge in "Toxic Productivity"

posedge — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 11:41:52 +0000

Can you give some examples of which things haven't changed?

New comment by posedge in "What science says: Could humans survive a nuclear war between NATO and Russia?"

posedge — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 15:44:20 +0000

Care being a bit more specific?

New comment by posedge in "Boyfriend-alert – A light based alert system"

posedge — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 10:52:22 +0000

Fortunately, having discord running in the background will interrupt you another 1927329 times that day for equally important things

New comment by posedge in "They're putting guns on robot dogs now"

posedge — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 14:27:52 +0000

Yikes. It even looks like the killer robot dogs from black mirror.

New comment by posedge in "Web Browser Engineering"

posedge — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 16:41:31 +0000

Maybe we should have a SaaS browser.

New comment by posedge in "Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation over the American"

posedge — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 13:30:30 +0000

The only true format is the programmer's yyyy-mm-dd :)

New comment by posedge in "WhatsApp will progressively kill features until users accept new privacy policy"

posedge — Sat, 08 May 2021 09:33:12 +0000

Hate to be the bearer of bad news but you're probably hurting yourself far more than them

New comment by posedge in "Ask HN: What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?"

posedge — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 12:30:48 +0000

I currently have a full time job. There is the option of reducing to 80%, but that comes with the respective salary cut. I'm wondering if it's worth it, also the increased productivity is not accounted for from a financial perspective.

New comment by posedge in "Ask HN: What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?"

posedge — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 09:50:35 +0000

Sounds like a dream. I'd love to work in short bursts of highly productive work instead of full work weeks of mostly lingering around and wasted time to fill the hours. I wonder though, how does it work out financially?

New comment by posedge in "Ask HN: What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?"

posedge — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 09:44:35 +0000

Agreed. For me personally, commuting is a big factor - I love not doing it... Unfortunately, permanent WFH will probably not work for me for other reasons, in particular I think that the face to face interaction with coworkers cannot be replaced...

New comment by posedge in "Speeding up SQL queries by orders of magnitude using UNION"

posedge — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 09:26:33 +0000

Clever optimization engines are IMO no excuse for blindly throwing queries at it and not knowing what's going on. Every optimizer has some corner cases in which it fails and I'd argue that as a good developer you should know when they can happen.

Additionally, in this example, the rewritten query is easier to read and maintain.

New comment by posedge in "Telegram: Voice Chats 2.0:Channels, Millions of Listeners, Recorded Chats"

posedge — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 19:01:34 +0000

With each of those blog posts I'm fascinated by the pace at which they release new features.

New comment by posedge in "The Problem with Gradle"

posedge — Sat, 16 Jan 2021 14:41:47 +0000

Yeah about that, do you have some insight on why the X background daemons are always 'incompatible' and gradle launches up new ones?

New comment by posedge in "Maximizing Developer Effectiveness"

posedge — Sat, 16 Jan 2021 13:56:57 +0000

Probably better than being on Hacker News at 1 in the morning on a Tuesday.

New comment by posedge in "A CSV file with 80k tweets from the day of the capitol hill riots"

posedge — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 11:54:50 +0000

Are the tweets filtered for the event in any way, or is it just a random collection from all of twitter on that day?

New comment by posedge in "Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their ad spend"

posedge — Sun, 03 Jan 2021 20:01:09 +0000

Listening to the podcast just a minute ago as I found this post... What a coincidence. I second that recommendation.

New comment by posedge in "Does Apple really log every app you run? A technical look"

posedge — Sun, 15 Nov 2020 10:44:05 +0000

Something like that would be happening very gradually over time.