Hacker News: purpleblue

New comment by purpleblue in "Apple Intelligence is available today on iPhone, iPad, and Mac"

purpleblue — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 16:21:36 +0000

I'm in the US and was asked to join a waitlist.

New comment by purpleblue in "SF MUNI approves $212M technology from Hitachi to replace floppy disks by 2028"

purpleblue — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 14:36:18 +0000

For $212M I think keeping the floppy disks are worth it.

New comment by purpleblue in "A near impossible literacy test Louisiana used to suppress the black vote"

purpleblue — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 23:27:27 +0000

The sheer unadulterated racism from the past is horrifying and sickening. Sure, we still have work to do, but I'm glad we've come so far in the last few decades.

New comment by purpleblue in "19th century lions preyed on humans and giraffes"

purpleblue — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 15:38:31 +0000

I have been a member of /r/natureismetal and I can tell you without a doubt that most prey are eaten alive. Even baboons and chimps eat their prey alive.

New comment by purpleblue in "Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?"

purpleblue — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 19:19:19 +0000

I also read it when I was 16, and throughout my 20s. I haven't read it in 10-15 years now. It's something that speaks to you as a teenager more than it does as an adult, because at least for me it put into words what I hated about the world, ex. phonies, and how I wanted to hold myself to that. I'm in my 50s and I'm not a phony so it won't hit me as hard, but I still remember how much it meant to me.

New comment by purpleblue in "Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?"

purpleblue — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 18:22:47 +0000

Catcher in the Rye was the right book for me at the right age. It really set a North Star for me as to what I wanted to be when I looked at myself in the mirror.

Funny how as I grew older, I found myself understanding more and more about what the older characters were saying, without me sacrificing what made what Holden Caulfield ring so true to me.

Fun fact: in university at the bookstore they had a written poll as to what your favorite book was (before the Internet). I was one of the first ones and wrote down Catcher in the Rye. A month later I read in the school paper that Catcher in the Rye was the winner that year, and it was the first time that the Bible didn't come in first place.

New comment by purpleblue in "Fukushima Reactor: TEPCO robot aims to extract nuclear fuel"

purpleblue — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 18:20:01 +0000

Can you cut the fuel into small pieces and keep them away from each other so that they don't reach such a high temperature?

New comment by purpleblue in "Legalizing sports gambling was a mistake"

purpleblue — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 15:11:56 +0000

I love gambling. I go to Vegas 4-6 times per year, and I play poker at the local casinos/card houses almost every week.

I've NEVER liked sports gambling because it's so hard to predict and I also believe that it's rigged by Vegas and the Mafia. The NBA has already been outed as rigged via referees and the insane actions of refs in last year's Super Bowl by ignoring obvious penalties makes it even worse. The games are obviously tainted as this point. And the fact that none of the leagues want to implement rules that correct wrong penalties only solidifies the fact that they want these things to occur.

New comment by purpleblue in "AlphaProteo generates novel proteins for biology and health research"

purpleblue — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 15:55:49 +0000

I wonder how many prions will be accidentally created by this, or if it can even predict if a particular protein will have prion-like effects

New comment by purpleblue in "Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content"

purpleblue — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 17:34:50 +0000

They don't like the rulings that the Supreme Court has made, so now they are talking about limiting the term of justices, and packing the court with more judges. That is strengthening the integrity of the Supreme Court?

New comment by purpleblue in "Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content"

purpleblue — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 17:33:35 +0000

Perfect example of Whatabout-ism. I'm not talking about China, I'm not a citizen of China and I will never even visit that country. Why are you mentioning China when this is about the US?

New comment by purpleblue in "Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content"

purpleblue — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 17:32:34 +0000

I would say the exact same thing about the Republicans if they were in power. Right now they aren't so they aren't committing the same offenses. I think they are just as capable as being corrupt and fascist like the Democrats are right now.

New comment by purpleblue in "Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content"

purpleblue — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 16:05:04 +0000

It's only doomed to fail because we have a strong Supreme Court. All the efforts by the Democrats to undermine this will only make things easier for fascists to take over the US.

New comment by purpleblue in "Make sports betting taboo again"

purpleblue — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 14:48:41 +0000

I love gambling. I play poker every weekend and go to Las Vegas several times a year, sometimes for less than 24 hrs just to gamble.

Even I think that gambling is ruining sports. I like it when it's off to the side, when people are betting in Vegas and gathered around the sportbooks, but when it's factored directly in the game with TV ads, it's really offputting and highlights how easily sports can be manipulated by corrupt people that want to skew the results.

New comment by purpleblue in "Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules"

purpleblue — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 19:37:37 +0000

I think your reasoning is flawed. When you are aiming for targets with a gun, there is no utility in that. That's like saying a basketball is a tool. Neither guns nor basketballs are tools.

Also, I never once implied that killing is bad. For example, killing animals for food is not bad. Also, killing someone who is trying to kill you is not bad.

New comment by purpleblue in "Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules"

purpleblue — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 18:28:24 +0000

I'm very pro 2nd amendment, but guns are not tools and it's a fallacy to say that.

Guns are used to kill something. In hunting they are used to kill animals, and otherwise they are used to kill other people, or yourself in the case of suicide. You don't do anything with a gun except kill or attempt to kill something.

New comment by purpleblue in "CockroachDB license change"

purpleblue — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 18:37:25 +0000

Were you paying for it?

New comment by purpleblue in "CockroachDB license change"

purpleblue — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 18:35:55 +0000

I guess I don't get it. CockroachDB is decidedly an enterprise product. There's no need for even a medium sized company to require distributed database the likes of CockroachDB. If you're a small company using it, you're just using it for fun, and you're probably not paying.

If you're using it and paying for it, then this doesn't seem like a problem. If you're not using it, then it shouldn't matter. If you're using it but not paying for it, then maybe it's okay that you have to start paying for it.

New comment by purpleblue in "Ask HN: Should we bring software dev in-house?"

purpleblue — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 16:25:25 +0000

Unless you're willing to become a software development company, I would strongly strongly suggest NOT writing the software yourself.

1) Can you acquire this company?

2) Can you talk to other companies that do something similar and migrate to their platform? Or threaten the current company with them losing your business if they don't get their shit together?

2.9B hit in one of largest data breaches; full names and SSNs exposed

purpleblue — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 19:18:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/online-security/29-billion-hit-in-one-of-largest-data-breaches-ever-full-names-addresses-and-ssns-exposed

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41184420

Points: 93

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