Hacker News: querulous

New comment by querulous in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

querulous — Sat, 23 May 2026 21:03:53 +0000

the number of doctors on j1 extensions the us is going to lose over this is going to seriously impact us healthcare. it's also not uncommon for doctors to practice on an o1 and they'll be impacted also

New comment by querulous in "The Apple Vision Pro"

querulous — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 16:43:55 +0000

the passthrough quality is a real letdown given the marketing. it's like looking at everything through a grimy, unwashed window

i never expected it to be good as a productivity device because my own experience is while screen real estate is nice what really matters is the ergonomics of your work space and wearing a pair of ski goggles is never going to be ergonomic

New comment by querulous in "Formula 1 didn't realize Las Vegas would be cold in November"

querulous — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 01:18:12 +0000

it's also because they wanted to run it at night with all the casinos (and the sphere) on the route lit up. the miami gp started at 1230pm and the montreal gp at 11am (930am and 8am vegas time, respectively) but the las vegas gp route doesn't look half as good in daylight

New comment by querulous in "Switching to Elixir"

querulous — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 01:17:54 +0000

the big risk with elixir imo is that it's runtime/vm is still owned by ericsson and there's no alternative. i know things like firefly exist but they aren't mature replacements (to my knowledge)

New comment by querulous in "Building a high performance JSON parser"

querulous — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 18:44:54 +0000

sometimes it's not your data

New comment by querulous in "iPhone 12 withdrawn from French market for non-compliance with EU regulation"

querulous — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 17:55:08 +0000

that presupposes that france wants to ban the phone. charitably they just want an accurate measurement so they can apply their regulations. the lab has no incentive to find either way

New comment by querulous in "The U.S. housing market vs. the Canadian housing market"

querulous — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 22:44:36 +0000

this is 100% it. there's a ratcheting effect in owning housing in canada. that recent study about how 70% of homes in canada are being bought be investors is completely bogus. 70% of homes in canada are being bought by people who already own homes. often this is "investment" properties like rental units but a significant proportion of it is second ("vacation") properties and parents using their own equity to fund children's home purchases

New comment by querulous in "Apple vs. Meta: The Illusion of Privacy"

querulous — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 19:52:33 +0000

it also advertises news, music and apple tv (and probably all their services, those are just the ones i've noticed)

New comment by querulous in "My favorite Erlang program (2013)"

querulous — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 05:04:40 +0000

it's not as mysterious as it sounds. every data structure (including modules and anonymous functions) has a binary serialization and every erlang vm is also an rpc server that can receive arbitrary data -- including whole programs -- and execute them. your vm of course needs to know about the remote vms to do so but that's where the rudimentary clustering mechanism in erlang comes into play

New comment by querulous in "Elixir saves Pinterest $2M a year in server costs"

querulous — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 21:00:46 +0000

fwiw this is from 2018 and i would say the conclusion from those who were around pinterest at this time and shortly after would not be nearly as positive

New comment by querulous in "Type system updates: moving from research into development"

querulous — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 07:37:55 +0000

how does the type system handle `receive` in erlang/elixir? does it just require every `receive` clause have a catchall case (meaning every `receive` is any -> T) or does it only guarantee type checking in the absence of external messages?

New comment by querulous in "First impressions: Yes, Apple Vision Pro works and yes, it’s good"

querulous — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 17:54:30 +0000

the smartphone killer app was that it fit in your pocket and was useable almost everywhere you were

New comment by querulous in "Apple might be getting into VR at the worst possible time"

querulous — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 16:45:59 +0000

the current generation of vr headsets aren't useable for extended periods. too heavy, too hot and too clunky

losing peripheral vision is a bigger annoyance than i expected also

New comment by querulous in "The new middle-class gambling addicts: how day trading is ruining lives"

querulous — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 04:39:46 +0000

many table games and all sports betting i know of take a commission (the rake). they are definitely not zero sum

New comment by querulous in "MQTT vs. Kafka: An IoT Advocate's Perspective"

querulous — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 22:44:43 +0000

orders of magnitude more expensive than kafka tho. not feasible at scale

New comment by querulous in "Yellen says government will help SVB depositors but rules out bailout"

querulous — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 22:12:19 +0000

i don't think it's as nefarious as that

the issue is that startup founders might have a lot of implied wealth based on the equity they hold and money raised but a "mainstream" bank is going to look at that equity, assess it as non-liquid and highly speculative and reject any loan applications

svb was more likely to extend personal loans to startup founders because -- in theory at least -- they better understood startup finance and they were incentivized to provide good service to prospective customers of their more business focused activities

New comment by querulous in "Let It Fail"

querulous — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 02:59:36 +0000

you know what is more stressful than having too much work? not understanding the work you do have

New comment by querulous in "So what’s next (personal news from developer of popular CoreJS polyfill)"

querulous — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 08:24:40 +0000

it works fine and there's someone happy to do it for free. why would anyone try to compete with it?

New comment by querulous in "Meta to ask many managers to become individual contributors or leave"

querulous — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 04:51:24 +0000

the nuance you are missing is that individual contributors are responsible for their own work and judged based on that. they are not responsible for the work of others. managers are of course responsible for the work of those they supervise

New comment by querulous in "Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]"

querulous — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 23:15:31 +0000

their entire ad backend is in a state of crisis. i have friends who were on the monetization (read: ads) teams at twitter and every single one of them has been asked/ordered to return to work if they want to collect their severance