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New comment by raziel2p in "Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's wind and solar buildout"

raziel2p — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 06:29:40 +0000

have democrats not made similar statements about Trump, him being a danger to democracy and such?

New comment by raziel2p in "Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division"

raziel2p — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 12:03:56 +0000

> The company has more than 1.5 million employees across its warehouses and offices worldwide.

> This includes around 350,000 corporate workers, which include those in executive, managerial and sales roles, according to figures that Amazon submitted to the US government last year.

So roughly 4% of jobs in Amazon's corporate division disappeared. Not to downplay that the world/economy is in a bad state, but I don't think this is very catastrophic.

New comment by raziel2p in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

raziel2p — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 11:32:33 +0000

why the extra step of making them into PDFs?

New comment by raziel2p in "The case against social media is stronger than you think"

raziel2p — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 15:25:50 +0000

I honestly don't think they're that different, from a psychological point of view.

New comment by raziel2p in "The case against social media is stronger than you think"

raziel2p — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 11:22:30 +0000

there may not be an algorithm at work here as there is on Instagram or TikTok, but there's still a bubble - the name, design and discourse of HN itself works as a filter.

New comment by raziel2p in "The case against social media is stronger than you think"

raziel2p — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 10:56:48 +0000

mind-blowing. like tamagochis for the modern age.

New comment by raziel2p in "Debian 13, Postgres, and the US/* time zones"

raziel2p — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 11:24:32 +0000

> At the time, I went "WTF?" and just commented it out to get it running again. I had bigger fish to fry... and just kind of forgot about it. Everything seemed fine.

You're running a database system and you just casually comment out the configuration setting the timezone?

In what way did everything "seem fine"? SELECT 1 returned something? No further investigation required??

New comment by raziel2p in "Spiral"

raziel2p — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 17:52:00 +0000

> Vortex is designed to support decoding data directly from S3 to GPU, skipping the CPU bottleneck entirely.

how is this significant? surely either the network or the GPU calculations is the bottleneck here?

New comment by raziel2p in "GrapheneOS and forensic extraction of data (2024)"

raziel2p — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 17:43:16 +0000

what's the difference?

New comment by raziel2p in "Twitter Shadow Bans Turkish Presidential Candidate"

raziel2p — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 18:04:02 +0000

The world might have people like Erdogan hold less powerful positions if large social platforms like Twitter didn't enable populism and suppression so easily.

New comment by raziel2p in "Twitter Shadow Bans Turkish Presidential Candidate"

raziel2p — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 17:58:01 +0000

How is purchasing advertisement any more safe from free speech suppression than posting on X/Twitter, Instagram or similar? You're still subject to algorithms, and because advertisment goes through a private entity, they can instil arbitrary restrictions with some amount of effort.

New comment by raziel2p in "Some thoughts on LLMs and software development"

raziel2p — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 12:06:23 +0000

Have you considered that LLMs are also biased against new languages and libraries, so the code quality will be worse compared to something more established regardless of what you personally think/feel?

New comment by raziel2p in "Some thoughts on LLMs and software development"

raziel2p — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 12:02:36 +0000

It's very easy to go from what you're describing to a place hamstrung by nitpicking, though. The code review becomes more important than the code itself and appearances start mattering more than results.

New comment by raziel2p in "The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami"

raziel2p — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 11:33:01 +0000

Sometimes, over engineered approaches are necessary to make older software work with environment variables and configmaps, because said software is still designed for traditional VM deployments.

New comment by raziel2p in "The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami"

raziel2p — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 11:27:09 +0000

You'd also have to maintain the helm chart, which is arguably far more work.

If you don't need the bitnami helm chart functionality, using more stock container images is easy and preferable.

New comment by raziel2p in "Youth and what happens when it's gone"

raziel2p — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 19:00:12 +0000

... but by being allowed to be bad at their job at 21, they are more likely to find success later.

New comment by raziel2p in "The top 10% owns 87% of the stocks"

raziel2p — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 09:02:35 +0000

do they? can you give some examples?

New comment by raziel2p in "The top 10% owns 87% of the stocks"

raziel2p — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 08:58:31 +0000

don't fall into the trap of limiting the argument to inheritance, there are far more benefits to being born into a wealthy family.

New comment by raziel2p in "The top 10% owns 87% of the stocks"

raziel2p — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 08:32:13 +0000

> Grok suggests around 15% of US adults are involved in starting or running new businesses, based on recent data. This makes it sound like much of the people in the 10% are there because they started with most of the stock of the companies they created.

.. or those that own stocks are more likely to be in a position to start a company.

one of these possibilities seems more likely than the other if you ask me.

New comment by raziel2p in "The top 10% owns 87% of the stocks"

raziel2p — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 08:26:14 +0000

so how does this align with your opinion/idea that a stock market crash today would reduce inequality? more likely the same thing would just happen again.