Hacker News: rr888

New comment by rr888 in "Negativity drives online news consumption"

rr888 — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 20:10:49 +0000

I agreed with the headline but now I think about it lots of interesting and or funny stuff too. Look at HN as an example.

New comment by rr888 in "Ask HN: What has your personal website/blog done for you?"

rr888 — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 20:08:45 +0000

I started, I just didn't have the time and realized my blog was **. Looking around most other blogs are equally bad. There are some good writers out ther but the majority of tech people aren't.

New comment by rr888 in "TypeScript 5.0"

rr888 — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 19:52:32 +0000

I agree TS is great. Not really multi threaded kills it for me though.

New comment by rr888 in "Anyone else witnessing a panic inside NLP orgs of big tech companies?"

rr888 — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 13:05:55 +0000

Liberal arts education will one day be back in fashion.

New comment by rr888 in "Guide to Java Virtual Threads"

rr888 — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 13:03:53 +0000

Can I forget about reactive programming now? Its been fashionable for the last 5+ years, I hate it. Kinda cool to play around with but just seems to double the complexity on everything.

New comment by rr888 in "Credit Suisse sheds nearly 25%, key backer says no more money"

rr888 — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 17:22:52 +0000

Our HOA has upcoming $1.5mil bill coming for a big job.

New comment by rr888 in "Credit Suisse sheds nearly 25%, key backer says no more money"

rr888 — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 13:06:16 +0000

The problem with all these banks disappearing is that there are continuously fewer and fewer choices left. Eventually there will be a handful of megabanks and nothing else. I guess this is happening in every industry these days.

New comment by rr888 in "Show HN: Safe Data Changes in PostgreSQL"

rr888 — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 22:05:00 +0000

In the past I've done a few different ways but now I see strict infosec rules, That part is more important than where it runs. eg My last job we had a workflow where you needed a ticket approved by second eyes, which used CyberArk to create a new remote desktop running a DB IDE where you could do your business. Commands were tracked but no real restriction..

New firm you get your personal account temporary RW permissions via a centralized service.

New comment by rr888 in "Show HN: Safe Data Changes in PostgreSQL"

rr888 — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 20:15:52 +0000

Its something every support desk should have. I often write my own tools like this. Ideally write a select query, execute it, note how many rows it selets, copy the where clause, start transaction, update using the where clause, execute, check rowcount matches what you selected earlier, commit trans.

New comment by rr888 in "FBI chief says TikTok 'screams' of US national security concerns"

rr888 — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 18:11:05 +0000

Now you know what it feels like to be the rest of the world relying on American tech companies.

New comment by rr888 in "How Californians are weaponizing environmental law to eliminate housing"

rr888 — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 18:08:43 +0000

In most buildings there is no concrete between walls but floors have a ~1 inch layer of lightweight-concrete, I think for fire resistance, its not solid so you hear every footprint.

New comment by rr888 in "How Californians are weaponizing environmental law to eliminate housing"

rr888 — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 18:03:19 +0000

I'm not sure about connected, but I do like being able to walk the stairs to the apt, being able to open a door to a balcony. Its also less instrusive to the neighborhood than a tower which overlooks everyone.

New comment by rr888 in "How Californians are weaponizing environmental law to eliminate housing"

rr888 — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 18:01:20 +0000

Actually its a good thing about our condo is independent heat pumps per unit so everyone gets their own air handler and ducts. Its expensive to replace each one individuall though.

New comment by rr888 in "How Californians are weaponizing environmental law to eliminate housing"

rr888 — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 15:53:26 +0000

I live in one, it isn't that awesome. Lots of noise from neighbours, but the worst thing is the big fire hazard. The risk of fire means there is a lot of sprinklers everywhere which regularly get damaged and leak everywhere. Usually every 2-3 years in our building a sprinkler pipe will get broken or leak will appear and destroy a few units.

New comment by rr888 in "Zero energy ready homes are coming"

rr888 — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 12:56:27 +0000

Well in my state generally the wealthiest people live in suburbs and pay all the taxes. The poorest areas are in cities and get the subsidies. So the suburbs are subsidising the cities. And that was before everyone started WFH so downtowns are now really empty.

New comment by rr888 in "Zero energy ready homes are coming"

rr888 — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 00:09:02 +0000

> economically uncompetitive

How can you say that? Usually nice suburbs pay huge amount in taxes that subsidize urban cores.

New comment by rr888 in "Graduate students at the University of Southern California have won a union"

rr888 — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 00:02:48 +0000

Tuition paid by grad workers are likely to go up to pay for their own wages.

New comment by rr888 in "The perks workers want also make them more productive"

rr888 — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 16:36:53 +0000

I'd quite like a keyboard and mouse that is better quality that the $9 specials most companies prefer.

New comment by rr888 in "The floppy disk just won’t die"

rr888 — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 16:31:09 +0000

Similarly its terrifying when you hear the drive clunking away on a bad disk when you know there will be an error before the screen shows it.

New comment by rr888 in "Iran discovers world’s second largest lithium reserve"

rr888 — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 17:21:57 +0000

The main point is people in Northern lattitudes needs most of their energy in the Winter, especially winter nights. Its a very different problem to Southern states where peak energy use is hot sunny days.

As for distortions the biggest problem with retail users is that panels have changed the market but people still expect to use the old rules. Eg be self sufficient 320 days a year but expect eletricity on demand at the same low rates on the few days they need the grid. That isn't scalable and home solar people are getting an unfair advantage from the system, which is why utilities (rightfully) dont like it.