<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: rrauenza</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rrauenza</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:05:22 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=rrauenza" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rrauenza in "A Decade of Slug"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Here's an alternate if you're also getting connection reset errors:<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20260317185928/https://terathon.com/blog/decade-slug.html" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20260317185928/https://terathon....</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:07:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47417611</link><dc:creator>rrauenza</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47417611</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47417611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rrauenza in "Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin split (2010)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My mnemonic is “In Essence” and “for EGsample”</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2026 18:25:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46490691</link><dc:creator>rrauenza</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46490691</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46490691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dark Energy Double-Take: The Universe May Not Be Accelerating After All]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://studyfinds.org/universe-not-accelerating/">https://studyfinds.org/universe-not-accelerating/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45836746">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45836746</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 16:12:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://studyfinds.org/universe-not-accelerating/</link><dc:creator>rrauenza</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45836746</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45836746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rrauenza in "Python Steering Council unanimously accepts "PEP 810, Explicit lazy imports""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>soft keyword for anyone not familiar like I was ...<p>"A new soft keyword lazy is added. A soft keyword is a context-sensitive keyword that only has special meaning in specific grammatical contexts; elsewhere it can be used as a regular identifier (e.g., as a variable name). The lazy keyword only has special meaning when it appears before import statements..."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 21:13:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45804526</link><dc:creator>rrauenza</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45804526</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45804526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rrauenza in "Bcachefs removed from the mainline kernel"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've been using btrfs for maybe 10 years now? -- on a single Linux home NAS.  I use it in a raid1c3 config (I used to do c2).  raid1cN is mirroring with N copies.  I have compression on.  I use snapshots rarely.<p>I've had a few issues, but no data loss:<p>* Early versions of btrfs had an issue where you'd run out of metadata space (if I recall).  You had to rebalance and sometimes add some temporary space do that.<p>* One of my filesystems wasn't optimally aligned because btrfs didn't do that automatically (or something like that -- this was a long time ago.)  A very very minor issue.<p>* Corruption (but no data loss, so I'm not sure it's corruption per se...) during a device replacement.<p>This last one caused no data loss, but a lot of error messages.  I started a logical device removal, removed the device physically, rebooted, and then accidentally readded the physical device while it was still removing it logically.  It was not happy.  I physically removed the device again, finished the logical remove, and did a scrub and the fsck equivalent.  No errors.<p>I think that's a testament to its resiliency, but also a testament how you can shoot yourself in the foot.<p>I've never used RAID5/6 on btrfs and don't plan to -- partly because of the scary words around it, but I also assume the rebuild time is longer.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 18:35:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45429364</link><dc:creator>rrauenza</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45429364</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45429364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rrauenza in "The bloat of edge-case first libraries"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think of this as fail fast.  Fail immediately so its easy to root cause the failure and not have it be hidden and cause more obscure side effects later.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2025 17:42:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45324954</link><dc:creator>rrauenza</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45324954</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45324954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rrauenza in "You can't test if quantum uses complex numbers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Today I learned that complex numbers can be represented by matrices... thanks! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbUewIIpl6I" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbUewIIpl6I</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 17:37:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45278908</link><dc:creator>rrauenza</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45278908</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45278908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rrauenza in "Bulletproof host Stark Industries evades EU sanctions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are you thinking of HP or did they both do it?<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gnjb1WVkhmU" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gnjb1WVkhmU</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 19:47:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45215425</link><dc:creator>rrauenza</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45215425</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45215425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rrauenza in "How to Get Foreign Keys Horribly Wrong"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How can we determine if an index can be satisfied by a constraint index?<p>For example, does the FK need to be the first field in a unique together?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 19:24:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44608793</link><dc:creator>rrauenza</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44608793</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44608793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Assembly – Space Invaders ships remaining not initialized]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/31797/space-invaders-ships-remaining-not-initialized">https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/31797/space-invaders-ships-remaining-not-initialized</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44357844">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44357844</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2025 17:11:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/31797/space-invaders-ships-remaining-not-initialized</link><dc:creator>rrauenza</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44357844</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44357844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rrauenza in "Brad Lander detained by masked federal agents inside immigration court"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I hope to see qualified immunity eventually re-evaluated by the courts due to this...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2025 17:42:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44301712</link><dc:creator>rrauenza</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44301712</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44301712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big Bang theory is wrong, claim scientists]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/10/big-bang-theory-is-wrong-claim-scientists/">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/10/big-bang-theory-is-wrong-claim-scientists/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44241449">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44241449</a></p>
<p>Points: 20</p>
<p># Comments: 8</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2025 21:08:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/10/big-bang-theory-is-wrong-claim-scientists/</link><dc:creator>rrauenza</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44241449</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44241449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rrauenza in "Company Reminder for Everyone to Talk Nicely About the Giant Plagiarism Machine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks for helping pick apart the argument presented to me.<p>I don't like the idea that photos I've published on, say, flickr have been pulled into these.  Especially stuff I've published with creative commons non-commercial use.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2025 00:16:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44036411</link><dc:creator>rrauenza</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44036411</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44036411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rrauenza in "Company Reminder for Everyone to Talk Nicely About the Giant Plagiarism Machine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They are.  I meant the subset of fan art of the infringing type where you make fan art of, say, Mickey Mouse and sell stickers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2025 00:06:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44036341</link><dc:creator>rrauenza</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44036341</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44036341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rrauenza in "Company Reminder for Everyone to Talk Nicely About the Giant Plagiarism Machine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wasn't intending to include fan art.<p>Copying Miyazaki's style ... or copying Monet's style... those aren't fan art.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 20:32:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44034517</link><dc:creator>rrauenza</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44034517</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44034517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rrauenza in "Company Reminder for Everyone to Talk Nicely About the Giant Plagiarism Machine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I had this argument presented to me and I wasn't sure what to do with it.<p>> Humans are allowed to "absorb" art around them into their brains and generate derivative art. People may copy Miyazaki's style... why shouldn't an AI farm be allowed to?<p>Let's put aside for a moment that AI may have "consumed" some art without a license (e.g., "google books" - did google purchase every book?).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 18:42:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44033268</link><dc:creator>rrauenza</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44033268</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44033268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rrauenza in "Static Types Are for Perfectionists"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Agreed -- dataclasses over dicts.  And for legacy code I try to move them to typed dictionaries.<p>Pydantic is also helpful to enforce types on json.<p>I've also stopped passing around argparse namespaces.  I immediately push the argparse namespace into a pydantic class (although a dataclass could also be used.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 18:34:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44033164</link><dc:creator>rrauenza</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44033164</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44033164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rrauenza in "Company Reminder for Everyone to Talk Nicely About the Giant Plagiarism Machine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How could the author not have called it the Giant Plagiarism Tool or Giant Plagiarism Technology ...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 17:42:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44032493</link><dc:creator>rrauenza</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44032493</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44032493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rrauenza in "Static Types Are for Perfectionists"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I adopted Python type annotations on a new project I was writing.  Requirements shifted a lot as well as the implementation.<p>It was amazing. I could refactor quickly after changing a dataclass, field name, function arguments, type, etc.  I just ran mypy and it immediately told me everywhere I needed to update code to reference the new refactored type or data structure.<p>Then only after it was mypy clean, I ran the unit tests.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 16:57:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44031880</link><dc:creator>rrauenza</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44031880</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44031880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rrauenza in "The Books of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I always thought it was Card who invented it for Ender's Game.  (He borrowed it)<p>Thanks for the fun fact!</p>
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