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New comment by ryeats in "Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid"

ryeats — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:08:58 +0000

Arguably that's honestly worse since he knew and was disingenuous in order to push a perspective that isn't valid.

New comment by ryeats in "Iran vows regime will "not back down" as web blackout continues"

ryeats — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 15:01:11 +0000

Apologies, I meant the chanting, the nuclear thing is well documented but yes thanks for the link to that.

New comment by ryeats in "Iran vows regime will "not back down" as web blackout continues"

ryeats — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 14:50:19 +0000

Link me a video I want to be informed if this is actually the case.

New comment by ryeats in "Iran vows regime will "not back down" as web blackout continues"

ryeats — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 14:45:18 +0000

Iran has conflicting values and has never stopped funding groups that violently support their view even when Obama was president so this is a very myopic view to take.

New comment by ryeats in "Building a Durable Execution Engine with SQLite"

ryeats — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 19:32:56 +0000

As you say it can be done but it's an anti-pattern to use a message queue as a database which is essentially what you are doing for these kinds of long running tasks. The reason is that their are a lot of state your likely going to want to status as a task runs and persist and checkpoint yes you can carefully string together a series of database calls chained with message transactions so you don't lose something when an issue happens but then you also need bespoke logic to restart or retry each step and it can turn into a bit of a mess.

New comment by ryeats in "4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence"

ryeats — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 19:29:38 +0000

Nope, just the Ministry of Truth, God doesn't even have to get involved.

New comment by ryeats in "Gifted children are special needs children"

ryeats — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 15:07:38 +0000

Gifted programs aren't perfect, simply holding students accountable regardless of gifted status would be better. However skin color seems like the dumbest metric to use to hold these programs accountable and has little to do with students test scores so it's highly doubtful that managing your school based on that is going to have a positive outcome.

New comment by ryeats in "Show HN: Autism Simulator"

ryeats — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 18:13:12 +0000

Just rank by date needed order on a kanban board and work your way through everything in order. If it's constant fight to meet deadlines it will be clear enough that things are backed up.

New comment by ryeats in "They Thought They Were Free (1955)"

ryeats — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 13:58:12 +0000

I think it has been happening for a while now cancel culture had a very negative effect on academia Jordon Peterson and Warren Smith being examples of that. I much appreciate Dr. Sam Richards who walks the fine line of trying to be centerist but he did comment recently how he does gets hate from both sides. Now I know this is going to be down voted because some will say I am both sidesing this when it's clearly one side right now. This is true I think that's however not a great argument to start a conversation. the founding fathers gave us a great foundation to work with it just takes open dialogue to convince enough of the other side that their is an actual good counter argument. The violence we have seen in the past couple months is only going to entrench positions because each side will want the result of that violence to have been meaningful furthering solidifing the separation. Currently I think American agree on the vast majority of things social media just does it's best to highlight our differences but the average person has mostly the same culture and the same day to day issues so I actually am hopeful.

New comment by ryeats in "Cognitive load is what matters"

ryeats — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 12:26:34 +0000

This is actually a particular pet pieve of mine because I worked with the Camel framework which has a lot of boilerplate in strings but if you start using constants for the common parts you now have an unreadable mess of constants concatenated together that buys you nothing.

New comment by ryeats in "Cognitive load is what matters"

ryeats — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 22:19:44 +0000

This is a trap junior devs fall into DRY isn't free it can be premature optimization since in order to avoid copying code you often add both an abstraction AND couple components together that are logically separate. The issues are at some point they may have slightly different requirements and if done repeatedly you can get to a point that you have all these small layers of abstraction that are cross cutting concerns and making changes have a bigger blast radius than you can intuit easily.

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

ryeats — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 10:29:37 +0000

What are some resources for these conventions? As far as I can tell everyone else rolls their own bespoke images based off of of a projects image in order to customize the configuration.

New comment by ryeats in "A visual introduction to big O notation"

ryeats — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 21:16:28 +0000

O(1) in many cases involves a hashing function which is a non-trivial but constant cost. For smaller values of N it can be outperformed in terms of wall clock time by n^2 worst case algorithms.

New comment by ryeats in "Exile Economics: If Globalisation Fails"

ryeats — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 21:43:19 +0000

Would be more interesting if someone came at this debate from a game theory perspective with bad actors ignoring IP laws, manipulating currency values and implementing tariffs through policies that aren't directly taxing products but restricting who can play in markets. Yes tariffs are bad in a vacuum and I am not saying this article is false even when it's strawmanning some arguments to make it's case but it's seems a bit one sided and possibly nieve without including the context in which these policies are being made so I still remain on the fence as to whether tariffs can be used as leverage.

New comment by ryeats in "Compression culture is making you stupid and uninteresting"

ryeats — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 16:31:35 +0000

However since it doesn't actually reason you have to be familiar enough with the subject that you can tell when it is and isn't hallucinating since it's extrapolating from those same shallow articles.

New comment by ryeats in "I avoid using LLMs as a publisher and writer"

ryeats — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 14:08:59 +0000

I was being a bit melodramatic, I'll use it occasionally and If AI gets better it can join my team again I don't love writing boilerplate I just know it's not good at writing maintainable code yet.

New comment by ryeats in "I avoid using LLMs as a publisher and writer"

ryeats — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 14:03:40 +0000

Yep you are also right, some amount of boilerplate code is perfectly reasonable since some problems are similar but just different enough and unique enough they don't merit designing an architecture that gets rid of the boilerplate. this is probably the most useful thing that AI could do for us. I think I am more worried as a maintainer that we won't see that we are copying all that boilerplate too often and it's subtle bugs are multiplied and now we have to maintain all that code because AI doesn't yet do that.

New comment by ryeats in "I avoid using LLMs as a publisher and writer"

ryeats — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 13:36:15 +0000

My interest tend to be bleeding edge where there is little training data. I do use AI to rubber duck but can rarely use it's output directly.

New comment by ryeats in "I avoid using LLMs as a publisher and writer"

ryeats — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 13:33:47 +0000

The open question is will someone who learns this way actually develope taste and mastery. I think the answer is mixed because some will use it as a crutch but it will also be able to give them a little bit of insight beyond what they could learn by reading and inquisitive minds will be able to grow discerning.

New comment by ryeats in "I avoid using LLMs as a publisher and writer"

ryeats — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 13:22:29 +0000

You know that teammate that makes more work for everyone else on the team because they do what they are asked to do but in the most buggy and incomprehensible way, that when you finally get them to move on to another team and you realize how much time you spent corralling them and fixing their subtle bugs and now when they are gone work doesn't seem like so much of a chore.

That's AI.