<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: scrubs</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=scrubs</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 05:23:40 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=scrubs" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scrubs in "Expert Witness to ChatGPT: "Show how 3M is 0 percent at fault""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>How it is made should be irrelevant in the process<p>Bullshit. I dare any lawyer to say that to the face of a client paying 100s per hour for "services rendered."<p>You say you want respect but honey for what, exactly?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:51:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49353943</link><dc:creator>scrubs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49353943</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49353943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scrubs in "The oldest bar in every state"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Strange: of all things possibly connected you mentioned that movie and Gene Hackman. I've had both the brain w.r.t. to the current administration.</p>
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<p>Wow! Bold! That's bold leadership, Apple. Respect.<p>In fact it's so bold I'm going to take my own 15%. Oh, me too.<p>/s</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 23:49:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49305987</link><dc:creator>scrubs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49305987</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49305987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scrubs in "Software is about people, not code (2020)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Of course CS is about code. To say otherwise is absurd. And organizational climate can be a huge problem to doing "business" in the drucker, Deming, ishikawa, munger, buffet sense.<p>And there too CS must work in business ... these ties are not optional carrying large magintudes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 02:11:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49227759</link><dc:creator>scrubs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49227759</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49227759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scrubs in "Software is about people, not code (2020)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I agree with article thesis. I have come to conclusion myself previously.<p>In fact, after every 15-20 years working for corporate america i get so sick of it, I take 18-24 months off. The first time I went back to school. This time im working on a start up.<p>"Management"? Pleeeaaaassse .. 99% are glorified overpaid babysitters and gossipers with consequent degradation of organizational cohesion.<p>You better hope I don't aim AI at your job!<p>Now, I have run into some super smart middle managers. My better half works for a wonderful set of people. Man oh man what a difference the gems make. Thank goodness there are some guys and gals out there who bring the good stuff!<p>But the other 80% wears me out periodically.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 02:08:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49227751</link><dc:creator>scrubs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49227751</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49227751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scrubs in "Trump again tries to limit US birthright citizenship with new executive orders"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ok, I stand corrected ... your details add facts, nuances my more emotional post did not entertain.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 02:46:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49205383</link><dc:creator>scrubs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49205383</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49205383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scrubs in "Trump again tries to limit US birthright citizenship with new executive orders"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's no doubt the gop is cravenly criminal. Yes, there are plenty of democrats who were/are criminal too but the trump administration is a whole other level of corruption by comparison.<p>Speaking of democrats: how out of touch and how operationally ineffective do you have to be to lose to trump twice? A lot. Like systemic institutional failure bad. Dems are not so corrupt relative to trump, but their level of ineffective clulessness is cosmically big. So let's not get too righteous about the other side.<p>Washington dc is rotten. Rotten to core. Rotten by us to us. Immigrants,  Russia, Iran, China didn't do it. We did it to ourselves. Moreover I have no sympathy for belt way insiders. You poisoned your own institution.<p>Two more bad consequences are increasing polarization --- swing hard right then left then right --- while deficit, security, interest payments, debt, fairness under the law go worse. Far left has its own set of problems potentially with similar greed in extended power centers<p>In the near term it puts the wind at the back of populism for the little guy because as of now re: trump draining the swamp? Maga voters sing it with me:<p>I heard it in a love song. Heard it in a love song. I heard it in a loooovvve song. Can't be wrong (Marshall Tucker band)<p>Meaning? Of course it's wrong. Wrong by intention and wrong by construction. You were told what you wanted to hear, and you ate it hook line and sinker. How can anybody believe trump could handle and serious responsibility?<p>Trump is getting his and there's nothing you can do about it for the next two years baring religious level miracles.</p>
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<p>Got it - Apologies.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 01:53:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49205051</link><dc:creator>scrubs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49205051</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49205051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scrubs in "Trump again tries to limit US birthright citizenship with new executive orders"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When in the heck is Congress gonna get some backbone and hold this clown accountable.  Tariffs and citizenship has been ruled on the Supreme court.<p>Whether it's those rulings or not deporting immigrats as ordered by judges, this administration does what the hell it wants.<p>And the cynicism is even in our face. During the citizenship case at scotus, the government's attorney was asked something to the effect of what happens if the executive branch disagrees with the ruling. The response? The executive branch retains it's right to interpret the law as it sees right.<p>In other works the trump administration follows judge's orders it likes --- claiming it's honorably following the law --- or blows it off as rulings by wacko judge's when it doesnt. Whence the question: why not be a man and just do what you want without the pretense of caring about the law. Answer: assholes always try to hide behind paperwork when they can.<p>It's like the stormy Daniel's case. Instead of coming home and saying I wanna bed porn stars but I still want to be married and be called husband, father --- take it or leave it -- he delegated the problem to a moron lawyer who took about a 2nd mortgage on his house who then did the paperwork for him. He hid behind an nda, and paperwork pushers. That's a man? No, he's a coward.<p>When you have no accountability whatsoever delegating your work and blaming foot soldier's is never done! You gotta feel sorry (sarcasm) for someone that stuck on stupid and the idiots who run to it.<p>Good god! I am sick of this fool, and the do nothing congress.</p>
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<p>Too true.</p>
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<p>I like the article. Well written with a point made. Thanks</p>
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<p>A little self promotion: for a way to see how to use TLA as a formal method see:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48287718">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48287718</a><p>I give a comprehensive introduction to formal methods without assuming background with a constant emphasis on examples, and using the tool.</p>
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<p>The cross compliation story for zig could use an engineering document that the various "hey look at this cool thing i can do with zig" just won't come close to solving.<p>Sure zig can be a drop in replacement fot clang or gnu but that doesnt engage cross compilation either.<p>Now suppose you wanna do zig 90% with 10% curl net i/o. Now, here comes the confusing part. If you know curl has a terrific c-api you can install with apt, you can write some zig c-bindings then link curl into your zig executable.<p>Except ... the curl lib was compiled on something else and the headers you include are for the host os. Now how are you going to cross compile that?<p>So the fall back position is to see if zig proper has a curl like api (it does) so you can avoid host specific external libs. Now cross compiling zig is cool and guaranteed ... so long as you gound an acceptable replacement.<p>Or you're going to have to build curl from source using ONLY zig's clang compiler and only zig's provided headers without accidentally allowing any host libs or includes sneaking in.<p>Having done this in zig 0.16.0 I can report, it took me several hours of reading the std.Build apis to keep everything 100.0% zig only. Ultimately it was simple ... but dang it i cannot shake the feeling zig's apis are here and there cluttered with too much noise. Here, rust is better. The apis tend to be far better documented with an emphasis on minimal + complete. I'll write up my assessment later this year when ive got a decent system first.<p>Zig has decent+ equivalents for curl, sha256 compression.  But take postgres clients as another example. How would you cross compile that?</p>
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<p>The cycle is endless: first specialize ... the combine ... then break out new functions in new special hardware ..  then compose it later ..</p>
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<p>AI generated? Not demonstrated.<p>Whining by humans claiming AI? Predictable. Probable. Indeed LLM "complete the sentence" predictable.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 01:06:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48790440</link><dc:creator>scrubs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48790440</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48790440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scrubs in "Ask HN: America turns 250 today. What does it mean to you?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It means we the USA have to grow up.<p>- Congress is a failed institution<p>- must get money out of politics including inside trading. I'm will to pay congress more salary for that. Offenses thereafter are criminal offenses<p>- the days of pretty boys talking atomically small wedge points on complex issues on tv is over. The shadow boxing over cultural issues to get re-elected by constantly winding up dumb voters is over<p>- attenuation to the center. Corporations and rich individuals have gotten entitled and too safe which by overshooting will create a far stronger far left, which I do not want either<p>- do what we say we do instead of just talk lovingly about it: justice to treat all equally under the law.<p>- stop scapegoating foreigners  and immigrants: the failed US congress which is us has been the single most damaging thing to this country. They're weakness has let trump run amuck in addition.</p>
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<p>Good lord! Since when did engineering become making crap then fixing crap as a flex? To just make payroll so some corporate robo moron can make rent? You cannot be in my team. Or my company.<p>Willy nilly giving an agent more (write) access to figure out a bug ... man you're daydreaming.</p>
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<p>I sort of agree ... bit casting from an N width integer into an array of ... woah ... that's too far. It's bitcast not byte-cast which has an implied reinterpretation on a same or smaller word size in the cpu.<p>Once you see that the fact somebody has a u24 in their code is between them and the compiler alone.<p>As others probably noted byte casting (keeping the same endianess) is what unions are for.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:39:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48681042</link><dc:creator>scrubs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48681042</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48681042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scrubs in "Did my old job only exist because of fraud?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This wasn't a hobby. At least the head engineer and sales persons were constantly stressed by flagging sales and lack of customer acceptance.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 05:52:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48640886</link><dc:creator>scrubs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48640886</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48640886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scrubs in "Ask HN: Two specific Postgres encrypt questions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thank you for response.<p>>You are missunderstanding the transport encryption(everything related to authentication and pg_hba.conf) and the encrytion of the data at rest<p>Correct! My questions perhaps implied one is connected to the other whereas they are completely separate. I could have been clearer.<p>>it means that indices for encrypted columns become useless and are only a waste of cpu time.<p>are you saying that blunt-force encryption of all data-at-rest renders indexes pointless? Could you provide more context here?<p>Cheers</p>
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