Hacker News: seoaeu

New comment by seoaeu in "A media-fueled social panic over unmarked graves"

seoaeu — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 22:16:54 +0000

Stories recounting cruel physical and sexual abuse are only a google search away. Of thousands of children being disappeared. Of being woken in the middle of the night to dig graves.

New comment by seoaeu in "A media-fueled social panic over unmarked graves"

seoaeu — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 22:08:42 +0000

The outrage is over the atrocities, and the people insinuating that those atrocities were somehow ok because some papers were signed beforehand

Asking questions like “did they know why they were signing?” or “was there going to be a war if they refused to sign?” seem entirely reasonable to me

New comment by seoaeu in "A media-fueled social panic over unmarked graves"

seoaeu — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 21:42:53 +0000

“Perhaps they didn't know”?! You think the tribes knew about the atrocities and were ok with them?

New comment by seoaeu in "A media-fueled social panic over unmarked graves"

seoaeu — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 21:36:48 +0000

That’s what you’re supposed to do when a gunman is trying to kill you

New comment by seoaeu in "Fake Dog for Home Security"

seoaeu — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 19:56:53 +0000

Stop valuing your stuff over other people’s lives and you won’t have this problem

New comment by seoaeu in "Twenty years of Valgrind"

seoaeu — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 15:39:24 +0000

You totally can in safe rust: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/sync/atomic/struct.AtomicU64.h...

New comment by seoaeu in "It’s time to leave the leap second in the past"

seoaeu — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 16:54:09 +0000

Because time in the real world uses leap seconds. The time businesses open and close. The times reported in news articles. And so on. What facebook wants is for all of them to stop using leap seconds so facebook’s infrastructure is simpler

New comment by seoaeu in "Laser fusion facility heads back to drawing board"

seoaeu — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 15:58:42 +0000

The lasers they use are extremely specialized, since they have to deliver outrageous amounts of power for a very short period of time. Advancements in normal lasers may not be of much use here

Edit: Wow, looks like they have improved considerably

New comment by seoaeu in "Why falling birthrates might be a bigger deal than dominants narratives imply"

seoaeu — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 12:32:59 +0000

If you consider massive amounts of suffering and death caused by resource shortages to be “good” then we have very different values systems

New comment by seoaeu in "Laser fusion facility heads back to drawing board"

seoaeu — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 10:42:54 +0000

That’s assuming they ever even make it to net positive energy output. The article carefully avoids mentioning that the lasers they use are wildly inefficient. It is very hard to break even when you lose 90% of your input power right at the start

New comment by seoaeu in "Datadog dashboard for the Texas power grid"

seoaeu — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 09:35:10 +0000

In most of the US they aren’t common. Outside of that debacle in Texas, I can’t recall any rolling blackouts in the US from lack of supply. The rarity is quite likely why that event made international news and got so many people around the country talking about it

New comment by seoaeu in "Why are McDonald’s Self Service Kiosks so hackable?"

seoaeu — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 08:50:05 +0000

Deduct a bunch of money from your account but not dispense it?

New comment by seoaeu in "In Praise of Stacked PRs"

seoaeu — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 16:55:54 +0000

This comment would be more compelling if it gave any hint about what aspect of the tooling the author didn’t understand or what they should be doing differently.

New comment by seoaeu in "Polio Detected in US"

seoaeu — Sat, 23 Jul 2022 16:23:42 +0000

> if you get vaccinated, you won't get covid

[…]

> So, almost noone vaccinated will get it

That’s a pretty clear case of moving the goalposts if I ever saw it.

New comment by seoaeu in "Polio Detected in US"

seoaeu — Sat, 23 Jul 2022 01:07:15 +0000

Pedantic: the alpha variant is B.1.1.7 previously known as the UK variant. The original strain didn’t get a Greek letter

New comment by seoaeu in "Polio Detected in US"

seoaeu — Sat, 23 Jul 2022 01:04:37 +0000

> if you get vaccinated, you won't get covid

Literally no one reputable ever said this given that original studies showed 95% effectiveness at preventing wild-type Covid…

New comment by seoaeu in "The trouble with symbolic links"

seoaeu — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 17:16:43 +0000

> In the modern world, the demand seems to be that every tool be perfectly safe in every situation no matter what you do

The problem is that there is such a huge number of tools in widespread use that each one causing even a few security vulnerabilities means that the ecosystem overall is constantly vulnerable

New comment by seoaeu in "Airbnb will up its penalty for hosts who cancel last-minute from $100 to $1k"

seoaeu — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 16:42:24 +0000

Getting $1000 to put towards paying for alternative accommodations would be very helpful?

New comment by seoaeu in "Log4j: The pain just keeps going"

seoaeu — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 17:41:13 +0000

Adding features to existing software is much cheaper than writing entirely new software (not to mention the cost to switch!) At the same time, new features in low level software can unlock substantial value. Say a new API that speeds up your app by 1% or cuts down on further development time by a small fraction.

New comment by seoaeu in "Glassdoor not so anonymous"

seoaeu — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 07:32:53 +0000

Email addresses aren’t usually secret though. If an employer happens to know the personal emails of a large fraction of its workers, it isn’t going to be meaningfully slowed down by a hash. 1M addresses * 1 second/address = ~12 days (and in practice a lot less since hashing is nearly trivial to parallelize)