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New comment by sherburt3 in "New York becomes the first state to impose a data center moratorium"

sherburt3 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:21:44 +0000

Yeah…

New comment by sherburt3 in "New York becomes the first state to impose a data center moratorium"

sherburt3 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:56:57 +0000

Data centers in space sounds really stupid until you consider how hard it is to get a data center built on Earth.

New comment by sherburt3 in "Prefer strict tables in SQLite"

sherburt3 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 20:41:33 +0000

I really hate this trend of turning every piece of software into this kafkaesque monstrosity that demands you jump through 100 hurdles to do the simplest thing. I mean yeah its good for LLMs but as a human it gets kind of annoying. I honestly love that if you hand SQLite garbage it will do its best.

New comment by sherburt3 in "Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass"

sherburt3 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:06:53 +0000

That doesn't appear to be stopping the current administration. That's why I think you should be more concerned about the tools of oppression existing rather than the laws that govern them.

New comment by sherburt3 in "Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass"

sherburt3 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:47:05 +0000

These tech-bro public resignations are so tedious. Ostensibly he seems fine with the existence of AI mass surveillance and AI powered murderbots but he just never envisioned a scenario where they would get used that wasn't congruent with his politics.

New comment by sherburt3 in "The last Romans are still around"

sherburt3 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:00:36 +0000

God punished the Romans by turning them into Italians

New comment by sherburt3 in "Google Hits 50% IPv6"

sherburt3 — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:37:45 +0000

I think the addresses are a big issue. The address space is just stupid big, I don't understand why we need to prepare for every grain of sand on Earth having a WiFi chip in it.

Most people can pick up calculating subnets in their head in ipv4 pretty quickly and ipv4 addresses are easy to memorize on accident. My brain turns to mush as soon as I start seeing hexadecimal characters in addresses.

New comment by sherburt3 in "Google Hits 50% IPv6"

sherburt3 — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 14:45:38 +0000

40 bits would've bought us a lot of time and would've kicked the can down the road several decades. People from the future would be much better equipped to design a new protocol because they understand their needs better.

New comment by sherburt3 in "Google Hits 50% IPv6"

sherburt3 — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:48:42 +0000

I was saying adding a byte to the address so its a 40 bit address which would be two bytes to the header. Obviously it would still have the same issue where hardware and software would be incompatible and would need to be replaced but the same concepts that worked in IPv4 would work in my fake protocol instead of IPv6 where the network needs to be redesigned from the ground up.

Also IPv6 addresses are ugly

New comment by sherburt3 in "Google Hits 50% IPv6"

sherburt3 — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:26:46 +0000

Literally all we had to do was add a byte to IPv4 and we'd be done but noooo we need to overengineer the next protocol and make it as painful as possible to adopt.

New comment by sherburt3 in "Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau"

sherburt3 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:26:17 +0000

If someone modified the original dataset and it was discovered they would be held accountable. However if you have a departmental policy of modifying the data for "privacy reasons" and it just so happened to surrepititiously affect some sort of political outcome then ah geez that just a wacky coincidence not any individuals fault.

New comment by sherburt3 in "Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau"

sherburt3 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:49:39 +0000

So "differential privacy" pretty much sounds like someone gets to modify the results of a census and how it gets modified is entirely up to their discretion.

Seems like something that could be abused to achieve political objectives.

New comment by sherburt3 in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

sherburt3 — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:55:15 +0000

Thanks for chiming in Young Sheldon

New comment by sherburt3 in "[dead]"

sherburt3 — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:00:46 +0000

Whenever I read about some troubling news in the world I always take time to look at my funko pop collection and contemplate the question "What would Spider-man do?"

New comment by sherburt3 in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

sherburt3 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:49:54 +0000

I'm sure there's a barely functioning business critical app that runs exclusively on Windows NT in their administration that would beg to differ

New comment by sherburt3 in "Anthropic Cowork feature creates 10GB VM bundle on macOS without warning"

sherburt3 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:07:05 +0000

Do you wear a condom while you’re programming too for maximum protection?

New comment by sherburt3 in "Free software hasn't won"

sherburt3 — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 23:13:02 +0000

What if you just like do normal programming instead?

New comment by sherburt3 in "The collapse of the econ PhD job market"

sherburt3 — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 23:03:59 +0000

Feel free to do your own analysis

New comment by sherburt3 in "Show HN: Autism Simulator"

sherburt3 — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 23:24:02 +0000

I think you can have empathy for their situation and also recognize the gluttonous amount of self pity in this.

New comment by sherburt3 in "Redis is fast – I'll cache in Postgres"

sherburt3 — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 14:51:39 +0000

My stance has always been stick to 1 database for as long as humanly possible because having 2 databases is 1000x harder.