Hacker News: sherburt3

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.

New comment by sherburt3 in "Rails Needs New Governance"

sherburt3 — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 22:50:15 +0000

Open source software is great and all but I just wish that everyone that disagreed with me wasn’t allowed in.

New comment by sherburt3 in "A shift in developer culture is impacting innovation and creativity"

sherburt3 — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 18:00:25 +0000

I was at the same place you are for a while until I realized my obsession with doing everything "right" was killing my enjoyment of programming. I read through Let Over Lambda a couple of months ago and was blown away at how deeply unmaintainable some of his code examples are, but I got inspired to start letting myself do weird unmaintainable shit while programming instead of constantly acting like my code has to pass a code review and I've found its a lot more fun.

New comment by sherburt3 in "The "Debate Me Bro" Grift: How Trolls Weaponized the Marketplace of Ideas"

sherburt3 — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 19:41:03 +0000

I’d rather deal with intellectually dishonest argumentation than live in a walled garden where only certain opinions are acceptable.

New comment by sherburt3 in "Microsoft to force install the Microsoft 365 Copilot app in October"

sherburt3 — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:53:47 +0000

4 levels of nesting is pretty low compared to the average windows setting

New comment by sherburt3 in "The Software Engineers Paid to Fix Vibe Coded Messes"

sherburt3 — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 22:59:48 +0000

I can understand how a mediocre SWE thinks and can anticipate what corners were cut, I have no idea what an LLM is thinking.

New comment by sherburt3 in "More and more people are tuning the news out: 'Now I don't have that anxiety"

sherburt3 — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 16:07:52 +0000

Picking fights with strangers on social media apparently...

New comment by sherburt3 in "Serverless Horrors"

sherburt3 — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 12:50:03 +0000

I believe they changed that shortly after that blog post went viral: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/08/amazon-s3...

New comment by sherburt3 in "AI surveillance should be banned while there is still time"

sherburt3 — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 19:37:13 +0000

I would argue that's been happening for a long time with much simpler methods. Take this website for example, I get points for posting comments that people upvote. If I post a comment that people don't like, I will get downvoted. I obviously want more points because... so I naturally work to craft the comment that I believe will net the most upvotes. This isn't 100% terrible because this helps weed out the assholes, but I think it has much more insidious effects.

Feel free to call me an accelerationist but I hope AI makes social media so awful that no one wants to use it anymore. My hope is that AI is the cleansing fire that burns down social media so that we can rebuild on fertile soil.

New comment by sherburt3 in "New research reveals longevity gains slowing, life expectancy of 100 unlikely"

sherburt3 — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:07:52 +0000

Have you heard of term limits?

New comment by sherburt3 in "New research reveals longevity gains slowing, life expectancy of 100 unlikely"

sherburt3 — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 14:54:36 +0000

Yes very illogical to hope that life will get better when my analysis proves the opposite. Bazinga!

New comment by sherburt3 in "Cornell's world-first 'microwave brain' computes differently"

sherburt3 — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 02:25:52 +0000

I thought digital meant you use your fingers. I use my fingers a lot with my computer

New comment by sherburt3 in "Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi over Age Verification Law"

sherburt3 — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 15:24:58 +0000

I live in the south bro. That was a dig towards bluesky being a shitty twitter clone.