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New comment by slackerIII in "The lost joy of music piracy"

slackerIII — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:47:05 +0000

Audiogalaxy dev here. That was my favorite part of the design.

One of my other favorite parts was that prioritized matches based on how similar their domain name was to yours, so a lot of times you would end up grabbing files from someone in the same dorm or city (cable modem IPs had hostnames back then had the city in the name).

New comment by slackerIII in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

slackerIII — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 01:54:48 +0000

Remember what the Luddites actually did? They sabotaged the machines that were disrupting their livelihoods. If AI is as disruptive to large numbers of workers as some people think it will be, keep in mind it's a lot easier to destroy a GPU that's stored on earth than one in space.

Anyone planning expenditures as large as a modern data center thinks about all kinds of risks (earthquakes, climate, power, etc), and so perhaps there is a premium for GPUs that are out of the reach of your median angry unemployed guy.

(yes, this is nuts, but I can easily imagine some fever-dream pitch meeting where Musk is talking about it)

New comment by slackerIII in "HPV vaccination reduces oncogenic HPV16/18 prevalence from 16% to <1% in Denmark"

slackerIII — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 18:49:10 +0000

Just sign up for it at costco online.

New comment by slackerIII in "Gemini 3"

slackerIII — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:59:29 +0000

What's the easiest way to set up automatic code review for PRs for my team on GitHub using this model?

New comment by slackerIII in "Sodium-ion batteries have started to appear in cars and home storage"

slackerIII — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 04:12:38 +0000

Just curious, what's your background in batteries? From my understanding, sodium based batteries are safer than lithium, but I would defer to anyone with real expertise in the subject.

New comment by slackerIII in "A 10x Faster TypeScript"

slackerIII — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 15:12:13 +0000

Yes, 100% agree. We've spent so much time chasing down what makes our build slow. Obviously that is less important now, but hopefully they've laid the foundation for when our code base grows another 10x.

New comment by slackerIII in "A 10x Faster TypeScript"

slackerIII — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 15:11:03 +0000

This is amazing. Everyone that picked TS for a big project was effectively betting that someone would do this at some point, so it's incredible to see it finally happen. Thanks to everyone involved!

New comment by slackerIII in "Asteroid Impact on Earth 2032 with Probability 1% and 8Mt Energy"

slackerIII — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 21:16:41 +0000

Great post, thank you!

Where does the uncertainty (1%) come from? For example, is it more from our ability to precisely determine the orbit based on limited observations, or is it because orbits for objects like this just aren't predictable years out, or something else?

New comment by slackerIII in "Beekeepers halt honey awards over fraud in global supply chain"

slackerIII — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 18:29:49 +0000

Why call it fraud when you can call it honey laundering?

New comment by slackerIII in "Amazon Aurora DSQL"

slackerIII — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 18:16:04 +0000

The only announcement I want from AWS about databases is that the price for RDS is going down. Not that they have new chip that is more expensive but offers better price/performance, but that my bill is actually going to drop.

I don't trust them enough to use non-portable technology like this until they give me confidence they are committed to lowering prices.

New comment by slackerIII in "Cheapest source of fossil fuel generation is double the cost of solar"

slackerIII — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 21:04:35 +0000

We are headed towards a world where my robotic coding assistants are smarter when it is sunny.

New comment by slackerIII in "Synthesis Tutor – Math tutor for children"

slackerIII — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 21:38:00 +0000

How does that compare to Khan Academy?

New comment by slackerIII in "Stop measuring community engagement"

slackerIII — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 14:38:42 +0000

Early on in a community, there often aren't enough data points to cover other possible metrics. With that in mind, starting somewhere is better than not starting at all — measuring engagement is a useful way to begin understanding what's resonating in your community. As you continue building your community, there are many different angles that you should use to evaluate its health.

Measuring engagement then becomes one piece of data that's valuable, but shouldn't be the only piece. When engagement data is combined with qualitative community surveys, enthusiasm from members to contribute to a community, clear and timely responsiveness to community needs, membership growth over time and geographies, depth of member interactions (whether across community channels or within specific channels), what's topically important to members and why, and overall sentiment and change in sentiment over time - that's when community builders can begin to better understand the health of their communities and their impact on their business.

Engagement is an important piece, but just one of the pieces, that helps paint the full picture.

Disclaimer: I’m a co-founder of Common Room [1] and a we’ve invested a lot of energy in solving for this exact problem. You’re welcome to check out the product (it’s free to sign up) and would love to hear of ideas or feedback.

1: https://www.commonroom.io/

New comment by slackerIII in "Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort"

slackerIII — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 17:15:04 +0000

What would it take for something like this to make it into Postgres?

New comment by slackerIII in "Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort"

slackerIII — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 17:12:32 +0000

The paper goes into a lot more details: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.05982.pdf

Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort

slackerIII — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 16:48:11 +0000

Article URL: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2022/06/Vectorized%20and%20performance%20portable%20Quicksort.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31622548

Points: 460

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New comment by slackerIII in "Details of yesterday's Bunny CDN outage"

slackerIII — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 14:20:50 +0000

Oh, this is a great writeup. I co-host a podcast on outages, and over and over we see cases where circular dependencies end up making recovery much harder. Also, not using a staged deployment is a recipe for disaster!

We just wrapped up the first season, but I'm going to put this on the list of episodes for the second season: https://downtimeproject.com.

New comment by slackerIII in "One Fastly customer triggered internet meltdown"

slackerIII — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 23:01:33 +0000

I'm not sure there is quite enough detail in this post to make a whole episode, but if any more details about the bug come out we will definitely cover it.

New comment by slackerIII in "Slack was experiencing an outage"

slackerIII — Thu, 20 May 2021 18:58:06 +0000

Oh dang, I totally missed that. Great idea, thank you!

New comment by slackerIII in "Slack was experiencing an outage"

slackerIII — Thu, 20 May 2021 18:15:50 +0000

Interesting! I co-host a podcast about notable internet outages, and our very episode was about Slack's Jan 1 outage: https://downtimeproject.com/podcast/episode-1-slack-vs-tgws/

If they publish a good postmortem on this, we'll definitely do an episode about it.