Hacker News: sqldba

New comment by sqldba in "DOS Memory Management"

sqldba — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:39:57 +0000

There's a retail tool that lets you get a lot more memory below 1MB. 639K (625K free) conventional, 262K upper (177K free).

If you remember seeing how, you'll get a free virtual cookie.

New comment by sqldba in "Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]"

sqldba — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 09:58:24 +0000

I'm worried about that but also feel like GPL 4 needs an anti-AI clause. I don't want code I'm written fed into a machine that writes code that doesn't respect user freedom.

New comment by sqldba in "Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses"

sqldba — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 09:56:47 +0000

I did that. Unfortunately you'd have your stereo blasting, right? And then the second you upload it somewhere you'll get a copyright infringement notice and they mute the audio. Thanks Facebook.

New comment by sqldba in "Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses"

sqldba — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 09:55:55 +0000

Oh yes the field of vision is very bad! I liked to take snapshots out when with my wife, and I'd turn my head and she wouldn't even be in the field of view.

You have to turn your head 180 degrees like an owl and have them dead centre in front of the camera side to get them on film.

New comment by sqldba in "Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses"

sqldba — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 09:53:49 +0000

I have the original model and they're fun, if not super expensive. Unfortunately the audio quality is some of the worst you can have; if there's ANY external noise you can't hear any of your music playing at all.

This one says the audio is improved but I'd have to hear it before splurging again.

I had read that bone-conducting audio is better so I'm a bit disappointed to see that this one doesn't have that.

New comment by sqldba in "Googlers angry about CEO’s $226M pay after cuts in perks and 12,000 layoffs"

sqldba — Thu, 04 May 2023 22:29:46 +0000

I’ll take some blame for $226m.

What you’ve said is nonsensical. Being the victim of some harsh words forgotten the next day while never having to work another day in your life is not any kind of responsibility.

New comment by sqldba in "Recommend fun books on tech industry failures"

sqldba — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 11:26:07 +0000

Oh yes thanks love that one too! Also it’s prequel

Recommend fun books on tech industry failures

sqldba — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 06:52:38 +0000

My favorite is “In Search of Stupidity” going over a lot of DOS era company failures.

Do you have others to recommend?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35397850

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New comment by sqldba in "Google Drive does a surprise rollout of file limits, locking out some users"

sqldba — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 06:49:59 +0000

So just don’t be one of the vanishingly small paid users who this affects. Easy.

I wonder what vanishingly small is. 0.001% of a million is still thousands.

New comment by sqldba in "Accenture slashes 19,000 jobs worldwide"

sqldba — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 14:18:09 +0000

The company is unethical garbage that relies on customer management being too lazy to sue them for not completing contracts.

They lie and treat their employees like garbage.

And their employee technical skill is typically less than a warm body from the street. Less than a dead body from the street.

I still feel sad for the people who lost their jobs. They know who they’re working for though.

New comment by sqldba in "Our production servers were suspended by Google Cloud"

sqldba — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 14:17:17 +0000

I get a lot of emails (from various companies) that have "action required" and no action required at all. Usually "you've logged in from a new device, you don't need to do anything unless you've been hacked."

New comment by sqldba in "Our production servers were suspended by Google Cloud"

sqldba — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 14:15:45 +0000

I'm amazed you think there's any goodwill for Google at all. Their search engine sucks shit these days.

New comment by sqldba in "Microsoft failed to rotate certificates for winget CDN on time"

sqldba — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 17:05:05 +0000

ITT: Lots of people feigning ignorance about how companies work, or have literally never worked for a large company before.

And hilariously thinking Microsoft would spin up a critical incident team for a free open-source product. I'm rolling on the floor laughing.

New comment by sqldba in "Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff"

sqldba — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 14:56:01 +0000

It's weird because I've seen job posts for them running for 6 months now and still not be filled.

Are they running job ads but not hiring?

New comment by sqldba in "Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff"

sqldba — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 14:55:27 +0000

Companies like this drop-ship new laptops to new employees.

The laptops everyone has are COVID-era and about to expire for warranty, and would just be binned anyway. So there is no point taking them back.

New comment by sqldba in "Ask HN: How do you test SQL?"

sqldba — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 13:45:40 +0000

Thoughts and prayers.

New comment by sqldba in "HN is up again"

sqldba — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 14:42:21 +0000

A lot of companies have teams dedicated to hardware that don’t give a shit about it. And their managers don’t give a shit.

Then the people under them who do give a shit, because they depend on those servers, aren’t allowed to register with HP etc for updates, or to apply firmware updates, because “separation of duties”.

Basically, IT is cancer from the head down.

New comment by sqldba in "The benefits of not belonging"

sqldba — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 23:11:04 +0000

Yeah I mean for starters the author appear to have been rich as hell from the very beginning. I’m sure that helps soothe the sting of being an “outsider”.

But I decided not to take the article personally because they’re not claiming something universal about outsiders.

New comment by sqldba in "Nuclear waste is a solved problem"

sqldba — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 12:04:27 +0000

Apparently every accident that has happened will never happen again and is a once off. So they don’t count.

New comment by sqldba in "I Failed to Transform the Enterprise"

sqldba — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 13:50:26 +0000

So true. Seen situations so much like this.