Hacker News: throwaw3y

New comment by throwaw3y in "They See Your Photos"

throwaw3y — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:25:49 +0000

Well, you'd be incorrect in my case. Guess that's the funny thing about stereotypes.

New comment by throwaw3y in "Having Kids (2019)"

throwaw3y — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:11:18 +0000

"it's easy, just stop believing so much in your religion and attempting to pass on your learned life lessons to your kids". Well said.

New comment by throwaw3y in "Having Kids (2019)"

throwaw3y — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:06:01 +0000

> until doing so no longer contributes to my own healing

Resentment is a poison willingly retained; I hope you find healing some day in letting go of those memories

New comment by throwaw3y in "My “grand vision” for Rust"

throwaw3y — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:44:33 +0000

"Panic-free" labels are so difficult to ascribe without being misleading because temporal memory effects can cause panics. Pusher too much onto your stack because the function happened to be preceded by a ton of other stack allocations? Crash. Heap too full and malloc failed? Crash. These things can happen from user input, so labelling a function no_panic just because it doesn't do any unchecked indexing can dangerously mislead readers into thinking code can't crash when it can.

New comment by throwaw3y in "Utah's online porn tax proposal poses a major threat to civil liberties"

throwaw3y — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 02:49:07 +0000

> According to PH, Utah is one of their biggest states

This is actually one of those "turns out!" facts people like to bring up that isn't actually rooted in any solid data. It was widely circulates based on a misinterpreted 2009 Harvard study, and Utah generally ranked in middle or lower middle of the pack when it came to site traffic per capita by state (in years prior to SB287, that is--obviously now traffic is next to none because of the IP ban).