Hacker News: whomst

New comment by whomst in "Intel CEO: 'The entire industry is motivated to eliminate the CUDA market'"

whomst — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 20:17:39 +0000

My brother in Christ he was literally the CEO of VMware

New comment by whomst in "Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?"

whomst — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 05:21:45 +0000

I wrote a generic kernel driver overlay for error correction for block devices on Linux (Winter 2017-18) for a student org at my university. Interned at NVIDIA on their Linux graphics driver in Summer 2019

New comment by whomst in "Reddit is OpenAI’s moat"

whomst — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 19:23:26 +0000

the end game is MechanicGPT trained on the obscure phpBB/vBulletin car mechanic boards from the early 00's

New comment by whomst in "U.S. universities are building a new semiconductor workforce"

whomst — Sat, 20 May 2023 23:11:30 +0000

Did you attend the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign?

New comment by whomst in "Jumpstarting new careers in open source"

whomst — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 21:32:00 +0000

IMO QEMU is a nice spot between important, straightforward to contribute and relatively understaffed compared to how widely it is used. I have found multiple behavior/stability issues that I’ve fixed on my own (exposed though OSdev-adjacent work) and submitted to the mailing list

New comment by whomst in "Why do you waste so much time on the internet?"

whomst — Sat, 07 May 2022 21:26:25 +0000

There are meaningful things on other social media that make them Pareto distributed too and I disagree that the SNR of HN is higher than elsewhere

New comment by whomst in "Why do you waste so much time on the internet?"

whomst — Sat, 07 May 2022 09:50:40 +0000

To be fair almost all of Hacker News is a vapid waste of time too

New comment by whomst in "Beanstalk cryptocurrency loses $182M of reserves in flash ‘attack’"

whomst — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 21:03:13 +0000

I've been running a SIGECOM chapter at UIUC and the main theme over the past four/five months is people meme-ing about Beanstalk and how its such a shit show. My original concern had to do with the stability lever only working to decrease the value, so it inherently requires a "distinct triangular shape" to keep itself running. I didn't take it seriously enough to do a deeper analysis (mostly because I'd find something like this, but I can't really do anything with it legally) but there's about $10k invested in the ecosystem as LPs/bond-owners within my group of friends.

New comment by whomst in "Ask HN: Any weird tips for weight loss?"

whomst — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 23:31:29 +0000

I did 72hr fasts and averaged about a pound lost per day at the fastest (i mostly ate eggs and cream cheese when i did eat anything). I exercised pretty heavily too but entirely cardio (physically weaker obviously so don’t want to fail lifts). I went from 255lbs to 200lbs over the course of two months (currently sitting at 180 but that’s because I’ve released it quite a bit)

New comment by whomst in "Meltano raises $4.2M seed round"

whomst — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 22:33:19 +0000

Clayton Christensen wrote about this extensively in The Innovator's Dilemma. I read it and enjoyed it

New comment by whomst in "Tesla has suspended vehicle purchases using Bitcoin"

whomst — Wed, 12 May 2021 23:51:24 +0000

competition from miners to accept fees will still exist

New comment by whomst in "EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after Spotify complaint"

whomst — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 15:10:56 +0000

I think the main point the (grand?) parent is saying is that "Apple is in the phone business" isn't a reasonable description of Apple. I agree that Apple hosting itself on its own platform is an abuse of market position (especially for something as peripheral as music), but to claim that music/audio isn't a/hasn't been core part of Apple's business model is ridiculous.

New comment by whomst in "Apple to Ban Apps That Reward Users for Enabling App Tracking"

whomst — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 18:08:05 +0000

I believe gating features or giving preference to tracking/not-tracking is a violation of GDPR

New comment by whomst in "Coinbase opens at $380, up 60% seconds after opening"

whomst — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 19:26:00 +0000

Am I the only one who finds it funny that Bernie Madoff died within hours of Coinbase going public?

New comment by whomst in "U.S. adds Chinese supercomputing entities to economic blacklist"

whomst — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 18:02:57 +0000

Can you be more specific?

New comment by whomst in "Software engineers make excellent CEOs, but few of them think they could do it"

whomst — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 06:27:05 +0000

I also feel that most science, math, and engineering is much more axiomatic than law and finance. It is easy to guarantee that things don't break when you have reasonable assumptions in an axiomatic system and can deduce the rest, but there are so many exceptions, technicalities, and gotchas in law and finance that I would be afraid of opening either myself or the company I work for up to lawsuits.

New comment by whomst in "Microsoft wins $21.9B contract with U.S. Army to supply AR headsets"

whomst — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 20:47:38 +0000

>The US could spend half of what it currently spends on the military and still be twice as powerful in terms of military force as the rest of the world combined.

Do you have a source for that?

New comment by whomst in "„We were chased out of SF after trying to give free Internet to the poorest“"

whomst — Sun, 28 Mar 2021 04:55:30 +0000

I can't speak for California, but Illinois requires these things to be public (either automatically or via a FOIA request). Most state FOIAs work in the same way, but maybe with different sets of exceptions

New comment by whomst in "Ask HN: Do you read books regularly? Fiction or nonfiction?"

whomst — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 18:19:58 +0000

Interesting. Ive only looked into Wyoming and Illinois. If I pursue this path, what should I do to prepare?

Thanks

New comment by whomst in "Ask HN: Do you read books regularly? Fiction or nonfiction?"

whomst — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 16:02:17 +0000

Mostly finances, economics, mathematics and law. Looking into self teaching a JD track (currently a Math undergrad at UIUC so ill probably follow the JD curriculum here) but I need to pass the Bar, which requires having a proper JD from an accredited university.