Hacker News: zgluck

New comment by zgluck in "Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft suffers technical glitch, space agency says"

zgluck — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 17:43:40 +0000

Wouldn't want to be a Roscosmos higher-up right now. I hope they manage to stay away from windows on higher floors.

This was supposed to be Putin's triumph over the 'degenerate west'.

New comment by zgluck in "Dart 3.1 and a retrospective on functional style programming in Dart"

zgluck — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 09:04:58 +0000

Wonderous:

A showcase app for the Flutter SDK.

Built by gskinner in partnership with the Flutter team, Wonderous deliberately pushes visual fidelity, effects and transitions to showcase what Flutter is truly capable of on modern mobile hardware.

https://github.com/gskinnerTeam/flutter-wonderous-app

New comment by zgluck in "The Prototype TOUCHSCREEN iMac From 1999 [video]"

zgluck — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 08:48:23 +0000

A little clickbaity...

It's a commercial third party modification made for use as a kiosk.

New comment by zgluck in "Google marked https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/ as unsafe"

zgluck — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 06:48:52 +0000

https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/15pxt76/why_ha...

New comment by zgluck in "Outcry over loss of features on Bangkok’s landmark ‘robot building’"

zgluck — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 23:35:10 +0000

It's a surprisingly cute building:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Building

New comment by zgluck in "The US government is taking a step toward space-based nuclear propulsion"

zgluck — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 22:20:09 +0000

Clarified this. Thanks.

New comment by zgluck in "The US government is taking a step toward space-based nuclear propulsion"

zgluck — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 22:16:17 +0000

The reason communications with the Voyager 1/2 twin probes have lasted for like 45 years:

Voyager 2 is equipped with three Multihundred-Watt radioisotope thermoelectric generators (MHW RTG). Each RTG includes 24 pressed plutonium oxide spheres, and provided enough heat to generate approximately 157 W of electrical power at launch.

New comment by zgluck in "Vim Boss"

zgluck — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 19:34:51 +0000

So the result of me writing this was that John Gruber was added as the BDFL of Markdown. Creator, sure, BDFL, that's a stretch.

New comment by zgluck in "Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer – Windows 95 Launch Dance [video]"

zgluck — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 18:43:48 +0000

He forgot he wasn't 18 and not somewhat overweight. Jock things.

New comment by zgluck in "Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer – Windows 95 Launch Dance [video]"

zgluck — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 18:33:17 +0000

Also see - what happens when you leave a jock in charge of Microsoft:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxbJw8PrIkc (Ballmer: Developers, Developers, Developers! Extra Super Sweaty Edition)

New comment by zgluck in "The web we lost (2012)"

zgluck — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 18:11:28 +0000

Moneymaking has a way of ruining things, generally speaking.

New comment by zgluck in "NASA's Software Catalog offers hundreds of new software programs for free"

zgluck — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 16:00:03 +0000

Found this one while browsing the catalog. Cool.

https://github.com/nasa/astrobee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk-1j3sXTqA

Three NASA Astrobee free-flying robots have been operating inside the International Space Station (ISS) since 2019. This astrobee repository contains source code for the Astrobee Robot Software, consisting of the flight software that runs onboard the Astrobee robots, a software simulator, and supporting tools, primarily written in C++.

New comment by zgluck in "Aurora I/O optimized config saved 90% DB cost"

zgluck — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 22:53:55 +0000

Does anyone have any experiences to share about the performance differences between regular RDS/MySQL and Aurora for MySQL (I/O optimized config)?

(The article is about the PostgreSQL variant.)

New comment by zgluck in "White House RFI on Open-Source Software Security and Memory Safe Languages"

zgluck — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 21:51:53 +0000

Like Ada? /½ s

New comment by zgluck in "Vim Boss"

zgluck — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 21:16:31 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_dictator_for_life has a list of BDFLs. Bram is the first BDFL in that list who has passed away. We're in for a generational shift the coming decade(s). It makes sense to prepare - that is how you preserve a legacy, and the community.

I've been impressed with how Bram's passing has been handled by his family and friends with respect to his legacy and the future of vim.

New comment by zgluck in "Texas woman injured after hawk drops snake on her"

zgluck — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 20:42:18 +0000

Texan drop snakes - kind of makes you think of those supposedly mythological creatures in Australia.

New comment by zgluck in "Will AI wipe out architects?"

zgluck — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 19:49:58 +0000

Sounds hopeful to me - in contexts where the architects somehow only want to design buildings people don't really like, for reasons.

New comment by zgluck in "Downfall Attacks"

zgluck — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 04:41:51 +0000

Corresponding AWS notice:

https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/AWS-2023-...

AWS customers’ data and instances are not affected by this issue, and no customer action is required. AWS has designed and implemented its infrastructure with protections against this class of issues. Amazon EC2 instances, including Lambda, Fargate, and other AWS-managed compute and container services protect customer data against GDS through microcode and software based mitigations.

New comment by zgluck in "Tesla, Inc. 8-k filing – CFO leaves Tesla"

zgluck — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 22:47:35 +0000

That was 4 days ago and this is the first we hear of it?

This - 9 hours ago:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-cfo-kirkhorn-steps-down...

Tesla CFO Kirkhorn steps down, replaced by chief accounting officer Vaibhav Taneja

Kirkhorn stepped down after a 13-year run at Tesla.

(HN is slow.)

New comment by zgluck in "Tesla, Inc. 8-k filing – CFO leaves Tesla"

zgluck — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 22:33:41 +0000

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1688662299857321984

I would like to thank Zach Kirkhorn for his many contributions to Tesla over the course of 13 often difficult years.

Much appreciated and best wishes for the next stage of his career.