News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

mitch3x3

Re:Yes, Jimmy Kimmel's suspension was government censorship on Thursday September 18, 2025 @01:44PM (#45292659)
If I wanted to see posts like this I could go to literally any other social media site. The reason I come here is to have stuff like this filtered out.
Re:Show HN: Mojo Language Syntax Highlighting for Vim on Saturday March 02, 2024 @12:25PM (#39574049)
It’s a superset, not a subset.
Re:Tips to Optimize Your AWS Lambda Performance on Thursday October 12, 2023 @09:12PM (#37865320)
It’s always funny when you read something and think the exact opposite thing for every point.

I guess what initially converted me was dealing with a data flow that hovered at about 10 requests/min and then every hour jumped to 10k requests/min. Being able to do that without thinking about scaling or cost really changed the way I imagined data flows in the backend.

I guess now that I have boilerplate of code that works and its quickly deployed and tested with GH actions, I consider it a no brainer for most workflows.

Re:The end of cool small cars on Thursday August 31, 2023 @12:33AM (#37332488)
I ended up having replace a compact with a crossover mainly to stop getting blinded by headlights at night time. It was getting way too dangerous. I tinted the back window, but was still getting blinded in the side mirrors.
Re:Python: Just Write SQL on Monday August 14, 2023 @10:56AM (#37121759)
If statements that either add conditional statements or blank lines to the SQL block. There are a lot of tradeoffs to the pure SQL method but I prefer being able to look up exact snippets in the codebase to find things.
It’s always used derogatorily. I agree that you should change it if you don’t mean for it to come across that way.
Re:The Problem with Music (1993) on Sunday April 02, 2023 @07:13PM (#35416351)
Punchy commonly translates to “compressed” and warm to “saturated/distorted”. Volume will of course help, but it’s not always what people want.
Re:The Twitter Files: How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @12:30AM (#34145425)
Key words there being “like usual”.
Re:SvelteKit 1.0 on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @12:59PM (#33987157)
How are you liking Prisma compared to a pure SQL approach?
Influential people use it as a town square. Until the politicians and business magnates move to another platform this is where a lot of news originates.
A very large percentage of federal possession cases are drug smuggling at border crossings. This amendment is to keep those people locked up since their initial charge of “possession” was chosen over illegal border crossing or whatever else since it was probably a) easier to prosecute, and b) carried a harsher sentence
Politics is its own skillset in which merit plays a role, no?
Re:German digital signage ban prompts confusion on Friday August 26, 2022 @01:18PM (#32610282)
The term you are looking for is “sign code”, and you can find info regarding the SF laws around this here: https://sfplanning.org/general-advertising-sign-program

I don’t know if you’ll have any impact at all though regarding your situation. You’re in a big city where this kind of stuff is part of life. Your best option is probably to move.

Re:The slow death of the traditional business card on Friday August 26, 2022 @01:13PM (#32610208)
Save them for your kids so you can tell them about the wacky things we did in the olden days.
If it’s not a dedicated turn lane, I gotta disagree with you on the left turn on red. Because you have to yield to traffic until their light turns red, it’s perfectly legal to turn if you are already in the intersection.
Re:Twitter Deal Temporarily on Hold on Friday May 13, 2022 @07:39PM (#31373678)
So nothing Tesla has accomplished so far has helped toward slowing climate change going forward?
Re:GraphQL Is a Trap? on Friday May 06, 2022 @04:30PM (#31289335)
It just needs better middleware to handle all the BS. The problem it solves makes it extremely useful (if implemented correctly… thats a big if, I know)
Re:Walmart truckers to start at $95k a year on Thursday April 07, 2022 @11:07PM (#30952932)
The last one. I went through 6 months of terrible interviewing and self reflection before I was any good. It’s a skill in itself.
Re:AWS Lambda function URLs: Built-in HTTPS endpoints on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @11:30PM (#30940331)
Sam local?
About a year ago my dog (~7mo at the time) would lunge at the ravens and try to chase them even though he was on a leash. I changed my route to prevent that behavior, but the ravens remembered both of us.

One morning they flew above us with a rotting sausage and dropped it right in front of my dog and waited for him to eat it. I had to pull it out of his mouth and when I looked up the ravens were all watching us.

I can’t say for sure, but it certainly felt like revenge.

For many people (myself included), the ease of writing python jumpstarted my journey to eventually learning everything else you mentioned gradually.

If I would have had to learn it immediately I most likely would’ve felt disinterested and overwhelmed and given up since I didn’t know yet why I needed to learn it.

Re:Billion-dollar airline routes on Monday November 08, 2021 @05:35PM (#29155174)
I’m one of these people. The reality is that I am too tall to fit comfortably in the seat and need to stretch my legs to get the blood flowing since it is hard to sit with your knees compressed for long periods of time.
Re:Is nuclear power our best bet against climate change? on Sunday October 17, 2021 @04:40PM (#28899599)
If they would’ve used water as a moderator, built a containment building, and not allowed manual override like every other reactor ever, we wouldn’t be having this conversation. It’s absolutely a worst case scenario.
Go read the current financial position yourself. The hedge funds still have to buy over 100% of the total amount of GME shares to cover their short positions. To do that they need to buy existing shares at current market value or they go bankrupt. Its a vicious cycle. Go look at previous short squeezes that have happened.
I believe they are limited to issuing 100k at a time and spaced out much larger than is currently needed to take advantage of the situation. This is all part of the calculated short squeeze.
Nope, a lot of the wallstreetbets community are in this because they recognize that squeezing an over-leveraged short position will make a stock go vertical until bankruptcy or govt intervention.

I think they absolutely know they can lose it all. But the risk/reward ratio was so amazing it made sense to throw money at it and see what happens.

That is exactly what is happening right now.
Re:Bitcoin is a disaster on Thursday December 31, 2020 @06:45PM (#25598681)
How are they destroying the planet?
I consume media the sane way as OP, here are my answers:

1. Being able to hold conversations with people from all political persuasions (eg. Knowing how to reach agreement on things and knowing what pushes their buttons) 2. Entertainment

Older »