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asguyon The fact that Twitter is running well with headcount down significantly matters

The beauty is: we’re going to find out soon enough. So far it doesn’t seem like Twitter is going to have any problem surviving.

asguyon The fact that Twitter is running well with headcount down significantly matters

> However, personally I think the story of a platform supporting thousands of families is more interesting than a platform serving to enrich a small (and openly toxic) few

.. wasn’t Twitter operating at a net loss? So the VCs were the ones “supporting” those families… that’s a charity LARPing as a functional business

asguyon Just use Postgres for everything

> 3. don't overuse triggers or stored plSQL procedures or similar they are hard to test and debug

Mandate automated DB unit testing [0] from day 1, just like you would for the rest of your code base.

[0] - https://pgtap.org/

asguyon Row change auditing options for PostgreSQL (2020)

Good info; written in 2020

asguyon Sperm counts worldwide are plummeting faster than we thought

The Alex Jones motto: Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

asguyon How We Built Fly Postgres

> we’re good at consul

Thank god someone is. I’ve lost more of my life to consul partition failures that’s any other part of the nutech stack.

asguyon KDE runs on the Apple M2 with full GPU acceleration

Lenovo isn't close. I have several generations of X1 Carbons, and they all do terrible things like:

- Scratch their own screens when lids are closed - Have failing LCD connectors (especially true with my 4k variant). - Flex terribly.

I bought an M2 Air recently, and it's a far better machine.

asguyon Nutanix for Sale, and the Only Buyer Might Be a Big Cloud

They take commodity hardware, organize a balance of physical CPU/network/storage for a given deployment, and then they let you deploy VMs across that unified fabric in your own datacenter.

asguyon Bosses need to accept that employees choose what the future of work looks like

Because smart people tend to get bored, and then the expense of training them for a job is "lost". It's not a "hypothetical strawman" ..

https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/st...

asguyon Svante Pääbo awarded Nobel Prize for studies of extinct human ancestors

Or, I just pointed out that you went into the conversation with a boring assumption. It's transparent.

asguyon The Nord Stream leaks are a wake-up call for countries with vulnerable pipelines

Agreed,.. with drones, the cost to attack this infra will drop by orders of magnitude faster than the ability to defend against it. This isn’t the cyberpunk world I had planned on living in.

asguyon Svante Pääbo awarded Nobel Prize for studies of extinct human ancestors

Please try not to be tedious. If you want to stir the pot, bring up the fact his mother selected a Nobel prize winner to have kids with, so clearly had bias, or something more creative.

asguyon Italy's right wing, led by Meloni, wins election, exit polls say

Different than the instability that's causing these elections?

asguyon Italians at boiling point over how to cook pasta with less gas

.. induction and resistive-element electric hobs have drastically different efficiency profiles. They should be kept in different categories.

It's like comparing 2 stroke and 4 stroke gasoline engines.

asguyon YKK zippers: Why so many designers use them (2012)

Maybe if you’re a boomer. We’ve gone through iterations:

- for buying IBM

- for buying Microsoft

- for buying Oracle

- for buying Cisco

- for buying AWS

… what’s next?

asguyon Chattanooga’s public ISP now offers citywide residential 25 gigabit service

They will, unless you're asking them to do something completely out of their planned provisioning. Then it gets very expensive, very quickly, and you're expected to front that cost.

e.g. pricing out a run of fiber down 10 miles of dirt road in the middle of nowhere. PtP wireless ended up being a much better deal, even after having to arrange tower space.

asguyon Chattanooga’s public ISP now offers citywide residential 25 gigabit service

Yah, but you’re talking apples and oranges.

Fiber “literally everywhere” usually requires a massive capital outlay. I’m not getting 25G fiber to my house in Taos, NM or Bend, OR without many tens of thousands of dollars in up front costs, and similar pricing monthly after the fact.

asguyon How messed up was Germany's energy policy?

Why are you bringing up something unrelated as a gotcha for something nobody is commenting about?

This is related to Germany energy policy. Trump brought up the danger of depending on Putin’s Russia to the Germans, and they laughed at him.

They aren’t laughing much now.

What you should be asking is: How was Germany so dumb that Trump saw it, but they didn’t?

asguyon How messed up was Germany's energy policy?

Enough for Trump to call them on it 3 years ago?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FfJv9QYrlwg

asguyon Top Tier Gasoline Worth the Extra Price, Study Shows

> All modern engines are fuel injected, so the intake valve only ever sees filtered air.

How modern are we talking?

There are plenty of fuel injected engines in production/use today that inject fuel into the manifold [1], right before the valve.

Those valves definitely make contact with fuel-laden air, not to mention EGR[2] recycling exhaust gasses into the intake manifold for emissions/efficiency improvements.

What you're talking about is direct injection, which is becoming more and more common, but is not "the norm" if you take the cross section of total vehicles on the road today

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifold_injection [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhaust_gas_recirculation

asguyon Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?

Are you in Europe? If you’re comparing Americas/Australian to European truck designs, it’s an apples/oranges comparison.

asguyon C99 doesn't need function bodies, or 'VLAs are Turing complete'

I didn't say I was "just joking", but calling C++ "unsafe" was definitely something I think was funny to say.

> Incidentally, I write all 3 of C, C++ and x86 assembly, which is why I understand how braindead and unfit for human usage they are.

I can't take you seriously when you make statements like this. You have to be trolling.

asguyon C99 doesn't need function bodies, or 'VLAs are Turing complete'

It started as C. It’s interesting to watch people post comments, as though C vs C++ makes the distinction in “safety” in a code base.

The take away I’m getting is most have programmed in neither.

asguyon C99 doesn't need function bodies, or 'VLAs are Turing complete'

Except for most of deno that's written in Unsafe C++.

https://v8.dev/

asguyon C99 doesn't need function bodies, or 'VLAs are Turing complete'

> I haven't thought about C in years ... Im going to stick with my VM over here and call it a day.

What's your VM written in?

asguyon Diagnosing Mental Health Disorders Through AI Facial Expression Evaluation

Ba-zing. I was thinking the same thing. It’s incredible how much of a hammer mental practitioners think they have. It’s borderline criminal how so many have turned into a nail.

asguyon Where to live if your company is sticking to remote?

Definitely. This is a huge reason most of the single remote workers I know haven't moved out to the country.

asguyon To hook diners, an invasive species of carp gets a new name

It was a rhetorical question to the OP: fully cooked gill fish (enough to kill the parasites in fresh water fish) is extremely uncommon in sushi restaurants.

As the GP pointed out, this might not be an issue in the US (because of freezing requirements). But I would not be one to be eating carp "raw".

It's possible that this is the thing that takes narezushi mainstream, but I doubt it.

asguyon To hook diners, an invasive species of carp gets a new name

I’ve had carne asada makizushi, but I feel like that’s the exception that proves the rule.

asguyon To hook diners, an invasive species of carp gets a new name

How much sushi have you eaten that’s cooked?

Spam musubi doesn’t count.